VISSIM 5.30-05 User Manual

Animation
If option Save vehicle/pedestrian positions is active during the
recording of aggregated data, the positions will be saved additionally.
Thus movements can be shown alternatively during the animation run.
The wording of this option regards the active modules, i.e. without
pedestrians add-on, only vehicles are mentioned.
5. Before starting the simulation, PRESENTATION - ANI RECORDING must be
activated. Then the parameters described above will be saved to the animation
file during the next simulation run. After the simulation run, the
RECORDING option will be deactivated automatically.
When the *.ANI file is recorded, also the colors of those segments are saved
to file for color-coded display of aggregated values, which are not completely
located within the user-defined network sections.
9.1.2 Replay Animation File
1. Go to PRESENTATION - ANIMATION PARAMETERS... and open the desired
Animation File.
2. Choose the Animation Start second and press Ok.
3. Go to PRESENTATION - CONTINUOUS to start the animation run. You can
control the animation run from the ‘Run Control’ buttons in the toolbar.
4. Alternatively you can activate the ‘Animation’ toolbar: Right-click in the
toolbar area and tick ANIMATION from the context menu.
Starts the continuous animation. F5
Calls the next animation step in the Single step
mode;
Allows also for toggling from Continuous to Single
Step animation mode during the animation run.
Terminates the current animation run. ESC
Continuous in reverse direction.
Single-step mode in reverse direction.
9.1.3 Record ANI.TXT File (optional module)
Via PRESENTATION - ANI.TXT RECORDING, network data and trajectories of
cars and pedestrains and also the states of the signal controllers and of the
dectors are saved to a text file for the import in Autodesk´s 3DS MAX
software.
For this add-on, the folder ..\API\3DSMAXEXPORT of your VISSIM
installation has various subfolders which store a script in Autodesk´s macro
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