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Are there any DPS Personal Animation Recorder users out there running Windows 95? I haven't been able to use my PAR since I installed Win95 and would appreciate hearing from someone who has successfully done so.

Terry, I've done a little poking around my trashed scene file and believe its hopeless. I zipped it to send to you and noticed the size went from 1562804 to 190. Wow, that PKZIP is pretty amazing! I just copied the original file to another directory and the size went…

Oh yeah! Thanks Ian. I really did read the manual although quickly and long ago. I remember now reading the stuff about spline parameters but just didn't relate it to things like animating a rotation. I don't think the manual is entirely clear on this point although the information is…

I notice that when I set keyframes for an object that it will often "bounce" at the ends of its path. For example, an object will back up a little before moving forward or overshoot its ending point before bouncing back to a rest. This seems to happen on all…

Sometimes when setting keyframes for a camera I find that the camera flips around and points in wild directions for a few frames between the keyframes. When I display the path, sure enough there's a little loop/kink in it at the place the camera goes wild. All I did was…

trueSpace has somehow messed up my scene file so that it will no longer load. I've loaded, changed, and saved it many times without problem but now whenever I load the scene it just says "Error loading scene". That's all! What kind of error? There's several weeks of work invested…

Can PhotoMorph 2 apply a transition effect (say a simple fade in or out) to a series of animation frames, e.g. FRAME000.TGA, FRAME001.TGA, etc. I know this can be done with AVI files but how would I do this for other animation formats?