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- By Fuchur,
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Hello- I was revisiting the Lite Face Rigging and I wondered if anyone has ever posted a tutorial video showing the best approach? The pdf file (which has a tutorial printed out) is very nice but I personally seem to have the information to sink in quicker when I see someone actually SHOW things in real time.... many thanks for any links of video face rigging tutorials. Tom
Last reply by Simon Edmondson, -
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I installed 32 bit AM but now I am getting the activation screen again with AM 64. I was able to activate but I don't remember this happening last time with v16.
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I want to do a small scene where snow falls and lands on the objects in the scene. How would you go about this?
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This is just a ultra simple look at what the Repeat and Seamless settings do for images in A:M. Note that the default setting for images is to Repeat only once so the Seamless setting doesn't do much with that. Once there are two more more images repeating however then the Seamless setting will flip the images so that the textures/images match up for seamless tiling. In this way you could use A:M to perfect seamless textures but of course there are other paint programs out there that are designed specifically to do that. http://www.screencast.com/t/Ol1FdmJ3ym
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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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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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Hey Animation Master. As owner of versions V8.0 & V11.1 I thought to buy the newest version of the AnimationMaster. So I linked to the webstore and filled in the chart formula and waited for a few weeks. Now I'm here with V16.0 and I'm glad all over. How come your version V17.0 is out since 4 august 2012 and I bought the latest pack 24 august? sincerely yours, madfox.
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http://store.makerbot.com/replicator2.html Check out this new 3d printer--$2000 :yay:
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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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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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I finally decided to take the plunge. After skipping Lion all together, I figured I'd better catch up with the OS before I get completely left behind. I went out and bought a new HD and spent all of yesterday backing up my old HD in case this doesn't go well. After a lengthy download, I've installed Mountain Lion and went straight away to see if it had any adverse affects on A:M. By coincidence, this is the day that my subscription expired, but I'd known it was coming and had bought my upgrade last week. After pulling out the files so that I could get A:M to prompt me to activate it, I entered the activation code and started up v16b. Everything seemed fine …
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hi, i couldnt find the SDK category anymore, so i post it here. can somebody from hash give me a file description of the baked particle files (*.par, *.pai)? i assume that *.par is storing the particle positions per frame and *.pai the particle index number, right? but this files are binary and i want to know how they are written. and is there the possibility to acess particle data via the sdk? my goal is to import other particle simulations from other applications (like realflow, xsi ICE, etc.) another thing is, that the user can not define where those baked particle files are stored. they alway be stored in the application install location in the libra…
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I appreciate that it is possible to control a light in a chor using the properties in the PWS and thats the way I've done it before. I wondered if it was possible to control those same properties, such as intensity, cone angle, fall of and so on, using pose sliders ? I tried in the actions section but it was not possible to select the lights, or the camera to try to make the poses. Its not a problem, I just thought it might animating them easier in the chor? regards simon
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Is anyone else missing the little icons from the right hand side of the PWS in the new v17? As you can see the relevant boxes have been tick as always but I'm still getting non of the relevant icons.
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Just wondering if anyone can say if a 64bit version of A:M is likely in the future for us Mac people?
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I don't know if this is new or not, but I just found out that bitmap plus materials work with imported props! AND so does the matcap shader. I did not try other shaders - but I'm guessing they work as well.
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I have this model and when I render with SSS on, the rubber grip loses the bump map and the pen in front turns black. With SSS off is how it should look. Not sure what I am doing wrong. Anyone? Message_Pens.zip
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I was testing ao using a prop next to an AM model to see if the prop gets included in the ao render or if it is ignored and just rendered normally. When I deleted all the lights and kicked up the ambient light to 80 being the only light in the scene AM crashes. Not sure if it's a bug or just me. Would be nice to be able to render imported objects with a little ao. ao_prop_test.zip
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Hi! So here are the Bugs I was talking about. Sorry for blackening certain parts out in the screenshots for copyright reasons. Bug A: A model imported from V.16c: Renders well, but after changing reflectivity value on a certain group, it suddenly renders oddly (looks like accidental double extrusion, but isn't). Bug B: Figured out that it's an refresh/update issue - while rendering well locally, things mess up rendering via netrender (cps/splines magnitudes are messed up). Bug C: When trying to do Step-renders locally (due to the above mentioned netrender-issues) on multiple threads, renders randomly freeze (they render until infinity, no progres…
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Have we figured out a way to submit and approve additions to the AMA entries?
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If we have a:m subscription v16b can we update to v17 subscription ?
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is it possible to say wat are the improvement of the uv editor? And how to use it?
Last reply by Fuchur, -
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I've tentatively revised some stock A:M characters that are used in early tuts for these reasons If you have some time could you download and install the "updated.zip" data set (found at AMReport 6203)and give those characters a test on basic things like posing the bones, using the sliders, doing a Paste-Mirror, and see if they perform as expected? Also see if they are showing up in the Library as expected. I know next to nothing about the workings of the Library. If they are good to go they'll replace the flawed ones that are in the basic A:M installer now.
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Hi, can models be saved in .fbx format?
Last reply by Fuchur, -
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Here's a mostly undocumented feature in v17 that will be primarily of use to folks that login to the A:M Community. It can be useful for schools and small studios who want to deliver custom content and information into the A:M Community tabs. The Support tab in the A:M Community can be replaced simply by dropping an html file named 'Support.html' into the root folder where A:M was installed. For instance, if A:M installed to C:\Program Files\Hash Inc\v17 any html file named 'Support.html' found there will show up in the Support tab instead of the default support page. Fuchur designed a beautiful page to illustrate the possibilities with customizating the supp…
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What key re-attaches cp's in the uv editor?
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Hats off to Steffen and Gerald (and to all that helped) for this feature! I'm not much of a modeler and I'm not a big fan of using props, but this is fantastic. This is the first time trying this and this is what I have after a couple of hours. The spline layout may not be the best, but it's a start. Still needs work, but I'm pretty happy with the results.
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Not sure if others have this but when I make a material transparent, it doesn't display transparent. Might be my quadro card, not sure. Basically I have to keep hiding the underlying mesh that I am doing a retopo to see where my patches are. Any tips?
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I was taking a project back and forth between v16 and v17 and noticed that I couldn't see sprites in an on-screen progressive in v16 but I can see them in v17. They show up in shaded mode in both but v16 didn't show them in progressive render. Did that really not work in v16?
Last reply by Fuchur, -
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I get a crash everytime - with fakeaoCPU with ver17 32bit (most recent release), even with a simple chor (1 sphere) Anyone else getting it to work? Is it just me? EDIT: I've added a test project (created in 16b) that crashes in 17. I tried creating project from scratch in 17 - still crashes. fakeao16b.prj
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Hi Elm, As far as I understand it (please correct my if I am wrong Jason) there are two version available: - A:M Subscription for 1 year ($79.99) - Never expiring version ($299.00) Both are download-products today. (only manual + ExtraDVD can be selected to be shipped with the never expiring version). Both are software-dongled to one computer per license. > Infos on hash.com: A:M Versions See you *Fuchur* It isn't a dongle. Don't misled. The hash.com software details page should also be corrected. "A software protection dongle is a small piece of hardware that plugs into an electrical connector on a computer and serves as an …
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Trying to remember how we used to take a specific frame of animation on a character and export it as a model... completely posed as it was on that frame. Anyone remember?
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...Still don't know if there's ONLY the subscription version out there, or if there's also non expiring version by now...
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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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Trying to help a coworker struggling with getting transparency in 3DS. He saved out a model as an .obj, I brought it into v.16 and when I dropped it into a chor, I had live surface settings to mess with. this is pretty huge, don't know if this has been in there for awhile but it's great. Oddly, they're available only on the chor shortcut, not on the model itself.
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I don't know if I'm the only one to experience this but, I got a new Macbook Pro. After following the instructions to get the information off the computer so I could get a new .lic file for my new computer I sent it to support. When I got the subsequent file back (BTW: hope things went well at Comic Con) I downloaded it through G-Mail and dropped it into my AM folder. Having done this before I new it should have worked. So here is what I found out - Safari apparently analyzed the file and added a .txt extension to the file. Once I removed that and made it a .lic again everything worked.
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Is there a way of skipping decals when importing props? Some models seem to take forever to import and AM seems to lag along. If I am going to retopo the model then I don't think waiting for this feature is worth it.
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In V17 you may notice some very slight changes in the default Choreography that is created if you do New>Chor - The old "Rim" light is now named "Spot". This light, shining from the front, is in the wrong place to be a true "rim" light in proper photography/lighting terminology. "Spot" will be a correct name for its function and placement in this chor. -"Spot" light's color is now white instead of orange because orange was ugly. -"Ground" is now a 5x5 grid instead of one patch. This puts some visible spline lines in shaded wireframe view, to better show the perspective of the ground plane. This also renders the placement of kleig lighting slightly better…
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Congratulations on getting V17 out! Any chance of getting a summary of what's new in V17? -Vance
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Someone, maybe John Bigboote? recently posted an animation he had done with a waving flag, and as I recall, posted the .prj that could be reused with a new flag decal. Does that ring a bell? I poked around but couldn't find it.
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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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Following last weeks adventures with water, I'm trying to do a little short using the 2008 rig. There are so many controls in the rig that I'm finding it a bit confusing so, two general questions really. Is there a guide available to what the controls do and how to use them ? and Would it make sense to incorporate those controls into a pose slider . So that, for example, the right index finger curl was done with a pose slider rather than using the two null's ? As a supplementary question to that last one, if the poses were set up on the rig, could they then be exported to another model using the same rig ? Has anyone else addressed this diff…
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While pursuing an AMReport Steffen found a way to optimize the Sub-Surface Scattering code. My first simple test gives promising results: that's almost 60% more frames per minute. This change is in v17 beta 5 available now!
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Please Vote at http://www.hash.com/vote Thank you for all of the amazing entries! Now back to sun, girls and bbq's!
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Hi Everyone, I felt that if I was going to continue posting on here that I should set up an account of my own as it didn't feel right using my dads. I will make one more post from my fathers account (Below my comment from this account on the following thread: http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=41737) just to verify that I am who I say I am on this account. Thank you all, Regards Josh
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It use to be that if you dragged a cp onto a spline in a space with no cp.......and then right clicked.....it would make a hook. However, I'm noticing now that in V 17, it makes a cp point on the spline instead. How or what is the process to force a hook instead? Thanks so much William
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I am not understanding how to use the snap to surface feature? This is my first time trying it. Can someone walk me thru the steps to get started, please. I have made a SIMPLE obj in A:M (model exported as obj) I imported that obj 1) as a prop, and 2) imported that obj into a blank model. I have tried to use the snap to surface feature both in model window, as well as in chor (with prop) If I try to do it in the chor, and use the Add cp's - I get a path object If I try to create CP's in model that has prop imported in it (used plugin - import, obj) - I can't seem to control how the cps snap to surface. No comprendo. Que pasa?
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Hey everyone. I'm considering trying to transfer a very dense figure model into A:M. I was hoping that the re-topo tool would help out, but I was not able to find much on what others had been able to get out of it. Has anyone been successful in "retopo'ing" a high dense mesh, human figure in A:M?? William
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Hi I am using a v13 cd with a v15j update. I believe the Cd has the old v11 porcelain mat file. Can anyone upload the v15 please. Thanks.
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I'm imported a OBJ as prop... the AO seems not work with it .. can anyone confirm it?
Last reply by Jason Simonds,