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- Automatic Limits: GiD searches for the minimum and maximum values of the results along all the steps of the analysis and uses them to draw the results view through all the steps. Previously, it needs to visualize some resutls.
- Deformation: Permits to record animation with a specific deformation.
- Endless: The animation continues indefinately.
- From step I to step K: Allows the user to do an animation between step number I and setp number J , both included. This is also useful to skip the first step of an animation of a deformed mesh with a result visualization, which is the original state of the mesh, without deformation and without the result visualization.
- View centered and following node : select a 'moving' node and the view will be centered on this node during the animation.
- Simple model animation: together with the result animation the model will be animated too with one of the selected animations: Rotate (model) ; Zoom-In and then Rotate (model) ; Zoom-in and rotate and zoom-out. Each one of them can be configured. Like the "Zoom-in and rotate and zoom-out" window:
Duration:
- Total time: Specfies the duration of the clip.
- Delay: Specify a delay time between steps in milliseconds.
- Use step values as seconds: The number of step will be used to the duration of the clip.
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Note: To avoid problems when trying to view an MPEG format animation in Microsoft Windows , it is strongly recommended that you use the Default menu to select a 'standard' size and press the Resize button. The graphical window will change to this 'standard' size. After finishing the animation, simply select Default on the menu and press the Resize button, and the previous size will be restored.
Note: AVI MS Video 1 uses a simple video compression algorithm, commonly supported by all video players. It is the recommended when the movie is to be included in presentations. To reduce the size of the animation file, the user can set the Utilities --> Variable -->AviMSVCUsePreviousInfo option, on the right buttons menu (see User Interface), to 0 or 1, and verify the created animations with their platform configuration.
Note: Macromedia Flas video is suitable for web sites.
Note: If you want to recompress the animation with another codec, like xvid, the AVI raw True Color is recommended, as it saves each frame without compression.
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