Hey Guys, I've been asked by a friend to do a 30 second animated fly through of a residential housing project in 3ds max. I have played around with keyframe animation, but to be honest I dont really know much about Animation. A few questions if I may, perhaps you experienced guys can help me out a little please!

Question: After the camera and path are setup and ready to animate, when you render the images to a folder saved as an .AVI for example, What kind of settings in Vray would you use for the lighting. (It takes 30 mins to render the ONE scene, so is it going to take me 30mins x 200 frames for the animation? Can I create the light setting and just duplicate it in each frame? I may not be able to communicate this as my knowledge is limited, but basically I want to try out a 30 second flythough, I have it all setup nearly, I just dont want to wait 3 days for the thing to render out! What is the best way to achieve the most efficient renders for animation please guys? Thanks in advance for any pointers! : )

Perhaps even a tutorial would help if anyone knows of good ones! I've tried Googling but nothing helpful as of yet! : )

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