Hi,

I have a Poser animation, containing an image that shall play an animation by starting in frame 1111 of the entire Poser-movie.

However, the animation only works when I am checking "loop" in the Material Room, but then the animation starts at the wrong frame number. By unchecking "loop" and connecting "Frame Number" with the node "Frame_number" and typing in the number of the start frame of the material animation the animation does not even appear.

There is no Poser help about this frame_number thingy either. Does someone know how to set a start frame for a singular avi texture animation?

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Ona

Easiest solution:  Separate out the part of the animation
that needs the AVI,  and put it in a PZ3 on its own.   Then the
AVI can begin at frame 1 of -this- segment.

(There might also be a material-room solution, but this
will definitely work.)

Quote - Easiest solution:  Separate out the part of the animation
that needs the AVI,  and put it in a PZ3 on its own.

And how can I seperate this? I can cut the frames > 1788 away but I don't know how to cut the frames 1-1110 away.
The only solution I see is by saving all poses of all animated figures of this scene, cutting anything until frame 1 and then re-loading the poses onto all related figures...

Uh, does anybody know a material room solution?

Save the whole thing as a new PZ3. 

In the new PZ3, open the keyframe graph, pull a rectangle around everything
starting at frame 1111, and drag the whole rectangle leftward to the start.  

Then set the frame-counter to the last frame of the AVI section
(maybe 678, if I'm calculating right?) and save the file.

just as a side-note: the target demographic has an attention span around 2-5 seconds, hence there should be "cuts" about that often (approx every 100 frames). there was one famous movie whose name I forgot where they had a 10-minute "take", meaning the camera was fixed on the actor for that long without a cut. but that was for the sake of the director, not the demographic. sometimes they like to break out of the standard UCLA film school clishays that everybody else uses. :lol: