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Ohhhhhh.... you were using Lasso Line mode and I was using Lasso Draw mode! Yeah, I notice now that in v19.5 the Lasso Line mode behaves oddly, although it works correctly in v19.0. Try using the Lasso Draw mode if you are in v19.5 I'll make a bug report.

See attached. All settings reset and perspective is OFF. Ok now for some reason I cannot attach a jpg, is there something funky going on with

Hi Edward... It works OK for me. Try these -make sure you're not in perspective Mode. Numeric Keypad-9 toggles that on and off. -make sure the slash or comma keys are not stuck. -make sure no additional pointing devices are active, like a trackpad or a touch screen. -try a different mouse. -Nuke the whole thing with Help>ResetSettings and restart. Any change?

Just me or did something happen to the Lasso tool? See attached .prj. On my machine no matter how I use the lasso tool it selects all sorts of seemingly random CPs - other than the ones I'm trying to select. Did I activate an unseen "moron mode" somehow? Is it just on my machine? Please see attached .prj and try it - any help appreciated. LassoTest.prj

Thank you rob! Very helpful for what I am trying to do. Apologies for not being able to join as I had something going on today, but this answers my question so thank you once again.

@Andres Trujillo Today at LAT we looked at this task...

that produces the ball of gears?

probe Master_64_BsKEoTxal5.mp4

for example, the same as everywhere else - coordinates, quantity, size

I dusted off A:M the other day just to scratch an itch to create, and 48 hours later I'm still here. Then I notice on the forum a contest happened when I wasn't looking! The entries are amzing, and congratulations to the winners. You all are amazing artists, and I am humbled be your talents.

What would the input parameters be of this device?

BTW, @Andres Trujillo, if you have time to come to Live Answer Time tomorrow we can do this Property thing.

Hi @Rodney, Sadly it still says I don’t have permission to view it.

Congratulations! I really enjoyed the creativity and originality of the entries. Robert did a great job presenting the winners. This was fun.

@Andres Trujillo Try again and see if you have access now.

The duplicate master is rarely used because it does not allow changing its parameters in realtime. AM has a good procedural core in the form of a pose creation mechanism. But it would be good to have a lower-level mechanism for procedural creation of a point, spline segment, patch, at least in the same pose paradigm.

Hmmm, I'll try to figure that out... @Rodney ?

Hi @robcat2075, it says I don't have permission to view the topic when I click on the project link you provided.

Hi Andres, Short answer, yes. Medium answer: There is a sample PRJ in this post that demonstrates making a Pose slider to control a surface color... https://forums.hash.com/topic/35590-rgb-slider-controls/ Longer answer: if you still have questions, do ask!

Yeah I think that was it.

Context: I want to create a simple on/off toggle control that switches a selected group's surface color (on being red, off being black). I'm still pretty new to animation:master so I'm still discovering new stuff each day but have spent some time on this and just wasn't sure if it's possible or not.

@Roger is this the same presentation that you saw?

What I'm asking is... what would be added? I don't use any of those other programs. There is quite a bit of parametric power in the duplicator wizard (and yet people rarely use that.) I'm also thinking that, since A:M models are all-text, a spreadsheet could be made to calculate unusual shapes when needed.

Unfortunately, AM does not have a straightforward procedural/parametric toolkit for non-destructive editing and generative reproduction of model variants and animations. But due to some well-thought-out moments, AM can also work wonders. But it is not yet possible to compare it with Rhino's Grasshopper, AutoCAD's Dynamo, Houdini, Maya's Bifrost and other parametric designers, but I will always cherish the hope that AM will also acquire parametric tools, just as it once had extensions from Peter Sorfa and Gremlinscript.