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Looking very sassy there, great work!

Sounds like a fun little project, I suppose people could drop their own variations on what she should look like into a thread and you can judge which one you'd like to use as a base design. Maybe have a low poly version to start and have her become a slightly more detailed and higher resolution model as the episodes progress, or just have different models of her made by different people.

So far nothing has really stopped it.
Any attempt to interact with the program causes it to gray out the whole thing and the only way I seem to get out of it is when the computer asks me if I want to stop the unresponsive program.

The weird thing is it only seems to lock after the program has been in scene mode for a while. like if I just go in an immediately go to scene mode and try it, then it seems fine, but I try it a few minutes later and that's when it locks. Before that I'm sure space or esc would probably stop it, but that's only because you can still hit the stop button and achieve the same effect, once it hits the point of not return nothing I can do will save it.

I was using an old version of the software for years hoping to see some significant updates, though it seemed to be taking a while and I stepped away from the forum, but stopping by the homepage to see if any news was released about an updated version. Then I stepped into the forum a couple of weeks ago with a question and discovered there had been a ton of updates that hadn't shown up on the main page. I'm still using the old version as a main for some of my projects while I learn the functions in the newer one better and granted most are still being tested, but they address almost every issue I had with Anim8or in the past and at this rate I may have no issues in the near future at all.

I had to make some prints for a company few years back, and I've noticed there's amazing quality even with  150dpi for huge banners and prints. Always check antialiased when rendering, though.
I also had no problem rendering videos at 4K resolution with anim8or.
Unfortunately, it seems the max resolution for textures is same as the max resolution for renders 4096x4096.
Sometimes I create my textures as 8192x8192, and I have to size it down to 50% to be able to load it in anim8or.

Overall, anim8or proved to be the perfect choice in every situation for me

Antialiasing is fine when you're not editing. But it's a hassle when you get into photo shop and go to select an area of color and you get spotty edges. I've worked on projects that have required pixel perfect accuracy and the kind of "halo" effect you get on aliased images list the last thing you want to deal with.

cooldude234: check out build 1240 - I added a pixel/inch attribute for saving .BMP, .PNG and .JPG images.  Let me know if it does what you need.

Note: .PNG files only support pixels/meter as far as I can tell so I use the closest equivalent.

I gave it a spin with one of the projects I'm working on, and it seems to work perfectly! Thanks for looking into this Steve. The test file properties read exactly as I'd hoped in their properties tab. The compression on jpg seems a bit more aggressive than I remember, but it's probably just been a while since I last rendered a simple jpg in Anim8or. I'll probably just stick to BMP and PNG for any serious still image output.

Yeah, it's mostly just an inconvenience, not specifically a bug or anything just something causing more confusing than I'd like. As I said most of the art programs I use give you control over the size and resolution at the very start, eg. Need an image to be exactly 3000 pixels wide or even a 7x10 image at 600dpi? You get it before a single pixel is drawn. Here it's a matter of figuring out how many pixels you need the finished art to be based on the pixels per inch of the file type of the finished render and hoping that was composed so that it provides enough to achieve the dimensions you need if you reduce the size of the image to fit and placed into an existing page layout is exact. It can get to be a bit time consuming so I was looking for a workaround to speed things up.

In printing (at least on paper), I'm guessing people have just merged DPI and PPI for the sake of simplicity when dealing with more widely available Print on Demand services. it's been Hammered into me from the beginning that 300 ppi results in an image that doesn't show jaggies or stair stepping on rounded or diagonal lines when going from a digital medium to a printed one where I'd assume DPI originated, so rather than wade into the details with laymen they just seem to use the different terms to mean the same thing. After a while they just became interchangeable except for people who are much more technically versed in screen resolutions.

I didn't over look it Seldon, The answer you gave me was somewhat sufficient, I was just trying to figure out if there was an in-program means for adjusting the resolution so that I didn't need to do it in a secondary program. Again, as I said before I was hoping to avoid situations that could result in errors from having to have an extra step. In the past I've had bad experiences with changing image resolutions where I've lost sharpness before between multiple art programs, so I seek opportunities to avoid the situation.

Slex, Actually your PNG comes up in photoshop as 72 pixels per inch.

Is this in .98? I use mostly .95 because it crashes on me a lot less. though I guess I could use it for still renders if I can control the resolution the way I'm hoping to.

Edit:// just checked .98 didn't see an option for PNG. is there a trick to doing that? I haven't been around the forums in a while.