animation help - this look shocking

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Hi All

I have been working on a project over the last couple of weeks preparing model and drawings for a Capex proposal for new plant.

now I have been doing some animation of the equipement in action. but when I output the files to a movie it come out bad

I even tried to output with photo render, and it either crashed Creo running out of memeory, or comes out looking like the image below.

it looks fuzzy and out of focus.

Can anyone help with pointers and tutorials on rendering and animations.

THank you

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TomD.inPDX · Accepted Answer

... that makes two of us

And before you run into the issue... I already reported this, but you cannot get actual 1920 x 1080 frame size. Even if this is what is shows in the dialog, it doesn't come out that way. However, 1440 x 720 does. I got the "works to specifications" from R&D even though it doesn't actually work

One option you might like is outputting the animation to images instead. You can make animated GIFs with PhotoScape. Sometimes this works well for short clips that you want to include in presentations. PhotoScape is free and allows you to make changes to the images in batch mode including image size "corrections". Just another tool in the toolbox

http://www.photoscape.org/

Click on the image...

Animated GIF provides great control over looping when you mechanism animation stops in the same place it starts. You simply discard the very 1st image (since it is the same as the last) and you get a perfect loop.

TomD.inPDX · Answer

I think PhotoRender is crippled to help sell PhotoLux. I don't use it.

You need the larger frame and I like using shaded with reflections; turning the options for higher quality graphics; removng the shade on the floor (just maintain reflections where applicable) and avoid perspective due to the poor control over saved perspective views. I am also careful with feature appearance changes since it removes the ability to use the animation transarency feature. One overall color must be assigned to have the transparency work in animations.

Even for mechaism animations only, I try to use these guidelines.

You should be able to get this level of quality without too much issue:

Note the wavyness of the shadows....

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