Now, I've already mentioned the problem with animating the phase of a planet and Guitta passed that along to e-on I believe. My next problem is animating textures. I got an animation to work how I wanted it.. once. The file has become unrecoverable and I tried starting over.. I cannot manage to animate the texture again without Vue crapping out. HTTP://www.mindexpansion.org/~cdeacon/anime3.rm This is the animation I got before the file wouldn't load in Vue anymore. As you can see, the small sphere with the "Ashes" texture on it is animated to show a turbulent surface. I basically started with the plain sphere (and texture) at timeline 0. At 6 seconds I went back and edited the material. I went to the Effects tab and selected turbulence and change some values. I think I changed some rotation as well, can't remember. Anyhow, everytime I do that now vue croaks after rendering frame 1. The render window just closes and CPU usage sits at 100%. Thoughts?

I'm not doing much animations, but to animate a material works great for me. When you change a mateial in the image number "x", Vue will ask you if you really want to do so. If you click YES, it works. I'm sorry, I would like to show you how to behave by samples, but as I had this computer crash, I only have Internet (and Vue 2:-)) on this computer and nothing else. Maybe another user could show you????? If not, please wait for next wednesday, then I will! Guitta

I just tried this in Vue 4.06 and windows 98se, and had no problems. I tried turbulence and rotation, saved and re-opened and rendered ok. I've been doing some complex material animations recently, and had no problems, but this doesn't mean you haven't found a bug. What operating system do you have, and what version of vue? Have you tried this in a separate and new test file. If the test file works then you have a corrupt original file. This happens occasionaly, so always keep loads of backups and do a 'save as' every time you do anything major to the file. I often end up with 30 or forty versions in the end, and only delete them when theh project is finished If the test file crashes in the same way, let us know more details of os and version etc - if you want to send me a small test file let me know - I've got win 98 and 2000 here.

Vue 4.05 and 4.06 (same results) on a Windows 2000 machine. Dual 1.2 Athlon with 1GB ram. Not worried about hardware. I've tried several new files with no luck. I haven't re-installed the entire Vue program from scratch yet though. I guess that's what I'll do next when I get some free time. Thx for all your replies.