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Hi guys,

Here is my playing around with brass settings.

Felt like sharing the result with you people.

Thanks headwax.

Your timely help is highly appreciated.  Now, i have some handle to begin with.

It seems so, but that is perfectly okay.  The beauty of anim8or is its simplicity.

Just to orient you here are some steps that I would follow while making a character for example a bird.

STEP 1:  I will open anim8or in object mode.

I will model a body part for ex:  a foot.  Then, i will go to settings->object and name it "foot".

Then, still in object mode, i will go to object->new and a new screen will appear and thus i will make a new object i.e. a new body part and name it.

Likewise I will go on making all the body parts.

step 2:  Change the mode to figure editor.  Make the skeleton by adding different bones to the root bone already present on the screen.  Name the figure using settings->figure (for example bird)

then select a bone in the skeleton and with that bone still selected go to build->add object  (the list of all body parts should show up), select the body part for that bone, hit ok.  The body part will appear on screen.  Just move and rotate the part to fit it on the bone.

Likewise, I will add all body parts to my skeleton.

Thats perfectly allright.

Just remember, while making objects in object mode, try naming individual objects using settings->object->name your object in the dialog box.  After doing this, your object will be named and listed accordingly.

Also, do not forget to use option Object->New before starting each new object for a project and not file->new.

Thus, you can name different objects differently like legs, body, head, etc.

Good luck.

This is the result of my playing around with normal map and grayscale on a sphere.

The left one with grayscale bump map.

The right one with a combination of normal map and grayscale.  The depth looks more pronounced due to shades.

Thanks Francesco for the quick reply.

Here are the steps that lead to crash:

1)I made a humanoid model with different objects for different parts like head, hands, trunk, etc.
2)I rigged the model in a figure editor.
3)I tried to enable skinning for a part of the model.
4)Then I changed to Sequence mode to make a sequence.
5)Anim8or displayed a message "illegal operation".

The details of the error are as follows:

ANIM8OR caused an invalid page fault in
module ANIM8OR.EXE at 018f:004a45b8.
Registers:
EAX=0082f6a4 CS=018f EIP=004a45b8 EFLGS=00010246
EBX=00d2a1b0 SS=0197 ESP=0082f634 EBP=00000004
ECX=00000000 DS=0197 ESI=00d384a0 FS=35a7
EDX=0082f680 ES=0197 EDI=00000000 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
d9 41 10 d8 48 04 d9 41 20 d8 48 08 de c1 d9 00
Stack dump:
0043f3a3 0082f6a4 0082f680 00cf4660 00d2a1b0 00000000 00cdfa60 00d37b40 00d384a0 00d38210 00d384a0 fffffd70 00000028 004409a5 00000000 00d03050

I use anim8or version 0.95.
I used windows 98 SE op system.
256 MB RAM.
1.7 GH processor.