Oh this is sounding hopeful.
Rayraz, I don't recall seeing anything about bitmaps (at college now, don't have Bryce here) in the animation set up dialogue, but I'll look more closely after work.

I didn't know you could give objects a key to themselves, I've just been marking a keyframe at specific points in the timeline - is that not correct?

"all your frames will have the position of your last frame"

Um... but I only want one single frame.

So that I can start again with more animation from that point/frame/position and create a new animation with different things happening, but beginning with that frame from the end of the last animation.

This is so that I can add this second animation to the last animation - in something like Premier Pro or Final Cut Pro and thus have a new animation with both clips in it but all smoothly running because of using that vital key frame from the end of clip1 for the beginning of clip 2... do you see what I'm getting at?

If I can do that once, then I can go on creating little animations that won't keep my computer occupied for days at a stretch, so that I can occasionally sleep or use the computer for other things, like work... (lol)  and yet still be able to string together all the clips to make a nice whole longer animation, later.

(That way I can add sound too!)

Yay!!!

**Kanchi,
**I'm not totally sure what you're saying there - but my animation is not straight - I've tried to upload it to shareCG - here:
http://www.sharecg.com/v/11051/animation/BillyBotAnimation1
Unfortunately I'm on a college computer and can't see it too well as this PC is feeble and so is the college network connection to the net.

If you can view it - you will at last be able to see what I mean about it not being straight.  The robot moves in a zig zag fashion in the scene.  Is that okay?

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