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I want to model a ball covered in lights.  A large sphere with smaller spheres placed at the large sphere vertexes will be fine. 

Is there any method or script that can copy an object multiple times to create a ring of objects?  Or other ways to create the sphere covered in small spheres?  I want to make many, so doing it manually might take a while.

Thanks

On build 1387 (and others)

Hi Steve,  I've found a minor issue.  Create figure with 1 bone, add to a scene, create a key on bone-y,  double click the key and delete it from the dialog, the controller disappears.  Closing and re-opening the project restores it. 

Sneaked out of lock down to the local park and set up some lighting and a screen

This scene is a test in which I’m experimenting with lighting.  I haven’t used lights much before I’m thinking about a music video at night, so I need to get better animating lights.

I've started a new project -

@Steve: I'll post anything repeatable that I think maybe a problem (I hope there aren't too many operator errors)
Build 1348: I open a new file. Create a file material (red).  Create an object material (blue). Go back to the file material, I can’t select it, I can’t open it to edit it (double click does not work).

@itsstillthinking

I thought your file posted in ongoing anim8or development as an example of a hair pin on the camera path was empty but then I realised the camera is moving

You have 3 keys in the time track and you want the camera to move from the first to the third with the second as a corner, no looping like a hairpin as the camera moves through key 2.

(@All, please jump in and correct me if I get any part wrong.)

The camera follows a Bezier curve (or similar) path from key 1 through key 2 and on to key 3.
Key 2 is a “smooth” key.  From the manual section 8 Animation:
http://www.anim8or.com/learn/manual/8_animation.html#animation_with_key_frames

There are three kinds of keys: corner, smooth and step. Smooth matches the direction and speed that the value changes as it passes through the key. It is what you usually want when you are animating and is the default. Corner keys can have different incoming and outgoing speeds and directions. You would use this where a bouncing ball strikes the ground. Step keys are like corner keys but allows the value to change abruptly. You would use this to make a character suddenly change positions.

You need to double click on the middle key (2) on the time track and change its type to “corner”.  This means that when you open the graph editor you can change the speed and direction of the path through key 2.
 
Open the graph editor, it shows the current path taken by the camera. If the camera position controller is selected in the time track, which it will be if you’ve just changed the key type, the graph editor will open with the camera position key selected on the left and the path shown on the right.

On the left of the path is key1, middle is key2, right is key3. If you double click the middle key on the Z path, its properties will open, close the properties dialog and you will see two handles attached to the middle key. If you left click & drag these handles you can change the shape of the curved path, even make it a corner.

It that what you meant?

Hi Steve,
Anim8or stops responding in a scanline render in the attached.

OpenGL Vendor:   Intel
OpenGL Renderer: Intel(R) HD Graphics 4600
OpenGL Version:  4.2.0 - Build 10.18.10.3412
OS Version:      Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (6.1) build 7601 (64 bit)

thanks for all your hard work
Alec

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.