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- By Fuchur,
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While reading Martin's post from earlier today, Stolen Smells, I followed the link to YouTube, and then happened upon the Hash CG History channel on YouTube (very cool, if you haven't checked it out), and it reminded me of a project I had worked on in a day gone by... TBT Circa 1998 - Review and Herald New Releases 1998 conference! https://youtu.be/sHgrs2pu6Z8 I had worked on a video to announce all the books that would be released that year by the Review & Herald Publishing Association, and a live action Book Store Manager would be meeting some Interesting Characters! The T-Rex (in the linked video) was one of the interesting characters! There we…
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Take it easy... I know what you thought when you read the subject.... My question is about another kind of action, like photoshop one I would like to create a sequence of steps then reproduce them in another projects. Is this possible anyway ???
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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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When starting A:M up, the program suddenly stops loading, displaying this message: It just sits there for 20 seconds, then continue and complete loading. I am not sure if this is a new behaviour, but I think so. I then tried opening the community service tab in A:M with the purpose of changing what I thought to be a setting, so A:M would load without trying to connect to community service. I couldn't find any settings there, just the login screen. Then tried to log on, and guess what happened: yes, exactly: it halted for 20 seconds and then came with this message: I am not interested in using community service (from inside A:M anyhow) so ho…
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Is it possible to copy the key frames from one character in a chor and post them onto another using the same rig. If so what is the proceedure ? Have tried selecting all of character A's keys in the PWS and pasting on B's but it beeps to suggest not possible ? regards simon
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I'm trying to refine my workflow a little and am curious... Can we bake Patch Images into the images that result from Baking Surfaces? As far as I can tell they aren't considered part of the surface that gets baked. As they are defined by the patches themselves they'd be especially useful in defining regions for decal images created by the bake. So I'm curious to know know if they actually can or cannot be included in the bake. I'm not seeing a way to accomplish that here. As a workaround there is always the tried and true methodology of a simple screen capture and decal placement. Having patch images in the bake would skip those manual steps for p…
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Hello, So I have been working on updating AMfilms. I know it's been some time that it's been not working at all we bought a new site.. Well updated version. We are working threw that last items for the move. But you can see it here. Your password may have been lost(I know mine was). What is done. Moved videos to the new format. Updated/moved old site(the old one still works. What needs to been done. Fix uploads of video. Move thumbs to the new naming format. Delete spam users Fix image sizing. You can check it out here. https://www.hash.com/clipshare/
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This is just a placemarker and a reminder for me to investigate the TaoA:M exercise(s) that deal with Lipsync. At the core of my exploration is a desire to determine what effect having the complete dialogue as one audio file might have on the experience. The dialogue is: "I've got a secret. Can you keep a secret? Didn't think so." The problem: The dialogue length is set. There is no way (in A:M) to adjust the timing/pacing or to adjust the delivery of the performance for the character in the sequence due to the audio file's fixed length. Questions: Could separating the one audio file into three separate audio files resolve the issue? Is the…
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Hi, Please watch the video (link below) and tell me what I'm doing wrong. I need a model of a sphere rotated forward 90 degrees. At the end of the video you'll see the splines warp??? BTW at the end I hit the space bar several times refreshing so it isn't a refresh error. This the latest version 17. Thanks, Rusty
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I heard a rumor Mac Catalina has been released. Hopefully some brave soul is testing Animation:Master on it. Crossing fingers and hoping things might actually be better than worse.
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Does anyone know where A:M stores the Custom Colors from a Model's Surface Properties? Thanks!
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I've been "bit" more than once by the way the Darkness attribute works when a light cast shadows. I know why the variable is there; it's a way to fake ambient light filling in the shade. But I have a problem with the way it affects specular highlights. It still lets them through, just attenuated. The specular highlight is faking the reflection of the light source in the sphere. Even if the shadow darkness is 10%, that "reflection" still shouldn't be visible. I have no idea whether it's possible for Stefen to fix this in the code but it would be a nice improvement.
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Hi, What I'm after is a still shot of matter spiraling into a black hole. 3D streaks of...lets say dust or clouds. Lets just consider a cube (instead of the entire spiral)...if only there was a material that would fill it with 3D clouds but, to my knowledge, materials don't work that way, they apply themselves to flat patches and can have bump or perhaps even displacement for depth. Like the above, what I'll probably do is just whack out the sides and ends of the cube so I have two patches and, instead of a material (and longer render times), I'll just apply a cookie cutter image of my cloud streaks and then apply a deformation map to give them a 3D look (from t…
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Having issues in later Versions to render previews. It asks for a null, than just creates an empty AVI in the Temp folder. Rendering a larger region with multipass in the choreography fails. Also the MDD export does not work. The MDD, OBJ and LWO files all have different point counts. Hooks create 2 points instead of merging to one, and with 4-point subdivision export 5 point patches will add 5 extra unmerged points. I tried it on different computers with Windows 7, but always the same issues. If someone had the same problem and a solution, I would love to hear about it. Thanks, Rolf
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Hi, another question for you. I've been using the 2005 XP version of AM since well ..... 2005 lol. It's treated me well and I really have no complaints about it ... other then the typical slow rendering and not being able to use it on a new computer. The question is whether I should buy the newest version? I looked at the Hash website and the program looks basically the same. Are there enough upgrades and improvements to make it worth it for a casual user? I'm kind of cheap and don't want to buy it unless it's really worth it 🤔. Also, are the models I've created with my 2005 version compatible with the newest version or would I have issues? Thanks in advance…
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Hi guys, this is a demonstration of a small but (if you ask me) very powerful new feature in A:M v18k (getting beta tested at the moment): > Set camera to bird view / Set bird view to camera. Hope you like it . Thank you very much for adding it Steffen . See you *Fuchur* PS: Small little addition to the video: You need to be in a perspective bird view (!= orthogonal bird view) to have this feature. This is always the case if you use the turn tool starting in the camera view OR you can just toogle its state to be perspective by pressing "\" / hitting the button in the views toolbar. PPSS: And of course: I am talking about the Turn-Tool, not the…
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Hi A:Mler, for everybody in a german speaking country it may be interesting to know that there will be an article by Ralf Gliffe about Hash Animation:Master v18 in the Digital Production 04:2015 (the biggest german magazine about 3d-graphics and post production, http://www.digitalproduction.com). It will be about 5 pages long and will introduce quite nicely into the world of A:M. If you can't grab an issue at the kiosk, you can get it directly on their website. See you *Fuchur*
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So, I'm getting ready to move and as I pack things up, I'm coming across some old (older?) stuff.... Here is what the printed A:M Manual to v8.0 (circa 2000) looked like. And here's how thick it was...
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In addition to the Hash gift certificates for the top three entries in the Sci-Fi image contest, the top ten entrants will be receiving the a DVD of Mark Largent's all-A:M-made "The Wobbling Dead," an animated puppet parody of the AMC series "The Walking Dead." Now you have no reason not to dust off that sci-fi entry you didn't quite get finished, polish it up and jump into the fray. Contest deadline July 6 Don't be a lazy zombie! If you wake up on July 7 and find out only 9 people entered you're going to kick yourself!
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Hello, I had an idea about an animation I'd like to do which I'm trying (probably unsuccessfully, knowing me) to keep fairly simple. It involves basically one thing that I want to make sure is feasible before moving forward. If not, then I need a Plan B. I have a round hole in a flat surface. For part of the animation, I want the round hole to morph into a square hole, and then back to a round hole. Is that something that can be animated? Thanks
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Another quick question: since A:M is patch-based-- can it import polygonal models? Thanks! Bryan
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Have started trying to model a Trial motorbike for use in the current project. They all seemto have spoked wheelsrather than the alloy type used by road racersa nd production types. What might be the best way to model the spokes ? I recall someone suggesting using "render as lines" to a similar question in the past. Have tried that but, it came out as a solid disc. Deleted the rim part, leaving the splines behind, and they don't show up as lines,although that is selected under properties. Does Toon render have to be engaged for that to work or, am I missing something ? ( again ) Thanks simon
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Okay, here's a weird one. I've been messing around with getting my puppet horses set up and decided to add dynamic constraints to the tail. It shows movement in the real time preview, but then when I go to render, it renders the first pass correctly, but all the other passes render the tail in its original position and the result is the tail stays in place. Here's a quick render, showing what I'm talking about. See the ghost tail that's in a lower position? I'm not sure if this is the fault of motion blur or multi-pass. To make things even more bizarre. Doing a quick render in the model window shows no tail at all. So I rendered it again with single…
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This may sound a bit convoluted but, I've spent the last few days trying to learn how to use Flash and produced a short New Year greeting in it. Rendered that as a QT movie file and want to use that as a cookie cutter decal in AM. NY.mov This is the result. The cutting seems to take place on the first frame but then stops. It uses the background colour rather than an alpha channel. could that be the problem ? regards simon V17g OSX
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Imagination Technologies has come out with a couple of real-time raytrace graphics cards including the Caustic R2500. They are a bit expensive at the moment, but I expect they will come down over time. Is there any interest at Hash in adding support for these in the future? It would provide a great capability for previewing animations. You can read about them here: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/01/she...y-tracing-card/ -Vance
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I've found something strange about v19n progressive and final renders. When you model old railroad vehicles you use a lot of rivet heads. The most efficient way to model a rivet head is a four patch circular quadrant bent into the right shape using bias. Sometimes to get the right look for such a simple shape I add a material to the rivet group with just the Normal Weight parameters set to less than 100. v19n doesn't play well with this parameter. The attached image show examples of rivet head renders. The first two image columns show the models rendered three ways in v19m with the default normal weight and normal weight = 1. These are the renders I've been gett…
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A project waiting in the wings is gaining ground but I've ran into a minor glitch that I"d like to see resolved. Specifically, I note that when changing the SVN repository setting to another location the TWO film repository URL gets tacked on to the end of the new one. This is only inside A:M Community and SVN can be run just fine outside of A:M so there is an easy workaround but I'm wondering if there might be something (a cache?) I need to clear in order for the SVN repository location/URL to be properly set? Any guesses or insights? A guess or two from me might be that the setting is stored in the WIndows registry or... A:M is finding the URL in a dif…
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Today, December 16, is the day to be getting in your "Planes Trains Automobiles" image contest entry but if you're running late on your entry due to computer problems, holiday stress, carburetor trouble, termite attack, egg nog or any other mysterious phenomenon... send me a PM and I will gladly hold the entry bag open for you!
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Among the things we'll be looking at over the next few weeks at LAT is rigging. Steve Shelton has made this wonderful dragon and we'll try to figure out the best way to bring this non-typical, non-biped creature to life. Live Answer Time is Saturday at Noon CDT!
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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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Looking at getting a workstation and if I do I want to transfer my sub over to that from my laptop. Is that possible, huge pain? Thanks, Ken
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Hello, I feel like I have been posting about this to much lately but I'm trying to get back on top of emails today since I'm off work at a reasonable hour(only a 11 hour day). I have been working 50-60 hour weeks, I just got back from a training class in Detroit after working a 50 hour week. I keep telling myself I'm going to keep on top of email and Hash, Inc. support but I keep falling behind. Every time I think I'm going to have time something gets in my way, last weekend it was all me but the weeks before that it was my job, training, testing, studying and all of that. I hope this is the last time I have to post something like this but the way work has be…
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Yeti vs Oz
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Can anyone tell me what is the difference between the "Yeti" A:M CD and the "Oz" CD? It seems they are both V13, is that correct? Can they both be upgraded to the same version? -SB
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Have started to try and set up some hot keys to speed up the animation process. Does any body have a method they use to short cut, setting keys on bones in a chor or action ? I started going through them on the keyboard but, they all seem to be already set. Any Suggestions welcome. regards simon
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Working in V17g, under OSX 10.68 Revising last weeks brief, checking the mesh penetration glitches. It was going well, doing quick regional renders to test position, suddenly, this happened, Since then the render times have gone through the roof. For example a 9 second segment that was taking 2 seconds per frame to render, has gone out to several minutes per frame. Can any one point me to what the problem might be and, most importantly. How to fix it ? regards simon
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For some reason I can't post in the thread where Walter originally posted his question about A:M's licence not being recognised. So... Yes I got that too after installing 18g. All I did to fix it was copy/past my current licence back into A:M again from my v17g version, (or you could copy/past it from any backup you have) and then relaunched A:M. If it's relevant I'm on OSX Mountain Lion still.
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Hello everybody, many already know that little tradition of us and I did not want to forget to post it here. In Germany it is tradition to have a small christmas / advent calendar were you can open one small door every day and get for instance some sweets or a small gift every day till christmas in December. 3We (the company I work for) has one too – we show on funny, thoughtful or just nice commercial from all over the world every day in that. Another day and another door will be available :). And as always all the art work has been created with Animation:Master: 3We Adventskalender 2019 Hope you like it and let me know what you think :). Bes…
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Sorry posting this reply here as I'm unable to make a post in the v18d thread So thanks for the sample model Robert. Closer inspection shows that v18d is NOT randomly flipping normals, but it IS making things see-through?! In the screenshot here of your test model you can clearly see that the yellow pointers are all still facing outward as they should. Note, this screenshot was taken with 'Show back facing ploys' ON, so even if there were any flipped normals the model still should have looked solid. Incidentally whilst trying to get that screenshot A:M crash yet again. v17g is starting to look to me like the most stable Mac version.
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Hi, can models be saved in .fbx format?
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This is yet another one of those general topics where I'm trying to formulate the question but don't have enough to get that done. I note that in many of my renderings the initial rendering passes that A:M reports tend to render pretty quick (note that this is with and without multipass on) even on the order of seconds. The initial antialiasing pass can take about that same time. During the antialiasing second pass things slow down considerably (a render last night took seconds for each of the initial passes but over an hour for the second antialiasing pass). Now granted... there may be a lot going on there in that pass and some of it might might not specificall…
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I'm adding this topic because I'm sure to forget exploring it further... Filters are very useful for quickly finding resources in the Project Workspace (PWS). Also very useful is that we can save those Filters in the Project File. Inside the file itself (the text of the file that is) filters appear as in the following: Name=Filter for Models Model At least initially the order of the list is by order of how the resource is opened in the file so it can be handy to have some filters open as assets are added into a Project. In this way they can be more easily managed, renamed (by saving), etc. A downside of using Filter (besides the fact that they are …
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Hi, Okay...when did you people move from saving mainly the project file to mainly saving the chor file? Why did you do this? What advantages does this have? Is there really 'any' difference besides the .prj and .cho file extensions? What else is there to this? What else, if anything, are you using chor files for? FYI: I have only used saving chor files for large models that exceed what I call the workable patch limit--once you pass a certain patch count (at least in V14) response time becomes unworkable. Cheers, Rusty
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Try loading this project and do an onscreen render from the camera view. simple cyl01.prj Do you get anything other than blue sky? I just get blue sky. Other projects load and render normally, but in this one the ground and model don't render. What is different?
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http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=15282 I was trying to read up about using Compositer within AM and found some mention and links to a tutorial by Homeslice. He mentioned a tutorial by Davis Rodgers which I followed up with the link above, only to find that there were a number of missing images. Has the info been moved elsewhere ? regards simon
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Something new is happening when I try to Zoom-RMB around an area. As shown in the screen capture, each time I hit Z and then depress the the screen reverts to the previous view but does result in zooming to the selected area. My current work around is to hold down the space bar (Refresh) before RMB. This issue seems to have started after AMD upgraded my drivers for the Radeon RXT 6700 XT. buggy_zoom.mp4
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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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Hi, I screwed up thinking that the word I wanted was 'Quadology' and my proof reader said she could not verify that this word existed and suggested I use Quadrilogy instead, which I did everywhere. Now I find out that this isn't 'really' a word either and that I should have used Tetralogy. Crap! I have a lot of changes to make--almost everything!! Including the animated trailer. Since I have to do this I'm asking anyone who will take the time to watch it again and see if there is anything else I should consider. If you are willing to the trailer is at the link below. Unfortunately, my time is limited so I'll have to pick and choose. Some of the things I'm consi…
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So I have used V.18 for a long time. On my older Vista system(Never had a problem) But I switched many months ago to using my Windows 10 cpu. Suddenly this week, everytime I render, my computer cuts off randomly. This has begun to repeat over and over. I don't have time to do any R&D. Has anyone else had this issue on Windows 10? or V18?
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Good evening everyone, I am looking for a way to give the same size of a bone to another bone by the constraints or expressions. Anyone know how we do it?
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