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Wow, 1.0!  Earlier ,this month, I downloaded 1269 and only had a short time to play with it and then I had to move to another project.

I come back to the forum today and, BAM, 1.0! After downloading and running it I was pleased that it wasn't a big change. It works great. I just spent a couple of hours putting it through some hoops.

Great job Steve. I cut my 3D teeth on Anim8or since 2007 and now it's my goto for initial designs. Now I need to figure out how to do IK.

Wow Steve,

I've been so busy working on my latest Anim8or project that I missed one update and now 1253! Now I need to stop and play with the new IK toys. I've been working with 1247 since it was released and only found one problem. Sometimes when the Materials Tool bar is open the colored balls would disappear. Selecting and applying still worked but the icons were just missing. Then all of a sudden they came back. I couldn't make it happen. I was editing and moving points and lines. then I would do a fill holes and select a material.

I'll keep an eye on 1253 for the same problem.
(Proud Anim8or user!)

Try clicking outside the circle and draging. Forgot that one.

Ahhh! A light went on. When you said "The pivot is the center of the object for things like rotation ans scaling", Steve, my brain lit up. Now I understand how to use Object/Axis tools. Your response to my problem with the bounding box may not have been on point, but, It brought me a clear and now great tool. I get the Object/Axis tools now. Now I need to clear up world/object/screen coordinates so I get even better. By the way I don't always use Tool Tips all the time but I noticed when I turn them on they turn off on their own sometimes. I currently using Build 1240 and am about to start using your new build this week.

I love Anim8or

(How do I reset the origin to the center again?)

Wow, thanks guys. Join Solids was the fix. I agree that having the box out of sync wasn't a real problem, it was just confusing when I zoomed in and the lines were odd and confusing. It never seemed to happen to me before. I'll add it to my personal help notes.

With all the great changes to Anim8or, it might be a good time to create an addendum to the help file. Until Steve authorizes a new edition.

Welcome back to the forum, Alpha2.

I had a similar experience. I used an older version forever (it seemed) and when I was trolling this site I was surprised by the new activity.

What Steve has been doing has given my 3D work a whole new life. daniel99 is right when he said, "I never needed another 3d tool."
 

I agree, Anim8or is an advanced 3D program.
Long ago, when I decided I wanted to learn 3D graphics, I found Anim8or version 0.7. I was excited to find a free product that had so much potential. Unfortunately I was dumbfounded because I had no basic knowledge. I struggled for weeks to understand the tool bar. I worked with the tutorials but still I was confused by which tool set to use. I was lost.

It took a lot of trying and having light bulbs flash over my head as I worked out the interface. It took me 2 years to realize how it all worked. I won the battle when I worked and played and failed over and over. Now I'm comfortable with the tools. The hardest thing to learn was moving bones and why a Sequence wasn't the same as a Scene.

I wouldn't say I'm a master user, but with all the new goodies in today's version I'm becoming a real 3D animator.

So much to learn still and what a lot of fun finding all the neat new stuff.  (I still don't get the IK tools yet.)

Wow, I started with V0.7 and had a copy of 0.4 I never could figure out.

Its fantastic to see all the earlier versions. What a noob I was back then.

I'm lov'n Rel 1219!