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So far the program runs fine for me on WIN7 with one exception.

Somehow it seems impossible to configure the program. Setting the script directory appears to work fine but when i shutdown and restart the program everything is gone. That of course meens no scripts. Bummer!

Does anyone have a solution for that



It was my own stupidity. The link on my desktop was pointing at a Version 0.95. The 0.97d doesn't "forget" its configuration.

My fault, sorry.

Actually that's not blimpish but Zeppelinish (hard inner skeleton and thus the lines instead of a smooth hull stabilized only by the inner gas pressure) (sorry, but the smart alec got through again)

Hi Steve,

sorry that I didn't find any news on the materials bug I encountered some time ago but this new one happens both in the latest 0.95 as well as in the 0.97 beta.

I am in the process of building a spherical ship from the Perry Rhodan series. Since I had trouble with the cutouts for the airlocks (specificly the mesh not really looking smooth around the cutouts) I started building spheres with more divisions (by hand)

The present one is based on a sphere with 96 divisions around the equator and 64 from "north" to "south". Together with the details for the engine bulge and the airlocks I ended up with a mesh of 31540 points, 63345 edges and 31691 faces.

Since I had to connect that mesh from several submeshes (because the airlocks were done once and then copied and rotated for example) the mesh's normals have mixed orientations. Trying to do a "Fix normals" on that mesh however results in an immideate shutdown of anim8or.

It appears as if there is a maximum of points, egdes or faces per mesh for that operation.

I would attatch the file but even as a zip it is over the 128 kB limit. The shutdown occurs both in the 0.95c as well as the 0.97 beta on two different mashines (both with XP)

I see what I can do. So far I haven't been able to reproduce it in the files I am working on but when it happens again I hope I can tell you the exact proceedings.

What I usually do may not be the easiest way, since it isn't fully automatic, but it gives fairly good results. I bevel the edges I want to rounden once or twice.
Like this:


This is how I got it:



Of course the corners are usually a problem where I have to do finetuning (that's why it's not fully automatic). And very non uniform shapes are a problem as well. There you have to create help lines so that the faces sharing the edge that is to be beveled have about the same size. Otherwise the angle of the new faces will not look good. Despite that it still gives rather good results without increasing the poly count elsewhere in the mesh.

Hope this helped.

Somebody posted a way to do it with transparency maps (although that doesn't really do a hole, just something that looks like one).

The present version of terranim8or can do booleans and for clean shapes like a cube and a cylindrical hole it will probably give good results.

For not so simple shapes there is still the "manual method. Built the two shapes you need (here a cylinder and a cube; you have to build meshes out of primitives first), join sloids and then with the slide tool move points to create the merging line. remove unwanted faces, recreate the ones yu need and then you have it.