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It's prety stable now.  Posing a few features at a time let;s me QA it more thoroughly.  I'd give it a try if I were you.  Some of the newer features are't quite finished or may have some problems but otherwise it should be as good as v0.95c.

I don't plan on doing a real v0.97 release.  That would be a lot of work finalizing the manual, etc.  Everything takes time.

I've fixed all these little problems.  Thanks for reporting them.

- #097-007 - ART can crash rendering meshes with no faces.
- #097-008 - ART Renderer ignores Light's shadow setting.
- #097-009 - Camera lense-shade is visible in it's own view in renders

I decided to start posting v0.97b and such as a quicker way to get things out.  When I waited until I had a bigger batch, there were always a lot of little bugs and things that needed changing that came in a big rush.  I couldn't handle them all quickly enough to get proper feedback so some things got overlooked.  The new way seems to be working better.

These intermediate releases should be fairly solid.  I would keep backups for any critical project that you used them for, of course (but that's no different that the official releases

Some sort of scrolling capability, similar to what 3D Studio MAX has (or had in the last version of it the I used), is on "the list' of things I wan't to do.  But it is a very long list

I see what you're doing.  If you use the views that are off of the View->Other->camera01, camera02, etc., all of the geometry is shown just like the Front, Perspective, etc. windows.  By defult the cameras and lights are shown.  This is not the same as the View->Camera view which automatically hides cameras and lights.  So your render has the camera in the picture which is why the funny square is visible - that's the camera's lense shade.  Turn off the camera and lights (click the camera button on the left-hand toolbar) and it should work.

However your file showed a couple of related probelms:

1) The ART renderer can crash when there is a mesh with no points in it.  Your model's mesh01 is like that.  I've fixed Anim8or but you need to delete mesh01if you want to render using ART.  Bug #097-007

2) Shadows are disabled when you turn them off in the View->Preferences dialog for the ART renderer.  But they seem to be ignoring the light's shadow setting now.  I'll fix that.  Bug #097-008

I got your e-mail.  I don't understand what all the files are.  How did you make the .uvs files?  They have a comment that says they were make in UVMapper at the top.  Similarly the .obj files both say they were made by UVmapper.  Anim8or writes a different comment at the top of the file when it exports to .obj format by both the built in and plug-in exporters.

Can you explain the sequence of steps that you did?

DoctorStopMo, check out the split functions added in v0.97b  and the script example on the scripts page.  You should be able to make some great chains with these!