Attached Link: My first MD animation

For MargyThunderstorm:

If you need a dedicated Arrangement setup for V4: load the default setup (for the MD avatar) and use "Show bounding volume".  this shows the cylinders that the arrangement points are set onto.  These cylinders can be scaled, rotated and re-positioned as you like, and then save the result with a new name, such as "V4 arrangement" for later use.  There were some pre-made in the old MD freebies archive, but with the new website, a lot of things aren't currently available.  

For William_the_Bloody:  I, too, never got into the MD animation side (being a still image artist myself), until just a few weeks ago.  It turned out to be pretty easy to figure out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HeojUUlO6c

and there are plenty of folks at the MD forum who have been working on getting MD animations into other rendering programs, so the information is out there, for anyone who is interested in that side of things.

As for the 'sewing in the 3d window' thing, that was there briefly in Version 2, but seems to have been dropped since.  Don't know why.

 

RosemaryR
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"This...this is magnificent!"
"Oh, yeah. Ooooo. Aaaaah. That's how it starts.
Then, later, there's ...running. And....screaming."