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Punching cards bring back sweet memories.

For me,it was Fortran,Cobol and assembler on a 370 IBM
main frame.

Ho and I remember a PDP11. A red box with 8 switches on the front
panel.You had to load a few instructions manually to boot.

Tough to hide our age talking about that.

The easy way to render a face is to calculate the lighting
of each pixel according to the orientation of the face given by
its normal.A normal is simply a 3D  vector(unity) giving that
orientation.

To obtain a better result,you can use a different normal for
each pixel.To do that,you use a texture named normalmap.
Each pixel RGB value of the normalmap represent the normal for that pixel.

Here's how you would calculate the x coordinate of the normal from the red value(0-1.0):
x = 2.0 * (redValue - 0.5)

Anim8or actually supports normalmap for bumpmapping.
Heightmaps are used because they make life easier.As soon
as they are loaded, they are converted into normalmap used
for rendering.

Here's an example:

I think he is also referring to Winchester and Colby,respectively analyst
and quality control supervisor.I wonder if they are still involved in the Anim8or
project.

They are more the behind the scene type of guy,explaining why we didn't
have news from them in a long time.

From the script spec:
Texture Type

struct texture {
    string name;       // texture’s name
    int Marked;        // Marked flag, 1 or 0
    const int CubeMap; // 1 if a Cube Map, else 0
    int InvertImage;   // invert image flag, 1 or 0
    string GetFileName(void);
    string GetCubeMapFileName(int face);
    int SetFileName(string name);
    int SetCubeMapFileName(string name, int face);
};

He's probably using the name member.
Try the "string GetFileName(void)" one.You should get the extension
and the directory also if my memory doesn't fail me.

As far as I know,here's how it is:
Anim8or is written in C++.I would guess around 400,000 lines of code.
The win32 API is used for the msg boxes and the menu at the top of the
window.The OpenGl API is used for rendering the viewport(working
view) and the buttons on the left and top.

Last year,a user asked if he could use a targa image with an alpha
channel as a reference image.I made a suggestion that seemed
to help.Maybe it could be helpful to you.
http://www.anim8or.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/015868.html

Maybe the insert bone tool could help.It's under the Build menu.