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Hi Steve,

do you plan to had support for Collada (or FBX) export in a near future ?

Anim8or is a great free tools which could be used with some major Game Engine such as Unity 3d ou Unreal Engine for people which do not have money to buy 3DS Max or for people which do not like Blender.
But Anim8or do not export animation to any format, so it's not very usefull.
Collada is a standard which are supported by Unity and a lot of Game Engine or modeling tools (Blender 3D, which could be used as a export Collada files from Anim8or to FBX or other formats).

Exporting animations to Collada could be a VERY important feature.
Exporting sequences would be a great start (Exporting scene animations is less important) to be able to export skinned meshes animations of characters.

Thanks.

hi,

i have not used Anim8or for a long time.
Does the new version supports translation and scale of bones in animations (and not just rotation) ?
It was a big lack of the previous versions.

Hi,
Liban8 should complie under CodeBlocks.
I will update liban8 and add a CodeBlocks project soon (i hope).

Hi,

Two months ago, Steve responded to my email.
He doesn't have the time to work on Anim8or for the time being even if he spends some very limited time to fix bugs.
He doesn't know when he will have more time.
Keeping spammers out of Anim8or forum is also taking a lot of his time.

I do not have more informations from Steve.

I think we can't expect a major update soon. Maybe some minor bugfix.
Anim8or is still a great program and very easy to use. I haven't found any free program like Anim8or yet.
Blender has great features but i don't like its interface.

Anim8or doesn't seems to be dead but in pause.
If Steve decides to stop the developpement of Anim8or in the future, i think he will probably find a way to make it still alive.
It doesn't seems to be the case for the time being.
He probably do not want to make Anim8or open source now because it would make him loose the control of its development.
It could create many forks like Open Office and Libre Office or Linux It could be a good and bad thing.
Blender is open source but its developpement is leaded by a strong fondation. Steve develops Anim8or in his free time. He has a job, a family, and a life. He will probably do not have the time a lead such a fondation yet.

I do not expect Anim8or to be the best 3d modeling program, but just the best program for my purposes.
It would be great to create a new 3d modeling program using the source code of Blender but with a GUI like Anim8or. But who will do it ? Others...

Maybe there is a problem with the "sand.gif" texture.
Try to change "sand.gif" by "sand.bmp" and put a texture named "sand.bmp" in the same folder.

Maybe Ani2Pov could help you:
http://texel3d.free.fr/projets/ani2pov/index.html

It would be great to have a good uv editor.
The user could select one or several faces. Click on the "Open UV Editor" menu.
A window is displayed with the texture (in a quad).
On the texture the selected faces would be displayed (the uv of vertices would be used as position on the texture).
The user can select a vertex on the window and slide it to change the uv of the vertex in real time.
The window would also have 2 edit boxes to modify the uv coordinates (if the user want accurate and specific values).
If the uv coordinates are greater than 1.0. it would be packed to [0,1], but the edit boxes would display 8.0 instead of 1.0.

(several uv channel would also be greate).