How to create animations

Hi All,

I'm about to start learning more about rendering animations and was wondering if there where any tutorials available!

Any information on how to get started will be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Fred

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Permalink Reply by Rich Hart on July 23, 2011 at 9:32am

It's hard to advise exactly what to do.

You might be able to simple reinstall Windows, but even that might not work, if it's a registry error or a virus that has corrupted some file. I don't know how reinstalling WIndows affects the registry. Perhaps someone else does.

What we usually do around here is to start with a fresh install of WIndows. I'm considering do that on this laptop I'm working on right now to fix a different problem that I can't seem fix.

We usually buy a new hard drive for the computer, and then replace the old one and reinstall Windows and everything everything that we need. That way we still have the old hard drive when we need to look for a missing file.

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Permalink Reply by Rich Hart on July 23, 2011 at 10:30am

Also, as a work-around, you can use your fast computer to render the animation images to PNG or JPEG files, and then use your laptop to create the aniamtions, using the the program, RpMakeAvi.exe, that I included in the last version that you installed.

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Permalink Reply by fred henaux on July 23, 2011 at 1:00pm

Ok, is there any inforamtion or guide on how to do this?

thanks

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Permalink Reply by Rich Hart on July 23, 2011 at 6:04pm

No, but here are the steps to do it:

When you render the animation in IRender nXt, specify the output name as a .png file.

Then render the animations, which will create a series of numbered .png files in the folder you specified.

Copy those files to your laptop.

Install the latest version of IRender nXt on your laptop, and then double click on the file:

RpMakeAvi.exe

in:

C:\Program Files\Render Plus Systems\IRender_nXt\bin_Nxt

You should see this dialog:

Put the whole path to the folder where you placed the png files in the top box.

Put the "base" name you specified for the png file in the next box on the right.

Set a name for the AVI file that you want.

Set the Frame Rate to be the same that you specified in IRender nXt.

Use CVID as the codec.

Leave "Frames per key" as 1.

and click "Make AVI".

That should do it.

It will show where the file is saved at the bottom of the dialog.

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Permalink Reply by fred henaux on July 24, 2011 at 7:59am

Hi Rich,

Just to let you know that I have un-installed the latest version of irender and tryed re-installing an old version of irender (JL29nxt), this worked fine and can render animations ok!!!!

Hope fully this will help in trying to make the latest version work!

Good news!

Kind Regards

Fred