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"the whole pixel wide halo" - so then you agree with me, there would be artifacts even in these limited environmants..

No game has the freedom for object design that Anim8or has.  All games carefully control what you can do so that their rendering tricks are fast and don't show artifacts too badly.  For example, no game has unlimited levels of transparency, or arbitrary 100 million polygon characters.  It's simply not practical on todays hardware.

Please stop posting replies about "my favorite game does this".  Image base techniques are a crude hack.  I'm not going to add them because I don't want to get a continuous stream of bug reports about their shortcommings.

It looks like the .dll jpeg62 is neeeded to run that application.  Where did you get a copy?  I'll add it to the .zip file.  (I didn't write plugicon so I wan't aware that it needed this library.)

There isn't anything for that that I know of.  However if voodoo or blender can output a motion file I might be able to read it into Anim8or.  Are there any specs on what voodoo does?

You need to reflect the incomming vector off the plane of reflection.  Your computation assumes that the plane is x=0.  In general the direction of the outgoing vector is:

Vout = Vin + 2N*Dot(Vin, N)

where N is the plane normal, Vin is the normalized incomming direction and Vout is the outgoing direction,  (You need to normalize Vout after this computation.)

Here is a detailed description.  See equation (3) (but not that the normal is reversed from my formula so the subtract the terms instead of adding them).

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Reflection.html

The buil- in.obj export code in the v0.96 preview should preserve multiple materials.  You can find a copy in the "v0.96 Preview" link in the left hand menu: http://www.anim8or.com/download/preview/index.html

To add keys in the graph editor:  Select the element you want to add keys to then double-click on the name of the controller in the list at the left of the graph window.  This will bring up the controoler's dialog window.  Enter the frame number (if it.s not the current frame) and then click the "Add Key" button.  You can also click on the main time line to select the frame before you open the controller dialog.

It's not working well enough to enable.  I'll give it another try sometime ... don't know when yet.

There is no width to a cylindrical projection, and not height or width to a spherical projection.  These coordinates are derived from the direction of the projection wich does not change with scale.