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#Keyscript length

    28-Jul-95 01:04:42
Sb: #182552-#Keyscript length
Fm: JEFF RIETER 74562,1657
To: Martin Doudoroff/KUB 74664,2144
Martin, Thanks for your prompt reply. I am creating an accident reconstruction for which I have position data for two accelerating entities. The client wants the animation to show the relationship between the two entities over a distance of 6 miles at an average speed of 60mph. Previous reconstructions done for this client have always used data for every 30th of a second when acceleration and deceleration are concerned. The engineer is going to great lengths to calculate such position data for every frame. ( at first I questioned why this level of detail was necessary in a keyframe animation) Since you do not believe that keyscript will handle the 10K line script I described, can you offer a suggestion to get around the limitation and still present the data as my client requires? I have thought of breaking the script up into smaller managable segments and running separate scripts on copy objects in scene so that the final result will be the same as a 10000 line script. If this will work what is a manageable script length? About 900 frames is all I've done before this project. Thanks Jeff