Anim8or Community

Can't help but feel that Anim8or has left the building. Even went so far as to download the current version of Blender. After playing with the Blender cube for 15 minutes, or so, I, once again, have concluded that I'll never make any progress with Blender.

It began with looking for a new PC game at either CompUSA, or Computer City. Unfortunately, I picked up a Bryce 3D CD-ROM and took it home. I was amazed at the landscapes I was popping up on my computer screen. Bryce had only limited abilities to model anything, but thanks to Boolean operations, I managed to create a few interesting things. Then I found a spline modeler called sPatch, which increased my ability to make stuff.

Along the way: I paid quite a bit of money for TrueSpace, back in the day, and like Blender, I never made any progress. Tried Hexagon, but it seemed to be one of the most crash prone programs I've ever encountered. I have Carrara, and at times it has shown promise, but still seems far more complicated than Anim8or. Anim8or became my tool of choice.

For whatever reason, Anim8or always seems to act the way I expect it to act when I attempt to model something. Don't get me wrong; nothing I've made has ever been all that noteworthy. It's just that Anim8or is a tool I seem to have some mastery of. So, it is alarming to see the Forum being so dead!

Lot wrong with this, but it came out better than I expected. YouTube indicates it is a translation of a Navajo corn grinding song.

Along with lurking around this place, I also lurk around the AGS Forum (Adventure Game Studio). They run a monthly competition to make a game in a month. I've entered a few along the way. I'm working up something for this month's competition:



AGS is a game engine for creating point and click games, usually in 2D. Very limited ability for the engine to make a 3D game, but I'm becoming comfortable in how the engine editor assists a person with designing a 2D game. Anim8or is my tool of choice for creating the art assets. Sorry for the Imgur image. I know some folks may not be able to see it.

just a genuine qeustion

Wish I could tell you. I've been an on and off lurker for a while now, and I'm certainly not in the know about what Steve might have in mind for the future of his wonderful program. The Forum link to his name says the last time he was active was in January of this year. After Steve retired from Real Life, he dropped the 1.x version, and the Forum blew up with activity, with steady upgrades. Then... Then the OGs and Steve all seem to have left the building. I don't know where they all went. Anim8or remains the only modeling program I've tried that has made me look like anything but an ignorant fool, and I've paid some pretty high prices for one or two of them. I remain indebted to Steve for the program he made, and I hate to think this is the way it comes to an end.

The fountain I've been working on is part of this:



Lots of different approaches to modeling something like this, and I'm probably not doing it the best, most efficient way, but I'm fairly happy with where I'm winding up. Still need to do five doors and fix a couple of things that are bugging me. Hope to call it done in the near future.

@ davdud101 - Thanks for the response. I'll take a look. Have a bit more motion with this version:

I finally got this about as good as I can make it:



Modeled, animated, and rendered in Steve's Anim8or program for possible use in an AGS game. AGS can run the animation without the static first frame. Now, I need to see if I have the points needed to turn a him into a her, without having to redo the rigging stuff. Transgender stuff. Don't tell Trump.

Edit: What ho... Had the points. Made the sex change, without going to the Netherlands:



Also changed the face a bit.

Modeled in Anim8or. Bryce textures/renders with rotation of water texture on lower bit of falling water.



Any guidance about how many frames a person needs to make the repetition less noticeable?

FWIW, Steve's approach to the animation section is far less complex than Bryce's. Ended up just generating the individual images in Bryce and used GIMP to make the gif file.