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Anim8or is so cool.
Got a couple of thoughts after my latest wee dabble...
https://s3.postimg.org/4v3zxcpcz/ggymn4c.gif

 
 Changing between object and screen co-ordinates seems fairly crucial now, for me anyway, when animating a character.
 A new habit to learn when in scene mode. Use 'Object Coordinates' when animating a rig, then change to 'Screen coordinates' to move position or orientation. (has caught me out a few times now. Thank god, (steve), for being able to slide outside the work area to cancel the last move. Has saved my butt many times)
  I notice  'co-ordinates' change globally, maybe it would be better if they didn't..?
... any thoughts anyone.....
 
(btw steve: shortcut key 'j' for Screen Coordinates is showing as 's' in Scene mode.  ((in the info bit at bottom left of screen when hovering over a button.)). 'j' works tho.  's' is scale of course.

 The other thing,

 Selecting a bone in the timetrack, (left colum), doesnt show the associated trackball in the scene, but often selecting a bone through the timetrack is because you can't clearly see the bone to select it.
 Its a gr8 way of selecting a bone that you can't reach.
 So the trackball should probably show when the bone is selected by timetrack entry.

Anim8or is so cool.

Sequence import crashing if no figure is in the sequence file.
 All builds up to, and including, 1253 don't have a problem importing a sequence that doesn't have a figure referenced in the sequence file, but all builds from 1255 upward, including V1betas, will crash Anim8or, when trying to import a 'figureless' sequence.   

 

This is Gym.


 He's fast and light to move and render.
 Not sure how to fix the few 'missing objects' listed when opening.
 He's ready to animate and has 'look left', 'look right' and 'eyes closed' morph targets.
  Help yourself, and have fun.
 

Deleting a scene is causing anim8or to crash. (anyone else?)
 On windows 7 32bit. Not happening on windows XP
Builds 1215 and below are fine. Problem starts at 1219 and above.
 I've tested on several builds  and different scenes.(even empty scenes)
 Looks like it only happens if there's more than 1 scene in the file. 

My easiest test is:
 New file -> Scene mode. Scene -> new. (Scene2)
Scene -> delete. ......"Anim8or has stopped working"

build 1203.  Awesome.
 Have found a bug to report:
Selecting figure in scene mode, or 'figure' in timetrack, is not selecting all bones, as it did in previous builds/versions and is not showing bounding box of selected figure.
Related is:
  'Key all bones' is 'keying all bones', but is not selecting them.
 Important for quick keying then copy/pasting.

Can't work this out. 
 The bones aren't showing up in the timetrack list, but you can see them in the workspace.
 (When i click on a bone it says no controllers.
 But the bones are set to no limits in figure mode.
 Create a controller, and 1 axis of one bone shows up in the timetrack.)
 Its happening on winxp and win7, and seems to be any version of anim8or.
 How can this be?
 I've been trying for the last long time to work this out. . lol. Please someone tell me it's something simple.
 This is so strange......

 Edit: Has it always been like this..??
  Normally, when you import a figure into scene mode, aren't the bones automatically there under the figures name in the timetrack?
 Maybe i've just been dreaming thats how it was ... 

 Don't you just love it when you 'stumble' onto a little trick in Anim8or, and think, thats cool, didn't know you could do that.
 I found 1 today...

 Did you know that..... in Object Mode when you open the object dropdown list, you can select an objects name by pressing its first letter on the keyboard?
 Then, to go to that object, just press enter.
 Lol.... How cool!.....

 Heres 1 i picked up off the forum a while back, i think it was raxx....
  You can Right Click and drag the materials bar up and down
 ...far out....These little tricks that stick in your memory........

 Feel welcome to add to this thread, with any nifty little tricks that you've found, (or learnt), that have stuck with you since that fateful day...... I will......