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[Steve]

slex: I should be able to preserve the undo list through renders.  However it's much harder to do it when you change between the different editors because changes that you make in the Figure editor, for example, can invalidate the undo data for a Scene.

[Hypure]

Preserving undo data would be pretty sweet Steve.... On another note;  what if there was a keyframe button on lights that would reverse the shadows for a single frame  (or an on/off), that way on bad frames of animation I could manually keyframe these to "undo" the frames with reverse shadows?  If that is possible that would solve that issue in my book.

[Hypure]

It seems I can no longer delete/copy or paste frames on the timeline.

[Steve]

You can animate a light's color.  Set it to black to turn the light off.

What's not working for copy/pasting keys?  First select the frames and the attributes that you want to copy, copy them (Ctrl-C), select the starting frame for the paste and paste (Ctrl-V).

[slex]

slex: I should be able to preserve the undo list through renders.  However it's much harder to do it when you change between the different editors because changes that you make in the Figure editor, for example, can invalidate the undo data for a Scene.

I was thinking- could it be possible to preserve 'undo-redo' data within the saved .an8 file? That would also do the same purpose- by saving .an8 file of the current editor and starting that project again and giving it different name. Also if user activates the autosave then most of the steps would be kept if project crashes for any reason.
  regards

[Hypure]

I may not have made my point...   If I render a movie, sometimes there will be frames where the shadows reverse-in other words everything in a shadow is now light, and everything outside a shadow is now dark. (It appears to be flashing while watching in real time) ...........different topic.....Copy and paste- maybe it's a bug in my save- i'll try a different save to see if it persists

[Hypure]

ok it was a bug in my save.... sorry bout that operations in timeline are fine

[bayinghound]

slex: I should be able to preserve the undo list through renders.  However it's much harder to do it when you change between the different editors because changes that you make in the Figure editor, for example, can invalidate the undo data for a Scene.

I was thinking- could it be possible to preserve 'undo-redo' data within the saved .an8 file? That would also do the same purpose- by saving .an8 file of the current editor and starting that project again and giving it different name. Also if user activates the autosave then most of the steps would be kept if project crashes for any reason.
  regards

Sounds like version control/history to me. That would be cool.

[kreator]

This is the problem I have when using the cut(knife) tool. It would always work with 0.98 version but is erratic with the development versions.

Let's imagine a non uniform face that has a lot of points , and I want to cut them into sections. I would select the face, select the knife, hold down the shift then click on one point, which highlights, then drag to another point. This never indicates to me that it has been selected but, just adds another point over or beside the original point. This is becoming increasingly frustrating, as it does not complete the cut.

kreator: OK I see what you're saying now. I'll look into it.

Topo tool Works nicely thanks Steve. However, same cannot be said on my previous topic above. I still cannot get the knife tool to work correctly as it previously did.

[slex]

'kreator', I had that problem and I've changed 'configure UI' - now everything is checked except preview and works OK.

[kreator]

Slex:No it still does not work correctly.However the topo tool will get aroud my problem as that does work, making the knife toolkind of redundant

[neirao]

nice update!! Topo Knife Tool!! wow! thanks steve!

[slex]

Slex:No it still does not work correctly.However the topo tool will get aroud my problem as that does work, making the knife toolkind of redundant

try to erase older versions of anim8or unzipped files and try again .

[kreator]

Noticed that there is a New Procedure in Scene/properties/Enviroment for Panoramic images "Lambert Projection" what max values should be applied?

[Steve]

kreator: There are two common formats for a single image 360 degree panoramic background. The simplest uses a linear X-axis to longitude, Y-axis to latitude mapping. This is the most common and is used by the MIT Sun360 project http://people.csail.mit.edu/jxiao/SUN360/main.html (Unfortunately it looks like their web site no longer has their large library of images.) However this format is fairly inefficient since pixels near the poles represent a smaller area of the view than those near the equator.

The Lambert Cylindrical Equal Area projection, the new option in Anim8or, covers an equal area with all pixels. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambert_cylindrical_equal-area_projection.

I've attached a project with both types of projections.

For full background inages use the values -180 to 180 and -90 to 90.