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General Anim8or Forum / Export as cutlist?

« on: May 06, 2019, 10:41:34 pm »

For ten years I have used Sketchup for my woodshop, but now I do not own a windows computer and sketchup does not work well on my system. but I can model very fast on your program. I noticed for the first time today that you have cad notation.

Question:

Can you export a list of objects with their x,y,z sizes, material names and object names?

Anim8or v1.0 Discussion Forum / in the 1.0b release you added pivot function how do use them?

« on: December 27, 2018, 12:11:31 pm »

Build->SplitSolids in main Object editor that separates unconnected parts of a mesh or subdivision surface
Edit->Pivot->CenterPivot
Edit->Pivot->AlignWithShape
Edit->Pivot->AlignWithWorld

I went to my model and nothing happened when I selected an object and clicked these. What do they do and how do I use them?

General Anim8or Forum / I searched for an answer to this, but can one lock a view?

« on: December 27, 2018, 11:31:36 am »

I would like a way to lock the ortho to always be able to return to the initial view.

What happens is when I am making isometric models, I have produced four models. But I noticed on model 1 and 2 the camera angle shifted on ortho view. And so the renders now are off from the others. I have tried resetting views to default but that did not work.

How can I set up a view that locks the view?

BTW even with the little glitches I am producing exported iso png's fairly fast. I can model a new asset quicker now than I can draw a 2d graphic.

General Anim8or Forum / Is batch renders possible?

« on: December 26, 2018, 01:34:57 pm »

Hi again.

Is there a way to do this procedure thru script?: Or maybe there is a plugin?

I set my model to orthoscopic

render model, save to png

rotate model 45 degrees on y axis and save to name+=1 png

rotate model 45 degrees on y axis and save to name+=1 png

Until all 8 major views are saved 0,45,90,135,180,225,270,315

This would save each render in each direction for png sprite use in a 2.5 / isometric game.

General Anim8or Forum / Hi to all, and running on Linux, and zoom level on render

« on: December 26, 2018, 01:17:24 pm »

Hello Thanks for keeping this alive all these years. Back in 2003 I decided while I was in hospital to try my hand at gamemaking and used anim8or for about 6 months and had no idea what 3d modeling was and so ended up just doing 2d sprites.

Years later after mastering sketchup for woodworking and furniture I decided to get back into gaming and to make a RTS game and wanted a certain style of sprites. I no longer own any windows computers and so I needed a 3d program for linux. Blender really has a steep steep learning curve. I know blender does everything- but I dont need everything I just need a low poly models without hassle. So I remembered anim8or from more a than a decade ago and was really pleased to find it still available! So I downloaded and run it perfectly on Sparky Linux under wine. Created two models and I am very pleased.

My challenge: I cannot find put why anim8or will not run under Linux Mint wine. It starts, has all menus and it actually creates the models but there is not screen output in the opengl works. Just a black empty space. one difference besides the linux flavors is the computer that anim8or under is not working is a laptop. I cannot get an error because anim8or is not malfunctioning it is running and doing what it should, WINE is not rendering the window. It also does the same thing in VIACAD 10 pro.

So if you wish to use linux and anim8or I suggest get Sparky linux and run the Game Meta option which will install all linux gaming components. I run my system on a toshiba external HDD with no actual installed HDD.

Thanks I appreciate application- it's small, easy, and free. I really love the render and save to PNG.

Is there a way to choose the zoom level on the render?