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If you make all of the vertical faces the same width, you could display four different images. This wouldn't work so well in reality because the vertical bars would have to be farther apart than with thin slats. It'd work fine in graphics if you don't mind them interpenetrating.

The Wikipedia article on sprites discusses them.
"More often sprite now refers to a partially transparent two dimensional animation that is mapped onto a special plane in a 3D scene. Unlike a texture map, the sprite plane is always perpendicular to the axis emanating from the camera. The image can be scaled to simulate perspective, rotated two dimensionally, overlapped with other objects, and be occluded, but it can only be viewed from the same angle. This rendering method is also referred to as billboarding."

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprite_(computer_graphics) for details.

$imon,

Thanks for the reminder about bevel!

Unfortunately, it doesn't do what I want At least not easily.

I'd like to round off all the edges and corners of a "cube". In other words, I think that
I'd like to do multiple levels of bevelling on each edge of a "cube", including the intersecting corners. Multiple clicks while the bevel operator is selected does very strange things. One has to go back and select "edge selection", select one of the new edges, then bevel just that one edge. That's a lot of work. And it does nothing for the corners

Like Bamman62, I've been reading through all the docs trying to find a "make edge round" command, but haven't found one. My current workaround only works for four of the edges of a rectangular object: I make a cylinder and stretch its quadrants to become the edges. Presumably one can do the same with a sphere, but it's a lot harder to select the 8 "corners".

Steve,

Thanks!

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Kubajzz,

Anim8or should list the names of all of the scripts that it is trying to load, whether or not they fail to load. There is no way to know a priori if anim8or might happen to have another bug which prevents some scripts from loading with no error messages whatsoever.

Also, when many scripts are involved, and if more than one has a bug, it can be very difficult to find the ones that are not listed.

While one can in principle search through the scripts directory to find them, comparing the file names one at a time to the list that loaded, this is an inconvenience which should be unnecessary.

The script I've been using to export CMOD models no longer works when run under v0.97b.
No error messages are generated.
It works fine with v0.97a.

The script writes two output files, one listing all materials, the other contains the mesh and vector lists.
An empty material file is written under v0.97b.

The script has not been changed since November 11, 2006.

It's available at http://www.lepp.cornell.edu/~seb/celestia/files/export_cmod_plugin.a8s
(500 lines, 17KB)