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- By Fuchur,
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single camera motion capture... Keep your eyes peeled for a new contest coming!
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FYI, I re-upped my A:M subscription today. When I pushed the button to continue on to PayPal, I got an error message that I had requested an old version of the PayPal Page and that it was because of "bookmarks" Backing up to the Hash Store page and redoing that button made it go through OK.
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Hi there, i got my subscription just a month ago. Now it seems more and more likeley, that i have to reinstall (recover) my computer. Will i be able to reinstall my AM Subscription after i reinstalled (recovered) my windows pc? Best regards Heiner
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Converting a 2D material to a decal for cylinder wrapping...
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I've discovered a progressive render issue in v19.0p. While it's not a show stopper it's been annoying me for a long time and I've finally found the root cause. This image is an overview of the test chor. There's a camera with a 1000mm lens looking at five instances of a grey reference sphere, each at a different distance from the camera. The sphere instances are scaled in the chor as they get closer to the camera so that from the camera view they don't change too much in image size. They are positioned so the camera can see all five spheres side by side. Between the camera and the closest sphere is a slightly tinted, four patch plane that is a "glass sheet" with a t…
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Don't miss out. Anyone can play!
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This time around we did create a little bit of a different design to better suit our mini campaign around christmas presents. That means this time around the image isn't created with A:M. As always you will find our Christmas Calendar here: https://advent.3we.de But I started to create a goat in 3d anyway and got already pretty far, so I am working on it still to get this look back ;). (Do you know that moment if you did a great job and then you are just not able to get the same look back after changing a couple of things to make it even better? That is exactly what happend here with this one...) Hope you like it ;). Best regards *Fuchur*
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John, thanks for the idea of using mirrors--saved my ass!! Currently I have a cube of mirrors surrounding my 'energy spheres'--I thought that the cube would need to be constrained with the camera but that looked weird. It looks good now but I was wondering if a sphere shape would work better but that would distort the energy spheres huh. Anyway great tip!!
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Hi Svetlik, please make sure you are reachable by your e-mail. It seems like there is a major problem with your inbox / account. You are not reachable by email and because of that the password reset mails are not reaching you and you are contactable by anybody! Best regards *Fuchur*
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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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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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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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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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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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Because this may need a little research and I don't want to waste live-Live Answer Time-time resources I'm posting this here. I may ask this or related question during a future sessions unless I stumble upon proper solutions before then. The setup: Randomizing an initial setting Given a model placed in a choreography that moves from left to right (in simplest manner possible for demo purposes): How do we setup the model so it will appear at a random height each time the cycle repeats? - The model should begin at the random (seeded) height then move at that same height/trajectory horizontally - When the cycle begins again the model should appear at a new rando…
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Good attempts John...Thanks but not what she wants. I've posted some my attempts on You Tube I think they're close but anymore ideas would be awesome! http://www.youtube.com/user/zRusty1?feature=mhee Rusty
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I noticed in 17c the same project rendered AO considerable slower. In 17a rendered 8:53 i think and 17c 37 minutes. Has anyone played with AO in 17c? Steve reset it again and it has not finished yet and it is now 1:30 hours per frame.
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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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It may be a minor annoyance but it's also puzzling. All other windows dock and undock as expected but for some unknown reason the Properties window has become stubbornly untethered. Shutting down and re-starting A:M has no effect. Any suggestions?
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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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Hi, I've upgraded to a better computer to work on Animation Master but I've found that the software will not accept my serial keys when I insert them after downloading it onto it. Does anyone know if I have to buy another subscription to be able to use it on another computer? Thanks Victoria
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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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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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Pencil Guy.mdl
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If you haven't logged in to the A:M Community in awhile you should drop in and check it out. This is a place where new users visit often so meet with them and welcome them to the A:M Community. Online See who else is online. Initiate a private chat with anyone listed by double clicking on their name. Note: You can have both a public and a private chat ongoing simultaneously if you want to do that. This is especially useful during scheduled chats, interviews and discussions where you and others don't want to interrupt the public chat. Chat Drop in and chat! Post your questions. Share resources and experience. Let everyone know what you are wor…
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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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I see we've had a visit from a spamer this morning, one myrakern279. Not that we get many here but could there be a "button" on the forum pages to let users report a post as Spam. Should first time posters be allowed to include links? myrakern279's signature link is definitely of an adult nature!
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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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I've finally replaced my 10+ year old computer with something more up to date. It runs A:M just fine and solves two minor but annoying problems A:M had with my old hardware. But now I can't turn off spline anti-aliasing. Checking the "Antialias Lines" box has no effect. I've set the Radeon software Anti-Aliasing switch to "Use application settings". This isn't even close to being a real problem and I'll probably get used to it with time but Steffen might want to look into it. Maybe it's a symptom of other driver issues or maybe I'm just missing something.
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Hi everybody... as close to any year there is a new advent calendar for this year created with A:M. Everyday a new door with a hopefully funny commercial to make the time before christmas a little less stressful :). https://advent.targomed.de I hope you have fun :). Best regards *Fuchur*
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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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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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Some weird shapes i made with the Duplicator Wizard. I had never experimented with the "Tumble" parameters before. DuplicatorShapes004.prj
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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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Steve @Shelton and I looked at an interesting problem a few days ago. Steve had rigged a new character of his and was SmartSkinning several joints when he realized he had been doing the SmartSkins on control bones, not geometry bones. Why is that undesirable? Well... control bones are created to consolidate the manipulation of multiple (geometry) bones into one (control) bone. For ease of animating. In the case shown below, TSM has two geometry bones in an upper arm. the first swings around to move the arm forward/back/up down while the second only rotates on its long axis to handle the twisting of the upper arm. this helps mimic the motion of the skin on the up…
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It is still possible to join our C++ study group! https://forums.hash.com/topic/52292-c-study-group-june-4-2023/
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Hello Hashers- I was playing with the latest version of AM 19.5 E and I loaded a simple 10 frame avi into an action window to test whether or not I could advance the video one frame at a time...and it didn't work at all. I tried the same procedure in v19.0 and it worked fine. Has anyone else had trouble loading an avi video into v19.5E and been thwarted? Attached is a bare Project file and the simple 10 frame video I was trying to use. Thanks for any insights! Tom MovieTest.avi RotoTest.prj
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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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Please load the PRJ and tell me if "Happy New Year.wav" show its waveform in the Chor. Can you hear it if you scrub the chor timeline? Then import "slurp2.wav" and drag it into the Chor. Does it show? What version of A:M are you on, including the version letter? SoundTest001.zip
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Anyone have anything like this happen, where some of the sounds don't show a waveform? They all play, but one doesn't show. SoundWaveTest001.zip
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I've been messing about with a 'watchfolder' script (in python) that monitors a directory and when it finds a new sequence of PNG images it converts the sequence to MP4 video and moves the PNG sequence to a datetime stamped directory inside a 'processed' directory. There are a number of things that are still rough about the program. Firstly, the majority of people will not install python, set it up, run python programs etc. right? Correct. So, I compiled it into an executable .exe file. That seems to work pretty well. The python script has a watchfolder.ini file where users can quickly adjust settings. If no .ini file is found def…
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It's spline controllers... see? Rocky42_000.mp4
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Once again I must remind everyone of the sage advice offered by my friend three-finger-Pete ... "If it's explodin' ... Don't be holdin' " ... Have a safe and happy 4th of July! [Mod note: Posted on behalf of password-unremembering forum member.)
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HEY HEY HEY!!!! everyone, I’m working on my Krystal character in A:M and I really need some help bringing her to life with actual animated staff actions. I’m looking for someone who can help create a few cool moves, such as: Staff swings and strikes A spinning sweep or twirl A kick-swing combo Blocking/defensive staff actions I’d be super grateful if anyone here could make a few action files or short examples that I can plug into my project. Even just a couple of polished moves would help me a lot and give me a base to build from. Pizza Time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Krystal .zip 4b…
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The results of the "Finish the Unfinished" Image Contest are finally here! Watch the video at FINISH THE UNFINISHED
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