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#3D Modeling Software

    27-Aug-94 10:10:17
Fm: Pawel Bodytko 70733,644
To: Steve/HASH, Inc. 74431,3563
>>>First of all this has been a great thread and I'm lovin' it…. Steve, Now that we have your attention, I have one idea for the next AM and a question. (Sorry can't change the name of the tread with my WinCis). >>>>>>>(Two guys can be a *single* "actor" — it is easier for making them interact)… 1) Idea: It is a pain to make a "double-single" actor, as it is now. (Means recreating the figures from scratch in Character). What the program *really* needs is to be able to bring in whole ready figures with their atributes in Character (with all the inverse kinematics presets, of course)… This should be a simple matter, I would think… Another button with a little man as in Direction and just merging the .Fig and .Att files. You should also be able to delete a segment with all its children in one shot, not just one by one (a crossed little man button ?). 2) Question: Is there a way to do it now by edditing the .Fig and Att files in Notepad? What would happen if I had 2 figures: John.fig and Paul.fig and wanted to create a single Johnpaul.fig? What I am thinking is that I would start in Character with a new file and simply add a ghost and save it as Johnpaul.fig. Than in Notepad copy and paste the contents of both John.fig and Paul.fig into it… (Same with John.att and Paul.att). What would I have to look for? What parts of the files would I have to edit? Is it even possible? Pawel