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I have a very complex animation that I am trying to Render as an animation.
Unfortunately, it looks terrible as a Preview. (The seams of objects I am
differencing have a film.) I would like to use Render on all 360 frames, but
don't want to render them one by one. Using animation would be great but it
produces Preview like results.

Sample:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/310759/u/fuse_block_preview.png

vs.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/310759/u/fuse_block_render.png

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On 11/30/2015 10:19 PM, jpmendes wrote:

it always uses the window size, just grabbing the displayed image.

You can generate the animation from command line, e.g. using a script
like below. That way it's possible to define the image size within
the bounds your graphics driver will allow. I've used the example
Advanced->Animation that ships with the latest release.

Note that it needs an additional "$t = 0;" at the beginning of the
file to make the "-D" parameter work.

Result with HD resolution => http://files.openscad.org/tmp/animation-test.mp4

ciao,
Torsten.

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#!/bin/bash

STEPS=200
PATTERN=%04d.png

for a in $(seq 0 $STEPS)
do
FILE=$(printf "$PATTERN" $a)
echo "$FILE"
openscad
--imgsize=1920,1080
--camera=0,0,0,60,0,40,300
"-D$t=$a/$STEPS"
-o "$FILE" animation.scad \

done

ffmpeg -i "$PATTERN" -c:v libx264 -r 30 -pix_fmt yuv420p animation.mp4

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On 11/30/2015 11:44 PM, jpmendes wrote:

That might work, if some basic unix tools (in this case bash, seq, printf)
are installed.

Otherwise you could just generate a batch file using a good text editor,
excel, libreoffice... anything that makes it easy to generate lots of
lines and replace the number in the -D parameter.

(Not sure if the -D needs some quotes on Windows)

openscad.com --imgsize=1920,1080 --camera=0,0,0,60,0,40,300 -D$t=0/200 -o 0001.png animation.scad
openscad.com --imgsize=1920,1080 --camera=0,0,0,60,0,40,300 -D$t=1/200 -o 0002.png animation.scad
openscad.com --imgsize=1920,1080 --camera=0,0,0,60,0,40,300 -D$t=2/200 -o 0003.png animation.scad
.
.
.
openscad.com --imgsize=1920,1080 --camera=0,0,0,60,0,40,300 -D$t=199/200 -o 0199.png animation.scad

ciao,
Torsten.