When you output an animation as individual frames (like tga or png not avi), how do you get it to not put unnecessary zeros in the index?
So instead of:
thing0001
thing0002
thing0003
You’d get:
thing9
thing10
thing11
I think it does that because it will show all the frames in a folder all in order. If you had it your way, some OSs(I’m not sure which, but I know Windows is a culprit) show them in alphabetical order in which case they would be: 0,1,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,2,20,21,22…
I’m running windows XP and it doesn’t seem to have that problem. I think that if it sees a string of numerals together, without spacing, it considers it all one number.
But regardless, if say I wanted:
thing001 or thing01 or simply thing1
how would I do that?
You dont want to do that… because you would get 1,10,11,12,13,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 THE FOUCUS HERE IS THE 1 before the 10…
Also the 2 would go before the 20… and 3 before the 30… and so on
So all your 1-9 frames would get out of order. That is how computers and auto organizing works. the 0001 0002 0003 will be in order in your folder. if you dont believe me make some folder and name them 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12…and sort by name it will come out like this
name1
name10
name11
name12
name2
name3
name4
name5
name6
name7
name8
name9
Where the fix is the 001 002 003 and so on…
name001
name002
name003
name004
name005
name006
name007
name008
name009
name010
name011
name012
And yes windows XP will make it do this. Your best bet is to leave it alone.