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Simon Dainty <Dave@ancient.demon.co.uk> writes:

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>     That's something I've noticed too..... Everytime I try to Transform
>the object (in either the Detail or Stage editor) it always results in a
>completely unrecognizable, 2D, mess.  And, the Transform settings requester
>tells me that my object has a 0 Y-axis whenever it comes to scaling, etc.

	Ah ha!!  I had this problem for a while too!  Quite often Pixel 3D saves
Imagine objects with a zero sized y axis.  No matter how much you scale the axis
it never seems to get and larger.  When you do anything with the object, Imagine
gets confused because it can't work with the zero sized axis - usually resulting
in a crash or a very deformed (and probably corrupted) object.

	There are two simple ways to fix the zero sized y axis.

	(1)	Create a new axis and select it.  Now (while holding shift)
		select the stuffed axis.  Now select "join" from the menus.
		(Don't use merge - it's not necessary and may cause Imagine to
		get confused).  Now all you have to do is move the new axis to
		where you want it.  Do this for each axis which is stuffed.

	(2)	Select the axis that is stuffed and select "trasform" from the
		menus.  Now click on the "transform axis only" button and make
		sure that it is on.  Now select "rotate", but rotate it 0
		degrees about each axis.  This seems to make Imagine happy.

	I hope this helps.  Just as an afterthought...  Make sure you ungroup
any objects which you play with - especially if you join or merge them.  I
haven't tried it with Imagine 3.0, but I know that joining and merging objects
which are grouped together in Imagine 3.0 can corrupt the data structures.

	Hope I was of some help and not too confusing - got to many assignments
on my mind !!

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