I've been a Chaotica user for almost two years -- love it and I love the advances with version 2. Awesome work.

I do, however, keep encountering a bug that's driving me insane. I hope I can explain it properly and I hope this is the right place to post this.

I mostly do animations. Frequently I'll have a nice animation set up, with several a few transformations changing value over time. All is well....and then I hit Undo just once...... and it erases almost all of my animation settings. For example, I may have a y=0, x=90.......to y=360, x=450 on three different transforms. I make a bunch of other random adjustments, but the moment I hit undo on a completely unrelated adjustment, my settings turn to y=0, x=0 and no animation at all.

Secondly, and it's totally related...
Often I will set up an animation sequence -- maybe just some rotations over time or something. I will save the world, but the animation isn't saved at all. Just like above, often my settings (simple or complex) will just reset to some useless value. The .chaos file I saved shows the time length and the fps, but none of the transformations over time are saved.

When working on an animation, especially a long one, I just have to keep Chaotica open while I'm designing and all the way through the rendering process (which can be days) and pray that my computer doesn't shut down or reboot for some reason.

I would love to make a video showing this issue, but I'm rendering right now and don't dare interrupt until it's done because I will have lost hours of work because I can't save the files.

I'm very familiar with the animation editor and how it works. It's a huge step over earlier versions. My above issues aren't because I don't get the editor. It's actually something else weird going on

Oh...and as a side note for a recommendation for any new version.... Please allow the licensing to somehow allow me to temporarily install Chaotica on a render farm computer so I can render stuff in hours rather than days

Hi,
Looks like undo on the anim editor is a bit broken. Will fix

Thanks!! Will this also fix the issue of saving and retaining the animation settings? That's probably a bigger issue. Even if the undo isn't working well, at least a good saved copy (saved frequently) can rescue hours of work when things go awry

Ok this stuff should be fixed in 2.0.16: https://www.chaoticafractals.com/node/1 ... f=2&t=3054

Let me know if it's not.

Thanks for the reports!

Thanks...downloading now

Seems to be working perfectly now -- thanks!!!

Has the problem of persisting animation info back again. My xml only shows

<real name="anim_length">3</real>
<real name="anim_fps">30</real>
<real name="anim_exposure_time">0.0333</real>
<string name="anim_exposure_shape">uniform</string>

Nothing else is saved.
Thanks

Follow-up to the above request and fix where the user notes his animation transformations were not saved.

I have a reverse request; I need a way to reset the animation and remove all of the transformations along the timeline and delete all of the animation settings from the world.

I am not seeing any option to do that. I searched the online instructions and also googled how to reset Chaotica animation and got zero hits. Lastly I searched these forums to no avail.

So... how do you delete all of your keyframes and reset the animation completely?

thanks
jmelon

Hi,

In support of the request above, I would also like (need) to know how to reset an animation completely in an easy way.

Thanks,
Marc V