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Couldn't find a topic on this already but in the scene mode, selecting 'View'->'Camera' is not the same as selecting "View"->'Other'->'Camera01'. (I want to render multiple camera angles.)

1. 'Camera01' does not hide light sources, 'Camera' does,  and neither camera hides the other's camera.

2. More importantly, when rendering a movie using any numbered camera (eg 'Camera01', a "User" view), the first frame rendered seems to be that last frame viewed in the editor, NOT the first frame of selected range or of 'All' frames, almost as if the first rendered frame is from a buffer.

Seen this with Scanline and OpenGL. Using 1318. Non-User views seem to render first frame OK.

{Also, would vote for anti-aliasing for OpenGL rendering!}

On several projects, when I try to render a movie, Anim8or crashes right before the Video Compression window shows up -- sometimes later in the render. It happens with any of the 3 renderers and in several different views - camera, front.

The image render works fine.

One crash seems related to a certain png texture file (with alpha) since, if I delete that texture, save the project then reopen the project, the movie render won't crash.

However, the object that has this 'bad' texture isn't even in the scene that crashes(?) AS a test I removed everything (except world and camera) from the scene. Still crashes.

The offending texture is moderately large: 2048 x 1024.

In another project has about 2 thousand elements for smoke. It too crashes before the Video Compression window. Resource monitor says that the program is taking 250~300 megabytes with several gigs free.

Occasionally, if I fiddle enough and they render ok, I get a "Cannot set allocations" message before the Video Compression window opens and then they seem to render ok.

Is there some limit on what texture sizes can be or how complex scenes can be?

Win 7, 64 bit 8 Gig. 2 Gig NVidia GT 730.

Thanks.

(projects are available if interested.)

I'd like to suggest the following aids to navigation:

1. When the mouse wheel zooms in on a panel, it should center the zoom where the mouse pointer is and not, as now, the center of the panel. You could then zoom out, place the mouse cursor where you want to zoom into and zoom in.

This would allow quick and complete navigation with the wheel and avoid selecting and deselecting the viewpoint icon.

2. If in the scene mode one object is selected and then you switch to the object mode, you would then be editing the object selected in the scene.

Thanks again for the great program!

Dan