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I was adjusting texture alignment on selected faces at the time, so point edit mode.
(ie. the yellow UV tool was visible, however once maximized I couldn't get rid of it because none of the controls were clickable due to whatever the iossue was.)
OS=WIN7 SP1 64bit
Graphics= Intel HD4000 (integrated)

I can't replicate the problem now either, so I wouldn't worry too much about it Steve. Probably not a bug, but due to whatever was going on with my machine at the time (remember I also had those keyboard issues around the same time -- which have also not re-occurred).

I think it's safe to assume this is not a bug, but if it happens again I'll try to get a handle on the exact cause / circumstances, and I'll let you know.

CC

While UV mapping a texture I needed to maximize Anim8or.
After maximizing, the viewport failed to redraw.  After returning to windowed mode it came right.

Around about the same time this happened, I also tried to save the project but when trying to enter a filename to save as, I found that my keyboard was giving the wrong chars.
eg. I would press the "-" key and get a single quote. The ";" key would give md something like an "a" with some sort of umlat decoration.

Note that around the time these issues appeared, I had also downloaded a couple of random textues, so this behaviour may be indicative of a virus rather than an actual Anim8or bug, but it would ne interesting to see if anyone else can replicate these issues.

In earlier versions, the current object window has always been indicated by a "tick mark".
Now that we have the ability to organize object windows into folders, on re-opening a saved project, it can sometimes be a little difficult (when there's a large number of objects and folders) to locate the folder in which the current object window resides.

Perhaps a tick could be maintained on the parent folder of the current object as well as the object itself.

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It appears that the function performed by the ALT key has been reassigned in this build.
Previously (0.98) it was used in combination with the Right-Mouse button to allow de-selection of faces, lines, vertex's in Object/Point editing mode.
Now it appears to bring up the rotate tool instead. (Not sure if this is an intended change or simply a bug.)

This is a problem because I can see no way now to deselect faces, etc. when accidentally selected.
For example, after selecting 50 faces, if the 51'st face is incorrectly selected, there is no way to undo that last selection, and you have to start from scratch every time you make an accidental selection.

This post referenced in: Version 1.0 Bugs and Suggestions

So,

In my initial investigations, I've found a few example scirpts here: http://anim8or.com/scripts/index.html
However neither of the scripts which involve rendering actually succeeds in producing any output (to the screen or anywhere else), (eg. for_3.a8s, and sphere.txt ... and the first one actually causes Anim8tor to hang/crash.

Note that I'm using the latest build 1269, so maybe there's a backwards compatibility issue with these presumedly quite old scripts.  I'll test these out with an older stable build like 0.98 and see if they work there.

Any thoughts from any scripting experts?

CC

Steve, you're welcome ... thanks for Anim8tor!

You're right. It makes more sense to make user views project wide, so I'll do that for the next beta (plus I'll fix the crash ) Thanks for feedback.

BTW, I only raised this issue because I was still thinking about my workflow in terms of v0.95 functionality. The new functionality that you've added (eg. Layers) probably makes a lot of the switching between windows I used to do in order to isolate objects somewhat un-necessary.
So after a couple of days with the new build, I think my original point is somewhat moot because by utilizing Layers, I can now stay in the same window. That said, you're probably right that the scope should be widened as that will lead to more flexibility.

I've been using Anim8tor for quite some time now (since somewhere around perhaps v0.86) and just grabbed this DEV build a few days ago.
I've been using 0.95 for the past year or so and since grabbing this update a couple of days ago, I'm really appreciating some of the new features you've added since 0.95.
Layers, Object Folders, and User Views are the sort of features I would have liked to have many years ago, and have really helped a lot with my workflows in the last couple of days. Keep up the good work!
v1.0 is looking very promising.

EDIT: The remainder of this post relocated to the more appropriate Scripts Board:
http://www.anim8or.com/smf/index.php/topic,5517.0.html#new
Cheers
CC

Hi,

I'm new to this forum (but not so new to Anim8tor as I've been using it for at least 10 years now).
Tonight I installed DEV build 1269, specifically because I've found that I've recently found that I need the ability to create custom User Views. (Prior to this I was using 0.98 which does not have this feature.)

For a while all was good with this build, I created a few Custom Views in one object, and re-organized a long list of object windows in my project into folders (also a feature I've wanted for a long, long, time!)

Unfortunately (and this is the reason for my first post here), I found that when I created a new Object Window and tried to cut and paste a mesh from the original object into the new window, the moment that I switched to the newly created window the program crashes. (This only happens if I'm using a Custom View at the time. -- If using one of the standard views (Ortho, Front, Back, etc... ) then no crash.

As a side comment, with regards to the User Views functionality, I notice that newly created views are only valid in the Object Window in which they are originally created. I personally think that it might be more useful to give them a global scope (or at least allow the view definition to be copied/transferred/applied from one Object window to another).
This is perhaps dependent on the specific use-case, but in my case I want to be able to layup different components of a scene in separate windows and then render them separately (using the same custom view) in order to create transparencies of foreground objects (ie. with alpha channels) which can then be later superimposed on different backgrounds in The Gimp, Photoshop, etc.
If each custom view is only local to the window in which it is created, then the same viewpoint can not be replicated in multiple windows, and this task is too hard (unless there's a another maybe better way of doing this that I'm not aware of).

CC