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Yes, it seems cow farming --- not just dairy, but beef --- has come under scrutiny all over.

Yeah, I still stop by here and the LightWave forums pretty much on a daily basis, seeing what's going on.  I retired a year ago May, and reside in my palatial villa in the Swiss Alps.

Huh?  Oh, day-dreaming again, was I?  No villa, I moved from the Silicon Valley region to a 55+ community (6800 homes, 2 golf courses, 2 gyms, multiple pools, a community center with Sports Bar and restaurant) in Lincoln, CA, a bit northeast of Sacramento.  Best decision of my life!  And my old employer approached me about working part-time from home; "No more than 20 hours per week," I said, and sometimes it's as little as 4 hours!

Anyway, great to see your participation and creativity are still spot-on.  BTW, my 2nd wife, whom I lost to cancer in 1995, was born in Wellington, and we honeymooned in NZ back in 1985!

You may want to consider extending your stay, Steve...

With the GIGANTIC fires in both northern and southern California, the air quality is miserable.  I moved from Boulder Creek (in the Santa Cruz Mountains) to Lincoln (just a bit north and east of Sacramento), and smoke from the Camp fire (over 6700 structures GONE!) made it difficult to even see things a quarter mile away!

Welcome to the Anim8or Group!  This is a very basic question, the answer for which --- as well as MANY others --- should appear in the Anim8or Manual, which you can find here:  http://www.anim8or.com/learn/manual/index.html

Good luck!

Just a quick question, itsstillthinking...
Are you rendering out to individual frames and then combining them into a video using something like VirtualDub, or are you rendering to a video directly within Anim8or?  If the latter, virtually EVERYONE will tell you to NOT do that!  Using the first method also makes it easier to redo portions of an animation, or pick up from where the crash occurred.

It's not just the orientation of an object that would make "correcting" the pivot point, but the symmetry of the object!  For instance, a cube is a symmetrical object, and you could locate the center of the object based on the planes defined by the faces.  But the same can't be said for more complex, non-symmetrical objects.  It's anybody's guess where the "correct" pivot point should be.

No posts since 18 June?  Really?  Is everyone off buried deep in on some magical Anim8or project?

Quote from: fromsoysauce on May 19, 2017, 10:07:42 pm

kreator: You didn't know that I sell home-made vacuum tubes in my spare time ?

Seriously???

Yeah, that must be in Steve's OTHER spare time, the one where he's not working on Anim8or.

Wait a minute....

Steve's in another dimension, where time and space are meaningless, and he has nothing BUT spare time!

In fact, that movie in 2014 was the same idea, but because of problems with a backup I had to start all over again...

WHOA!  THAT was a LOT of work.  Gotta give you props, man --- that's dedication!