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From: "Carlos Pieterse" <john-doe@image.dk>
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Subject: Re: Animated 3D Objects!?
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 02:02:10 +0200
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Thanks, Joshua Meeds for the brief introduction to RSDANIM.

Any way here I am again, late night depressed that I did get any further
with my coding today. (due to some non-coding related problems!! -I really
hate this!!)

I have used alot of time today, playing around with RSDANIM, but I am still
having a real struggle with it (probably it's me doing something wrong, -I
hope!).

I am trying to make an object of a person walk (moving  leg-parts, feet,
arm-parts). I do it like this :  Load in the main object to RSDANIM, adding
a new move (i.e. walk_left) adding a key-frame, picking a part of the object
and here the trouble starts (again!). When you pick a part to move/rotate
you must select an rectangular area and as the parts on the object are
overlapping (i.e. right -foot,-lower leg, -upper leg), I can not just select
one certain part. I only need to move/rotate the one object else I'll trash
the object (strecthing some lines from the overlapping parts)!
   -However, all of a sudden I got a brilliant idea (I thought!). I just
took all the parts of my main object, and moved them away from each other so
they didn't overlap, this way I could just move and rotate them together in
the following keyframes for each move, BUT eventough the parts didn't
overlap any more (and I was capable of picking the part completely within
the rectangular area) I still got some weird lines streched for their
original position!

Can anyone help!? (Please)

To Craig Graham: "RsdAnim is great - I love it, nice one".... (If I get my
object working with your program, I'll post a message saying just that!)...
Sure I've been darn angry with your program, but I keep thinking that it's
great someone has made the effort to do such a program, for us Yarozers!
      -Though one thing is certain for such a program there MUST be  a
documentation explainning the basic way to do the stuff!!!! -'cause it is by
no means self-explainary in any ways! (hope, you'll find the time Craig!)

Btw. regarding bug reporting, one stable bug occurs if I by accident add a
keyframe (without making a new movement first) to the BaseFrame, and
furthermore  when I exit the program (having tried doing some movements), it
quits with an general ex...

Greetings and thanks in advance,

Carlos Pieterse

john_doe@image.dk