The Animation Plugin is now available for Moray 3.2.  You can download
it from:

   http://pages.hotbot.com/arts/are/index.html

There have been numerous changes from the earlier version.  Report any
problems or requests either here or directly to me.  The earlier version
of the plugin will not be supported (which means if you use a version of
Moray before 3.2 you are SOL).

Xander

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Alexander Enzmann <xan### [at] mitreorg> wrote in message
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> The Animation Plugin is now available for Moray 3.2.  You can download
> it from:
>
>    http://pages.hotbot.com/arts/are/index.html
>
> There have been numerous changes from the earlier version.  Report any
> problems or requests either here or directly to me.  The earlier version
> of the plugin will not be supported (which means if you use a version of
> Moray before 3.2 you are SOL).
>
> Xander

hello Xander,

I installed the Moray 3.2 public beta, and got a message that none of my
current plugins would work anymore. Then I installed the new animation
plugin and got a message saying it had been installed successfully. Now,
when I open moray, under the render menu animation is greyed out and is not
useable. the Moray plugins menu says empty. I am using an Intel pIII 450
MHz. w/128 megs ram running Win 98, I did not uninstall any of my old files
or remove any of the old plugins before installing the upgrades. Should I
have? Any help would be greatly appreciated

Steven

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Steven Durham wrote:

>
> I installed the Moray 3.2 public beta, and got a message that none of my
> current plugins would work anymore. Then I installed the new animation
> plugin and got a message saying it had been installed successfully. Now,
> when I open moray, under the render menu animation is greyed out and is not
> useable. the Moray plugins menu says empty. I am using an Intel pIII 450
> MHz. w/128 megs ram running Win 98, I did not uninstall any of my old files
> or remove any of the old plugins before installing the upgrades. Should I
> have? Any help would be greatly appreciated
>
> Steven

You may have the same problem as I had. Check your pvengine.ini and make sure
the line starting with
ExtDll29=.... reads

ExtDll29=C:\MORAY_DIR\Plugins\AnimGuiExt.dll

where MORAY_DIR is the directory where Moray is installed. For me, the line
missed the AnimGuiExt.dll filename. (Check AnimPlugin.wri for more info, it
should be located in your Moray\Plugins dir.)

The anim plugin works great for me! This is really a step forward! :)
(To the Moray people: Count on getting another registered user soon! =) )

- Mikael


----------------------------------------------------
Mikael Carneholm
Dep. of Computer Science and Business Administration


Personal homepage:
http://www.studenter.hb.se/~arch
E-mail:
sa9### [at] idautbhbse

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thanks Mikael for pointing me to the docs. I couldn't find them. It seems
that once again I didn't understand nearly as much as I thought I did. After
reading the documentation I was able to quickly animate a simple rotating
and scaling cube. Now on to bigger and better things

Steven

Mikael Carneholm <sa9### [at] idautbhbse_NOSPAM> wrote in message
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> Steven Durham wrote:
>
> >
> > I installed the Moray 3.2 public beta, and got a message that none of my
> > current plugins would work anymore. Then I installed the new animation
> > plugin and got a message saying it had been installed successfully. Now,
> > when I open moray, under the render menu animation is greyed out and is
not
> > useable. the Moray plugins menu says empty. I am using an Intel pIII 450
> > MHz. w/128 megs ram running Win 98, I did not uninstall any of my old
files
> > or remove any of the old plugins before installing the upgrades. Should
I
> > have? Any help would be greatly appreciated
> >
> > Steven
>
> You may have the same problem as I had. Check your pvengine.ini and make
sure
> the line starting with
> ExtDll29=.... reads
>
> ExtDll29=C:\MORAY_DIR\Plugins\AnimGuiExt.dll
>
> where MORAY_DIR is the directory where Moray is installed. For me, the
line
> missed the AnimGuiExt.dll filename. (Check AnimPlugin.wri for more info,
it
> should be located in your Moray\Plugins dir.)
>
> The anim plugin works great for me! This is really a step forward! :)
> (To the Moray people: Count on getting another registered user soon! =) )
>
> - Mikael
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------
> Mikael Carneholm
> Dep. of Computer Science and Business Administration

>
> Personal homepage:
> http://www.studenter.hb.se/~arch
> E-mail:
> sa9### [at] idautbhbse
>
>

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Steven Durham wrote:

> thanks Mikael for pointing me to the docs. I couldn't find them. It seems
>

I did not know they existed either until looking in the Plugins dir - a nice
feature in the installer would be if a shourtcut to the .wri file was added in
the Moray program folder!

----------------------------------------------------
Mikael Carneholm
Dep. of Computer Science and Business Administration


Personal homepage:
http://www.studenter.hb.se/~arch
E-mail:
sa9### [at] idautbhbse

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Mikael Carneholm wrote:
> 
> Steven Durham wrote:
> 
> > thanks Mikael for pointing me to the docs. I couldn't find them. It seems
> >
> 
> I did not know they existed either until looking in the Plugins dir - a nice
> feature in the installer would be if a shourtcut to the .wri file was added in
> the Moray program folder!

I'll ask Lutz if that's ok - remember that the anim plugin is a separate
product.  Also, I'm just starting to learn the whole install thing.  I'm
trying to make it as easy to get going as possible.

Ideally, you can install and do simple animations without having to do a
lot of reading of docs.  However, there's enough things associated with
making an animation that the docs become necessary. (I'm like a lot of
coders and don't spend nearly enough time writing them.)

Xander

P.S. Did the GUI extension really not get written into the .ini file? 
Anyone that sees this happen, please let me know OS and directory
specifics.  The plugin looks in the registry to find the location of the
.ini file and add the extension.  I need to see if it's a plugin
problem, a POV-Ray problem, a registry problem, ...

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Hi again,
there was no real problem with my installation, just a mistake on my part. I
was expecting the interface to be the same as the beta .9. Finding the docs
cleared my missunderstanding up and the plugin seems to work great for what
little I have done with it. thanks for all your hard work Xander.

Steven
Alexander Enzmann <xan### [at] mitreorg> wrote in message
news:387BF121.F769FF38@mitre.org...
>
>
> Mikael Carneholm wrote:
> >
> > Steven Durham wrote:
> >
> > > thanks Mikael for pointing me to the docs. I couldn't find them. It
seems
> > >
> >
> > I did not know they existed either until looking in the Plugins dir - a
nice
> > feature in the installer would be if a shourtcut to the .wri file was
added in
> > the Moray program folder!
>
> I'll ask Lutz if that's ok - remember that the anim plugin is a separate
> product.  Also, I'm just starting to learn the whole install thing.  I'm
> trying to make it as easy to get going as possible.
>
> Ideally, you can install and do simple animations without having to do a
> lot of reading of docs.  However, there's enough things associated with
> making an animation that the docs become necessary. (I'm like a lot of
> coders and don't spend nearly enough time writing them.)
>
> Xander
>
> P.S. Did the GUI extension really not get written into the .ini file?
> Anyone that sees this happen, please let me know OS and directory
> specifics.  The plugin looks in the registry to find the location of the
> .ini file and add the extension.  I need to see if it's a plugin
> problem, a POV-Ray problem, a registry problem, ...

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Alexander Enzmann wrote:
> 
> P.S. Did the GUI extension really not get written into the .ini file?
> Anyone that sees this happen, please let me know OS and directory
> specifics.  The plugin looks in the registry to find the location of the
> .ini file and add the extension.  I need to see if it's a plugin
> problem, a POV-Ray problem, a registry problem, ...

hi xander,
i installed your plugin (version: beta 18) on my friends computer and
later on my computer.
both times the gui-extension wasn't written into the .ini file.
looking into the file, i found a line:
ExtDll29=C:\programme\MORAYforWindows3.1\Plugins
the path is right but i needed to add the DLLs name
\AnimGuiExt.dll
by hand. after doing this, all worked perfekt!

here's a little idea for oncoming versions:
when doing animations with povray itself, you have the possibility to
set a flag (+kc) for cyclic animation. for i'm a real friend of cyclic
animtions, i miss this flag in your plugin very much...

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Alex Wolff wrote:
> 
> ...
> hi xander,
> i installed your plugin (version: beta 18) on my friends computer and
> later on my computer.
> both times the gui-extension wasn't written into the .ini file.
> looking into the file, i found a line:
> ExtDll29=C:\programme\MORAYforWindows3.1\Plugins
> the path is right but i needed to add the DLLs name
> \AnimGuiExt.dll
> by hand. after doing this, all worked perfekt!

I'm really going to have to see why this happens....

> 
> here's a little idea for oncoming versions:
> when doing animations with povray itself, you have the possibility to
> set a flag (+kc) for cyclic animation. for i'm a real friend of cyclic
> animtions, i miss this flag in your plugin very much...


What is cyclic?  You can always copy the first key to the end of the
animation.  In the long run I'd like to do the MAX thing where you can
define out of range functions that allow a couple of different types of
cycling.

Xander

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Alexander Enzmann wrote:
> What is cyclic?  You can always copy the first key to the end of the
> animation.

cyclic animation means an animation which can be looped. if the first
and the last frame are the same, the loop isn't perfect; there is always
a little stop because you got one frame more than you need for a smooth
loop.
alex

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