Parameters of Animating Variable Change

Parameters

Variable name. You can specify the name of the variable whose value will change. The variable name can be set manually or selected from the attached list (this list includes all real drawing variables). The variable cannot be text-based.

Starting value. The value of the variable to start changing it from.

Ending value. The value of the variable at which the command will end.

Step. The number that will be added to the value of the variable at each step of the animation.

Options

Clear screen. When this option is set, the screen will clear at each step. Otherwise, the image will be overlaid and you will be able to see the dynamics of movement and changes in the drawing at each step.

Change color. When this option is set, the image will be displayed in a different color at each step. This option is useful if you want to compare different results when changing drawing parameter values.

Pause. If you set this option after redrawing the drawing at each step, the system will require you to confirm the next drawing.

Show control panel. When this option is set, a window will appear on the screen during the command processing process, in which the variable values corresponding to it at each time will be displayed. This window also contains buttons that allow you to stop the animation process or slow it down (then the process can be continued).

Output File. When this option is set, the image resulting from the animation will be saved in a metafile drawing. Then you can print the metafile to a printer or plotter, include it in your T-FLEX drawing, or export it to a different format. Note that when the "Clear screen" mode is enabled, output to the metafile is not performed.

Save Report

When this option is set, the animation will be written to the specified report file at each step (you must specify its name in the operation parameters).

Create Multimedia File
Setting this flag allows you to set parameters for a multimedia file in the *.AVI format.

Photorealistic View Generation

This group of parameters is only available, if the command was called from 3D window.

You can select one of the following variants:

•Non-photorealistic rendering – the exploded view scenario is recorded according to the current view in 3D scene.

•Photorealistic rendering using OptiX – the video is created using NVIDIA OptiX mechanism.

•Photorealistic rendering using Embree – the video is created using Embree mechanism.

 You can set Image Quality and Number of Ray Tracing iterations for the previous two variants.

 

•Photorealistic rendering using POV-Ray – the video is created using the POV-Ray mechanism.

You can find more information about photorealism in Photorealistic View section.

View Point

This group of parameters is only available, if the command was called from 3D window.

Defines the position and direction of the animation recording camera.

•Use Current View Point. The view point is defined by the system camera present in any 3D window by default.  

•Use Camera. The other possibility is specifying a user-defined camera.

Output File

File Name. Allows you to select a location to save the file and give it a name.

Number of frames per second. The recommended frequency is 24 frames per second.

The graphic button Compression available for the *.avi format invokes the dialog box for customizing multimedia file compression parameters:

Compressor. Selects a compressing application.

Compression Quality. Defines the quality grade for multimedia file compression.

Key Frame. Defines the number of frames between the key frames.

Data Rate. Defines the data transfer rate (kilobytes per second).

The graphic button Configure brings up the dialog box for entering the required settings of the selected compressing application.

Video quality parameter is available for the *.wmv format.

Size

You can specify dimensions of the video in this group.

Use Current View Size. With the flag turned on, the whole contents of the current 3D view window is recorded. With the flag off, the user can define one's own width and height parameters of the image being saved.

Logotype

In this group of parameters, you can use your own logo to place it in the selected location in the media file.