Jumpy Animation

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Chad(Posted 2008) [#1]
I've modelled and animated a radar for my sub, and it works great, except when it gets close to the end of the frames, it jumps and pauses at the start of it.

Here's a video,
http://www.chadmcrae.com/jumping.wmv


My animation line, (it's a .b3d format)
Animate radar,1,.05,0,1

Now, could it be something in the modelling program? I've noticed that in Milkshape when I slow it down it jumps also, which is strange, because I have 30 frames, and I want it to rotate 360 degrees, so 12 degrees per frame. That way, when it hits the 30th frame, it's back at it's beginning.

Well, I thought, that since it's at the same position two frames in a row it could cause this, so I reduced the number of frames to 29, so the last frame is only 12 degrees from the first frame when it starts over. However, this doesn't stop it from stopping either!

So that's why I'm asking you guys, what am I doing wrong?


Gabriel(Posted 2008) [#2]
File not found.

My guess would have been that the frames start at 0, which would mean that you only need frames 0-29, but apparently you've already tried that, so I don't know without seeing the video.


Chad(Posted 2008) [#3]
Sorry about that, a little typo...

http://www.chadmcrae.com/jumping.wmv