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Not sure what you mean by neat tool Shutter?

Certainly you can create a test file and inspect it in an editor for any version, the file format is plain text so fairly easy to follow.

You may remember last year I created a video Christmas card for my work colleagues.  I've made another this year.  I intended to do less animation and from further away in an attempt to reduce the time required but I'm not sure I achieved that.  There are loads of tweaks I could do, particularly with Micky's hand gestures while he is talking, but I felt I had to make do with the first "that will do" or I wouldn't finish before next Christmas.  At the start I also felt that the story wasn't that great - I was trying to do Dickens' a Christmas Carol in 5 minutes while swapping in as many cash machine / company references as I can.  At the end though, I am pleased with how it has come together.

Any Santa / Micky is an anim8or created overlay (chroma keyed)
The window blinds are an anim8or overlay
(If I did it again I would have anim8ed the boxes falling off the window sill, there is a gap between the boxes falling and the blind moving because I can't let the boxes appear in front of the animated blind because the chroma keyed overlay is infront of the boxes in the video.)
The ghost of Christmas yet to come is a hacked stl model that I found on the net, hacked and made into an overlay in anim8or.  I can let the racks appear infront of the ghost because neither are moving so I have a static chroma key mask to make the overlay appear to be behind the racks.
 
 

I am using 2 (or more views) to view the camera result while moving the objects in the left / front, etc.  So it doesn't help me if the camera FOV is changed because I am framing the other view to get to an object.  Is there another usage where framing all views is needed?

So for me -  (2) For lower case f don't change the non-focus views.


Thanks for all the hard work Steve.

Hi all
In 1.0b; scene mode; 2 views; set the left view to camera, set the right view to Right.  If I click in the right view to set it in focus and press f to frame, the left camera view changes.  It looks like the camera FOV has changed, sometimes when I click the left camera view it corrects itself, other times I have to close / reopen anim8or.

Frame (f) seems to affect both views when using 2 views?  Should it just frame the view in focus?
Should frame have any affect in a camera view?
(3 views is similar)

Where is the fast AA render option?

This is great work Gyperboloid, thank you.

Thanks johnar and Ensoniq5

I tried again earlier with a large weight brush, influence 1.  Starting from the right (my paper is portrait, strips are up/down) I weighted the whole object with the right hand bone, then moved to the next bone and again painted everything to the left.  Now I know just to target the points I run the brush up and down vertically with the edge of the brush over the centre of the faces.  Because the whole left area is the same colour I'm finding it easier to spot bits that I miss.

I did a quick test by setting each bone to 5 degrees (in a test scene) and the result was a smooth curved sheet

I'm using 1.00b 1296
In figure mode when I'm setting the bones free or locked, if I set an axis to locked it is not remembered if I OK and then reopen the dialog.  Is that a bug?
If I check locked before unchecking free, when I uncheck free, the check is cleared from locked as well. Is that a bug?
Are free and locked mutually exclusive options or is there some special meaning if they are both unchecked or both checked?

I will continue working on it this evening.  I'll post my test results.

Hi NoobJens007

What is the problem?