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Jun 3, 2002, 5:19am

Ananas,

I havent looked at Jack yet but I have found that having location or facing
angle set in a sequence but NOT having rotation set will cause the browser
to crash. I accidently unclicked rotation key frame in Acutrans without
noticing and the browser crashed constantly when activating the seq. I fixed
that one click and it was fine. I then deliberately removed this one thing
from other seqs and it caused the browser to crash also. This only occurs
for rotation not the other attributes which clearly indicates its a bug ...
because sometimes you want to move in one direction while making no change
in rotation. The concept of specifying the default for that rotation is fine
.... but why should it crash rather than simply fail to work (like when you
don't specify the other defaults).

For the record on sequences

1. normal scale in AW is 1:100
2. horizontal scale in seqs is 1:100
3. vertical scale in seqs is 1:1 (go figure)
4. all defaults for rotation, altitude, location and facing angle must now
be specified wherever a key frame for one of them exists.
avoid leaving rotation unspecified at any time for any frame where a key is
set for other attributes
5. previous seqs were designed at 30 frames per second. The new engine will
NOT render all frames even when you have ample video capability so you need
to specify every frame as a key to avoid twitchy motion on complex sequences
(= very big seqs)
6. Rotations greater than 45 degrees between key frames will not show in the
sequence at all ... suggesting the real frame rate is 25fps or less. Of
course you shouldn't go that far without a key frame, but it does clearly
demostrate the poorer real performance of the engine. Of course this can
appear as smoother and more robotic ... but that's because intermediate
frames are missing.

Do we write around these bugs and assume they won't fix anything cos they
like the engine just as it is. We could end up having to rewrite them again
later if AW do fix the problem?? As yet there is stilll no response or
leadership from AW on this so I suggest people don't modify their sequences
just yet.

Glitter

PS for the idiots out there: Of course those who still think I have no idea
what I'm talking about can choose to ignore this information. I wouldn't
want to be considered sharing anything and damage my selfish reputation now
would I?


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