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Thanks for the comments

Ian, I'll try capcut, it should be a real time saver.

I considered using Raxx's animated texture script and foolishly thought it would be quicker to use chorma key (e.g. the train window is green and replaced in pinnacle with digby using chroma key).  If I did this again I would use Raxx's script.  It would also make the dog house transitions so much easier, I think the first transition from still inside the dog house to video overlay worked well, but near the end, where the video overlay switches from video overlay to a still inside the dog house, it is not aligned very well (I was running out of time).

Built in animated textures would be very useful, I used Raxx's script in "other world" video for the steam effect.  I recall I had a problem where it would sometimes stop working / had to restart animator but can't remember the details.

@Steve if you had time to consider animated textures it would be great.   

Wedding anniversary video in production for my daughter - based on Disney's main street electrical parade and starring her dog.  I'm some weeks away from the first draft.

I'm using the mesh2mesh for "thousands of sparkling lights".   

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

Where do you get stuck?

Can you complete the eggplant tutorial OK? 
https://www.anim8or.com/learn/tutorials/eggplant/index.html

+1 for gltf export from me 

In the scene properties->Environment is a check box, "show ground grid". Uncheck it and the grid will be gone.

In the same place: scene properties->Environment is background image.  Set your starfield here.  Experiment with image, panorama, and panorama settings etc.   Watch out for the camera reaching the edge of the image as you test moving the camera position / angle, etc.

You can also create a box for a "backdrop" and put the star field on that.  Then keep the spacecraft stationary and move the back drop to give an illusion of movement while keeping the spacecraft centre shot.

Good luck

(I can download both 1396 and run the sample OK.)

Thanks Steve