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[lloonnee2]

The title pretty much says it all
I've been using Anim8or for roughly two weeks, learnt some of the basic features. However I still have some questions regarding the figure section and scene.

Questions

1. Making a steel rod (or lightsaber if it is coloured) is easy enough, but I cant make the lightsaber stick to my stickman's hand. Mainly cause his hand is made up of a few cylinders that I directly imported from the Figure section, meaning to say I did not make them myself before importing. Does the command Build>Join Solids work in this case?
Also, are there other ways to make a steel rod stick to the stickman's hand?

2. I was making eyes and noticed a weird effect. When I added eyes to my stickman, the eyes were also added to the car even though I did not do it. How can I remove it?

3. New question: Is there some way to reduce the resolution of any imported image which is used for paranorma as the background? I imported a picture of buildings, but when I used it as the background, the picture appeared blurry. 

[Tanzim]

Your questions are too vague or don't make any sense, could show some screen shots?
Though, I might be able to answer your second question, does both your car and you stickman ask for the object (with the eyes) in figure mode, that might be your problem.

[TheMasonX]

Yeah, I'd have to agree with Tanzim, and by the way, this belongs in the General Forum.

[mak]

try adding the lite saber to your stickmans hand in figure mode. dont join solids in this case.

[lloonnee2]

Sorry about my questions, what I meant for question No. 2 is

(In the Figure mode...)
I add eyes to my stickman, and when I change my view to my car, the same image of the eyes also appear around the car. I cant select the eyes and delete them because they are somehow in the same selected box as the car. This effect also appears in the Scene mode, so there is 2 small balls rolling beneath or sometimes to the side of my car.

As for my first question, are there other ways t make a cylinder "stick" to the person's hand as if the person is holding the cylinder? Thanks for mak's response.

Also, sorry about posting in the wrong section =x

[Tanzim]

Did you add eyes to the stickman in object mode (same object as stickman) or in figure mode?
Is the car in a different figure/object?

[lloonnee2]

I added the eyes (built in object mode) to the stickman in figure mode. And yes, the car is a totally different figure.

[Tanzim]

I'm out of idea's, but have you tried rebuilding both figures to see if the problems happen again?
As for you other question (3), no, either get a higher resolution picture or make a 1-sided (preferably 4 edged) mesh (in object mode), and add a material to it which has the picture in the diffuse channel.

[lloonnee2]

Thanks for your replys