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I decided to try my hand at the Blue Falcon. This is based off the GX version, but I have done multiple edits to the general design, like the nose dropping down to make the whole body shape more like an airfoil. Currently at 9893 faces. This is intended to be a high poly model. Also it is not textured at all, just using multiple materials for now so I can better tell things apart. Not sure how I'll go about texturing though...

I am unable to see the axis/pivot point when I go to the object/axis tab in object mode, and try to move it. The axis does move, but I cant see it. Axis show up in other 3 modes with bones. Though no objects in the modes are showing axis. Great work on the update so far though, loving the mirroring options in object and figure modes.

Running:
Intel I5
4GB Ram

Graphics A:
    NVIDIA GeForce 610M
    OpenGL 4.2.0

Graphics B:
    Intel HD Graphics 4000
    OpenGL 3.3.0

Windows 7 64-bit


Edit: Opened Anim8or using my NVIDIA instead of Intel, and got the same problem, so updated my post with both cards.

Boy its been awhile, I hate being without internet. Right now I'm borrowing someone elses computer... so I hope I can describe this right.
I downloaded uv mapper classic, exported my model, and tried putting it on. I tried a planar map, because it had less overlapping, but it wont fit on my model right, like it is a pair of pants that are way too small, and you end up with the cuffs halfway up the calf, but in all directions. I held the middle mouse button, and tried to scale it to the right size, but that didn't work. I then tried a cylindrical map (without the caps), and that didn't want to even put it on to where the lines would show (I didn't color in the texture map yet...). I would try spherical, but i don't know how I would draw in the details I want, especially since I only have paint, though gimp might help, It's free and I believe it has layers. Anyway, does anyone have any hints to make the ones I have work, or what program I could use that would make texture mapping easier (though free - cheap is a requirement there  ). Thank you.

I'm doing this for a scholarship, destroy a flashcard. Destroying a real one is pretty limiting, espetially with their limits, i.e. no weapons, no alchohol (so it can't burst into flames without using expensive gasoline). Anyways, nowhere in their rules does it say that it has to be a REAL flashcard, so Anim8or is my "weapon" in this case. This is already been fun with what I have so far. Critisizm is WANTED. The flashcard is "PARODY", so it is only befitting that the movie is one. It's exposed to resemble those bad sets of them black and white monster movies way back when. The card is skinned, the monster is not.

I'm just wondering, are lighter colors exposed to bump up or down? I could really use this...

I would love a ruler tool. This would be great for realistic modeling, especially if one could specify custom measurements. An ASL would be nice, but it would be useful in all the modes, not just object.

"Locked Mesh"... the ability to lock all (or some) of the points in a mesh (and back again) which would also be useful in realistic models.

Otherwise (and anyways) GREAT job on Anim8or Steve!