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Hi Steve,

I've noticed that in object mode the shortcut "j " is assigned to screen coordinates as well as connect edges. The letter j doesn't work now for switching to screen coordinates. I don't know if this could be changed and if there still is a letter available? Maybe ctrl-j for connect edges?

Hello everyone,

I have a question about the use of ambient color with a texture. When I apply a white-grey-black texture to the ambient color and set the blend mode to darken, the original ambient color doesn't show in the workspace. It is if only the decal mode works. The sphere in the material browser does show the effect of the blend mode and it is also visible in a render of the image. Is this a limitation of the realtime rendering or am I doing something wrong? I've attached a screen shot with the settings.

Thanks!

Hello Steve and Johnar,

Thanks for the response! Johnar, your method indeed works for morphes on the eyes. But in my situation it involves morphs of the eyelids not the eyeballs themselves. These are very dependent on the exact location of the eyeball to stay acurate. I can indeed put all the 'objects' in one mesh. Then seperate them out via the layer system in the object editor. The asigned layer for a mesh in the object editor translate through in the figure editor. So you can isolate parts within the figure editor by switching of layers in the object editor. This way the original position of the individual meshes is kept and you still can split the mesh into different parts. However to asign a part of the mesh to a bone you'll now have to use bone influence or weightpainting. Hiding layers in the object editor doesn't prevent them for being painted on in the figure editor. So when want to asign the eyeball to the bone its very easy to also paint the eyelid or the eyesocket as well with leads to unwanted deformation.
So Steve maybe a solution would be to have an option to only paint the visible layer as set in the object editor? This way you could paint a part in isolation in the figure editor? Or have the seperate meshes that make up the object still be selectable in the figure editor and have the option to paint in isolation or asign mesh to bone in the figure editor?

This is really cool, Steve! A super addition for character animation! Thanks a lot for the update!

Hello everyone,

I'm trying to learn/understand the 'animation by expressions' way of animating as described in the anim8or manual, but i don't fully understand how this works.

I copied the example script $color=(0.8,0.1,0.1)*(fract(time)<0.2); and the script in the ASL spec on the anim8or site: $scale = 1 + sin(time*PI*4)*0.5;

Both scripts work but I have trouble understanding how. If i understand the ASL spec right variables that start with a $ are user declared variables? If so how does anim8or know that the user declared variables has to be linked to light color resp. size of an object? Or are $color and $scale pre-defined variables within anim8or? And how could one translate this to for example the diffuse color of an object. For example if you want to make a character blush and make his face red during a scene?

Thanks in advance!

Yes! Solved! I'm sorry but I probably have been messing with the configurations.

Thanks again!

Hello Steve,

I wonder if it would be a feasible idea to make the selection color a bit transparent when in wireframe mode, because the selection color blocks the view when you make use of a reference image with certain edits like for example inset faces.

greetings.

FWL