NICE. i think it worked bikermouse, thanks.

about the slow avi, it could be that your computer is slow and the avi is really hi-rez. try using one of bryce's built in compressions for avi, like the DIVX ones. they make the file size much smaller and it runs way faster, but still looks the same.

no compression got me a 7.4 meg avi, and with compression got me a 220KB avi. and they look exactly the same but the smaller file runs faster.

you would think it should be that easy, but here's what bryce does: i set all the keyframes, then i go to play back the animation. it turns the first 240 degrees OK, but then instead of continuing to 360, it quickly rotates back to 0 right after it hits 240.

thanks for the help guys, but it still doesn't work. Aldaron, I am using Bryce 5, are you using 4? Because I did the same thing and it didn't work.

The best I can get it to do is to rotate 180 degrees in the first 2 seconds, and then instead of completing the rotation it turns back the opposite way for the last 2 seconds.

I have tried animating it with 4 keyframes, 3 keyframes, 2 keyframes. But it always does something wacky, bouncing back and forth and changing rotation rates, very strange.

Here is something interesting -- when I do 3 keyframes:
-- 1 at 0 seconds, 0 degrees rotation
-- 1 at 2 seconds, 180 degree rotation
-- 1 at 4 seconds, 360 degrees rotation
I go back to the 2 second mark and check the rotation, and instead of it being 180 degrees on the Y axis, it has 180 degrees on the Z and X axes. I don't understand!

If anyone can help me with this it would be much appreciated. Otherwise I'll have to waste Clay Hagebusch's time by asking him.
Thanks,
--bz

Attached Link: http://www.krystalmatrix.com/