CamStudio “saved the day” again yesterday after I’d $pent/$quandered ALL our hours (and just learned that my deadline is about five weeks SOONER than I’d thought (!!!)) struggling with an iClone that is :
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1.
Allergic to my Yacht Prop, although, tantalisingly NOT 100% fatally so (so YOU start ; but IT won’t finish – i.e. “No I Won’t Save, No You Can’t Export“).
2.
Unwilling/unable to maintain audio-synch.
3.
Very “bear of little brain”-taxing to persons who struggle with “spatial awareness”.
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The point about Point 3 is all points and pointing. In the “Real World” much pleasure can be derived from inverting Left and Right, the “reverse park” is often a necessity and taboganing an absolute hoot but there’s NO bargaining for the shifty shunting required when items are simultaneously skewed on multiple axes in iClone – seemingly by default.
I don’t understand why the standard supplied 3D Block Sphere (untextured so you can get NO natural visual grasp of it) opens with a spin on it – as do other objects. You want to move on a SINGLE plane – and the Controls before you indicate that you will *just* move Left or Right or Up OR Down – but the actual consequence is that your chosen object objects and moves in unfathomable multi-plane motions.
~ I soooooo wish you could SELECT and DRAG physically ~
I’ve tried forcing a front-facing orientation through Prop Conversions in 3DXchange 2.0 (which I’ve now bought) – and thought that that function/bug-blaster might be one of its key $elling points…. but, so far, the results haven’t lifted me from a rutt and I really DON’T HAVE THE TIME to wrestle with missy-messy guesses. Coasting’s too costly.
Hmm. Just had an ickle wonder about the Camera Perspective. Perhaps I have set an opening View that is “twisted”. I must trot off and test to see if Props appear HEAD ON in the iClone-supplied empty Project…….
10:30am
……. Hooooooooray !!!!! My Orientation Problem WAS entirely due to my having moved and keyframed the “Camera” to a non-standard angle. I’d saved MY Default “Starting Point” Project with this information “hidden” in the Camera Timeline and, as that doesn’t display unless you request to view it, I’d forgotten about it. Hence the picklesome confusilinessification.
I now need to go and be less of a “plank” in order to make one.
Apparently your blog is not particularly popular, but I can’t really tell if your website is.
I’ve been following your stuff for over a year now. I’m always endlessly amused.
At any rate, I’m sure it’s good to know that someone is appreciating what you do, even if that person lives in the States. You write better puns than Heather McHugh and Stephen Yenser put together.
Thanks for the high of a “Hi”.
(H) “I remember you (ooo-OOO-ooo)” even if, “Frank”ly, Mister (H) Ifield ‘as done forgotted.
This blog’s part-tickle-lure popularity is on a par with that of all my web ventures. Google Analytics (I’m such a sucker for spodularity) shows t’riffic traffic for a day at my main site to sometimes surpass 5 (if they were FINGERS that’d be more than a manageable handful), rapidly retreating, visitors.
Not inquisitors, they don’t stick around to click around.