rendering to vector/swf

[tom182]

Hi

any advice on rendering our vector graphics from max, last time I did it i was using max3 with Illustrate, (bit buggy back then, am sure its a lot more stable now)
are there any alternatives worth looking at?

thanks
Tom

[tom182]

wow this place has gone quiet

[glorybound]

I have looked into this about 6 months ago, but I never found a viable solution. I did think Autodesk's Showcase was interesting.

[tom182]

cheers Glorybound

[glyph]

just noticed this..
of course there was Plasma - the version of Max that did this and only this, but only lasted a year I think

Swift render by electirc rain was my tool of choice, though haven't used it for years- certainly easier to deal with than Illustrate

[plastic_]

The problem is, all vector rendering solutions render out independent frames. There is no tweening, so the resulting filesize is huge. If you render the whole thing as video, the file is actually much smaller.
So the whole idea of rendering flash files for the web is kind of obsolete.

[glyph]

the resulting file size is not huge if all you are rendering is some diagrammatic style object - yes don't use for painterly effects, but it ain't redundant