real time playback?

[zbgump]

Is there a setting in Blender to force realtime playblack in the 3d view, so it will skip frames when needed?

I was also thinking it would be cool if Blender had something similar to Maya’s playblast. I believe this entails taking frame by frame screen shots of the opengl playback, so we can get a good sized preview of animation without having to render. Would something like this be possible?[/list]

[z3r0_d]

@zbgump

Is there a setting in Blender to force realtime playblack in the 3d view, so it will skip frames when needed?

yup, go into the render buttons, and then to the sound buttons

press the sync button
[yeah, I know it is for audio, but it does cause frames to be skipped]

@zbgump

I was also thinking it would be cool if Blender had something similar to Maya’s playblast. I believe this entails taking frame by frame screen shots of the opengl playback, so we can get a good sized preview of animation without having to render. Would something like this be possible?

do you see the rightmost button on the 3d view window header?

shift click it

it isn’t exactly a screenshot, but it is about as fast

[zbgump]

Perfect. Both things I wanted are already there! Thanks.