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- By Fuchur,
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Hello, I started a FAQ using http://www.phpmyfaq.de/ It seams to be what i was looking for. I'm open to software suggestions for FAQ's but more what i'm looking for here is categories and things you would like answered. Lets start out small install questions, Systems requirements, And getting started things. If you want to help with this and be a user that can submit info to that you can sign up here http://www.hash.com/faq/?action=register I think i get a Email when this is done and i will approve the names i know. Of you can post your FAQ's and answers you and i will add them to to faq at http://www.hash.com/faq/ Thanks Again All, Just remember t…
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On Saturdays from 12 Noon to 1PM Central Time I will be available on Google Meet and attempt to answer/solve/demonstrate any A:M question you may have. 1PM-2PM Eastern time 12 Noon to 1PM Central Daylight Saving Time 11AM-12 Noon Mountain time 10AM-11AM Pacific time 1700 Saturday Greenwich Mean Time (while US is on Daylight Saving Time) You will need your Google account and a microphone. You don't need a camera, I don't have one either but we can show each other what we are doing with screen sharing. To access the Google Meet, click on this link: https://meet.google.com/fzm-rhzy-dcr You will need to be signed into your Google acc…
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A couple of toon line experiments. This one composites renders with four different line widths and biases The next one takes a render with a thick line/very low bias like this... and then a "levels adjustment" to force out the gray.
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so yesterday i posted about the 300 dollar A:M not shipping to my country so i thought about using smthn like MyUS to ship it but i still have some questions like i know i will get a physical box with manuels and stuff but it also says it will send me the download and activation code but my question is after buying it do i immediately get the activation code and extra dvd file in an automated email?
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I feel a bit like I've just woke up in an alternate universe. This has been a thing for a few years now and I'm just now discovering it. (Probably because this is the first time I've used Powerpoint and Word in years) Here's what surely must be Euisung Lee's Running T-Rex of old school A:M fame... obviously repainted... but... ...imported into Powerpoint as an animated model that can be turned around, duplicated and scaled... ...and exported as an animated gif with transparency or an MP4 video. Trexes.mp4 What is a bit disconcerting to me is that Microsoft has shut down/deprecated its Paint 3D program which sugge…
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May you have a festive Ground Hog Day.
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I am trying to get some animations into the GODOT engine, but the direct X exporter goes to and OPEN window instead of save... Any thought? @Fuchur
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There has been many requests for a linux port but this would result into so much work from the developers. However, there is a company called Codeweaver that provides a service called Portjump and they claim they can speed up the process. Would it really help.
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Hey everybody. I want to wish you all a great pre-christmas time and have as each year a little treat for you created with A:M, which will hopefully give you a smile or two with each little clip each day till the 24th of December. I hope you have fun and wish you a nice time (don't forget to visit it each day, since there will be a new clip for you each day opened up): https://advent.targomed.de/adventskalender.php?lan=en Best regards *Fuchur*
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I was lathing a shape and thought I could easily turn it into a giraffe's head... A few hours later this dragon thingy appeared: The motion blur... a bit thick no? I thought I'd be lazy and make the eyelids be patch images that turn on/off. That was probably more work than it should have been if I would have just made actual eyelids. It kinda worked though. Had fun with a few things that won't be particularly apparent such as having the color of the horns change so that the lightest/grayest horn is always in the back (presumably aiding in giving a sense of depth). This guy technically has no mouth although he does have a jaw bone. He real…
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The MuhHair and Kajiya-Kay plugin shaders work to make Particle Hair look better by re-shaping the Diffuse and Specular response of their surfaces. Kajiya-Kay is the easier one since it has no parameters of its own, it's just ON or not. However, unlike MuhHair, that lets you fine-tune the placement of highlights on the hair, Kajiya-Kay requires you to carefully place your specular light source... as you would in real life lighting. Here is hair with no extra shader and Specular Intensity 0 in the surface properties. Same hair, but with Specular Intensity greater than 0. The renderer seems to regard the hair as one simple mass and paints the spe…
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Some weird shapes i made with the Duplicator Wizard. I had never experimented with the "Tumble" parameters before. DuplicatorShapes004.prj
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Hello all, I have installed for AM 19.5c on windows 11 and then suddenly my UI is so small now for text and picto, how to resolve this, please ? Thanks. See my attach from my screenshot :
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Hey you guys. I received this message when starting Animation Master 19.5c for the first time:
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Have been playing around with the new 19.5C build and while doing some tests using four different fur materials. this error message popped up; "Missing Image IO Plugin ..." Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks! Fur-TESTS.prj FurBEST.mat FurFenwick.mat FurMouseKing.mat Shag.mat
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This is very interesting – I thought it was just an annoying effect in 3d software, but it seems to be real live.
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I'm creating a new clothespin character in my Twisted Knickers series, and I'm having hair problrms. Her hair is parted in the center and hangs down mostly straight all the way around down passed her shoulders. Here's what I'm getting: Charity's Hair29.tif How do I get from here to there? Charity's Hair29.tif
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@fraizer writes... -I recall the chor problem (fixed in a later version I recall) but it's exceedingly rare that I ever save work as a chor. I always work with a PRJ that has everything embedded. -I'd have to see the path circumstances to guess at the path problem. -If you are on an annual subscription your license should allow you to also install/run v19.0 which still has a Mac version. Try that and see if the .pre setting are more comprehensive. We have Live Answer Time at Noon CDT tomorrow if you would like to look at this in real time.
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I want to add some information related to Netrenders Event Commands that allow us to run batch files and programs after a job completion (or frame completion). This process can allow use of other programs to post process output from Animation:Master's Netrender and help us understand how we can do the same basic process without Netrender as well. There are three basic components of this process: 1. Set up the Event Command in Netrender 2. (Optionally) structure a (textual) batch file to take arguments from Netrender and pass them on to other programs 3. Run the desired programs and processes This does assume a basic understanding of r…
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Hello Hashers- In the beginning of the sequence the volumetric beam reaches all the way to the ground plane but as the project continues (frames 30-60) the beam breaks up and doesn't reach the ground. Can anyone figure the problem? VolumetricTest.prj
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At the top of the forum is a banner of film frames highlighting interesting A:M work, which was a feature of the forum years ago but somehow got lost in a forum-software up date. Click on a frame and it will take you to the relevant post! New frames highlighting new work will will be rotated in over time. Thanks to @Rodney for creating the code that makes the banner work!
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Rob had come up with a cool way to make clouds very realistically tumble in the sky the way real clouds do. My question is, is it possible to create an animation whereby realistic looking clouds take the shape of something recognizable (like the profile of an animal.. a horse? ) and then tumble back into a wispy shape.... I myself am unaware how the clouds would be able to take the necessary shape but maybe someone else does? Tom
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I let 50,000 pass without a ruckus but for the occasion of 60,000 views I'll ruckus... has passed 60,000 views! It's probably the only thing I'll ever do that will get 60,000 views. <_>
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Hey You Guys, I need to export a short obj sequence. There was a way in the past, but I seem to have forgotten how. I exported each frame as an obj, but every obj has the same mesh shape. There are no differences. So I need to figure out how to export a short animation with each frame as a seperate obj. Anyone know how this is done? Thanks, Detbear
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Here is another modern render of one of my old Animation Showdown animations. I added a school gymnasium set and rendered with radiosity. A birdseye view of the chor looks like this. The set is a completely enclosed box with two kleig lights in the ceiling... A conventional render with those two lights gets this... That is very severe. If I were going to use conventional lighting I would need add a number of fill lights in strategic places. Here is a radiosity render. The shadow areas are no longer pitch black and there is visible detail even where the lights do not directly shine. Overall, …
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Strange blotches appear on occasional random frames of an SSAO render... If I render the same frame number plus 0.01 the mark will not appear...
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Just enter a thickness the book says. Did that and nothing shows up on the thickness timeline as in the book. Trying to get the hair emitter to taper the thickness over the length of the hair to a point. What am I doing wrong (again)???? Also I must admit that I still don't know HOW to ask a question-start a topic? Could use some advice on that also. Any help appreciated.
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I put a bump map on this model to simulate some wrinkles on the top, but although both top patches have their normals facing out, one patch shows the inverse bump result of the other... Just to try it, I did RMB>Renumber CPs... That fixed it! Don't know why, don't know how, but that did fix it.
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Look at this fabulously flexible result of rigging a face with the Transfer_AW plugin. Steve @Shelton modeled this great character (right) and then we pulled out a lo-res version (left) with just enough splines to cover the essential landmarks of the face. We rigged and CP-weighted that with some minimal bones for the jaw and lip corners and then used Transfer_AW to interpolate that lo-res rig to the hi-res mesh. It would need some further fine-tuning but this is a huge time saver for rigging a face. TAW Hans.mp4
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A forum member has posed this problem... LightSource.prj That is the correct behavior. Only ray-traced lights can accurately account for the shadowing created by boolean cutters. So, with the box as a boolean cutter, the sphere is completely "cut" and casts no shadow from the ray-traced light. The z-buffered light can not handle that complex situation, so even though the box cuts the sphere from the camera's view, the z-buffered light still sees it and a shadow is cast. Interesting way to get a shadow-only pass! I shall remember that!
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Hello dear hashers! Offer. I propose to make it possible to assign hotkeys for all installed plugins, addons, extensions and wizards. In particular, I really want to have a quick call + and quick repeat smooth plugin. Many thanks to Mr. Hash, Mr. Yoda and all the developers and fans of Hash for the invaluable gift they give to humanity! Love you all! Peace, health and prosperity to everyone! Let us live on a planet without states and nationalities as one family, one brotherhood, one humanity! Всем мира, счастья и творческих успехов!
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Pencil Guy.mdl
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Festive New Year Greetings to all the Animation:Master users! Update: The cloth simulation I didn't quite get working on New Year's Eve...
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Hey guys, I wish you all the best and a great celebration time Best regards *Fuchur*
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Hey all. I have a design that needs to be printed onto paper. It is a pop up book. But I have never actually printed a template out from A:M. I have an idea as to how to approach it. But I didn't want to waste any time on a method that doesn't get the desired results. Main thing is that I need to print the same physical dimensions as exists on the model template. So if something on the model is say.....3.5 inches on the model, it needs to be 3.5 inches on the physical paper print out. Has anyone tackled a template printout from A:M??
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Anonymous asks... You can set exact angle in the bone's properties. Combinations of X Y and Z can be confusing. It is best to work from bones that start from straight vertical or horizontal orientations.
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It used to be possible to click on the View Setting at the lower right corner of the interface and get this dialog... But now it doesn't work. And it doesn't work in previous versions of A:M either, although it did in the past. Does this happen for anyone else?
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Hi everybody... it is that time of the year again. Here is another calendar created with A:M. Everyday a new door with a funny, cute or just well done advertisment clip will be there for you to open :). https://advent.targomed.de I hope you have fun :). Best regards and I wish you the best pre xmas time *Fuchur*
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Load SpriteAndCookieTest001.prj SpriteTest.zip How do the sprites appear in the real-time shaded view? Are they arrows or squares? How does the patch on the right appear? Arrow? Blank? Red square? Does switching Tools>Options>Global>Real-time Driver change anything? SpriteTest.zip
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Hey guys, I am currently using A:M mainly for 3d print modelling of spare parts or small "helpers" and so I wanted to show a couple of them to you and what I am up to. Some images are rendered from the 3d models created in A:M for printing others are just the resulting prints. It is not character modelling or printing (most of the time) but stuff that serve a real life purpose. Most are small, some are bigger and they are not "great" innovations in general but just sometimes pretty useful. Hope you like a couple of them. If you like to see time laps of the printing, etc., have a look here: https://www.patchwork3d.de/blog-5-en These are the cor…
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Time machine option. Master_64_Ak9ODHtqzO.mp4
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William Hennes @willaim is so busy doing cool things with A:M that he never gets around to posting it here, so I'm posting it for him! "Replacement" animation is a variation of stop-mo where, instead re-posing a clay or rigged model, pre-sculpted portions are swapped out for each exposure to create movement. head_animation.mp4
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I am receiving a "Wrong Host for License" message when I attempt to open A:M on my Windows machine. I purchased the license earlier this year (2023) and after some confusion was able to register the license, but now it seems to be no longer linked to this machine. I have not installed it on another computer. Please advise.
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Long time A:M user William Hennes @willaim is so busy with A:M that he never gets around to showing the cool stuff he does with it... so I'm posting it! Oct 15, 2022 Dwarf Head modeled in A:M, 3D printed in resin. For his "dragons of winter" project.
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This PRJ in this ZIP is contrived to require you to find a missing asset, "vase.mdl" When you open this PRJ in v19.5, do you get a dialog asking you to find it or do you get a freeze? Also tell me what version of A:M you are using. Thanks! TestAssets.zip
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I thought I'd get a full color Eddie after the effect but it didn't work out... CloudEddieC000.mp4
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There was a lot of interest in the Cap Your Mo, Summer Mo-Cap Challenge! The most frequent question I got was, "Do I really have to show myself in the video?" "Why, of course!" I answered, "That's half the fun, right?" There the interest diminished quite a bit! That video rule does seem to have warded many people off. But we do have a fine and worthy winner! The First Prize of a $150 Hash Store Credit, for mo-capping, bravery, and getting the one entry in on time goes to... @Wildsided Dan Skelton! "Only Fools and Horses" A $50 Hash Store Credit, for his not-in-by-the-deadline-but-I'm-glad-he-got-it-done entry goes to... @She…
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For a very long time, one of the nice tools in A:M is being able to constrain cp motion along an axis during a rotate; see embedded project. This is a top view of two tubes whose axes are parallel to the Z axis. Open this project in v19p (or any version going back to the last century) and select the central circular 4pt. spline of the green tube. Select the Rotation tool and rotate the tool 45 deg. counterclockwise while holding down the 3 key. The spline rotates but the movement of the cp's are constrained to only move along the Z axis. Open this project in v19.5a and select the central circular 4 pt. spline of the red tube. …
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Shown are three copies of the head of the Jungle Queen. Each head uses single attribute "skin" materials. The leftmost head material has subsurface scattering turned OFF while it's turned ON in the rightmost head. The centre head has subsurf. scat. turned OFF on it's right side while it's turned ON on it's left side. These three models are arranged in a chor that uses a single "sun" style light source and the global color (256, 256, 256) for ambient occlusion. With subsurf. scat. turned off in the camera, all three heads are screen rendered as expected with just sun, just ambient or both illuminating it. When subsurf. scat. is enabled in the camera and the only illum…
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