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The following sequence of commands causes surfaces to extend beyond their edges. Sometimes this can be "fixed" by additional cuts, other times the cuts cause other spurious surface extensions to appear.

[edit] This bug can be seen in Anim8or v0.97d [/edit]

1. open Animator (in object edit mode)
2. create a cube primitive
3. convert to mesh
4. switch to point edit
5. make two cuts across only the top line
  there now are four points in the top line,
  call them 1,2,3,4 from left to right
6. select the two points at the top right (points 3 & 4)
7. move them upward

bug: a diagonal (grey) surface extension appears between points 1 & 3.
It's an extension of the cube's front and rear surfaces.
This should not have happened: point #2 represents the ends of an edge cut across the top of the cube between the front and rear edges.

Here's a view of the result, with the front rotated down slightly, showing the edges created by the cuts and the inappropriate diagonal extensions of the front and rear surfaces.

When running either Anim8or v0.97a or v0.97b, I discovered that they're generating a script error message when loading scripts but do not indicate what script has the error. All of the scripts listed claim to have 0 errors. See below.

Here's the output seen in the debug window:

Compiling "C:\ScsiData\3DModlers\anim8or\export_cmod_plugin.a8s":
507 lines 0 errors
Compiling "C:\ScsiData\3DModlers\anim8or\loft.a8s":
226 lines 0 errors
Compiling "C:\ScsiData\3DModlers\anim8or\loft2.a8s":
329 lines 0 errors
Compiling "C:\ScsiData\3DModlers\anim8or\material_1.a8s":
37 lines 0 errors
missing or invalid directive, script not installed
Compiling "C:\ScsiData\3DModlers\anim8or\spring_plugin_1.a8s":
231 lines 0 errors
Compiling "C:\ScsiData\3DModlers\anim8or\torusa_plugin.a8s":
82 lines 0 errors
Compiling "C:\ScsiData\3DModlers\anim8or\torus_plugin.a8s":
82 lines 0 errors