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Uh, nice one, but kinda difficult. I hope that would not hold people away from participation. VertigoVertigoVertigo 

Forgive me if I don't go diving through the posts trying to find it, but I believe that after .97d came out this was reported and Steve put a fix into the as-yet-unreleased code.  I may be mistaken though, as it was a while ago.

 I don't know, maybe. But don't get me wrong. I am not complaining , I just want to know if this or that is a bug or some system problem, so maybe I can fix it ( drivers e.t.c. ). I am just afraid to ask something from Steve

About the v.0.97d. When I have 2 or 3 view ( work spaces ) I can't change one of them to different view because it turns into one view to which I wanted to change. For example, if I have 2 work spaces, front and left and I want to change the left to ortho, when I'll click in the left view to change to ortho it will turn into one view ortho. The same if I have 3 work spaces. There is no problem with 4 and 1+3 view modes and since this function was added in this version I don't know if it's a bug or just a problem with my system ( I run Vista ). So I just have to switch to 4 view, select the 2 work spaces I want and then to switch to 2 view mode.
And another one. About object coordinates ( the mode ). There are three types : world coordinates, object coordinates and the screen coordinates. There is no problem with the first and the third, but with the object coordinates it seems to be. If I'll rotate the object axis in the Object\Axis mode and will try to move the object with the object coordinates enabled for example along the y axis with the x axis disabled, the object will move just the way it does when the world coordinates are enabled.
One more. About the world coordinates. Generally, the left mouse button controls the x\y axis in the Object mode and the right button, the z axis. But with world coordinates enabled the right button controls the y axis and the left the z axis ( up-down movement ). Again, is that a bug or it'is my computer's problem?
And the last one. Not a big deal, but just want to figure it out. In the View editor the rotate button doesn't do anything, does it?

Uh, I just tried again and I could render a simple scene! Must be the problem was in materials. But the sample still doesn't work! There's some error with the "sand" material...

Hmm... but you have to open it in text editor, then apply the changes, then save it. Is'n that the same and even esier to open it as it is in Anim8or and just change it every time you want to render it, so you will have your kinda original file and you'll be able to change the resolution on any type. Same thing I think

Wow it seems that the front leg is skinned to the back leg's bone. So when you move the back bone, front leg is moving too. Try when you skin, to not to cover legs ( one is behind the other )

About this cut-away view tool, it helps to use wireframe view and disabling front selecting. About the not mirror paint, I'll agree, bout about the more colors I don't know. Maybe if it is not difficult. But just we must not forget that A L L  T H E S E was done ( and still continue to be done ) by one person. And even the most simple and minor addition requires a lot of new code and in most cases even modifications to the already existing. I think the M_O_S_T important is to speed up ART renderer. Untill now everybody was modelling with some tricks and stuff, but the only thing that you can't "trick" is the render time . So I think first of all the most important request must be the speed of the renderer ( ART particularly ), even if no other addition whould be added. So, if Steve could do that, then if it's not too difficult, he can add some other stuff ( mirror bone command in figure mode whould be very usefull ).