The design file in this folder contains a stone goblet illuminated with a single light source. The design document has been set up to create a movie (series of PICT files) of rendered images. To render the movie/image, simply complete the following 6 steps:
1. Open the design document by double-clicking the "Goblet Movie" document icon.
2. If you wish to see a single rendered image of the goblet before creating the complete movie, choose "Render Image" from the "Render" menu, and RenderBoy will hide all of its windows and begin rendering. The windows will reappear when the image is completed.
3. To render the movie, choose "Render PICT Movie" from the "Render" menu. A standard file dialog-window will appear allowing you to specify where the movie files will be created. Create a new empty sub-folder and call it "My movie" - this is where the movie files will go. Specify "goblet" as the base file name for the movie files. Click "Save". RenderBoy will hide all of its windows and begin rendering the movie. RenderBoy will render 90 separate PICT files with the names "goblet 0000", "goblet 0001", "goblet 0002", etc.
NOTE: Before performing the following steps, your monitor should be running in 256 color mode (to save memory). If you encounter memory errors, give PICT-Play more memory.
4. Start the "PICT-Play" application by double clicking its icon. A standard file dialog-window will appear. Open the "goblet 0000" file, which is the first PICT file in the PICT movie sequence. PICT-Play will open this file and the remaining 89 PICT files which follow.
5. When all of the files are loaded, select "Action!" from the "Movie" menu to view your finished movie! Click to stop the movie. You may also wish to experiment with some of the movie-viewing options found under the "Movie" menu. You may also want to use the MooVer program (included) to create a QuickTime movie from the series of PICT files.
THINGS TO NOTICE...
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This document demonstrates several important points which are worth noting.
CREATING MOVIES. This document demonstrates how easy it is to create a rendered movie from any RenderBoy design document. You create a movie by specifying the number of frames (PICT files) to generate along with how the eye view should change throughout the course of these frames.
PICT-PLAY VS. QUICKTIME. If you are familiar with QuickTime, you will notice that the animation generated by PICT-Play can be a bit smoother and faster than with QuickTime. PICT-Play holds all of its movie frames in memory (RAM) while it is performing an animation. The amount of RAM required is proportional to the movie's length and pixel size. If you do not have enough RAM to store a PICT-Play movie of the desired length or size, then you may want to consider giving QuickTime a try.
