P. Clay Sherrod Apr 18, 2014
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Gray" <pluto@...>
To: <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, April 18, 2014 6:21 PM
Subject: Re: [guide-user] Guide having difficulty creating animation trails on Asus
eee machine
> Hi Ted,
>
> I'd suggest you go into Overlays... Toggle Overlays On/Off, then select
> 'Planet Trails for Animation'. Obviously, you'll want them turned 'on'.
> Less obviously, the 'show at' ranges should cover the fields of view at
> which you want planet trails to appear. It could be that you've set them
> up to appear between 0 and 2 degrees, but are currently at a five-degree
> field of view. In that case, the planet trails won't appear until you
> zoom in.
>
> Also less obviously, you should look at the line color. If you're
> displaying black trails on a black background, you won't see anything,
> even if technically speaking, Guide is 'drawing' the trails.
>
> This issue with animation trails "vanishing" (or not appearing in the
> first place) comes up pretty often. Which probably means I should re-think
> the interface to make what's going on a little more obvious. I think a
> lot of the confusion springs from the fact that you control trails partly
> through 'Add a Trail', and partly through the overlay commands. I'll
> have to give this some thought... there should be some way to consolidate
> the controls.
>
> -- Bill
>
> On 04/18/2014 06:55 PM, Ted Blank wrote:
>>
>>
>> I have right-clicked on the star (to select it), then attempted the animation.
>>
>> Step size is -5 minutes
>> Round to nearest step and index marks are both checked
>> Index freq is 2
>> Time labels are on
>> Time label freq is 5
>> Number of steps 400
>> color is red. (background is black)
>>
>> I had one successful animation trail created, after that nothing successful.
>> That's what seemed so strange.
>>
>> Ted
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 6:49 PM, P. Clay Sherrod <drclay@...
>> <mailto:drclay@...>> wrote:
>>
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>> What intervals (in minute tick-marks) do you have set? Is your scale large
>> enough that you can see the trail with the increments that you have designated?
>> In many cases, you MUST right click on your target prior to issuing a command (via
>> the animation tab at the top of the screen, not Alt-J) in order for Guide to
>> recognize the requested target animation.
>>
>> ------------
>> Dr. Clay
>>
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> *From:* Ted Blank <mailto:tedblank@...>
>> *To:* guide-user@yahoogroups.com <mailto:guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
>> *Sent:* Friday, April 18, 2014 5:41 PM
>> *Subject:* [guide-user] Guide having difficulty creating animation trails
>> on Asus eee machine
>>
>> I have a small (1 GB ram) Asus eee mini-laptop with Windows7 Starter. I
>> installed Guide 8 and Guild 9 (own them both) on the machine.
>>
>> Guide8 never was able to create an animation trail. (I did the alt-J 1
>> step on both).
>>
>> Guide9 created one animation trail successfully, but since then has not
>> been able to.
>>
>> The menu appears, I enter all the data, say 'OK', Guide processes for a
>> moment, then stops, and no animation trail appears.
>>
>> I have tried many combinations of screen color and trail color, still
>> nothing.
>>
>> Is it possible that there is just not enough memory on this tiny machine
>> to support making the trails?
>>
>> Thanks.
>> Ted
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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