CompuServe Messages

/* Can I take rendered images from r13 and use them directly ( or import them ) into Animator. */ Sure. /* I am considering whether to buy Animator so that we can make marketing promotions. Is it easy to use ? */ Yes. /* Does it take a long time to make simple animations */ Well, does it take a long time to make simple drawings? <g> It depends on what you're a drawing. The word "simple" is to nebulous. Also, it depends on how you're looking at a thing. Look at the time it takes, for example, for AutoCAD to do HIDE on 3 3DFACE square entities. If we look at all three surfaces with no overlapping: ___ ___ ___ | | | | | | |___| |___| |___| how many hiding calcs are there? None. However, if we look at them like this: ___ | _|_ |_| _|_ |_| | |___| how many hiding calcs do we have? (3). Notice that the number of entities is not relevant here… the geometry is the same, yet hiding calcs vary. make sense? In other words, we can't answer "how long it will take" without knowing what you're look at, how close or far away it is (which determines the amount of screen being treated… smaller images go faster to work with than larger ones) or how you're looking at it. Animator Pro works great though for generating animations from AutoCAD. It's not hard stuff, but it's not instant either. -dave