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OK I know I have asked for a lot of help lately. So i am sorry for asking for so much. Any way I am a big fan of SCIFI stuff so could someone direct me the way to make an space ship.I am aware that the libraries has ONE space ship but I need my own... Thanks
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Downloaded v15 to replace my old v8.5 and found I can't use it because it is slow on my machine. For example, if I click and drag the bounding box of a character in choreography mode the move happens a few seconds after I released the mouse button. So, just as a check and before inflicting unfair injury upon my computer's innocence gland, I reloaded v8.5 and did the following; I set up a scene involving a character standing in front of a photograph and did a quick render with both versions. Time to render with v8.5 is 31.44 and v15 is 51.0, or near twenty seconds longer all things been equal. It would appear then that v15 is near twice as resource greedy as v8.5. A search…
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spline
by Stronghorn- 7 replies
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I upgraded to v.15 and now my splines are drawn at sharp anglses, I can't seem to find the setting to fix this. I have tried the smooth button and nothing changes. anyone know what I need to do? I want to draw a three point spline that loops hangs between the fingers on a hand....but they are angled instead of curved.
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I need some textures for models i am playing around with, if someone could lead me the right way to download some that would be greatly apreciated. Thanks
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After making manipulations with a model (rotate, scale etc.) in choreography in a zero frame, how can I null values in order them to become new default values? Thank you all!
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OK, I am stuck. I have spent the last 2 and a half years building models, sets, animating and assembling choreographies. I am going through our final renders, and have hit two huge problems that I cannot figure out how to correct. I called Hash's number and they told me that the problems were with the version I was using, and I needed to upgrade. I took them at their word, paid for v15 and I am getting the EXACT same issue. So I am hoping the collective knowlledge of this forum can help us. First, I have these random "blotches" appearing on a model. They are showing up what appears to be randomly in a rendered cho. they show up for just one frame, but if I …
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I was wondering if there is a way I can recreate the ash effect like when a vampire dies in the Blade movies. I'm making a vampire movie and want to utilize this effect. I'll probably do it half real ash and half CGI but I'm not sure how to do make a person ash like they do in the movies. Can anyone help me out?
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ok so i have a big problem. im making a face with using a guide, and im making the nostril. to the side of the nostril there is a area thats opened and isnt patched up. it is 5 points in the area, but i dont understand what the 5-point patch is and where it is. i used th patch group mode because i thought that was it, but i guess not.
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OK, so quick question. If I add an image to a model or a layer as a cookie Cut, there is always a light gray "halo" surrounding the images edges that I cannot seem to get rid of. Does anyone know some tricks to get that halo to go away?? It really stands out and distracts from my animation. Thanks for any help!!!
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hi, for the bace of a model i am building i want to put eddie's hands feet and face on toms body. is there a way to do this because when i try to deleat any part of these two models, nothing happens.
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any one know of a way to make a nice plasma bolt thats coming from aepons fire?
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Ok...long story short, I had a "fraud identity theft" happen to me last week. Not fun. So, I was told that maybe my CPU has a "rootkit" which reads you credit card orders, etc and send them off. So, I'm wanting to reset / format my computer and reload everything (fun huh?). However, if I do that, I lose the license key for AM15 right? How do I go about doing this so I don't have to repurchase this?? I've written the "shop online support" and never heard anything back. Anyone know what to do?? Thanks.
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I have a client that I am making a character for and she wants the eyes to be able to change from white to black when angry. The problem is I have a decal applied to the eye that has a white background when I make an action to make the eyes black you can see the white background of the decal. Is it possible to apply a decal w/ a transparent background? Or does anyone have any ideas how I can make this work? Thanks - Eric
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Hi everyone, I've noticed some of the renderings people are use are soft and almost gradient like. The rendering setting that I always use is just final, which looks sort of like plastic. Does anyone know how to get a softer rendering? Masna
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so I am brand new to using hash patches, and am getting the hang of it except, in modeling my faces in the shaded view I'm seeing alot of small bumps, and some undesireable creating. Does everyone have problems with this when they start and is it just practice ? I've been using 3 point patches sparingly and trying to smooth things out... Any tips?
Last reply by Caroline, -
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Hey anyone... I am new to A:M and was performing one of the tutorials and it asked me to insert a photo via Rotoscope (or something to those lines). I picked the image they wanted me to insert, but once it loaded to the program, there was no photo, only a white square/rectangle. I have no idea what that means or how to fix it. Please give me some advice or tell how to fix that. Thank you, Dango
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Hello Group. First point here and first time using this software. I am trying to close the Points on a tail for a Fish that I modeled (see photo) but can't. Not sure if 5 points applies to this or not. Thx in advance for the assistance. Sal
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Hello, I need to create an animation of a Winkie raking grass. What's the best way to constrain a long handle (the rake) to both of the characters hands? If I constrain the handle bone to only one of the hand bones, It works fine for that hand. Which means the other hand has to be manually placed. This causes me to have to line up and create a lot of keys to make the other hand appear to be holding on to the rake. If I try to constrain the other hand (to hold the handle) to the same bone or a child bone of the rake, I get a drifted attachment to both hand bones making it impossible to work with. I think it's because the contraints of each hand are compensating for ea…
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Hi, I added a background image (jpg), an underwater scene, to an animated fish I created. Some of you who have been assisting me may be aware of the fish. Anyway, every time I render the animated fish with the background the background image is washed out almost completly. This happens with every image I add not just the under water one. I tried removing all the lights to figure out which light was the problem but even with NO LIGHTS it comes back as washed out. Any ideas or suggestions. I really am stuck. THX all. 4 got to add that my modeled fish is lookin like it's got lights beaming out of it in wireframe mode. What's that about? See atache…
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Newbie here. THe knight pitch chapter was hard I hope it gets easier! Definitely is fast to do though and provides outstanding results. This program was worth the money.
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I'm new to AM and really have no desire to design or model, I primarilly do this as a hobby, my interest is animation using existing models and characters. I started out using Daz and found its animation tools were limited, switched to Poser and again found it also had its limitations and frustrations. My goal was to create a DVD intro for my home theater hobby. I wish to create short animations that would describe the genre of the movie that would be playing i,e. adventure, horror, sci fi etc. Since I've collected many different theme models and scene's made by Daz, poser and 3dmax, I'm now wondering if these models can be inported into AM for animation. After many …
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I have a question about this splines whether or not it will work, and if there will be any issue during an animatiion. CHEERS!
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When I render anything I get an additional file with ".sinfo" on the end. What are these files, what do you open them with and do you need to keep them?
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Hello, I am working on a short character animation that will be imported into Flash as a sequence of jpeg images. Ideally these should be the images of the character only without the backgrouds (ground, light) so it can be incorporated with the existing Flash scene . I found that I can remove the default ground from the PWS but do not know how to get rid of the sky/light (whatever it is?) that is rendered together with the model. I know that A:M can do that (Merlin the assistant is a good example, it floats and fits to the scene) - any suggestions? Another issue I am struggling with is the combining two animation sequences. In this particular case I have a 1. charact…
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ok i have a partiqular point on a model in which 10 splines meet, problem is that they allways try and merge with each other and it causes the particular part to have bad eadges or round parts for no reasion, is there a way to connect all those splines to on CP but not have them link
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okay i have a flattened model that i'm looking to apply decals to. is there some kind of website i can find skin textures for A:M (i know Poser has a website called content paradise that lets you download xtra stuff into it's program so i was wondering about A:M). Or do you generally have to make this type of thing? I don't know how to make good looking skin though... i have Jasc Paint Shop Pro 7, and i was thinking i could make it in there, but i'm not sure how. it generally has the same effects as any other paint program so what effects do you guys use to make skin? i think there was a tutorial, but i can't remember where it was. -hisako
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In the video I am doing I need a classic cartoon fight cloud. Everyone has seen one and I am hoping it has been done before here successfully. If not I will just have to make a step by step fight, but the genre of how my toon looks, really calls for the fight cloud. Any help?
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I am getting restarted with AM and wish to use my mac pro lap tops . Can you tell me if am works best on vista ? or on the current mac operating sytem? Also -i have a hard time keeping track of my old account info and I wish to renew my subscription early this year . Is there a wayto retrieve info on customers other than the original registration number ? Comment You guys are still my favorite for 3d animation since Maya has all those expensive ever changing plug ins -it is just not friendly to the solo animator , Cheers and thanks for a response . Bruce ps 1 I can not wait to get restarted esapecially with the online tutorials . p…
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ok this would be easyer to explain to some one who has played the game "Sword of the stars" one of the playable races called the "liir" ( or as i like to call "Space fishy") anyways there ships have a unique way of moving in such that they teleport forward bit by bit hundereds of times a minute giving a flickering effect , i was woundering if there is a way to make a model flicker in and out like that with out having to set its transperancey every .5 of a frame.
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OK really two question 1st can i take a image say 500X500 pixels and have it applied to the entire model 2nd once done can i get the image to move around it , kinda like a chain rolling around a gear curenty im trying to come p with a worm hole effect , the model itself consists of really distorted donut shapes but i cant seam to get them to you know look worm holeish with out the use of textures, and then i get into the problem of there being a big square just sitting there.
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Does anyone know what happened to the free models page does it still exist Also where are all the models kept on the ftp site.
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Happy New Year All April 2008 I purchased a one-year subscription for Animation Master. I am trying to create my first short animation music video with five characters, 3D backgrounds and various musical images. I am looking for someone to help or get involved
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I've added a Simcloth material, but "simulate spring systems" doesn't get the simulation going. Am I pressing the wrong button or something?
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ok iv been experimenting with the boolean cutter and know can make some pretty good looking impact scars now, what i need know is the ability to apply a secondary material to the model so that the inside of the part that is cut away shows the secondary material. ie i blow up a metal wall and the freashly showing metal has a differat texture than the normals wall
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I am an Animation teacher that has been using Animation Master in my classroom for 10 years. Recently my tech support department helped me to upgrade from Animation Master 98 to the 2008 version 15.5. It's a tremendous leap, that has left virtually all of my old classroom assignments and tutorials (with step by step instruction) completely obsolete. I too have found that I completely lack the understanding of the software to properly teach my students anything beyond basic model building. My problem has always been simple, our network configuration using a HASP driver has never allowed me or my students to access the basic libraries and help menus. I would love…
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Ok so thanks to photoman I got the water down and now I am adding a boat into the mix but I need help figuring out how to make a partical outline of the boat as seen in this part of the tutorial http://www.babbagepatch.com/wakes.htm
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speech
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can i add two different wav files to kit cat with two different dope sheets so he can do say two sentence at differnet times is this possible. since I downloaded animation master 15 through a subscription there is no manual just you demo video's thanks.
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I looked inside of the forum and also in the manual maybe I just missed it some where, if I want a video to play inside of my choreography like a person sitting in a chair watching a movie on a tv with it playing or do I have to use the green screen affect to get the movie to play on the tv. thanks
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Hello, I just got a one year subscription, and when i try to do flocking, for example if i right click, select flocking, then birds, it creates the flock, but when i drag a model to 'Shortcut to Birds' the models don't show up. This is the same with crowds and swarms. Also, I cannot create volumetric effects, when i right click, choose volumetric effects, then any effect, the wireframe circle shows up, but nothing can be seen in shaded mode. Please help, thanks.
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I got it to work once. Then I created a more elaborate path and all I end up with are wacky things that don't seem to follow the path at all. Is there a tutorial somewhere? Does it not work with bias changes on the path? -vern
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I am setting up some smart skin on eye lids. Looking from the side the corners of the eye lid do not line up as this view shows. I don't know if it's possible but here is what I want to do. I want to rotate the eye lid to the full open and full closed positions with the Rotation Manipulator. I know how to move the Pivot to the center of the eye socket. What I can't figure out is how to skew the manipulator so that its planes are rotated the same as the eye lid prior to actually rotating the eye lids CP's. That sounds confusing so here is a picture to help explain. In this view I am looking at the eye lid with both corners lined up. I want th…
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I've just installed AM 15.0 from a CD. I started reading the manual, wishing to learn the ropes, and one of the first steps is to find a model in the Library. But I have no models in the Library! The tabs are certainly there, for Models, Action, Materials, etc. But there's nothing inside any of the sub-libraries. I checked my CD (or is it a DVD?), and in a folder called 'Data', I can see all of these Libraries, lots of models and actions and so forth in there. I re-installed AM once again. Same result. Nothing put into the Libraries. This is a Mac OSX version. I'm running Leopard. Can anyone help me with this? All I want to do is get started, and I c…
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I have Adobe Premiere Pro, and I want to do some special effects, but when I use video captured by Premiere, the video doesn't even show up.
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Can anyone tell me the difference between these two books and if either is worth getting? http://www.amazon.com/Animation-Master-Com...ntt_at_ep_dpi_1 http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Animation...84504757/?itm=2 They both seem to have been published in May of 2006. They have similar product descriptions. The same author. But a difference title, a different cover and a different page count. One is available at B&N online the other at Amazon. Neither book is available at both sites. Also, is either book worth the money? I completed TAO. Is this going to walk me through the same stuff or is it more advanced and worth the investment? The review…
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The title and description pretty much sum up the problem. It seems that after using Voodoo and Icam, only so much tracking is captured for A:M. After a second of decent tracking, the camera starts to skip around and/or get stuck on some random angle. Is it the lighting? Is it too much camera movement? Did I make the video too long? I hope I can find out.
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Hello there everyone. i just thought i'd introduce myself. i took a 3d animation class in college a year ago or so (v15) and now i'm starting to put it to work for a video game i'm working on and possible webisodes. i'm off to a good start in my post-class era and have learned much since then just fiddling with the easy to use software and as of recently i am beginning to discover the stretches of these forums. i'd just like to say that i've been able to find a lot of help in these forums already even dating back in articles from 2005, with such topics as clothing (i managed to get a cape flowing and leaves draping down from a shoulder pad), figure modeling, lighting…
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I think I know the answer on this one But I will ask any way and see if you guys have a quick fix. If you copy/paste a part of your model or in the case if you selected a couple of groups and lose the pivots. Is there a way to reset the pivots on a groups without redoing them. So I can use them to update material. Or in the case if you selected a couple of groups and lose the pivots.
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As a user of another program whose name I shall not speak (LOL) there are certain work flows I have grown used to and am curious if I can do something similar with Hash. One involves the use of groups for keying animation. As an example, many times I will key in the body and the face separate, so easy peasy, I would just make two groups, one that contains all the body animation controls and one containing all the facial animation controls. This helps to keep a clean time line and makes it easier if say, want to re-time the body animation without effecting lip sync. I've watched Robcat's uber helpful keying tutorials, but so far haven't figured out a way to do this i…
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Hello AM world. I've been working my way through the exercises and the forums for two weeks now and having a good time so far. When I drag a selection box in the workspace window, the box is opaque black inside until I release the mouse button, then it is clear. This makes it hard to see the CP's I'm selecting. In the videos I've watched the box is clear while dragging to size. How do I fix this?
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Hi Folks where can I find the bevel plugin?
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