i would like to use posertown early sunday morning series on my web site hower animated with people walk around. When one of the charaters goes to pens one of the doors , he enters my store. i don't want the quicktime skin or whatever it is called to show. can this be done/ thank you

Poser can output animations to different formats ... AVI, MOV, and Flash among them. Any of those can be used on a web page ... Flash would probably be the best choice for download size reasons. However, the question you are asking probably pertains more to how the web pages themselves are designed, and it might be better to ask it in the HTML forum here.

it can be done but it would take forever to load. Therefore many visitors who are still on dialup will leave before they get far. It's not practical.

Message edited on: 12/30/2004 19:08

Attached Link: Some tutorials the might help

It's only practical if you break it up into a lot of little pieces of animation, that takes a lot more design work to get it all to fit together. Flash will allow you to load parts of it at a time so the load doesn't get too heavy. What would help most it to story board and flow chart the animated sequences so you can break them down into parts and keep them in order. That way you can have animated buttons that activate loading the other parts and navigating through your towns and shops. For example 1 sequence could be 1 of your characters walking to the door of your store the button on the door handle could load the next sequence on the next web page.

Flash is the best way to go. Optimize image sequences and keep it simple as possible. My DraculaSucks site is Flash with animated poser characters that load separately. -AniMajik

Message edited on: 12/31/2004 02:07

Attached Link: An example of how to use the animated buttons to go to different pages

Well you can animate short sequences in Poser and then use them to build up to something complex (I personally have trouble rendering anything long, but that probably is just the memory limits of my system) It mostly depends on the way it's designed and put together, since Flash gives a whole lot of flexibility on how the elements can interact, with sounds, video and animations.

I had an intricate set of Java Script controlled .gif animations on the buttons for each area on my old web site. The code was pretty involved. It loaded a little slow for dial up people but still under 60seconds.The trick was to keep the animations down around 5k each to keep the overall page size under 200k. When the mouse moved over a button. The text disappeared and an animation played inside of the button area. The person either click the button to go to thast area. Or choose another button. So scrpting had to turn the text on and off as well as trigger the animation depending on the mouse pointer location. It sounds like you want to do something similar: Mouse over a door and it opens. Click there and it takes you to that page. If you choose another door. The door that was open closes. And so on, and so forth. Very much the same thing as my button actions were. I had a lot of fun with that. But at the time most people were on dial up so I cut out most of that stuff later on. One day almost everyone will be on high speed and we will be able to get more creative with our web site navigation. You can always make both high speed and low speed versions and let people decide. If you don't mind doing it twice. I've heard many people disable Java Script these days. So Flash might be a better way to go. -ScottA