After looking at the text, fonts and the material editor again Chris showed us the basics of animation in 3DS Max. The Auto Key function, how to increase frames, how to save and to view in a AVI video format. In the morning session we continued with the text and made animations with it. Starting with the Auto Key, we used basic tools like rotate, move and re-size to have the object look like it's doing something. Once happy we used the Auto Key to stop the animation, my first animation had 7 segments in it with in a 100 frames limit. This let me play around with it a bit and here it is, my first one.
In the afternoon Chris let us do... with in reason :) what ever we wanted with the animation functions in Max, my work turned out garbage. One fatal reason, I didn't know you couldn't place objects in to a animation late, all the elements need to be in placed before using the Auto Key and the functions. If you do it like I originally did, only the original objects animation will work and the rest don't do anything at all. This cost me around 40 minutes and in turn trashed the end product, at least I know for next time what to do. My idea was to have my detailed car which is still unfinished but it isn't that important to complete but anyway getting back on task, to have the car animate like it's driving around a circuit. I had the car animated but not the cameras or a basic scene i.e. a track the car runs on. Anyway it bombed big time and I just did a extremely short animation of the car driving by to finish the afternoon task, my first animation with the text is a load better as it's actually doing something.
For some reason I'm having technical issues with the car animation, it's only 140kb big and it's messing around. ¬ ¬ What I've discovered from looking at the file is it's only 1 second long and it only worked with a bug fix through VLC player, so the video is bugged and I tried modifying it with Windows Movie Maker but it doesn't like the file either. It definitely bombed big time. :)
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