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Ken reports some new success in bronzing pewter, which has turned out to be trickier than anticipated...

If you could make the text rhyme, that would be cuteness overload. How about some arrangement of the text like this that leads the eye through the story....

That is lovely, Nancy, and it doesn't look CG! Knock 'em dead next time!

In the PWS, you can drag an image from the Images folder onto a light in the Chor (preferably a Kleig light). The light area is a circle so any rectangular image will be squeezed to a square and the corners rounded off. If you need to show a complete rectangular image, make it fit within the circular boundary that fits within the larger square.

Tell me more about that. You pretty much have to create new materials from scratch, right?

Very clever, Nancy!

Now that I think about it some more, I don't think this will work. A:M will still ask for the images that are in the images folder but not used elsewhere.

There is no clean-up command for that. Possible... move all the images to a different folder, then load the PRJ. As it asks you to find the ones you really need, you can move those back into the original folder and all the ones it doesn't need will be be left behind.

If you can identify what is missing from the A:M export that CD4 adds perhaps that could become some sort of a feature request.

Update on involuntary upgrades added to first post.

Flash plugin users (that's almost everyone) on all platforms should update theirs immediately because of a new serious bug discovery that has been discovered. Adobe releases patch for major Flash vulnerability heres how to download it See post #7

Ya know... since the NFL isn't doing Roman Numerals this year for the Super Bowl maybe we could call it... A:M v. XIX ...to fill that vacuum.

I know After Effect inside and out much like I know A:M. The other alternatives one might use if my v5 After Effects went away are either too expensive (including New After Effects) or inadequate replacements for what i need to do (that includes New After Effects because it can't load my v5 AE projects.) It's a simple practical choice for me to keep Windows 7 so i can keep After Effects.

I presume he has unrolled that to apply the decal or... rolled it after applying the decal.

Does this work? clip3851RodneysSpiral.mov

That sounds like a lousy bargain.

Ca n you show us the final shape?

If there were a great advantage to Windows 10, maybe... but there's nothing it has that I really need. Or does it?

Some users finding they are given no choice by Windows update... Preventing Windows 10 Upgrades from Windows Update with GWX Control Panel My AfterEffects is not compatible with Windows 10 so I don't want the upgrade. update: MS claims the involutary upgrades were a mistake... Microsoft is sorry it forced that Windows 10 update down your throat

Here is what i see and I think this is what you mean also, Rodney? clip3848BiasTwisting.mov

They've invented MatCap

Gamma and Alpha are different planes of rotation for the bias. An Airforce veteran like yourself probably knows "pitch" and "yaw" If you were a CP airplane flying on a spline on the surface of a mesh, then changing Gamma would be like changing pitch and changing Alpha is like changing Yaw. That is ususally true, there are some times the two adjustments trade places amd I'm not sure how the plane of rotation for Gamma and Alpha are chosen on a single spline that is not on a mesh surface.

I'll note that magnitude shouldn't be an issue in the direction of the bias.

Does anyone have insight into this? Here is the outline of an X I have made. All the corners are Peaked CPs. X_outline.mdl If I use the Y key to add a CP on a spline, that should be a default CP with zero bias. If I add a CP on one of the short splines ( see A) and smOoth it with the O key it behaves as I expect, the two new spline segments are as straight as the old one. If I add a CP to one of the long legs of the X and smOoth it, it gets a twist to it (see B ) The default behaviour for a CP with zero bias is that its bias handle should be parallel to a line drawn between its two neighboring CPs but that is not happening in case B. Any ideas? I have noticed this previously on things that come out of the Font Wizard

Another one of those superior workflow powers that makes A:M so good.