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medeamajic · 31st December 2006, 06:19

The Open GL preview of Carrara works great if only one view is displayed. The size of the animation preview does not matter for Open GL. It can be a 640 X 480 preview or a 800 X 600 and the speed will be the same. With the Eovia software I can shrink my preview to 300 X 400 and it plays much faster. Perhaps you could try this for fly throughs to get the timing right. A Dual Core Pentium 4 at 3.4 GHZ or a Core 2 Dual at 2.130 GHZ should out perform an Nvidia Geforce 7600 GS with 512 MB of RAM if the preview is only 400 X 300. If the animation preview window is 1024 X 768 then Open GL will work better. If you have a fast system try the Eovia software at about 400 X 300 for animation previews and the playback speed should increase over open GL.

31st December 2006, 06:19	#10 (permalink)
medeamajic Now, I learn animation Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 1,028	The Open GL preview of Carrara works great if only one view is displayed. The size of the animation preview does not matter for Open GL. It can be a 640 X 480 preview or a 800 X 600 and the speed will be the same. With the Eovia software I can shrink my preview to 300 X 400 and it plays much faster. Perhaps you could try this for fly throughs to get the timing right. A Dual Core Pentium 4 at 3.4 GHZ or a Core 2 Dual at 2.130 GHZ should out perform an Nvidia Geforce 7600 GS with 512 MB of RAM if the preview is only 400 X 300. If the animation preview window is 1024 X 768 then Open GL will work better. If you have a fast system try the Eovia software at about 400 X 300 for animation previews and the playback speed should increase over open GL.