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YES! This was easily my most requested feature. It sounds like its still rusty, but any progress is a start, since we only got a taste of it before.

Edit: The sample seems to work as expected, but I too am having trouble setting up my own. Guess I need more of a tutorial.

Kyle: if you could send me a project with the material that crashes, and the normal map file, I'll try to find the problem.

I was just about to until it randomly started to work, now I cant reproduce it. At least not consistently.


Anyway, I like the idea of putting more recent projects in the list. I'm so disorganized it would help me quite a bit for such a small thing.

Quote from: kreator on August 08, 2015, 02:49:55 pm

My desktop machine will stay Windows 7 for the foreseeable future.

Ditto.  Until I see any benefit in upgrading I'll be sticking with W7.  Good to know Anim8or runs on W10 though.

There are benefits. Not necessarily for anim8or but the latest direct x is exclusive to it. It also speeds up the boot time considerably, especially from sleep mode, its lightning fast for me now. (though your milage will vary)
Its better at multitasking with its task view and additional desktop to help clean up your workspace. I was holding off before but now that Ive upgraded I don't see any reason not to do it, its a free upgrade and everything seem to be compadible.

Personally I'm in no hurry. There's still a lot of time left and I'd rather not be a guinea pig for a new OS. As much as I hate windows 7, windows 10 is still unproven and who knows what kind of compatibility problems will pop up. Not just with anim8or but all programs.

Yeah, using perspective view is a necessary evil for doing indoor stuff, otherwise you never get to see whats going on inside it unless its a wireframe, or you hide entire walls/ceilings. It takes a lot of practice to use effectively. What I find myself doing a lot is selecting clusters of objects that are big, but not entire room big. and then framing that so there isn't too much distortion going on while using arc rotate.

Edit: Just to elaborate further, the size of what you frame plays a huge role in all this. If the object you select to frame is, say, a door knob, you'll get an extremely distorted view in perspective mode. If you select the entire room, it'll be hard to move around inside it, not to mention it'll look a lot flatter than it needs to. Almost like a telephoto lens. Even though you can zoom in/out after framing, the center point stays the same so this wont help you much. So you need to select things inside the room. If you have a lot of smaller objects, just make sure you're selecting more than one to cover more area, then frame than in perspective view.

Yeah, for now this is only possible in the scanline renderer.

Kyle: Are there any groups in your example? I'm still not able to reproduce it with just two objects.

The chair is a group, yes.