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lisa · 18th January 2009, 06:31 PM

I don't know of any way to display a texture animation inside AC3D itself. Normally to do something like what you describe you'll need an external renderer to generate the image. (i.e. AC3D is used to generate the 3D shapes, and then a different program is used to take those 3D shapes and make the final image or movie.)

I believe AC3D comes configured out of the box to use POVRay as it's renderer. You can download POVRay for free from here: www.povray.org. The command you'll need to make an animation is "clock". You can read the documentation for it here: http://www.povray.org/documentation/view/3.6.1/109/

There are also other stand-alone renderers that will work with AC3D. You can find a list of them here: http://www.independentdeveloper.com/...rendering_soft

18th January 2009, 06:31 PM	#2
lisa Senior Member Professional user Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Phoenix, AZ Posts: 917	Re: Animation. I don't know of any way to display a texture animation inside AC3D itself. Normally to do something like what you describe you'll need an external renderer to generate the image. (i.e. AC3D is used to generate the 3D shapes, and then a different program is used to take those 3D shapes and make the final image or movie.) I believe AC3D comes configured out of the box to use POVRay as it's renderer. You can download POVRay for free from here: www.povray.org. The command you'll need to make an animation is "clock". You can read the documentation for it here: http://www.povray.org/documentation/view/3.6.1/109/ There are also other stand-alone renderers that will work with AC3D. You can find a list of them here: http://www.independentdeveloper.com/...rendering_soft