Adding A New 3D Animation

To add a new animation, follow these steps:

Make that the current animation is empty (click the Clear button if necessary).

Set the camera mode (Perspective or Orthogonal) in the viewer. Note that if you want to create a Fly-through animation you have to select a perspective camera.

Using your mouse and controls for the viewer window, set the desired view of the volume and click the Add camera position button.

Clicking the Add button adds the current camera position and also the given number of intermediate frames between the previous and the current positions that produce smooth transition from one position to another.

Move camera to the next view position and click Add again.

Record all camera positions you want to have in the animation.

Note: To create a circular animation you have to record at least two camera positions first and then click the Circular Animation button.

A set of camera positions that go around the object pointing to the viewpoint of the first camera position, and in the plane defined by the first two camera positions and the center of view will be generated. The distance of the first camera to the focal point defines the radius of circular animation.

If the current animation was empty, the animation will be rotated around the vertical axis.

To create a seesaw animation, you should record the position of the first viewpoint and then the last viewpoint. Click the Connect Start/End control.

If the current animation was empty, the animation will be rotated around the vertical axis.

To play your animation, click the Play button. You can stop animation by clicking on the image in the viewer window or clicking the Pause button.

To create an animation sequence in the application workspace, follow these steps:

Resize the volume viewer window to the size you need, or check the Use Fixed Size option and specify the size.

Click the Movie button. This movie can then be saved to an AVI or WMV file.

The current view can be copied to the Windows clipboard using the Clipboard button or can be turned into a new image using the Image button.