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Anim8or v1.0 Discussion Forum / Are Volumes and Raytraced Shadows Mistitled? Also, a request about volumes
« on: September 25, 2021, 04:46:46 pm »
Yeah, I've been wondering, now, if this is the case. Volumes will not show up in scanline renderer mode, yet raytraced shadows will, while volumes and raytraced shadows both show up in the ART raytracer renderer mode. This also means that the soft shadow option doesn't even work, as it only activates on clicking ray traced shadows, which means you cannot use them. It's never become soft, in any mode I've tried, too.

Further proof is the fact you can turn off self-shadowing, via clicking off "Recieve". However, in the ART raytracer mode, self-shadowing will always be enabled, proving its using rays to determine lighting and shadowing. If this is so, can this be fixed, in an update, along with adding proper lighting fade off distances, during OpenGL mode? After all, it would be then possible to draw scenes much faster. In fact, volumes, if they showed up here, too, you'd be able to skip using the slower modes, if the scene is meant to be simple! I know someone else asked about this, earlier, but it is possible, just by using OpenGL's most basic extensions for real time volumetric shadowing.

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Anim8or v1.0 Discussion Forum / Lighting Fix Request
« on: September 16, 2021, 12:48:31 am »
Hello. It's been a while since I've been here. Well, I would like to request a simple fix for the lighting, in OpenGL & GLSL shader modes. Basically, light distance spans don't shrink like in scanline & raytracing mode. In fact, none of the light radius or distance range parameters even show up, in said OpenGL & GLSL modes. While spotlights might have their angles register, point and spotlight radiuses, or distance ranges, do not. Thus, a point light, all the way other there yonder, will bleed into the lighting of a distant area, and brighten up everything, well too much, when just a few are even present. This has messed me up, before, and I would like to get at least something closer to what you see in scanline mode, while manipulating the scene, itself, without having to preview a static image, I cannot move about in, all the time, or create, even, a simple test animation, which takes time.

And, really, the only fix, it would be, I think, is to shrink the spans of the lights, to what you've set them as, in these modes, a possibility, since games do it, all the time, in real-time. Thank you!

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General Anim8or Forum / Re: Help: Error Reading File...Can Objects be Saved from a Dead an8 File?
« on: January 10, 2018, 04:14:49 am »
I've already recovered what I could from the file. I'll just have to redo other aspects later on.

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General Anim8or Forum / Re: Hey Remember when I turned Robin into A harpy?
« on: January 10, 2018, 04:13:38 am »
That image is cute as all buttons...

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General Anim8or Forum / Re: Help: Error Reading File...Can Objects be Saved from a Dead an8 File?
« on: December 12, 2017, 04:01:42 am »
Ok, well, forget the figures and scene. That was part of the file where the file didn't save correctly. Found these in another an8 file, however, I couldn't in the original corrupted file. I'll just have to redo that. Thanks, anyways!

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Anim8or v1.0 Discussion Forum / Re: Idea for Skinning
« on: December 11, 2017, 07:41:26 am »
Thanks for the replies! And, as for how to add the option, it could be possible to have a check box in the weight paint brush editor, where you alter the actual intensity and scale of the brush.

Of course, that stated, I think something more quick and on the spot might be in order. Again, the back and front buttons might seem to be the best way to go, even if the back button will rarely be needed outside of just going back to checking or activating both. After all, I seldom use it during the modeling process, anyways. Normally, I don't even mess with those buttons, even if I need to, at times. Its just, here, I think they would be most crucial. And, I think that by going with another paint brush mode, or etc., you're adding another mode that effectively does the same thing. By adding something like the back/front buttons, its more clear that this is to do with the additional options regarding working with the mode, or more. Even though it will seldom be used, the back button, I think it is true some may, if they think its quicker than rotating the camera around.

You could go with the adding of hotkeys that change the actual parameter, but, given this is weight painting, and many are likely going to spend a lot of time in either painting mode, the time one is going to be holding down the key might be more immense than in other occasions in anim8or. Though it does make sense because you can use a hotkey to target but the selected faces when making cuts during the modeling process, this might be more tedius here, to need to keep the button down. Can't be sure, however. It may work out, but, what you could do, is do a little bit of both. Like, you could have a single button which toggles between painting just one side or the whole thing, all the way through, which also acts as sort of a "auto run toggle" for use of the hotkey. Meaning, its like when you hit tab in certain PC games to enable auto running, and when you hit shift, you walk instead of run. Then, when you hit it again, you walk by default, and run with the shift key. Something like that. This might let people choose what their personal preference is.

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Anim8or v1.0 Discussion Forum / Idea for Skinning
« on: December 10, 2017, 07:20:35 am »
Hello there! I would like to list an idea for making skinning easier. For the longest of time, the most precise way at skinning a figure was the weight painting option. However, I don't think there is an option for painting one side at a time. Currently, you merely have to paint all the way through a model, which is inconvenient, and, many times, severely limiting. Regardless of how anyone has gotten pass this, I think the ability to paint either only the back faces or front would be a great addition. I think it could be implemented like the drag selection's back/front buttons, when it comes down to it.

The main issue is that, if you only need to paint one side to a specific model, that may not be possible, as, even if you turn it to one side, you might have to paint over some other part of the model. There's no way around this! You just have to keep turning it, and, in some situations, you will never be able to avoid painting over a part of the model, all the way on the other side! You'll have to go back around to it, again, and repaint it, wasting precious time.

Again, I'm not sure how people have managed, but I think having the more reliable weight painting able to paint only a side at a time, like in lots of other art programs, would be a magnificent addition. I like anim8or for its simplicity and 'plug'n'play' graphics manipulation. Many other programs think that, to have features, they have to make the layout as scattered and complex as possible, and manipulation as slow as possible. Not anim8or, as it keeps it feeling more like a 2D paint program, like Paint.Net, when it comes down to how graphics are manipulated, and how it implements features and effects, using simple pop up dialog boxes and hot keys, and tabs and modes, all packaged in a simple configuration. The biggest part of this ease comes in how the camera is kept its own quick and easy mode, which allows manipulation to come first, as it should always, and be right at your finger tips. Most the time, other programs are slow, due to how they map cam controls to the arrow keys themselves, and other, and thus force you to go through more to even selecting and moving vertices. Again, anim8or is more 'plug'n'play'. Thus, I would also like to have the same flexibility where I know it is still going to be possible.

Thanks, in advance!

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General Anim8or Forum / Re: Help: Error Reading File...Can Objects be Saved from a Dead an8 File?
« on: December 10, 2017, 01:59:01 am »
Ok, thanks for the reply. I figured out that I just needed to copy and paste the object data into a new file. However, i'm still missing some data. Where in the file is the figure, sequence and scene data stored? Thanks in advance!

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General Anim8or Forum / Help: Error Reading File...Can Objects be Saved from a Dead an8 File?
« on: December 09, 2017, 05:04:52 pm »
New to posting on this forum, and I use anim8or off and on. Just recently, I've accidentally screwed up a save, though it wasn't completely my fault. However, I was trying to see if anything was salvageable, and apparently, a while back, in 2009, someone had this problem, and someone was able to roll it back to something within the file, via the file attachment of the corrupted file.

Can someone help me extract at least the objects of the previous file, if I can upload it via attachment, or is there a process I can do, to personally save said objects?

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