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Any chance of adding weighted normals to an8?

I never new this before but found a page describing how to vertex normalise cylinders, but on the page showed a beveled cube.
I have attached the image with a comparison of the same model as rendered in an8.
http://www.bytehazard.com/articles/vertnorm.html

Trev

Results of weighted normals:

Just attached an image showing that from my experience all the dialogs are the same.

Maybe Im missing something but it seems dialogs are already using editable adresses
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Image Load - In Win9x this doesnt show the "Places Bar"
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Trev

works fine for me and I had a chain of  9 (3 joints, 2 connectors and 4 "converters")

when you create it you can assign the bones in the dialog or
Click the "root" (doesnt need to be the bone named root, but could be for example the shoulder) and then right click the end (eg hand)
This should result in 2 selected bones.
Build > Create IK Chain > OK

Now when you see the crosshair and click on it you will see all the bones in the chain highlight and when you drag the crosshair it will move the final bone as close as possible to the position by rotating the previous bones.

If your bones are locked then nothing will happen.

For testing purposes make your bones free.

Also, I should mention, although the screenshot I posted should be proof enough, that bone skinning actually does work with IK.
The "Problem" is that it doesnt update untill you bring up a dialog and close it.

Trev

I selected the top half of the model and extruded negative 5 and yes, the edges extrude straight out, however I am left with faces where the ceiling would be. In fact, I just realised, I only removed the ceiling so I could see what was happening, so normally selecting the ceiling would have the exact same effect as the floor.
Also, with regard to the skirting, rooms are normally measured to walls so its easier to extrude 10mm into the room at the floor (yes the floor will move up 10mm, but thats easy to drag back down to 0.)

The exact same thing happens with shell too by the way (another reason I left the ceiling off was for testing shell).
Shell should move the bottom up in this case 5 and the walls in 5 (leaving a gap of hyponinuse = 7.071... at the corner)
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7.07

I suppose another way of thinking about the extrude tool could be "Extrude and retain angles"
There may be a use for "extrude average angle - constant distance" but I cant see it just now.
Oh, just thought, is it because of spheres that distance is across hypotinuse?
Maybe in that case you could use the smooth angle?

I think even in spheres the distance should be parralel from faces and not distance from verticies.
Just drew 2 decahedrons and made one 4 smaller radius and the parralell distance between the faces is 4 as expected with the distance at the verticies 4.119 which is right because that would be the "hypotinuse".


Trev

2 bugs to report.
Latest version will sometimes stop selections of things and instead move them. fast select off.

other bug is in both shell object and extrude faces (connected).
As seen in the attached picture, I expected the top model, where shell or extrude would indent the model by x units all round, however, I was given the result below where the bottom edges were slanted outward and on angled faces the shell/extrusion went on the skew. eg.
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this right angle would be fine, producing
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equidistant shell all round.

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this however produced a downward pointing line across the top (thin left, fat right) and an equidistant line  across the bottom

Trev

realised I hadnt attached an an8 file, so ive made a new one and attached. same thing happened during this iteration.

Slugs, I can confirm that the undo problem with verticis and no faces also happenes in 1227 (I was just about to update but thought Id check first)

Its as though only faces store the last setup when using the knife.

Cutting a face and then cutting lines with no faces causes all actions since last face cut to be undone.
If a face is never cut then undo just doesnt work at all, or goes back to the last action before the knife tool was selected.

Trev

I was getting similar crashes in 98 with the topo tool, however it seemed to be fixed in later builds.

Unlike yourself however, it only happened after a while of editing.

If Im not mistaken, the error was c00000005 which is access violation.

Trev