Thank you Mazak. I've right-clicked and run Vue as Administrator (although I think this is the default anyway). For some reason this particular scene still reverts to zero in the Animation render options dialogue window when I close and then reopen that window.

cory

Thank you. I'm not doing any network rendering or using the render cow. I'm only trying to render an animation using the external renderer on the one computer.

Cory

I removed the foam from the water mixed material and now I don't have the problem. Strange.

Same thing happened with another (shipped with Vue) atmosphere. So I'm trying a different material for the water plane.

Cory

Friends,

No different with "forbid animation" ticked. Could it be a problem with the video card (Nividia GeForce 8800 GT)?

Cory

Thanks Mazak. I'm trying a render of the same scene right now with "forbid animation" checked. I'll let you know how it turns out.

Cory

Thanks, everyone. Yes, I guess  you need dvix installed to view the video. Thank you for bringing this up. I've taken out the lens flare and this seems to make no difference. I notice it takes about two to three times longer to load this particular Vue file into vue. I'm going to try to render some other things to see if they show the same problem.  Apart from the balloons, the only other thing animated is "animated materials-foam".

Cory

I too have discontinued using Carrara (I had Carrara 6) because I find Vue so much easier to use and also I find the manual and tutorials far superior.

corysea