As you may noticed, Steve visits forum pretty much often ( despite the fact he doesn't write something ).
So I think we must stop these useless and stupid discussions about future , "death" or "life" and just ...
get serious.
The reason that other 3d applications reached at very high level is ... the community. And of course the best example is that, of the
Blender community ! So many ( thousands , millions
) developers, users, funs
. Of course you may say : " we don't have many developers, we have only one - Steve!" Yes, that's true ! So, in that case who is left ? We are -
the Anim8or community !!! Unfortunately, we are a lazy ( but very very... ) community ! Yes, there are some guys who have offered a lot ( scripts, outstanding renders, works ) , but even they would agree that it's not enough at all ! And hope that I don't sound like a kind of smart@$$ ! All I want to say, is that we must ... "switch the engine to turbo mode"
. All the time we ask about an update, but still we haven't discovered fully the Anim8or !!! And so what ? Steve will come up with a super duper update , but we still make "cubes and tubes" here !
What I want to suggest, is to create some new topics (
General Anim8or forum ) which a moderator ( or admin or whatever, sorry I am not familiar with that stuff
) will stick up, so they ( topics, not moderators
) will be something like Guide or F.A.Q. We still will discuss everything by creating new topics in the general forum,
BUT the conclusions and the answers on different questions will be added to these sticky topics ( no comments in those topics will be allowed ).
First of all, there must be a topic ( Steve's private topic
) which will contain something like a wishlist . We will discuss all the "really" important features that should be implemented and again moderators will put them into related topic ( "Wishlist topic"
). It would be a " nice and clean " topic, which Steve will check out every time he will visit us
. Only very important features will be contained after a long discussion. No things like " these I saw in those applications" ! Only something, that would be relative to Anim8or's "needs" ( improving or implementing something totally new ) . So Steve will know what exactly to work on.
Although, of course, he will decide what of all that he can, even want, to implement !
But of course, to be able to decide
what else we need, we must first know
what we already have !!! That's why we should create some more new topics. And those particularly are :
- Modeling topic
- Animation topic
- Rendering/lighting topic
The modeling topic will contain information about modeling in Anim8or. How things can be done, when, where and such. There are some answers here on different questions, but lots of them are like "you can try this application, you can try this general tutorial but not related to Anim8or" ! So no, we will discuss only particular things about modeling in Anim8or ( only ) particularly !
That's why this forum (site) is for!!! Right ? In the second...no comments. Everything about animation inside (!!!) Anim8or.
And the third...no comments again
. Everything about lights and renders. Not anything like "try this renderer" and "export in that cool program" ! You can use any program you wish when you having fun
, but here please...only Anim8or stuff
!
Those topics will contain any single possibility of any single stroke of Anim8or's code ! Total newbies would still be able to ask very basic questions, as they can do it now by creating a new topic, though. So, forum won't be so kinda messy and we'll have some great progress here...at last !
P.S.: Yeap, I like smiles So, what you think guys ... can we turn the engine on ?
. Just when you'll log in next time, once a month, half year. But, day by day we will have good results after all, because different users will join the forum in different days, so you wont be kinda feel bad you didn't log in for a long time...things will still running 
And Arik, you are in hospital ? What happened ? 