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The new normal mapper didn't fix the crashing.

Scene file size was 35Mb.
Converted materials to scene instancing file size 27Mb - still crash
There was 2 copies of the mech in the scene, removed the animatic version and file size 26Mb

Finally was able to apply the bump map without crashing.

April 2020 Update Improved Bump2Normal node for conversion of grayscale images to tangential normal maps. Has better math for the conversion and adds a strength control The new node and updated rsx file can be downloaded from this page: http://clintons3d.com/plugins/truespace/rendering/compositing.h...

Constraints are used to directly control the motion of one object with another object's motion. Update to the constraint scripts small update to the installer scripts for persistent installs - toolbar must be open to be reset properly extra matrix connection was being made for each controlling objec...

mechFootprints.jpg Morph based footprints and sky dome. The original lesson for footprints had 2 techniques, morphs and physics based. I tried using cloth sim but it didn't work out. The mesh has to be dense and the cloth sim was crashing with the 300,000 vertices on my walk plane. Reduced down to ...

Bug report:

"January 14, 2020

Point Edit widget 1, 2, and 3
Changed
Sphere and Triangles
RMB + Drag = Opens Point Edit preference panel"

This prevents the RMB drag on triangles to move perpendicular to the triangle.

trueBlue wrote: ↑02 Apr 2020, 17:24 Both of the XYZLocks and select Geometry buttons have the same AgentID

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{163F13B6-0BDC-43E9-8C90-CFA6B14221FA}

What does that mean? or how would I use that info?

... So are you okay with what I am purposing in the previous post? Yep, I'm ok with it. Seems like the best solution. AutokeyOnOff.jpg One more discovery for the future. I copied the Select all geometry button and modified it for the autokey script. It even updates when manually checking the checkb...

I have tried updating the AE aspect toolbar and found problems in doing so. Not sure but think tS is internally creating/recreating that toolbar. It maybe also problematic with the layouts. Bottom line is, when I tried to update that toolbar it would not stick. Yep, just discovered the problem. Oh ...

AutokeyOff.jpg AutokeyOn.jpg I think I found a hack to sort of simulate button highlighting. It changes the GrayPercent value which seems to multiply the foreground color, so 100 is full color and 0 is black. It works by using an OwnerName node with a script object to make the button "aware&qu...

... In the full version selecting the Postprocess title bar does it too! ... Ah, I see it now. It depends on where on the checkbox you press, I must have been pressing more towards the lower right so it wasn't happening for me. "Does not seem to affect regular buttons, just the On/Off buttons....