I noticed if you right mouse click on the key at the lower left of the
screen you have Set->Selected/Object/Scene  - what does each do?  I would
suspect that I need to select Scene for each key frame.

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Now that I actually tried it - I see that Scene isn't implemented yet.

Mike

"Mike Weber" <mwe### [at] sciticom> wrote in message
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> I noticed if you right mouse click on the key at the lower left of the
> screen you have Set->Selected/Object/Scene  - what does each do?  I would
> suspect that I need to select Scene for each key frame.
>
> --
>
> Mike
> mwe### [at] sciticom
> For 3D pictures and animations http://www.geocities.com/mikepweber
>
>

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That's for forcing the keyframe (when you don't get a yellow key otherwise, if
that can ever happen) while setting them up as you normally would, for example
if you want the another keyframe somewhere in-between two which were already
set.
'Selected' should set the current highlighted portion of a model/object, and
'Object' would be any Parent including Children (or vice versa) parts I guess,
but I don't know.
You can say Delete>Scene to reset the keyframing to none and still leave the
scene in it's current state so you can start again from there without any
previous animation remaining as I understand it.

Bob

"Mike Weber" <mik### [at] pyxiscom> wrote in message
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| Now that I actually tried it - I see that Scene isn't implemented yet.
|
| Mike
|
| "Mike Weber" <mwe### [at] sciticom> wrote in message
| news:38bfc3dd@news.povray.org...
| > I noticed if you right mouse click on the key at the lower left of the
| > screen you have Set->Selected/Object/Scene  - what does each do?  I would
| > suspect that I need to select Scene for each key frame.
| >
| > --
| >
| > Mike
| > mwe### [at] sciticom
| > For 3D pictures and animations http://www.geocities.com/mikepweber
| >
| >
|
|

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Thanks Bob,

From another time that I was testing out the anim plug-in, I noticed that I
was able to animate the scene without doing any rendering - but I don't know
how I did that.  I went back to try again, but still can't find a menu
command to do this.  Any ideas?

Mike

"Bob Hughes" <omn### [at] hotmailcom?subject=PoV-News:> wrote in message
news:38bfe6a6@news.povray.org...
> That's for forcing the keyframe (when you don't get a yellow key
otherwise, if
> that can ever happen) while setting them up as you normally would, for
example
> if you want the another keyframe somewhere in-between two which were
already
> set.
> 'Selected' should set the current highlighted portion of a model/object,
and
> 'Object' would be any Parent including Children (or vice versa) parts I
guess,
> but I don't know.
> You can say Delete>Scene to reset the keyframing to none and still leave
the
> scene in it's current state so you can start again from there without any
> previous animation remaining as I understand it.
>
> Bob
>
> "Mike Weber" <mik### [at] pyxiscom> wrote in message
> news:38bfd3e0$1@news.povray.org...
> | Now that I actually tried it - I see that Scene isn't implemented yet.
> |
> | Mike
> |
> | "Mike Weber" <mwe### [at] sciticom> wrote in message
> | news:38bfc3dd@news.povray.org...
> | > I noticed if you right mouse click on the key at the lower left of the
> | > screen you have Set->Selected/Object/Scene  - what does each do?  I
would
> | > suspect that I need to select Scene for each key frame.
> | >
> | > --
> | >
> | > Mike
> | > mwe### [at] sciticom
> | > For 3D pictures and animations http://www.geocities.com/mikepweber
> | >
> | >
> |
> |
>
>

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> From another time that I was testing out the anim plug-in, I noticed
> that I was able to animate the scene without doing any rendering - 
> but I don't know how I did that.  I went back to try again, but 
> still can't find a menu command to do this.  Any ideas?

That's easy, and it can help quite a lot. Just activate the animation
controls and pull the VCR at animation speed. If your computer is fast
enough, Moray will redraw the scene quite completely so that you can
actually see something :-)
ToDo for Xander: please add a button for 'playing' the anim
automatically!

Florian

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The camera also needs to have a move option so that it can be moved in one
step rather than move the position, then the look_at.

Mike

"Florian Fischer" <flo### [at] gmxde> wrote in message
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> > From another time that I was testing out the anim plug-in, I noticed
> > that I was able to animate the scene without doing any rendering -
> > but I don't know how I did that.  I went back to try again, but
> > still can't find a menu command to do this.  Any ideas?
>
> That's easy, and it can help quite a lot. Just activate the animation
> controls and pull the VCR at animation speed. If your computer is fast
> enough, Moray will redraw the scene quite completely so that you can
> actually see something :-)
> ToDo for Xander: please add a button for 'playing' the anim
> automatically!
>
> Florian
>
>

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The greyed out middle button on the VCR controls is for doing just
that.  The problem is that it hasn't gotten implemented yet.  I'm
thinking along the lines of playback as fast as your machine will go and
playback at a particular speed (maybe the FPS you selected in the anim
options?) with frame dropping if Moray can't keep up.

Until then, click on one of the arrow buttons on the time slider and
keep the mouse button down.  It will provide close to what you want...

Xander

Mike Weber wrote:
> 
> Thanks Bob,
> 
> From another time that I was testing out the anim plug-in, I noticed that I
> was able to animate the scene without doing any rendering - but I don't know
> how I did that.  I went back to try again, but still can't find a menu
> command to do this.  Any ideas?
> 
> Mike

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That sounds more like a Moray/UI problem, rather than an animation
plugin problem.  I just track what you did to the camera.

Xander

Mike Weber wrote:
> 
> The camera also needs to have a move option so that it can be moved in one
> step rather than move the position, then the look_at.

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Xander -

I agree.  Since the subject was animation related, it came to mind.
Sounds like this is better for a Moray next release request.

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Mike
mwe### [at] sciticom
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Alexander Enzmann wrote in message <38C3A8FE.30E9D29B@mitre.org>...
>That sounds more like a Moray/UI problem, rather than an animation
>plugin problem.  I just track what you did to the camera.
>
>Xander
>
>Mike Weber wrote:
>>
>> The camera also needs to have a move option so that it can be moved in
one
>> step rather than move the position, then the look_at.

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