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I haven't gone to Windows 11 yet so i can't speak on that but i haven't heard of anyone else on Win 11 being dramatically hindered. There will be a slight rendering slowdown in v19.5 overall. Steffen says that a library that was used in v19.0 is no longer supported by the compiler. For 3D Painter contact I've sent you Filip's email. He says he bought lifetime hosting for his website but apparently they meant someone else's lifetime!

Hey Rob, interface / real-time & general usage, when I was installing it on initial launch it took a while, registering plugins ?? then was quite sluggish and became more sluggish, I was monitoring system temps cpu / ram etc. etc. and the computer was not throttling down, even with real-time subdivision bumped all the way down it was still sluggish, mysteriously today it seems to be working quick again . . . 🫤 . . . think somethings dying on this old computer . . . time for a upgrade

Slower in what regard? Rendering? Real-time playback? The interface?

Ray Dream Designer / Studio 😂 . . I remember that ! Infini-D too

Hi all, soooo, just upgraded to Win11 from Win 10 ( had a crash and decided to upgrade ) and have installed AM 19 / 19.5 ect. have noticed some slowdown over from Win 10, has anyone encountered this who's on Win 11, granted my rig is still an old mac pro / DP Xeon 3.4g / 128 Ram /Radeon RX 580, but AM was much faster with windows 10, looking to upgrade the rig soon to a Minisforum MS 1 or Dell precision compact 3240/60 just for AM, with possibly an RTX A2000 / 4000 GPU, am working with Perry Animations on a few things for his feature moofee and the small pc's would be great for potability for onsite work. On GPU front does anyone know if AM loads most of the workload / models in GPU Memory or still in RAM ? Because if its primarily working from GPU memory then I would like to get a GPU with as much memory as I can. Is 3D painter still available ? I have been looking for this and the website is no longer active, can someone point us to where I can buy a licence and download the program. Latest build, accordion with working keys / bellow is really taxing the system ! - used robcats spring tute to get this working, works like a charm ! Thanks robcat

Thanks Robert! Guess we all have our strengths, I've never been good at making tutorials or explaining things for fear of going off on a tangent, playing with features for hours before getting back to what I was trying to explain.

More great-looking stuff, Michael! I especially like that fibre-optic fountain thing. I wish i knew as much about lighting today as you already knew in 1999!

Here is the recap of yesterday's Snake on a Pole discussion... @Tom

The one-legged jump! A new render of my animation for the fifth assignment at AnimationMentor, 20 years ago this week. The assignment was to do one long jump and at least two short ones. Now with sound effects i made myself! (animated in Animation:Master, of course)

today at Live Answer Time we made a snake slither up a pole and look to the camera SnakeCrawl006e.prj snake1500.mp4

Here it is as an avi file... snake.avi

This might be a fun challenge. A snake is going to slither up a pole in a circular manner while keeping it's head and body aligned properly. Unfortunately in the uploaded project, the only thing working is the snake ascends the pole with no proper orientations........hopefully we can figure it out on Saturday! Tom snake.mp4 SnakeCrawl.prj

We'll face the music and find answers to your A:M questions at Live Answer Time, Saturday Noon CDT, May 10 2025! Actor-Singer-Dancer Fred Astaire was born on this day in 1899.

Also some old animations created while at Streamline Media. A website header and an animation for a touch screen console. converted to animated gifs so has a bit of dithering.

Thanks Roger, Yeah maybe Radiosity is overrated, we were able to render some decent things without it back in the day.

Wow...the nasal spray, phonebook and collection of bills look very photorealistic. If I didn't know I was looking at a CGI rendering, I might have a very had time catching that they are CG.

Some more A:M product renders and graphics created while I worked at Streamline Media.

snowthing.prj

It's all 'math' to me... My question as it relates to 3D modeling is: How does this contribute to continuity of adacent (relatively) planar surfaces? There is another element of this video suggests 0-0=0. But is this more 'pulling rabbit from hat'* in considering that an x - y = z where none of the variables are (invariably) equal? How equal are they and when are they equal? *To use a phrase from the video. This underlying schemes concerns polygons. Useful for math but historically an obstacle for splines and patches. Terms to consider regarding continuity: Triagons, non intersecting diagonals Potentially useful: The Hexagon is a useful construct in that it can be divided into quadrilaterals. Going deeper down the rabbit hole: In the second video we are introduced to the idea of a null subdigon which is the equivalent of a two point line. This is also referred to as the 'roof' of the shape under consideration.

Here is a swift turn-around with a frame-by-frame slo-mo from "Mouse and Garden" (1959). I have watched this endlessly, trying to figure out what was going on.

found this excellant model and did a quick animation checkmate.prj

HEY HEY HEY ! These models are epic can I borrow Zack and Terry and also the three thief model if possible? Rigged or not is perfectly fine. Also are you going to finish the IGRIM series? -Pizza Time!

really enjoy some older ,odels

I did get my runoff election program to run and correctly process the sample data set. E:\_BI_Projects\CplusPlus_take5\Harvard\x64\Release>runOffElection a b c *candidate_count: 3 Number of voters: 9 Voter 0 Rank 1: a Voter 0 Rank 2: b Voter 0 Rank 3: c Voter 1 Rank 1: a Voter 1 Rank 2: b Voter 1 Rank 3: c Voter 2 Rank 1: b Voter 2 Rank 2: a Voter 2 Rank 3: c Voter 3 Rank 1: b Voter 3 Rank 2: a Voter 3 Rank 3: c Voter 4 Rank 1: b Voter 4 Rank 2: a Voter 4 Rank 3: c Voter 5 Rank 1: c Voter 5 Rank 2: a Voter 5 Rank 3: b Voter 6 Rank 1: c Voter 6 Rank 2: a Voter 6 Rank 3: b Voter 7 Rank 1: c Voter 7 Rank 2: b Voter 7 Rank 3: a Voter 8 Rank 1: c Voter 8 Rank 2: b Voter 8 Rank 3: a *tabulate() called! Voter 0 choice 1 of cand. 0 eliminated ? : 0 Voter 1 choice 1 of cand. 0 eliminated ? : 0 Voter 2 choice 1 of cand. 1 eliminated ? : 0 Voter 3 choice 1 of cand. 1 eliminated ? : 0 Voter 4 choice 1 of cand. 1 eliminated ? : 0 Voter 5 choice 1 of cand. 2 eliminated ? : 0 Voter 6 choice 1 of cand. 2 eliminated ? : 0 Voter 7 choice 1 of cand. 2 eliminated ? : 0 Voter 8 choice 1 of cand. 2 eliminated ? : 0 Round Result: Cand. a total votes: 2 Cand. b total votes: 3 Cand. c total votes: 4 * the minimum votes received was 2 *tabulate() called! Voter 0 choice 1 of cand. 0 eliminated ? : 1 Voter 0 choice 2 of cand. 1 eliminated ? : 0 Voter 1 choice 1 of cand. 0 eliminated ? : 1 Voter 1 choice 2 of cand. 1 eliminated ? : 0 Voter 2 choice 1 of cand. 1 eliminated ? : 0 Voter 3 choice 1 of cand. 1 eliminated ? : 0 Voter 4 choice 1 of cand. 1 eliminated ? : 0 Voter 5 choice 1 of cand. 2 eliminated ? : 0 Voter 6 choice 1 of cand. 2 eliminated ? : 0 Voter 7 choice 1 of cand. 2 eliminated ? : 0 Voter 8 choice 1 of cand. 2 eliminated ? : 0 Round Result: Cand. b total votes: 5 Cand. c total votes: 4 The Winner is: b