new PAR.EXE
>>I've found that the PXP doesn't support multiple simultaneous file
accesses to the PAR, for several different rotoscoped animations, to
two different locations in the same file that is being rendered …
Well it's obvious your doing something very wrong or God is on my side
working miracles. <G>
I just did a 7 channel rotoscoped sampling for a client last week to
demonstrate to his investors the opening to a new video. The object
was a simple cube with all 6 sides detached to individual objects. I
recorded six 2 second scenes form the camera video stock for the
picture. each of these 60 frame ani files was named aaaa0000.ani,
bbbb0000.ani….ffff0000.ani. Then a background was recorded and
named bakg0000.ani. IFL's were created for each on the ani files and
a special materials library was created for each of the 6 files. The
6 materials were mapped in the normal fashion to the cube and the
background was also selected using the IFL file. The paths pointed to
the IFL directory and to the PAR project directories where these 7
files were located. The PXP was set up for targa and file field 1. I
rendered the thing back out to the par as roto####.ani and the whole
thing completed from beginning to end including recording to VHS
video tape in 50 minutes. FYI each frame rendering time was 18
seconds. But then I only have a DX2-66. Better get religion,
Robert. <BG>