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Ok, I know this has been more than a week, but I had a vacation in there somewhere.  Anyhow, this was the more detailed version, but I didn't like the way the Salon and Deckhouse windows looked, so i am redoing those, but I have added some real wood textures, although the deck is darker than I like.

As far as the extra details, this has more fittings, such as the horn, anchor winch, lifering, etc. I also rendered it in ART so it looks a lot better except for that feisty near-Z clipping issue at the bow.  I also included a pic of the prototype so you can see what I am working towards.

DEFINITELY been a while, wow!!!

But very nice modeling 5LID3R! Exciting to see where this is going after being revisited.

OK if you have further issues post a sample file and I'll look into it.

Thanks a lot Steve, I'll make sure to do that. Awesome features in the new build btw!!

The licked attribute is stored within the bone's controller.

Can you post a figure that shows this crashing problem? And which bone's name do you try to change? I assume that this happens in the Figure editor.

Turns out it was in the old v1.0 build - the model seems to open just fine in the latest build you've posted, Steve, and that's WITH the bones I set as locked, but NOT with the new names. Hm..... (Sorry I haven't gotten around to properly posting it. Figured if I can't open, who else could?)

Good ol' FNAF... giving me give or take 5 years of frights and plenty of humorous-yet-spooky story action.

Looking forward to following your process AtR!

edit: Okay, I locked some bones and saved, then tried changing the names of other bones and then it crashed again (before I could save it...), But for some reason the bone locking or something else is causing me to not be able to open the file, as it crashes every time I try.

Where a locked bones located in the text file format of an Anim8or file? Bones are easy to find, but I'm not finding where whether they are locked is denoted.

I'm lately using Anim8or a lot more for CAD functions. The snap-to-distance and ability to set the grid make it very handy for this kinda stuff. But I usually have to take my projects over to a drawing application to make clean .svg vectors and stuff and add in the proper measurements.

There are three things though that I think would make Anim8or an amazing tool for CAD prototyping (at least for me):

1) toggleable "show measurements"-type things that displayed absolute height, width or depth of an object from its widest points, instead of just one measuring from the origin (since then

2) Render with measurements (the ones mentioned above)

3) Wireframe rendering (This is already in though, isn't it? OpenGL or something?)


Carry on though, Steve! You've already got me hooked on using Anim8or for this stuff, so for my use it's just me hoping to make my workflow easier xDD

Merry Christmas!

Challenge idea... community animation project? Just a short film. Long-term, lasting like 2 or 3 months from start to finish. Assigned tasks and all... a 3-minuter made to stretch us and perhaps bring more of a "team"-aspect into the use and function of Anim8or. It's a software that could work great for team-projects, but I've yet to see it done myself.