#VP3 Animation
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I just received VP3 and it's great. I have always liked the animations
vistapro can create (I have Makepath too), I have been trying to find the best
settings for animations. Do you have some ideas? Does a large RAM disk help?
I have a 486 DX/2 66MHz, with 8 Megs of RAM, a 200 MEG IDE hard drive with a
caching controller and MS-DOS 6.0. Thanks, Sirraj
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>