Forum: Vue


Subject: problem with animating materials that shouldn't!

JoeBlack opened this issue on Mar 14, 2005 ยท 2 posts


JoeBlack posted Mon, 14 March 2005 at 11:25 AM

Attached Link: http://www.timatee.btinternet.co.uk/Near_Miss7.avi

I created an asteroid in truespace 6.6, exported it as 3DS, and imported it into Vue 4.2. I then applied a colour procedural/bump map to it. Once happy with it I created an animation path using the Mover wizard, having the asteroid spin on its axis at about 40 degrees per sec. I render the movie using Broadcast setting and the Divx 5.11 codec. When I view the animation I notice the material applied to the asteroid seems to be animated, moving across the object. Yet if I look at the timeline, the asteroid material has NO key frames, and is not animated; the material origin is set to 0. Whenever I modify the material I always reset the timeline to time-zero first(beginning of the animation). I've played around with the Divx codec - maximum to minimum compression - but the effect is the same. I just don't get it! If I save the object with material as VOB and reload it, the effect is the same also.

To see what I mean you can view a brief movie at the link. It's only 200kb in size, I created it to visualise what could be going wrong.

Cheers