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DSM, your request for some help with chains in the original post for this topic inspired me to add the spline functions to ASL.  It was more work than I though at first but I was hopeful that it would wind up useful.  I must say, I haven't been disappointed.  The scripts everyone is writing are pretty cool and your model is fantastic.  Keep up the good work, everybody!

When you're zoomed in the perspective view will be very tricky to rotate.

Do you have the "Start In Previous" setting checked in the File->Configuration dialog?
If so try unckecking that, and the "Preload Scripts" as well.

I've fixed several problems with z-limits.  The scanline and OpenGL renderers should use a project's environment settings now.  I've also set the lower limit to 0.01.  The upper limit is still 100,000.  Also the ratio of ZFar to ZLow is restricted to 100,000:1.  (The ART raytracer has no limits - it doesn't use a perspective projection of the geometry.)

Relaxing these limits can cause artifacts, I believe, due to the limitations of single precision floating point math but I'm not really sure how bad they are.  I may be able to remove the ratio limit and the upper limit altogether without making them much worse.  There are some articals on that that I'm looking at now.

But be warned: Using very small values for Z-Near causes a serious loss of precision in the depth buffer for things onlt a little bit farther away resulting in improperly rendered distance objects.

If you can describe a way to reproduce this I can look into it.

I usre MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 12 for this and pretty much everything else movie editing wise.  It costs about $50 and is a very capable movie editor, sort of like a poor man's Final Cut.

When I first started working on Anim8or, selection was always on similar to what you suggest.  But a lot of people had problems with it, especially beginners.  For example, they'd carefully select some faces and then try to apply a tool.  But if they missed a selcted face instead of using the tool Anim8or would drop the existing selections and select the new face.  So I changed it.  Now you know if you're selecting or editing and can't do the wrong thing.