Animation > Turntable

Lets you rotate selected objects 360 degrees.

Turntable Options

Rotate Camera

Rotates the camera view and the pivot of the camera group about the center of the object. This option is enabled by default.

Rotate Objects

Rotates the object on the screen The background and scene remain static.

Restore Position

When turned on, the animation returns to its start frame position when the animation playback is stopped.

Axis

Determines the axis about which the active objects are rotated for animation display. You can rotate the objects about any of the three axes. The default is to rotate about the Z-axis.

Direction

Determines whether the objects rotate in a Positive (counter-clockwise) or Negative (clockwise) direction.

Rotate About

Determines the point of origin about which the objects will rotate.

Origin – The active objects rotate about the point of origin 0, 0, 0 (where the three world axes cross).

Average – The active objects rotate about a center that is the calculated average point of each object’s rotation pivot point.

Center of Bounding box– The active objects rotate about the center of the bounding box.

Frames/Rev

Determines the number of frames to be created for each 360 degree revolution. Increasing this value slows down the animation and decreasing the value speeds up the animation.

Create SDL File

If toggled ON, the system creates an SDL file to record the animation for rendering. In this case, you are prompted for an SDL filename to specify where to store the animation. The recorded SDL file will contain all shader information as well.

Note:

Although the animation is written to the SDL file, rendering of the animation is not automatic. To render the animation, you need to use the command-line renderer. For further details, see the description of renderer/raytracer/powercaster/powertracer, documented in the Utilities section of the technical documents.

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