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- By Fuchur,
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I think it's time for me to get into the new version mode (still using v.11 or something). I wish you guys still supported the Hasp dongles, they were great. I have some questions before paying which aren't obvious on the store site. If I get the subscription version ($79), will it expire one year from the date of purchase/activation? At that point will it cease to work on my computer until I pay for a new subscription? If my computer crashes is it a simple process to regain access to my purchased version via re-install/online re-register (same day, even on weekends)? I'm more used to the old model of buying the CD and using it until I absolutely have to h…
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OK, another problem - how do I display the Pose Slider Window? I've checked the option in the View menu but nothing appears. Is it possible I have dragged it off somewhere? How do I get back to a default view? 18f - OSX Cheers
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I presume you are the key creative behind the GIFs that headine the forum. I enjoy seeing them and look forward to new ones!
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So v17b, is there a problem with the EXR.iio plugin? I get a warning on launching A:M that it won't load. If, as I have, I swap the plugin for the one from v17a it launches perfectly.
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For a while, it was going to be Planes, Trains, Automobiles... and Flying Saucers! FlyingSaucers1000.mp4 Someone asked me if the Image Contest winners had been announced yet. No! I am tediously slow at getting the announcement video done. Hopefully real soon now...
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I am not sure, but do we know that troll there at 0:13 (and several other shots in there)? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfvDsYCCww4 See you *Fuchur*
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Open the attached project in v19.5a. It has two versions of the same model. On the left in head_jungle_queen_v19pt5a_no_avg_normals.mdl, you can not change the normal weight of averaged normals because there is no "Average Normals" YES/NO switch in v19.5a. You can try changing the value of "Normal Weight" but it has no effect. On the right in head_jungle_queen_with_avg_normals_from v19p.mdl you can change the normal weight of averaged normals because this model was opened first in v19p and the "Average Normals" switch was set to YES. v19pt5a_no_avg_normals_embed.prj
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Can someone answer some questions about A:M versions? 1. Which is the last version that employed a standalone CD that could be used as a key with any computer (i.e. portable)? 2. Which is the first version that uses the new XML file formats? 3. Which versions can convert the old file formats to the new XML file formats (i.e. read the old, write the new)? Thanks, -SB
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I'm trying to submit a bug report to Hash Reports but the max. attached file limit is 26,214k. I'm making v17e choke during a single frame render with a combination of models, materials and decals that generates a zip file just under 115,000k. I can't reduce the data set because then A:M doesn't hang. Any alternatives for uploading this much data?
Last reply by Fuchur, -
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I can't say how long these options have been around but I noticed that Netrender has two checkboxes. Enable OpenMP for slaves Enable GPU processing for slaves Currently my CPU has four physical cores so I typically run three of them in Netrender and leave the fourth to run A:M. What would enabling OpenMP bring to the party? Windows 11's Trusted Platform Module spec. is giving me an excuse to replace my 11 year old hardware. What GPU specs. should I shop for to take advantage of GPU processing? Thanks.
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Hello Hashers- I had an idea of leaves being emitted as sprites and I wanted those leaves to swirl in a curlicue past the camera. I created a curlicue model as a guide for the sprites to follow and made it 80% transparent so I could see if it was working, and if it did work, I would make the guide 100% transparent for the final render. I made the sprites react to collisions and thought I set everything properly. I even had an animated force fanning the sprites inside the tunnel. The force moved one leaf but the others stayed behind. Unfortunately all the leaves glommed up at the beginning of the "wind tunnel guide" as you can see from the video. I won…
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I was curious about how A:M shifted the camera for the Multipass DOF effect. This is the image of a very bright, very tiny dot far behind the DOF range of the camera with various pass number settings. I would think that cluster near the center of the higher pass versions would not be ideal. The low number passes seem to be the same every time, but the higher ones change a bit with every restart of A:M
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Hoe can i duplicate an object as tiles of a roof, I tested swarm, but that does not function well. I would like to make a very detailed roof with tiles but it is necessary to reproduce hundreds from one of them.
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Today I find myself in a real mess. I renewed my subscription because my old has one day left. And I get this error everytime I try to render my project in any file format. Now even my previous versions are giving the same error message. So I'm treading water here with no rendering capability. Please tell me that the rendering ability in A:M is not screwed up now.
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double post please delete
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Yippee! The paperback version of "The Spiral Slayers - Book One: Encounters" will be available on Amazon in 5 to 7 days. Versions for Nook will appear in February. Work on "TSS - Book Two: Countdown Armageddon" is well underway, estimated publication is for the Fall or 2013. Get a sample at http://www.amazon.com/The-Spiral-Slayers-E.../dp/B008STATCO/ See the Animated Book Trailer at http (created with A:M) at //www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ3Gk4Fto0o Happy New Year! Rusty
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When I bake a surface is there a place to choose its resolution ??
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Hello. Me again. Was looking through the wiki area for the Tinman movie and was a bit bummed out to find that many of the links which seem like they should link to background info about them, instead just drop me off in the forums. Is this information stored elsewhere, or has it been lost or orphaned over time? For example, Nimmie Amee's entry looks like there should be some great "making of" type material, but none of those links lead to that content. Very interesting looking character, too. Would be great to see this content. At least for me, such content is very educational, as you're seeing concepts and techniques used in a practical, real world applicatio…
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I'm building a railroad indicator lamp, essentially a red/green traffic light. I wanted to simulate the look of the optics of these lights which were designed by mounting an incandescent lamp at the focal length of a coloured glass fresnel lens (like in a lighthouse) such that its light is only visible when viewed almost on-axis as one would from a long distance. I think I've come up with a believable result using a hierarchical klieg light mounted inside the enclosure. It's aimed to shine inside the case and illuminate a small internal disc, standing-in for the lamp filament, sitting near the focal length of the lens. Viewing the indicator while it turns in front of you …
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I'm not starting it or organizing it or anything but... since there is going to be an A:M Version 19 it is quite likely there will be a V19 mascot contest sometime soon. Our A:M modelers (that would be all of you) may wish to start thinking of ideas for entries in that regard.
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Trying to finish off the Learning curve, using V18g in OSX 10.85. Made some modifications to one of the models, saved it as an iteration. Looked ok visually so tried to test it it as a render using the action window previously worked in. When I tried to do a quick render, the process seemed to stall, with the message appearing, "calculating the visible patches". That went on for some minutes and eventually aborted that render. Tried again, the render crashed the program. Opened up again, same project, same settings, same problem with calculating the visible patches. Went out to do some food shopping and leave it to get on with it. Ju…
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Hi everyone! Just re-purchased and can't find my serial keys, have clicked the right links, written 3 or 4 times, haven't heard a word in reply and for the first time in 20 years I can't get anyone on the phone (I'm told it's not in service). And I've got a job I need to do pronto. Is there a new tick or has my memory gone to hell? Didn't do anything weird and my computer's bug free. Where are you Randy and Steve? Anyone? Thanks much all! Doug
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I wonder if there is a command in A:M that lets you insert a spline ring in a model? I mean a complete spline ring above or below a given existing ring. NOT point by point, NOT an extrusion...but kind of something inbetween: select a spline ring, then select this command I am looking for, and presto: a new spline ring is inserted. I have search both forum and tech ref in vaine...but maybee it exists as an undocumented shortcut?
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[Mod Edit: this discussion from Live Answer Time is now split into its own topic] Might have a topic for today. How to stop "jiggling" cloth???? Jiggle.mp4 JiggleTest.prj
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While rummaging through an old miscellaneous folder I found a plug-in from 2005 that, if I remember correctly, simultaneously changes the crossing bias at all cp's around a circular spline. It could be a nice time saver. I tried dropping it into my HXT folder but it didn't show up as a plug-in or wizard. Is there some way to "re-compile" it for v19p? Bottleneck.hxt
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Hi there, i am using AM with an one year subscription. Am I entitled to get the v.18 and use it until my subscription ends, or do I have to get a new subscription in order to do so? Regards Heiner
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For the A:M users who come to the forum and yet somehow never press "View New Content" and don't check "Current Contests"... Summer Image Contest
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We were talking about overlapping motion in DavidDenzill's recent thread. This PRJ lets you experiment with overlapping motion and quickly see the result. HeadBanger03.prj open the PRJ open Action2 and look at it from a side view. I have keyframed the two extremes of a head-banging motion on Rabbit... up-down-up-down-up-down... play it! It's motion but it's stiff! Next, grab the keyframes for Head and Neck and slide them a couple frames later. (Hold down the SHIFT key and drag a bounding box around the keyframes you want to move.) play it! Suddenly, what was stiff is now flexible! Try three frames... four... five.…
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Simple question. Is the Community Tab in A:M still used? I've created a login for it, but it never works. Says I login doesn't exist, even though I just created it. So, I was wondering if it's still in use? Is that still supported? And is it separate from the forum community? And on that note, is there a Discord community, or anything like that?
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I think I've found an anomaly in the way cookie cut maps with alpha channels (which is the only way I use them) render specular highlights. My test map is shown below, an out of focus ellipse. I applied this as a color decal to a blue, four patch plane as a TGA file with an alpha map based on luminance so it should appear as a fuzzy white oval. The blue plane had a white specular color with size and intensity equal to 33%. In the top half of the following image are screen renders (9 pass) of the plane as seen from four different viewing angles; 20 deg. off perpendicular, 15 deg., 10 deg. and 0 deg. or normal to the plane. As expected, both the fuzzy o…
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I would like to use the Vector Interpolation driver on bones in an action file. I used to be able to select it in the option menu and set it for the project be default, but now everything is defaulting to quaternion. Even an older project is defaulting to quat. I change it in the options to vector and it just keeps reverting to quaternion. I don't want the rotate.w channel for this project, just xyz absolute values. How do I fix this? Thanks all, Charles
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Hi guys and gals... some of you may know it already but now it is placed officially on the hash.com-website: Since 1998 there was no demo-/trial-version of Animation:Master available... In 2012 this has changed: Now there is a trial-version of A:M again! The "new" trial-version is a fully functional version of Animation:Master v17 (32 or 64 bit) which will run for 14 days. So if you have a friend who always wanted to test out A:M or you wanted to show A:M to somebody else before, you may want to tell him/her about this exciting news . For more informations on how to get a trial-version, please read the instructions on this page: A:M Trial Reques…
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Hi there, i know, there is a obj exporter included in AM. But i think, that when i recall it right the obj-exporter by A. Walasek archived better results. Its a long time ago, and i may recall that not right. However, does anybody know how to get the old Walasek exporter to work? Is it a 64bit problem again? Regards Heiner
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When in hair/grooming mode a button named "FK Mode" appears. What does this mode do? No ref in tech ref...
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Hi, I see v18 has come out and there is a "Sticky Mode option" listed but no details to what this is. So what is this?
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Reference: [bug]6102[/bug] I'm wanting to explore a few of the reports filed away in A:M Reports in order to better understand what the user was/is looking for and so that in v18 they will be more likely to see what they are looking for. Obviously my exploration will stop short of any coding or programming... but in the exploration who knows what might be found! Report 6102 looks like one worth exploring because it is likely the reporter hasn't yet fully explored the Snap to Feature tools in light of other tools currently available in A:M. General Data: 6102 DJBREIT moderate beta0 Modeling 3/26/2012 Windows 7 64-bit Sevice Pack 1 i7 960 3.20…
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This is my last casino xmas card because I am going to retire in a couple of days. Partly drawn and partly maded in A.M.. I hope to be able to spend more time to A.M. and drawing in general in the near future. I wish you all a fantastic and healthy 2015 ! Marc.
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is the support@hash.com still the correct place to correct activation issues. Normally they response quickly. I replaced my main hard drive with a SSD. Now i get an error (-4) or the key has already been used (when I try to reenter my key)
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A friend has offered me his Macbook Pro when he upgrades in a few weeks time, it has Windows 7 on as a dual boot option. The first question is, if I buy a Licence to run V18 on the Mac , do I have to get another one to run it under W7 on the same machine ? I am keen to try the 64bit option to speed up the rendering and, it might provide the option of using the setup machine as well . In a related question. My brother installed W7 on my Mini using an open source program called " Virtual Box", haven't had a chance to try it yet but, I have my earlier versions of AM on CD. Would it be legitimate to use those under virtual box , again to try the 64bit version wh…
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I have three models overlapping and I want to select only the CPs of one of them so I can scale it. So basically, how do I select all the CPs in a particular object? I know noob question, and I've searched the forum but it only gives me threads with hitting Cntrol+A to select all the CPs in the scene. Thanks
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I think I saw that the simcloth feature was introduced with A:M V12. I have the 11.1i upgrade to AM:2004 (Orangutan). Since this seems to make it technically AM2005, I am wondering if there is a simcloth plugin that would be compatible with my version. Simcloth seems like it would be a very useful feature for my current goal of using my old A:M for concentrating on efficient 2-D animation, emphasizing storytelling rather than virtuoso animation technique. I'd also be interested in hearing ideas and experience from anyone focusing on 2-D animation with A:M. Regards, -SB
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I've very lax in loading the latest versions and have been using 19.0e since it came out. I just installed 19.0j and upon starting AM got the error message: "Unable to load plugin" (followed by a sequential list of all the .atx and .trb files I bought from EnhanceAM) "The specified procedure could not be found". I made sure this version was looking in the correct folder. I loaded v19.0i and got the same result. I don't have ver.g or ver.h but ver.f had no problem loading them. Do I need to supply a sample EAM .atx and .trb file to determine what broke?
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Hello Hashers- Was interested in playing around with the Treez plugin using V15 but can't locate the plugin. Does anyone have a link? Thank you, Tom
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Hello everybody, I wish you a Merry Christmas, Hanuka or whatever you may celebrate at this time of the year :). Best wishes, keep on splining and all the best to your families too *Fuchur*
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Trying to get film grain to render and I don't see any difference, I can't see any difference with any of the post effects under 17 64bit.
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Having a strange problem I've not encountered before. running V15 on OSX 10.68 Built a simple set for the current short, all straight lines. They were all scaled in the respective axis to make sure they were straight and level, then peaked. Model was saved. When I open the model in the next session the splines have reverted to non peaked. Redid that and re saved. This happened several times yesterday. Today the problem recurred, so it was reset again. This is what it looks like in the model window. But, when I go to the chor The model looks like this Has anyone else had this trouble and, if so, how can you fix it ? regards …
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Hi all im back again, this time to stay.lolllll i was longhauling all over north america (truck driver) and now have a home and a place to relax.i have aquired an illness which forces me to be home and so i bought the full cd version of am. ok my question is, is that it just arrived today but am reluctant to install it. the reason is because at home i have a state of the art computer that i bought specificly for animation master and adobe after effects and such. now i have to go back into the hospital for several months and i want to install am on my laptop while im in the hospital, but when i come out i want it on my main computer, can this be done or no. any help in …
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Hi There, I created a relationship with some constraints. Opening up that container just a moment later leaves me with plenty of questionmarks on the containers and i dont know what these questionmarks are all about? What is wrong here? Then a suggestion: I find the AM Project Workspace very useful and totaly cool, however, what I would like to suggest is two things: First I would love to see the rows beeing colored in alternate colors. Something like bright grey line 1, a little darker grey line 2, bright grey again line 1 etc. The second thing, I would love if the different sections in the workspace could be seperated better. At the moment it i…
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Hello- I just purchased a web licenses for V. 17.a. I started a project and rendered a scene that was 130 frames long as an avi. When I loaded the avi into After Effects to do some tweaking... the length of the avi turned out to be only 64 frames long (?) I tried rendering a QuickTime movie but it also only rendered about half of what I had told the Render engine to do. I am a long time user of AM but can't figure out if I'm missing something simple. Any suggestions are welcome! Thanks! Tom
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I downloaded the technical reference help for the mac today and placed in in the the program folder as instructed. Please excuse the question but, how do I now access it from within the program. When I used to work on PC's there was a keyboard shortcut ( F12 ? ) that brought up the help option.Its been a few years since then. Is there a similar option on the Mac and, if so, what is it ? regards simon
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