Anmimation best practice/options 2

[macPT]

I all

I need to make a presentation of a PV power plant. I am using Animation with a floating camera to "walk through" the plant. I am new to this task. I am using SW2008 SP4.0 and Animation in RealView mode (I am not using PhotoWorks).

I looks great, but I am experiencing some anoying problems that can ruin an otherwise great presentation:

- detail missing: some details are missing (some small parts or subassemblies) and it seems that SW takes total control over it without rules (some parts are missing in one animation and are present in other). Is there a place where I can control it ?(like the level of detail in assemblies?) Is it related to graphics card?(please note thate these missing details are set to be visible, even if they don't show)

- details sudenly missing: when walking arrond, there are details (parts and sub assemblies) that are sudenly missing and reapear a few seconds later (between 2 key points). I think it can be related with the distance between camera's lense and bodys. But I can't realy discover a cause/effect relation (having a higher distance does not allways solve). Can I realy control this? Again, can it be graphics card related? (please note thate these missing details are set to be visible, even when they disapear)

- tilting camera: in some cases (again, I can't find a cause) the carmera tilts 90 degrees between 2 key points, neither of them with tilting angles. I can usualy control this issue by changing a litle bit the walking path.

So, can you help giving me hints about solving these problems and about using best practices for Animation? Do you know any toturials?

Regards

 

[macPT]

 

[Theophilus]

'Zactly.

How goes the banana, mac? Flawless? Reliable?



Jeff Mowry

http://www.industrialdesignhaus.com

A people who value security over freedom will soon find they have neither.

 

[macPT]

Hi

My banana is still very reliable but not so flawless. Surprisingly, it's less reliable if I turn off RV (mabe not such a suprise if we think that RV needs a more complex processing, so subjected to more reliability).

As I mentioned, flawless decreses if I save the project, close the file, reopen and save avi as the first command. High reliability as to do with camera´s pitch blindness.

Using all the hard tricks and turning off RV, the result was not much enjoyable. The customer loved it.

I still have the PW. This ace, I am saving for last. I still need to understand how it works.

Regards

 

[TheTick]

Do the problems with detail go away when you save the animation to an .avi?

 

[macPT]

No, they don't. Saving avi it's very wysiwyg. If there's something missing at some point in your animation, the same will happen in your avi (avi it's just a collection of snapshots taken from the animation; it will not add missing detail or correct errors).

Regards

 

[Theophilus]

That's true, except when PW comes into the picture. PW seems to require a more studied look at each frame, and therefore doesn't seem to have as many issues in being "reliable"--although I have had random "reliable" incidents with decals, even within PW.



Jeff Mowry

http://www.industrialdesignhaus.com

A people who value security over freedom will soon find they have neither.