CompuServe Thread

<<Can I take rendered images from r13 and use them directly ( or import them ) into Animator.>> Yes. You can save the files as rendered images…and then bring those images into Animator Pro. <,Is it easy to use ?>> That depends on what you want to do with it. However, if you take the time to go through the tutorials, you should be able to handle most projects with no problems. <<Does it take a long time to make simple animations>> Once again, that depends on the animation. However, there are many techniques available for creating animations with a minimum of effort or time. <<I have a copy of the windows animator player but this is v1.1. Some of the animations we have from one of our suppliers does not display the colours very well but others do display OK. The ones concerned work fine from a DOS player ?>> Are you using a 256 color windows driver? If not, try reconfiguring Windows for a driver that _specifically_ supports 256 colors. -Brian

/* 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