CompuServe Messages

Sirraj: The more ram, the longer faster animations you can make. The Viewer will play off of the hard disk pretty quickly for smaller (320×200) size frames, but you will see some jumpiness with larger more detailed frames. I tend to like to run between 100 and 400 meters from the ground during animations. This is close enough to the ground to usually avoid the 'edge of the world' phenomenon and not so close as to clip through the ground when there is a bump in the road. Your best bet is to clip 20 to 30 frames from a MakePath path and make an animation with that script and see how you like the effect, and modify that until things are going the way you want, and then make up the long script based on what you discovered. Sometimes you might want to dip closer to the ground so you can go through the trees (that can be quite exhilerating), though being that close the whole time can result in occasionally passing through the landscape. Making clouds so that they are only about 100 meters above the high point in the landscape can result in the feeling of clouds flowing past while you are flying. Clint <VRLI>