Anim8or Community

As the one who created the Discord server, I admit I haven't been as active as I should be. The truth is, when the server became overrun with kids, Baldi stuff, toxicity, and drama, I became severely disenchanted with it. I don't want to delete it because there's somewhat of a community of its own there, but it truly did not become what I hoped it would.

What was interesting was the server was practically dead for almost 5 years after I created it and then it suddenly exploded with Baldi fans, so I kinda owe it to them that the server is active at all, but it's nonetheless frustrating. I don't have anything against Baldi, but it's moreso this generation of children who are just insufferable when it comes to interpersonal drama. It's turned into a place I just genuinely don't want to be and half the time I'm literally afraid to open it and see what everyone is up to.

I wish there was some way I could just reboot the whole thing with the culture we originally had on these forums, and the creativity of people making their own creative works. I miss it dearly.

I had started a fresh Anim8or file, and tried to import the image as a Reference Image. I attached it below.

The one with the JPEG extension can't be found at all, and the one with the JPG extension is the one where I changed it to JPG by renaming the extension in Explorer. Trying to open this image file through the Reference Image menu causes Anim8or to crash.

However, if I open the image in Paint and save it as JPG, it opens in Anim8or without any problems.

I did a little research and discovered that apparently, there are a few differences between JPG and JPEG, namely that JPEG allows storing metadata which JPG does not. Perhaps this could cause some conflict in what Anim8or is expecting when it tries to read the file.

I call this one "Afloat". It's the simplest composition and was the quickest to make (besides creating my own background), but so far it's my favorite and I adore it.

These designs are now available as T-Shirts and other merch on my TeePublic store!
https://www.teepublic.com/user/sammyjstudios/albums/357313-vaporwave-series

I modified the last two designs to be a bit more dynamic since I hate slapping a square on a T-Shirt, so those two have the originals separately as Prints.

I still plan to make more and upload them as another wave in the future.

CoriDavis how much memory does Anim8or use when you're rendering the scenes?

When I use Multithreaded ART, it uses about 93-95% of the CPU. I attached a snapshot of my monitor during a render.

The image of Jesus with the pillars still had the issue whether or not it was multithreaded. It didn't even matter if it was ART or Scanline. It only goes up to 15% at the most when it's not multithreaded.

Image 1 is Multithreaded, Image 2 is Singlethreaded.

So many times I've made a texture and not realized how much I'd need it more throughout my project beyond the first object I made with it. But there's no way to easily change it from "Object" to "File" without remaking the texture, or perhaps editing the code of your Anim8or file if you're clever.

It would be nice to have a checkbox or dropdown within the material dialog that can allow you to switch the assignment at any time.

Alternatively it would be cool to be able to copy/paste materials, not only as a way to move a material between File and Object, but to make it easier to make a new material based on an existing one without having to redo all the settings from scratch. But I imagine that would be a lot harder to implement.

Here's my next one! Special appearance from my Jesus model.

I had a very strange issue with this scene that I was never able to fix, causing Anim8or to crash every time I'd render more than once. I narrowed it down to having something to do with more than three pillars in the scene (specifically the curly ones). I could render ONCE, freshly after opening Anim8or, but if I tried to render again after that (ie. changing something and trying to render again), the program would crash. I troubleshooted for hours before giving up and working with only three pillars.

Did some editing in post, and adding a Bloom effect really pulled it together. I love this one even more than the first.

I've attached the unedited version with no filters under the finished piece so you can see what it looked like straight out of the render.