Thank you so much for helping. It really is wonderful that there are so many helpful people out there. 1. I think I found a way to do this, but I can't remember what it is. One very specific and non-intuitive combination of clicks makes it possible. 3.> - select vector layer (which must be inside a ...

The second (and first) problem is illustrated on the right with the MkII legs. The foot for these legs (they are copies of each other) worked PERFECTLY until without warning or explanation it suddenly stopped working. The foot has two bones in it, and the one linking the shin bone to the toe bone is...

http://www.lloydianaspects.co.uk/uploads/legproblem.jpg Two problems here. The first is illustrated with my mark I legs on the left. The knee joint looks fine when the leg is straight, but when the leg is bent, the knee is ridiculously thin. I've tried putting the junction between thigh and shin bo...

Many thanks for taking the trouble to reply. I'm afraid that things continue not to work. 1. I tried what you suggest, and it makes no difference at all. The shadows I see are exactly the same colour and exactly the same opacity, no matter how I set the values in the layer properties. I do wonder ab...

I've worked my way through all the tutorials. I thought they were rather good. Now I come to start animating, though, I've hit several snags. I'm pleased to report that I have a four-layer background taken from a landscape .jpg photograph (converted to .PNG with Gimp) that works with camera movement...