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Old 02-21-2002, 10:45 AM   #10
Jim Sachs
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The reason I asked about frame rate is that the side fins of the Lionfish would look less "floppy" on faster machines. You might want to turn on "Limit frame rate to 60".

Here's why: All the other fish have a single-plane polygon for each side fin, but the side fins of the Lionfish have many joints in them. There is a lag built in so that as the base of the fin moves, the second joint moves to the angle that the base was about 10 frames ago. The third joint moves to the angle that the base was about 20 frames ago, and the tips move to where the base was about 30 frames ago. In addition, the middle part of the fin also lags behind the top and bottom. On extremely fast machines it's possible that this can happen so fast that the fins appear to be flat.
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