When you choose "make movie", the dialog box gives you a choice between Current Display Settings Current Render Settings Current Sketch Settings. If you choose Render Settings before actually making the movie, your .AVI will include textures and everything. It will also take a VERY LONG TIME to generate, unless you have a supercomputer or something. Therefore, this choice should be saved for the last, after using the Display Settings repeatedly to get the motions set up properly. A halfway choice, good enough for some uses but probably not for yours: In the Document Display settings at lower left, click the rightmost globe for "texture shaded". This will make your non-rendered display include all textures, and in that case doing Make Movie with "Current Display Settings" will also include the textures; only the bump maps and shadows will be missing in the AVI.

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