Animating with Microstation
For architects and engineers who deal with 3D rendering and animations, this text covers every aspect of animating in detail, including cameras, paths, actors, motion blurs, global and source lighting, and targets.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Animating with Microstation
PREVIEWING THE ANIMATION SCRIPT
Now that you have the script ready to preview, depending on the performance of your system and graphic card you may need to make a few adjustments to further improve the preview performance.
Example 8: Previewing the Animation
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Continuing with Longbeach.dgn, from the Animation Producer dialog box, select Settings > Preview to open the Preview Settings dialog box.
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Set Skip Frames to 1 to play every other frame.
This speeds up the playback performance because only every other frame displays. If you have a slow system, you can increase the number. If you have a fast system, leave Skip Frames set to zero.
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Open View 8.
View 8 has been saved with graphics acceleration on (enabled).
Tip To make the preview play smoother, you can reduce the size of the view used for previewing the animation.
From the Rendering Tools toolbox (Tools > Visualization > Rendering), select the View Size tool. 
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Enter a data point in View 8 to activate the tool. Turn off the Proportional Resize option and set X to 320 and Y to 240. Enter a data point in the view to resize.
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From the Animation Producer dialog box, set View to 8 to preview the animation script in that view.
Note Graphics acceleration is enabled in View 8. Depending on your graphic card s performance you can reduce or increase the number of Skip Frames in the Animation Preview settings dialog if the preview is too...
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