CompuServe Messages

Paul: <<Anyone know if it is possible to hold the first frame of an animation when playing on the par.>> Simple, you render to the Par drive the first frame and it becomes say: test000.ani … you then make sure your blue line on the PAR software is on that file line..click on duplicate, then to frames, choose loops 30 (for 1 second) you do the same for the last frame and there you have a one second pause at beginning and end.. <<Also, I rendered 2 animations, put them into the same project directory on the PAR drive. Went to join them and it won't let me. What gives. The animations were from the same XXX.prj file in 3DS. Does that make a difference? Come to think of it I also tried to join 2 different animations (from 2 different 3DS/PRJ files)>> My suggestion is to rename the second file and try again, being in same project directory is fine, I've joined up to six different 3DS/PRj files and no problem.. Also make sure you do backups of individual .ANI files before joining in case of problem ..