uber noob question(animation playback)

[Corky12190]

not exactly sure what you mean(i have never used maya so i don't know what playblast does) but
Have you tried Alt + AKEY? that will run the animation in the viewport without rendering it.

or to render a animation click on the ANIM button on the Render panel. that will render each frame then you can click on the play button to play them back.

hope that helped,

Corky12190

[VirgilioVasconcelos]

or to render a animation click on the ANIM button on the Render panel. that will render each frame then you can click on the play button to play them back.

But this could be extremely time consuming. For previews, just to get to know if the timing is correct, you can hold ctrl and press the last button on the right of the panel of the 3D view. This will bring you something called in other apps "GL Preview", which is much faster.

Before I discover that, I had to wait looooooong renders just to throw them away... =P

Cheers

[harkyman]

Go into the Scene buttons (F10), then select the Anim/Playback buttons (the squiggle with the arrow on the bottom). In there is a button labelled "Sync". Turn it on. That will cause Blender to skip frames during Alt-A playback if it needs to in order to maintain a realtime framerate.

[hyenaman]

Wow :)

Thanks for the quick response :)
I tried the "cntrl+dump view button" and the "sync" thing both seem to be doin the same..
How do i know which one is playing at 25 fps (my scene rate)???
or does both do it???

Thanks
Nirmal David

[hyenaman]

Hola...
anybody home???

[Apollux]

If Sync is on then you know for sure.

If sync is off and you still get the same result then your machine is powerful enough to playback your animation on real time without dropping any frame.

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