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@ Steve - You know when you are adding bones it would be good if when you want a thinner bone and you change the diameter in the dialogue box it remains at that size for the addition of subsequent bones until you change it back.
Sorry if this has been suggested before.
woul'd have put this in the suggestions for anim8or future section but cant find it or we aren't allowed to make new threads in that area at the moment.

An un-removable icon has rather annoyingly appeared on my win7 taskbar.
telling me i can upgrade to win 10.
I am wary of change .
i'm old i like things to stay the same.
are there any issues for anim8or
with windows 10?

Middle mouse button emulation for those that need it. I do because I have a two button mouse pad on my laptop . You miss so much of Anim8ors functionality without a MMB ,  especially when working with bones.I have a three button mouse and plug that in when there is a large amount of work to do but sometimes i'm not somewhere there is space for a mouse and its so annoying on occasions when i don't have the MMb option .
But i have found a free and simple 'Middle mouse button emulator' which works for me.  
http://rhdesigns.browseto.org/mousemu.zip
Hope this helps others in need of an MMB.
Be sure you read the instructions.

Anim8or goes nuts in figure mode, it freezes up when i try to add a simple object to a bone it takes ages to load. It works better if i turn it to open gl render mode but eventually freezes. If i load a previously constructed figure it loads ok behaves for a short period then freezes. Sure this must be a driver issue as it behaves like this even with 0.98.currently i have open gl 4.4.
win7.amd radeon graphics.hd 6520g....dismayed.


 

well not quite but astonishingly worthwhile addition to ones toolkit.
get it now.!![Howler 8]
http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/

DOOid ..DooID .

dotan8 is trying out another approach to anim8or education
for those interested.

CLARODINE E - LEARNING

We thought it was about time Dotan8 got a face lift, so whilst it was parked we took the opportunity to try out some E-learning packages, We started with Moodle but that package we found out was not supported by our Hosting Site, but eventually we have installed Clarodine1.9 .

 We are now writing a basic anim8or course aimed at 8-12year olds and hopefully we can spread the word through local primary schools to Login and try it out .

We will be adding more advanced courses, but at the moment we are still figuring the software out, but eventually you will be able to sign up , read and watch various projects, then carry out assignments and exercises to gain acceptable passes to carry you onto the next course.

As we said early days but you are welcome to pop over and perhaps sign up for the course as they become available.
http://www.dotan8.com/Claroline/claroline199/

also a link to the latest animanon newsletter
http://www.animanon.com/Forum3/index.php/topic,871.msg2832/topicseen.html#msg2832

video
http://www.blendernation.com/disneys-ptex-released-as-free-open-source/
code
http://ptex.us/

way above my head sadly