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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.

Kyle: Does these always happen, or only occasionally? If you can send me an example I'd appreciate it. A simple one is best :-)  And nice pic!

Thanks. Sorry about the late reply. For a while I was trying to replicate the hiding glitch and was starting to wonder if I imagined the whole thing, but I stumbled on it again. Though again, this file is far from simple.  I have not yet been able to recreate it yet in a simpler example.  (I'm using using yesterday's build at the moment)

In this example this chair is set to layer 2. Toggling it hides and reveals as it should. But when I disable layer 0 it hides it as well.

Kyle: Any polygonal representation of a sphere will be an approximation because polygons simply don't have spherical surfaces.

 I get that, but in the thread there are several spheres linked to (in the form of plug ins for anim8or) taken from other programs that are much closer to perfectly round (as in same height and width) than what anim8or currently can provide on its own.  Yet they can't completely replace the built in primitive as the divisions are non editable.  I was hoping this could be addressed at some point as It seems like an oversight to me.  Keep in mind I'm not referring to the surface, just matching height and widths.

This isn't new, but figured I'd post it anyway. Just a very short camera fly by video. (artificially lengthened by reversing the footage back, heh)



Left the AA off for now, since art is still painfully slow.