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I've noticed that while rendering anything that normally takes a long time, anim8or will switch to Not responding, and only after the render is done will anim8or start responding again.
Now this may be b/c I'm using vista but I'm not sure.
I always make sure to save my work before rendering a medium or large sized scene, b/c if anim8or locks up. Either it won't work anymore or I'll have to wait for it to finish not even knowing what its up to b/c the preview render is frozen.
My graphics card is a Nvidia GetForce 8600 GT
I was told that it was a very good graphics card So I don't know mabye this is the problem
Edit: this has not been happening just in 0.97, but 0.95 also

Also while we're on the topic of rendering, if you set the render preview to off, will the render go faster.
Edit: I tried it and I didn't see a signifigant amount of difference in the timing of the render.

And another question, if you were to go to the process of anim8or in task manager, and set the priority to a higher priority than normal, will anim8or go faster.
I tried it, but I wasn't really sure if there was a change in render time or not. I'll try recording the times the next time I do it.


Quote from Steve.
"What graphics card do you have?  This is most certainly a driver problem, possible a badly designed driver.  That's exctly why I added the ability to turn off renders."

Hey Steve. Is there any news on 0.96?
I can't wait for at least another Beta to come out or the acutal thing.
Thanks

Hey evryone.
Does anybody know of a tutorial or soemthing like that for a human walking sequence. Because I'm trying rig the human that was given out on animanon for a contest who could rig it, but I can't find any tutorials to stuff like that. So would anybody of anthing. I've already rigged it, the animation is the hard part.
Thanks
-flametiger74-
(I'll be posting my WIPs in a couple of days.)

Hey all
I was trying to figure out a script by Tyson Collins (AKA Null) and I was wondering if someone could explain to me some of the things Here's the script I added some questions which are blue. One last thing where does it say in the script which points are where.

#plugin("object", "mesh", "plane"); I understand this it's the name and type
#parameter("side", float, 10.0, 0.001, 99999, scale);I'm guessing this is the parameter
#return($plane); What does return do and how can it do it if  $plane hasn't been declared
#button(17, 25, 2,
    0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x0fffffff, 0x00010001,
    0x00010001, 0x00010001, 0x00010001, 0x00010001,
    0x00010001, 0x00010001, 0x00010001, 0x00010001,
    0x00010001, 0x00010001, 0x00010001, 0x00010001,
    0x00010001, 0x00010001, 0x0fffffff, 0x00000000,
    0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000,
    0x00000000);
shape $plane;   It looks like these are all declaring variables but what are they.
int $side,$i;
point3 $p;
$side = parameter("side");

$plane.Open();
$plane.OpenFace(0,4);
Basicly I don't really get what the rest is saying like what's "TextCoord. and all the other stuff
$p.x = -$side;
$p.y = 0;
$p.z = -$side;
$plane.TexCoordN($plane.AddTexCoord((0,1)));
$plane.VertexN($plane.AddPoint($p));

$p.x = $side;
$p.y = 0;
$p.z = -$side;
$plane.TexCoordN($plane.AddTexCoord((1,1)));
$plane.VertexN($plane.AddPoint($p));

$p.x = $side;
$p.y = 0;
$p.z = $side;
$plane.TexCoordN($plane.AddTexCoord((1,0)));
$plane.VertexN($plane.AddPoint($p));

$p.x = -$side;
$p.y = 0;
$p.z = $side;
$plane.TexCoordN($plane.AddTexCoord((0,0)));
$plane.VertexN($plane.AddPoint($p));

$plane.CloseFace();
$plane.Close();

If someone could please help me I would really appreciate it. Thanks[/glow][/shadow]

Do  local lights cast shadows because I am making a scene with a  lamp in it and it dosn't cast the shadows with a cover on the local light.

Okay. Ive been with anim8or for over a year now and I still havn't found any tutorials on scripts like could someone just take a simple script and explain line by line what each line is talking about
Because I 've wanting to make scriipts for so long but I still can't understand them.
Thanks in advance.

I was wondering is there a way to either wrap a terrain around a sphere to create a globe or make a globe terrain with terainim8or or another program.