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Hello everyone,

I have a question about the use of ambient color with a texture. When I apply a white-grey-black texture to the ambient color and set the blend mode to darken, the original ambient color doesn't show in the workspace. It is if only the decal mode works. The sphere in the material browser does show the effect of the blend mode and it is also visible in a render of the image. Is this a limitation of the realtime rendering or am I doing something wrong? I've attached a screen shot with the settings.

Thanks!

Hello everyone,

I'm trying to learn/understand the 'animation by expressions' way of animating as described in the anim8or manual, but i don't fully understand how this works.

I copied the example script $color=(0.8,0.1,0.1)*(fract(time)<0.2); and the script in the ASL spec on the anim8or site: $scale = 1 + sin(time*PI*4)*0.5;

Both scripts work but I have trouble understanding how. If i understand the ASL spec right variables that start with a $ are user declared variables? If so how does anim8or know that the user declared variables has to be linked to light color resp. size of an object? Or are $color and $scale pre-defined variables within anim8or? And how could one translate this to for example the diffuse color of an object. For example if you want to make a character blush and make his face red during a scene?

Thanks in advance!

Hello Steve,

I don't know if it is a bug (if not then it would be a feature request  . When extruding a face with a negative amount (inwards) I don't get visual feedback of the amount of extrusion (besides the numerical indication in the lower status bar). The selected face stays on its original position until you let go of the mouse. Then it snaps to the new location. This makes it difficult to be exact with the depth of your negative extrusion. When extruding outward it does show the amount in realtime.

Hello Steve,

I don't know if it is a known issue but when I make a morph target derived from a previous morph target, it only works if I don't change the default name of the new morph target that Anim8or has given it. Otherwise the model doesn't snap to the morph target that will be used as starting point. So it works if you leave the name unchanged, like 'morph03' but it wont work if you name it 'letter A' for example. It works like this for me in version 1.00b and the latest development version.

Hi everyone,

While learning modelling in anim8or I have a few questions:

I have a question concerning the different coordinate systems/spaces. I thought that object space would be the best to edit object (points, edge and faces). However when I try to move verts on the back of the object the movements are mirrored to the mouse movements, which sometimes makes it feel like riding a bike with your hands crossed on the handlebar. Is this by design, because movement in objectspace is relative to the origine of the object? Moving points in worldspace acts the same. Or should I do my edits in screen space?

Is there a way to inset connected faces, just like extrude connected? Like a sort of combination of extrude connected and scale within a plane?

Final question ! Is there a way to temporarily snap to an axis? So when yoy have x and y selected, you can temporarily only snap to x for example? I know you can 'solo' an axis with shortcuts 'x' 'y' and 'z' , but if you want to go back to a mode where x and y are both latched, as far as I can tell you have to do this with the mouse. Or is there a shortcut for latch x y or z?

I hope my questions are clear and thanks again for your help!