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    Moving scarves/hair

    in Help

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    Have you tried messing with the rotation points a little more? Also, the newest update allows for bending on three different axis, so you could probably find some way to have the pieces of the hair bend along its axes.

    Characters are invisible behind glass/ windows

    in Help

    Posted

    4 hours ago, Ghatos said:

    Select your world (witch should be called "piece of [the name of your world]"), and put his render depth to a higher value than 0 (put it to 5, for example)

    Here's where the render depth setting is:

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    ^ I agree, this is how you would do it. You can also change the render depth of the character, just make sure the scenery's render depth is higher than the character's. Felt like that was worth adding in.

    First time using Mine-Imator :p

    in Random/Test animations

    Posted

    That's alright! With a lot more practice you could make some great stuff. Here's some tips I'd give.

    1. There isn't much scenery. It's not required when making short tests but if you plan on making longer, story-driven animations it's a must-have.
    2. The movements are pretty choppy. When you select a keyframe there's an option to add a transition. Depending on the movement, I would test out a bunch of them to make it look more smooth. That goes for the camera too.
    3. The text on the tombstone is a little hard to read. I would make it a brighter color, like a white-ish. The green "The End" was fine though.

    Good job, and keep at it!

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    Extreme Forum Make-over

    in Forum discussion

    Posted

    Listen, I don't mean to say the forums look bad or boring (still debatable), but it's definitely outdated to say the least. It uses the default color scheme that comes with the Invision package, same default layout, everything. Not to mention the fact Invision has been putting out numerous new features and not one of them is being used.

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    Of course, none of this stuff is really necessary, some of them would just be nice I think (file sharing and gallery are already out of the question though for storage reasons). I tried out a little demo and had a bunch of users test out each of these (except e-commerce for obvious reasons). All of them were tested but the one that really stood out I think was the Clubs feature. It basically lets your users create small groups together, which would be perfect for animation teams, collab organization, etc. Plus there are a lot of options you can give or take.

    There are a whole bunch of different options that you can give in terms of clubs. You can change how exclusive individual clubs are, you can give them a mini forum category inside the club itself, you can even use it in tandem with the Calendars feature so they can schedule certain events as a group, such as the release of a certain animation or the deadline for a collab (that collab deadline thing would be a huge reason to include the Calendar feature). Plus you can make it so mods have to approve clubs after being made before they're usable (which might be appealing to this particular community).

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    That is why I think the Clubs feature would be a very useful thing to have considering the nature of the forums.

     

    And then, there's the design of the website itself. It's pretty outdated. It looks okay, but it could definitely be spruced up a bit with a modern, Modelbench-like color-scheme. The current scheme may have worked for older versions of Mine-imator, but now we have a shiny new concept for Modelbench that looks so much more colorful, elegant, and still professional. Perhaps Voxy could help out a bit and you can update the colors a little? That would be very fantastic. Apparently I'm not the only one with this opinion I've found.

    Thanks!

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