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Hey Everybody, It's been a while since I've been on the forums.
I'm just a little curious. It seems that nothing has changed since I've last been here, and it's been at least close to 2 whole years. What's going on with anim8or. Will V0.98 ever come out?

I remember a while back of someone posting a link to a page with all the letters and sounds a mouth can make with pictures of what the mouth would look like at that point. I want to try to start some lip-syching but I need some point of reference. Thanks.

Is it possible to insert time between two keys in scene mode.
Basically what happened is I had a scene where you see a guy walk in and sit down. Now I want to show the room around a bit before he walks in. To do that I would have to add extra time at the beginning of the scene. To add time would be a tedious job of making the scene time longer, copying and pasting all the keys, and making sure they were pasted correctly and evenly.
Does anyone know of any way that I could do that.
If this isn't a feature yet, I would recommend it would be a little handy tool.

Quote from the Manual

Adding Faces

Once you have added new edges to a mesh, you will be able to fill in the gaps with new faces. You do this by first selecting all of the edges that surround where your new face or faces will go. Then you use the Edit->FillHoles command to fill them.

There are a few things to note before you start adding faces:

    * Faces can only be added to complete connected loops of edges. If there are any gaps, no face will be added.

    * All edges in the loop must not already be part of two (or more) faces. Only edges that are part of at most one face will be considered. You can tell how many edges an edge participates in by its color when selected.

    * You can select a lot of edges and do a fill of the whole batch at once. Anim8or will start by filling any selected edge loops of length 3. Then it will fill those of length 4, etc. until no more faces can be added. This will sometimes create undesirable results and you will have to try again in smaller batches.

    * You may have to apply the Edit->FlipNormals and the Edit->FixNormals commands to orient new faces properly after they are added.

   


So you may have to delete some faces in your mesh before you can add the new ones you need to add.



This limits your ability to make stuff alot. Why is this rule needed. Is it because of a memory issue with anim8or, or just that's how the system was created? The fact that edges can only be attached to a certain amount of faces limits your control over stuff like complicated buildings, models, charechtars, ect. So what's the point of it.

I was rendering a scene of blocks and when I rendered it with v 0.97 and 0.95 and the render was still messed up.
Here's the render.
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here's a screenshot of anim8or of what it should actually look like.
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 rendered it with scanline.

I found this movie, and I thought it would be good for beginers in animation.
That and the guy who it's about started his animation career with
  anim8or
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/04/07/bbtv-tyson-ibele-21y.html

I had some toruses in a project from 0.95 and when I opened the project in 0.97 and anim8or didn't recognize them even though I still have the torus plugin in the plugins
The toruses are primitive meshes
I'll try it some more w/ 0.95 to 97 and I'll post back later.

The subject explains it all.