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- By Fuchur,
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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Wishing you a Happy 2022! I look forward to more A:M in the New Year with all of you!
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Can somebody help me with an explanation on how the settings for an animated layer inside a coreography works? My scene includes a model of a tv on which I have an animated layer made from 24 still frames. It is to be played in loop by say 8 fps and repeated say 10 times. Where do I set this? The settings "crop" and "range" in the "timing" dialogue are somewhat cryptic to me...is there something I have overlooked?
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Hi old frineds, This is Rusty and since the return of NetRender I'm upgrading from V14c. Can anyone pointout any new features added since 14c or links to same or links to tuts on these. I kind of remember some kind of water function being added to 15 but that's about it. Thanks for any help! Rusty PS: I'm sure most of you have seen my new book (paperback due out by end of year) and the book trailer I created in AM V14c: http://www.amazon.com/The-Spiral-Slayers-E.../dp/B008STATCO/
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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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I can't find the HASH ftp page anymore with installers for old versions. Does that still exist?
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Has Anyone in the community modeled a Toy figure of the Playmobil line of toys. Seems like Lego gets most of the spotlight. But I was going to try an animation with the Playmobil sets and didn't want to model a base figure from scratch if one already exists. Thanks.. Kevin
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More Eugene on a spline controller... EugeneTest031.prj
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Working with V18b on a Mac Mini running OSX10.85 noticing a few quirks and wondered if they were Mac related ? For example, when using quick render, either area or full screen, the screen goes blank as the render goes through,there is no progress bar at the bottom of the window, the clock timing the render is not visible, nor the text which denotes the stage at which its going through, eg"anti aliasing pass...". That is not a real problem but it would be good to see them all as I'm used to it and can check it going it going through. Of more import is that, when setting the parameters in the render menu under "render to file" the only way to exit th…
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I asked about this before and Rodney found it but now I can't find it again... there was a version of the Techref, online, that had all the features of the CHM help in previous version of A:M.... search, index, chapter outline Where is that?
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I think I have asked about this before but, couldn't find it on a forum search (?) Is it possible to use a spot light to project an image sequence, if so could someone kindly point me to an explanation of how to do it ? A fellow student on the course is seeking to test a projection idea and I was hoping to do it in AM. simon
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For those of you that like to point your phones at things and just be taken to the site immediately perhaps you might be interested in a few QR codes to get you there. If your phone doesn't have a QR code reading app... you might have to download one. This one should take you directly to the main page of the A:M Forum:
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Can you simulate cantelevers in AM with the bullet physics?
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Robert and I were discussing the EXR format and I wanted to share the project file based on Jim Talbot's Leopard Queen image. The project was demo'd at SIGGRAPH 2005 by Greg Rostami. I must assume it is called Boris becuse of the artist Boris Vallejo whose style is captured in the image. Still haven't found the video of the demo yet but perhaps it isn't far away... maybe even on one of the Hash Inc SIGGRAPH cds. Update: I may have found the composite video. It is in .swf format so am attempting to convert to MP4. The CompDemoProject file attached only includes the EXR file. Will also upload the the Project file (which should also be…
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I have a question I am familiar with making furniture in Maya but I want to know how to do it in A:M. Are there any tutorials around that I can find the answers to my question? Thanks in advance.
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I can't download my HASH software from my email.
by Guest Walter Mercado- 2 replies
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Hi, I'm Walter I purchased the HASH software, and I can't download the software from my email account which is suppose to be a digital download.
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So I learned my lesson never leave home with out a laptop. I'm sorry for the delay in getting the fix installed. But everything is fixed and running like it should. I should have been able to fix it from my phone but the last software update disabled the 'shift' key in a lot of apps I use. Which is not the best for working in a OS that is case sensitive. Once again sorry for the long outage.
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A quick one: is it possible to shift the position that a layer is rotating around? OR is it possible to assign a bone to a layer (without making any splines)? Need to swing a door (the layer) open.
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Hello all- I am using Version 18.0 d SSE4 and I am trying to "groom" some hair. I go to View/Toolbars and select "Grooming" in the check box and the icon pops up on the side of my screen.. ...however when I close the Toolbars menu, the grooming icons disappear from the margin of the screen? Has anybody else have this happen.. Thanks for any help! Tom
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I am wondering where to file a feature request, and or where would one discuss such a request if it would even be useful to the user base, and last not least who would actually have to code it all ?
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Hello, So a problem with with one of our scripts was filling a folder with so many files that our server could not list it. The problem has been fixed but failed remove commands are really loading the server at this time. Apaches(runs the webpage) seams to be running fine but the proftpd(runs the ftp site) seams to be really slow and sending commands to the server is really slow. So tonight about 10pm pst I'm going to restart the server. It needed to be restarted any ways because of updates. The restart should be short but like always sometime updates can take bit of time I will post when the server has restart and back online. If anything degrades anymore though …
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Down at the bottom of the screen forum members should start to see social media icons for various platforms. With those icons, A:M Users should be able to share the posts here in the A:M Forum with all their friends and relatives. Please let us know if you have any issues with that feature and we will investigate.
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Just started with AM 17 and I would like to take advantage of the community tab but I can't connect. Any ideas?
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Have had a couple of hitches in the past few weeks with actions in V17g under OSX, but had thought they were resulting from exporting a sequence from a chor, as an action. Trying to setup an action now for some prancing sacks and, although the keys will set in the PWS, and the scroll tool will move through them. The play option won't work and the button that lets you move along the timeline is completely absent. Is this a known problem ? regards simon V17g OSX
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Hello again, Investigating lipsync using decals and I'm wondering if I can import a sequence of mouth position images and then advance the decal sequence to the desired frame or phoneme image using a pose slider. I've gotten as far as hiting the driver icon but then...I stop. Note I'm using v11.1 (I recently upgraded ) Thanks for any ideas or confirmations.
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Hi Does anyone know a simple way to repeat 11 frames of an automated decal back and forth for 20 seconds? Please show me
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I've discovered a render glitch in v19j1 and I need to send the entire project to Mantis. Is Consolidate sufficient or do I need to Embed All as well?
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Hi there, now i am in big trouble: I "recovered" my pc, and by doing so, i killed my installed AM as well as the install files, and i have noting left at all. Basicly its the very same computer, because no hardware changes, just that recovery thing. My AM licence was good for another 9 month. Is there a way how that can be fixed again? Best regards Heiner
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Hello, Just hours before my flight to Vegas I finally got Animation Master Chat up and running in it's new home! The machine is a new install and has some updating to do but I it should not restart till 3am(at this point I'm not sure I trust that though). If it does restart it will be fast so do not worry. You guys may even get to see my drunken miss spellings if I log in to make sure it's up while in Vegas. You may ask yourself can my drunken miss spellings really be any worse then my normal miss spellings. And the answer is YES haha! Email will be a bit slow while I'm out too, But I will try to get to them the few hours before I'm partying in the morning each …
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repeating Decals?
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Hello Hashers- I am using v 19.0i on a Windows 7 machine and I have an animation cycle with 15 tga files that have alpha channels. I slapped that 15 image sequence on a flat model and am trying to get the 15 images to repeated endlessly on that flat model. When I use the "repeat" function in the decal properties menu it causes the decal to only reproduce itself as tiny versions of itself. What I was hoping for was simply a command that would cause the 15 image cycle to repeat endlessly. Does anyone know how to do this? Many thanks! Tom
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I used the Transfer_AW plugin to move the weighting of the spline-controlled lo-density tail to the higher-density Eugene model.
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I'm building a formed steel frame, a part of which is shown below, to fit inside an archway . I wanted the vertical column to intersect nicely with the curved section, so I built the curved beam first and made a copy of it as a background template. After completing the orthogonal Tee section with all the corners and five pointers, the final step was splicing the Tee section into the curve and massaging it's cp's, mags and bias values so it's shape matches that of the original curve. My question is based on the fact that when you lathe a circle in A:M, no matter how many points make up the circle, the correct mag is always calculated to get the splines to…
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Hello Everyone, I know that new videos on amfilms.hash.com do not play for some reason. I do not know the reason at this time but I will soon. But it will not be till Monday 03/04/13 till I can take more of a look at it. Since we are packing right now for ECC. I have also been slacking on working on the old films site but when I return I'm going to have another go at it. It is just one of those projects every time you try to get into it. There is either something better to do or something you can make more head way at. But I know it would be good to get it running. We were also taking about adding re-links from amfilms.hash.com to vintagefilms.hash.com to fix some ol…
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Hey Everyone, Which versions of A:M can render a shaded wireframe? V17 always gives an error message.
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I am not sure if anybody is using it here but this is pretty interesting to see: https://godotengine.org/asset-library/asset/569 Best regards *Fuchur*
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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 notice that when working on SmartSkins, in the PWS you can on a CP or Spline number and get the option to "Select Spline #" or "Select CP #". However nothing appears happen when choosing either. What should happen? However it would be immensely useful it those options did in fact highlight their counterparts in the actual SmartSkin window. This would make altering/tweaking just a few Cps in a SmartSkin much easier to do later on if one was not happy the first time round. Is this in fact what is supposed to happen? If so then I think it's broke
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I notice that when I choose EXR file to save a frame, there is no "shadow buffer" to select. Didn't EXR have this option in the past? It's been a while since I rendered this format, so I may be missing a step somewhere.
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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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Short version: Use Windows 8 compatibility settings. Longer version: Sometime after I upgraded to a Windows 10 computer a few years ago I noticed that A:M would often freeze during on-screen preview renders. Other A:M users have mentioned this to me also. I could start an on-screen render, either a regular or progressive render, and if it took more than 5 seconds to complete the time counter in the corner would freeze, the progress bar would stop moving and A:M might even gray out and become "not responding" . If I waited as long as the render would have taken to finish, A:M might return, maybe with a finished render, maybe not, but ESC-aping out of the long ren…
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I have a figure pushing a large heavy sphere. Keyed the basic poses and timing and ready to start refining it. A problem at the moment is that the hands penetrate the mesh of the sphere when the pushing position changes. Is there a way to prevent this, other than keying it every other frame to prevent it. Is there a constraint that can be used or, might editing the curves do it ? Any help gratefully received. regards simon
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Now we can search for words with 3 characters !!!!! this is a great step !!! HDR, IBL, SSS
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I'm just noticing that Quicktime render output isn't in the V16 options. And the AVI output gives an error message when I try to render out to AVI. I normally render out tga's or png's so I haven't paid this any attention until now. William
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