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Have you tried seeing whether its visible when rendered? If you go to View >>Preferences >> Use Shaders and try those two options, does it change anything?


I've actually had issues with the same thing in many of the latest releases of Anim8or. FIgured it was due to my own hardware incompatibilities, so I just view my bump maps through rendering now.

These are really cool! I especially like the shoe rack.

Thanks Steve! Anim8or is perfect for this kind of stuff


@johnar They are "stamp-sized" for sure - it's sort of "emblem" wall art from a card game my brother plays. When I made them (around last november) I only had a small selection of tools, but I think now I'd take a much different approach... probably CNC, laser cutting or 3d printing like you mentioned.
Admittedly I did sort of cheat in the Anim8or file by just using transmaps just to get the scale without having to arduosly sculpt everything 




One thing that's funny about this is that when modeling something based off of an object you have references for and stuff already, you're just trying to get as close to the real thing as possible. But with this, it's more like... I'm trying to get as close as possible to something that DOESN'T actually exist yet? Maybe that's too obtuse or maybe even kinda obvious, haha

Hey Old Codger!

Hopefully @johnar can chime in as for users who are still around, he's probably one of the most familiar with the scene editor. There are a few things in Edit mode that don't match the Scene editor that just have to be sort of reckoned with. Certain things (at the moment) aren't really possible with built-in rendering, things like focal blur and motion blur and such - you'd have to use post-processing, a different software, or some highly creative workarounds for that.

For your second question, it can actually help a LOT to watch tutorials for other software. Getting a sense for how thing 'generally' can be done can help break down the underlying concepts for how to achieve something. With Anim8or in particular, texturing is a fairly big thing but I think the biggest contributor to realism is lighting in Scene mode. I'd say check out the manual for ideas on texturing, there's a lot of good info there.

Of course a lot of it depends on WHAT you want to make, because something like hair/fur (for which there are some nice scripts floating around), or skin for example, are going to be a lot harder to make look outright *realistic* in Anim8or than, say, the Utah teapot sitting in a kitchen scene.

Not sure if this is any help as this is very very 'general' knowledge and spouting thoughts as they come after my years of Anim8or. I definitely wish you good luck!

Looking cool bayinghound! Cool use of the technique. Throw a local light right there and you're well on the way

Cool! Shows how good quality texturing can take a render very far. That's always been something that surprises me in video game graphics, where objects are sparing as much as possible on polygons/triangles but the texture artists are doing everything they can to imply and create detail and information in areas where it might be really sparse

I posted about this a while ago but I'm struggle with it again...
I have an objects whose physical center, bounding box, and 'crosshair' are all located at a location (roughly [-14,-1,0])
YET the coordinates OF the object read [0,0,0]. As far as my understanding goes, the physical location of this object is NOT the origin, and I've never moved the points themselves independent of the object's own origin, so I don't get what's happening.

Strangely, if I group the object with itself (so, just clicking on it and clicking 'g'), it suddenly shows with correct coordinates even though the object's center hasn't changed.

Not sure what's going on here.

(not a huge deal of course but I've had the issue before, and now I think it *might* actually be a bug?)

Alter Ego is a free vocal synthesizer.

It is specially tailored for musical needs – simply type in your lyrics, and then play on your MIDI keyboard. It’s a true synthesizer, the sound can be extensively modified for easy and expressive performances.


But I might redownload and try again.

I will have to admit - I gave it a try a while back (big into music production for almost a decade) - I couldn't figure it out at ALL... admittedly I didn't try any tutorials or anything. But it doesn't seem very tailored to the casual user who just wants to dip their toe in speech/vocal synthesis

it's like a cross between a plumbus (possibly nsfw??) and one of those stacking ring toys for kids. Cool!