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I seem to be able to do skirts and robes, and they seem to work okay for walking.



But it sure doesn't work when you try to have them take a chair. Don't have an image handy, but think along the lines of those Carol Burnett sketches involving hoops skirts; all will be revealed when they sit down. Any guidance?

I bumble into some really stunning (to me, anyway) images in wireframe that look considerably different when rendered. I've been playing with this:



Take my word for it, the render doesn't look this good using any of the renderer options. I'm using one spot light and a fake light surface in the torch.

Is it simply a matter of darkening down the water, or is something different about wireframe that I can get the redered to do? I know it's my fault, but I'd love to get the scene to look like this, sans the wire. Oh, and I should mention the foliage on the hillock are Plantstudio. The pads and flowers upon them, are mine. And don't tell anybody, but I've got the canoe in there backwards. It'll be our little secret, until I get around to fixing it.

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Got me wondering about the best way to handle things like the paddle, which is being operated by two hands, but can only attach to one bone (as far as I know). Something similar would apply to things like bicycle pedals. Any insights?

I'm playing around with a couple of model boats I made in Anim8or. I'm using Bryce 7.1 to render the images. Since the boats always sit down "in" the water plane, I've always got water inside the hulls. I'm guessing I could Boolean out a roughly boat size hole, or, maybe bring in a modified plane for the boat to sit in. Open to suggestions? Also open to suggestions about how to handle the wakes, when they're in motion. Thanks!

Thanks, Raxx. That was pretty obvious. Sorry I missed it.

May be side tracking the thread, since I have not played with the "ruler," but wondering if there is a way to "lock down" the background grid to keep it from resizing. Locking the grid down would give me a consistent size "reference" and help me keep things to scale. Sorry if this has been asked/answered or in the manual.

Went to the forum and downloaded the fixed version from the link. It seems to work fine. I can now make 3D text with lower case m's that act properly. It was a most memorable moment for me. Most mornings my mail is made up mostly of missives from many communicative comrades, mainly moving of this land mass. It made me mighty merry to have a message meant for me from the man who is the main mover/manager of Anim8or. But it could have waited a while: m's still worked fine in the old version, the old version seems to work quite well with the new version, I doubt many have a pressing need for 3D text, and we hardly ever use m's, anyway.   ;-)  Thanks, Steve!