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I was rendering a 4 second (120 frame) animation to TGA files. I stopped TS after frame 43. I went to resume at frame 44 using the same file name and telling TS to only render frames 44 – 120 in the dialog box. TS unfortunately while rendering frame 44,…

>> Hmm… The ATI should have no problem playing video. On a 486/33, you should be able to play 320×240@15fps from disk or CD. That's what I thought. >> Look on the Jumpstart CD and find VidTest (in the vidtest directory). I tried it – doesn't look good for my…

Thanks again Ian. Coprocessor is there. With 16Mb of memory with 30Mb of swap file I'd have thought I was OK as I'm only modelling one element at a time but maybe some of our betas are eating resources without me noticing. I'll check it out. What makes me suspcious…

Thanks Frank, I've enough lousy colour printouts to know that problem but I didn't realise it was so insidious. Is a gamma correction what I need or is deeper than that? Paul

Thanks for the response Ian. How big is the image you're using. I thought I was using 24bit but maybe I'm downgrading the image as I save it out from Paintshop Pro. Paul

Terry, I am a 3ds user, and for many things I am quite hapy with the product. But, I am looking for a product that can handle Organic modeling more intuitively. I don't know what your policy is about discussing features in an upcoming release but I am quite interested…