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And I'm kind of going more towards digital since that's what I'm working with and I do NOT want to go through actually drawing every frame on paper, nor do I have the equipment to do real cel animation. Sure I could use filters to make it look like paper, but I like how it looks now. It's still going to be traditionally animated, just digitally drawn.

I was talking about style and not actual process.

Also a side note, the first public release wont have a gui interface to work from (the scripting application and not the engine) because I need to get scripts fully working before I can start work on that portion. Once scripts are working the engine is fully usable anyways and I'd just prefer to get it out as soon as possible rather than waiting longer.

Basically it just means that with the first public release you will just have to type all of the scripts out by hand (which is probably what you will be doing in the final version anyways) in something like notepad. It's really not all that bad, just a little inconvenient is all.

Yes actually.
Basic collision detection works now (ray triangle collision) and the GUI has been somewhat reworked as well (added layers however multiple screens with GUI's still need work). There's also been numerous of other things worked on from small things like spec mapping and multi texturing to bigger things like normal mapping and a model-texture compression LOD method thingy, that I obviously don't have a name for, that sounds overly complicated but it is only somewhat over complicated .

The big thing that needs to be re-implemented is scripts, once I get that working and implemented that's when the first public release will be available (mostly for debug and feedback reasons though).

Now I just need time, I worked several 12 hour shifts in a row at work this week so for the past 7 days or so my life has been sleep work sleep work sleep work and nothing but, and I probably still have a few more to go.

(also an update video is planned still, but I am also looking for a hardware encoder to screen cap without software, as well as Im probably going to move away from adobe premiere to Sony Vegas because premiere is a nightmare to work with)

Cool. Do I get fries with the combo? And can I swap the drink with a milkshake?

It will cost ya extra
(Im glad at least someone got it)

Pixel Perfect is much, much easier to do, but it's almost impossible to select single pixel wide lines or points. You'd always be selecting a face because they cover most of the pixels. I don't think any modeling software uses it for that. Anim8or has never used it. In v0.98 you can only enable points OR edges OR faces. It uses a 4 to 8 wide window, depending on the tool, but you never have to click exactly on a point or edge. Enabling multiple P/E/F at the same time, as it does now, requires a smarter hit algorithm which I described above.

Well that's why you allow the changing of the line/point thickness and sizes.

well you could have tilting thrusters to change its direction, but I guess this makes it more of a rocket in stead of a plane

textures are stored as full size images (i.e. a 4k by 4k RGB .jpg file might use only a bit 1 or 2 MB on disk but in memory it uses almost 100 MB, including mipmaps), and subdivision meshes, while they are very compact on disk, can grow quite large when expanded into memory.

And he is not kidding either,
I made a drawing application that handled large images (I made it just for quick tests) and needed fully uncompressed images in memory so a image would take the full space it required. A 10000 x 10000 32 bit (rgba) sized image took up around 400 Mb in ram.

8 bits per channel = 32 bits
32 / 8 = 4 bytes = one pixel
4 bytes * 10,000 * 10,000 = 400,000,000 bytes
400,000,000 / 1000 = 400,000 Kilobytes
400,000 / 1000 = 400 Megabytes

Also I was using (one of) the oldest opengl function for taking image data from Ram and uploading it to the Vram (glTexSubImage2D) in real-time. That probably spawns nightmares in Steves dreams

I think what you need to know is all about image editing.
There are many free applications out there that you can use to do this.
Gimp and paint.net are two that you can download for free (I don't really recommend paint.net),
as well as paid software like
Fireworks and Photoshop (also not recommended).

They all pretty much work the same as they are all based around the same principal but with different interfaces.