Does Anyone have advice
 

Posted by jason at 1/29/2001 7:35 PM EST


Student on team #565 from Hodson Vo-Teck and Nasa and Gore.



We have different sence in our movie. I think that we should make each seane a different file then combine them. But other people think that all the sence should be together in one big file

Re: Does Anyone have advice
 

Posted by colleen - T190 at 1/29/2001 8:18 PM EST


Engineer on team #190, Gompei, from Massachusetts Academy of Math and Science and WPI.


In Reply to: Does Anyone have advice
Posted by jason on 1/29/2001 7:35 PM EST:



Last year, we (246) split our different "scenes" into different files for ease of rendering.. then we combined them all after into one file to output to video...

Seperate files makes it easier for a lot of things. Firstly, if you have multiple machines you can render them all at the same time instead of having to do the whole 30secs in sequence. As well, you can take out the unnecessary background stuff for the individual files to speed up rendering (aka.. take out what the camera doesn't see in that scene)

Seems to make it easier to go back and change little things and speeds up the whole process

Re: Does Anyone have advice
 

Posted by Jay Lundy at 1/29/2001 10:28 PM EST


Student on team #254, The Cheesy Poofs, from Bellarmine College Preparatory.


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Posted by colleen - T190 on 1/29/2001 8:18 PM EST:



We're doing the same thing. We have a different .max files for the inside of our stadium and the outside of our stadium. It works better when you have slow computers like ours and you dont have to bother to manually hide the things that cant be seen.