Re: [Visualpython-users] Re: CamStudio: may prefer 2.0 over 2.1

[Jonathan B. <jbr...@ea...>]

On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 10:13, Donald_Gaffney wrote:

> In any case, is there a capacity to render into a bitmap file set planned
> for Vpython? It seems to me I put together some code a long time ago
> to generate avi files from an OpenGL anim under win32, but just rendering
> to files and using something like ImageMagick would work on most platforms. 
> 
> Don

The idea has occurred to us.  The main issue is that VPython's rendering
is purely asynchronous with respect to the rate of animation.  To make a
movie correctly would require some kind of synchronous rendering mode
(perhaps tied into rate() somehow), which is not planned at this time.

-Jonathan