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I've started using a toshiba laptop for animating, coz my old computer was becoming too slow.
 The problem is that this windows xp doesn't recognise the anim8or files and doesn't know what to open them with.
 I've tried the 'right click -> open with' option, located the anim8or.exe, but when i click ok its like windows hasn't even seen it. Keeps wanting to use notepad etc...
 I've also 'Right clicked the an8 file and gone to  properties and tried changing the 'opens with' option, but thats just the same.
 I hav tried to search on the forum here, but not even sure how to explain it in 1 or 2 words. No results.
 At the mo i either hav to drag the file onto the an8.exe, or open the .exe and browse to open the file.
 Can someone please enlighten me on what i might do about this?.
 I miss seeing the robin on my files....
 

Hope you dont mind, but I feel that i should mention something to those that are 'hanging out' for Anim8or updates..  
 3D modelling and Animation is an ongoing, never ending thing. There's so much to it. !!
  Anim8or rocks so hard, as is, that we CAN get to where we want to go. We can use outside programs to aide in our quest but, like a good building, with Anim8or we have the best solid base.
 Stick with Aim8or as a good solid base, branch out like the wildest of trees.
 Anim8or Rocks.!!!  

 Hi, ,
 I've got 'what might be a bad habit' ever since i started using anim8or, and was wondering whether anyone has a quicker or easier way to do this:
 When selecting bones in scene mode, the character needs to show the bounding box before i can copy/paste the selected  keys related to those bones.
 You can't just select the figure, becoz that selects all the other bones as well.
 So, what i do is scroll up or down the time-line  until, in the left margin, i find a morph target, or the position or orientation, then right ckick that, and the bounding box appears , so that i can now copy/paste the keys which i've already selected.
(i usually deselect the last selection, becoz i've only selected it to make the box appear)
 I hope thats clear. Am sure you'll let me know if it isn't.

 Does anyone have another way of doing this?.

 BTW. (sort've related). Wouldn't it be cool if you could drag, (reposition), things up and down in the left margin of the timeline.?

 Hi there.

 I hav been unable to access the forums for the last 3 or 4 days. (and still cant).
 I can go to any other page on the anim8or website, but when i try to go to the forums i get this message:

Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, root and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

 Does anybody hav any ideas on this problem. Its beyond me.
 I connect to the internet via mobile phone plugged into laptop.
 Running windows xp.
 At first i thought the site was temporarily down, but turns out its me, somehow.
 Any help would be much appreciated. I won't be able to get back here till next time i'm at a different connection, so won't be answering straight away.
  My email is johnar46@hotmail.com in case anyone can post me there, or answer here in the forums would be great, and i'll get it next time.
 The an8 forums is about the only place i visit on my home, (mobile) connection, and its now been a few days, and i'm sad.      

 Please help. Any ideas.
 Thanks in advance

  Hello

 2 clips i dug out from the cupboard.


   Check out the 'Signs'




and 'Boxes' was one of my first short vids. 



   
 
 

Hello,

 Morphing cartooney eyes:

Part 1:
 Making an object . (an eyeball, an eyesocket and an eyebrow).


Part 2:
Adding Morph targets. (look up, look down, look left, look  right, eye closed and eyebrow up)


Part3 is coming soon
EDIT:
Part 3.
 Anim8ing the object, using the morph targets.



ANOTHER EDIT: I've got some download links. (zip files)

Part 1  28.5mb
http://www.filesend.net/download.php?f=955f7724cafce3b41ed375ff4e30aec8


Part 2  23.5mb
http://www.filesend.net/download.php?f=89c088a3598fdb2d5b48a748b06a1676

Part 3  44.7mb
http://www.filesend.net/download.php?f=33a124e20bf4f479b87a10352a11d426
 

Hello again.
 Was cleaning out and came across these.
 Thought i might as well post them.

 1) Awarkinthapark.

 I started this short vid 2 or 3 months back.
 Never finished it.




 2) Sequences.
 This one was going to be part of a tutorial i started making about sequences, and how much of a cool thing sequences are. You can build a library of sequences, and then those sequences can not only be added to l8er anim8ions, but can also be mixed together to create new mixtures of movements.
 The trick is to only key the necessary bones in the sequence, and then be aware of any overlapping keys in Scene mode, when adding new sequences.
   Hand sequences are a fast way to anim8 hand movements in Scene mode. (think hand 'poses' in sequence mode, that become sequences when added, one after the other, to scene mode.)
 A 'standing still and throwing a ball' sequence can be turned into a 'walking and throwning a ball' sequence by adding the 'throw' sequence to the 'walk' sequence.  But you need to make sure that the 'walk sequence' has no keys that will interfere with the 'upper body throw sequence'.
 This is done in Seqeunce mode when making the sequences, and also in Scene mode, by editing or deleting unwanted keys that may interfere with the sequence(s) that you are about to add.

 Probably a fairly worthwhile tutorial to make,?, but first i need to finish 'Eart'. 




 3) Expressions
 This one i made 2 or 3 years ago, not long after Steve added 'morph targets' to anim8or.
That was a magic addition to Anim8or, and if i remember correctly, painted weights were first added at a similar time.
 Both of these additions were a massive boost to Anim8ing in Anim8or.
 Kudos Steve. MAGIC.