hi I was just wondering if any of the file formats that you can export a blender file to will work to play an animation on a normal computer which doesn’t have blender?
thanks, just want to show my friends. xx
Of course! In the Render tab’s Output settings, you can specify a number of movie formats, including XVID, H.264, Quicktime, and MPEG.
I suggest you try a small set of frames before rendering a complete animation, just to make sure the resulting format is something that will work for you.
All of the render / output video formats and the regualr image formats that your computer can open can be used to render an animation and will run on a computer without blender installed. You can export out your blend file as a .fbx file but you’ll obviously have to have another 3d graphics application to open it
this sounds stupid but where is the render tab?
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Interface
Look for the image at the bottom of the page. You need to look through all the “Context Buttons” – the one on the very left of the ones in the image will get you many of your rendering options, including output.
Ok I’ve found the output option but I don’t get how you exactly export the animation using the output tab?
ok thanks, just wondering if it still works when my laptop is a 64 bit and the computers/laptops I will show my friends on are 32 bits. will it work this way or will I have to use the 32 bit version of blender?
ok thanks, just wondering if it still works when my laptop is a 64 bit and the computers/laptops I will show my friends on are 32 bits. will it work this way or will I have to use the 32 bit version of blender?
The operating system, manufacturer of the computer, amount of RAM, or the colour of your shirt makes absolutely no difference. Why do you think it would ?
As long as their computer has the necessary codec support to play back the file format like any other video file. If you use something like H264 any modern computer should be able to play it
ok thanks, it was when I was exporting a game that depended on which 32/64 bit version I used to export to 32 bit computer. thanks.
Also do you know which are the video output file types is most commonly used on a school computer which runs windows media player? thanks