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I have a light in a pose shining at an model. The Pose is turned on The light is set to active it has plenty of intensity. But it does not work? Did the bulb blow out? If I do the same thing in an action it works fine. What is the deal? I should note that I can see the effects of the light in the relationship aka Pose but not when the model is in the chore. And please dont say just do it in an action. That will not work for this.
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I folks I could sure use your help. I am using carolines tutorial on the tsm 2 rig. Its great. But I am stumped at the mirror bones part. I have read the documentation by sgross and carolines info but its just not working right. Any thoughts. Could some one do a quick tut.
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Hi Folks I am having trouble Limiting the rotation for a bone with a Dynamic constraint. Basically I want I have a hinge that should only move on one axis. I have limited the bone to that axis via the manipulator options. Now I want to make that bone dynamic so that it swings up and down along that axis as the rest of the model moves. Unfortunately the Dynamics constraint does not seem to adhere to the limit manipulator option. Any Ideas? Is this something I should request as a feature in AM? Is this something I am doing wrong? The video illustrates my problem. Dynamics_question.mov
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At first glance it appears to because the circles are around the cp's but when you rotate a bone you find out it does not seem to have mirrored them. So what is the final explanation on this? Does it if used correctly? Is there an alterantive way to mirror cp weights?
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ok trying textures for a bit to reduce rendering times and have run into a problem here is a pic of the rendered image , you can see a belt of circut like textures surounded by a distortion of the rest . when in normal mode it looks like its fully covered by the circut texture part2.bmp here is a copy of the model i used Model9.mdl
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I'm trying to line up two different components in a model very precisely, one row of "parts" to a panel that's at a bizarre angle. I can do my trigonometry, so I've never had trouble matching angles on one or two planes, but since this panel is rotated on all three planes it's proving surprisingly hard to match up--I've been doing inverse tangents 'til my eyes bleed, and it's just not working. A cursory look at some other forum posts had someone mentioning lining things up in an action, and that kinda worked--I made a bone for the panel, a bone for the parts, and in an action window used orient like/translate to constraints and the "parts" and panel were right where…
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Ok, I'm building my house in AM, and needless the say the file size is growing and growing. As I build walls, I put the molding, light switches, vents etc, on that wall model. Now I'm wondering if I should put every model separate so when I render I can turn off the unneeded models. So....does AM only render what is is the camera view? Will I save render times if I turn off other models? If this is so, I'm going to have to do some rebuilding.....bummer.
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Fluid Plugin
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Hello, is there a Fluid Plugin ? Because my last version are AM 2005 v.12 ?
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So , i got it , for one year at least !! I m so happy to be a part of this incredible intelligent piece of code !! it s going to be a hard way to go ! but animation is the art of..life. i want to share everything i m going to learn, to every one here at the AM community , and i m already proud .... So let s have funny situaation ! Majid
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OK bad puns aside i do have a question . i have a model setup to unfold in about 5 different movements and though that i could get the pose option to preform this . i attached bones to all the models parts and tired to set up a pose to do it but its not working . there is an option on the bottom that looks like the time line for the choreography but it does not seam to work . am i using this correctly or is this not how the poses option work
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THe midi plugins seems for me a great addition to A:M , music is a important factor in story telling , rythm and mood . I m wondering if it could be possible to have more info about how to use midi control plug efficiently...!
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ok heres the story . im trying to make some better looking equipments for my models and one of those parts are there gun barrels . i want to use the standard effect used by most barrel makers with holes in the end ( not the main one the bullet comes out). what i need to know is how can i warp said holes around the tube with out them warping into junk. heres a link to what im taking about Gun barrel
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Why is A:M forcing me to have the install CD in the drive to run the program after I've installed it?
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In Lesson 5, "Take a Walk", my action length is 4:10 where it should be 1:10 according to the manual. How do I change the length of the action? (NOT the cycle length). Does this have to be done before the action is saved, or can you change the length after it's saved?
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Hi, here is my problem, when i create an action (i m using the 2001 rig) the pose sliders do not appear ! ? did i missed something ? Thank ! Problem solved , i had to drag the relationships folder in my object. Thx
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hI, I cant copy and paste keys ! i can create them but the copy and paste function do not work ! what are the case when things goes like that ? ,is it about mirroring or stuff ? how can i resolved this ? Thank you Fixed...
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I started building my house in AM so I could see what a wood floor would be like throughout my little place. A friend of mine saw the attached picture and asked if the cold air return was real or a decal. I told him I really modeled it. He suggested that a decal would be better because when rendering, the light will have to be calculated for each fin (There are 68 fins, and a decal or map would be better. (This is based on a 3D program he uses) Does that apply to AM? Am I really going to tank my render times for adding too much detail?
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I worked my way through the dust tutorial a couple of times and am having a problem with the constraint. When I select the "translate" to and select either toe bone the dust object does not move to the toe as it does in the video. It says it's attached in the project workspace but in the window workspace it is not near the toes. Is this a Vista thing or did I miss something? Do I need to just drag it to the toe bone?
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Greetings Gentlemens, I have a Quick question : how can i double side a surface ?
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Newbie here. want to say hello, I'm New A:M user since yesterday.. thats my Homepage: http://www.td3d.com/2DGallery.html thanks everyone
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i was wonder if anyone knows the link through which i can download the environment shader. Thank you
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"Hello humans" I m tring to snap Cp every 1 cm, changing it inside the grid option but the grid remain the same ? Ideas ? By the way i m asking everybody (Mr gross in particular) if it could be possible to get the Midicontroler Plug for V 11 ? Kind Regards
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"Hello World !", when i click on the magnet mode icon then on any cp the influence handle doesn t appear, any suggestion ? THX
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OK, I ordered A:M over a week ago and my credit card has been charged, yet the status of my order is still listed as "processing". I've sent 3 e-mails in the last 48 hours yet none have been answered or even acknowledged. If you try calling the number listed on the website, you get a recording saying the number is "temporarily unavailable", and it's been that way for at least the last two days. Does anybody know what's up? Has anybody else had problems contacting the company? If anybody from Hash monitors this forum WILL YOU PLEASE CONTACT ME REGARDING MY ORDER.
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Hey Everyone, I have my render settings with Multipass at 25 passes and I also have Motion Blur ON at 20%... Should I avoid having motion blur on at all since I'm using Multipass??? William
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Me again, i don t know how to fill a hole, i selecte one cp then while olding the mouse button i go to another then right click to connect and i got this result ! ?
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I've been making custom colors for various images. Is there a way to save the pop up color palette specific to a particular project or model? (Saving a Model's custom colors specific to that model?) I suspect not, but A:M continually surprises me. Thanks.
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A couple of times now, I've tried to use copy/flip/attach and it does what it implies but it does it on the y axis instead of the x axis. Is there a way of controlling which axis the CFA follows ?
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I have a headheak tryng to achieve this. Each time i select four cp s and press "E", i have a mess. Because A:m Keep the original patch from where i do extend and i don t know how to delete it without doing my mesh a mess ? Is there an Extrude (and not extend) tool ? Thank you for your help. here is what i want to achieve.
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so im still having this weird thing with black dot appearing. ive tried everything. any one here ever see this before? attention_256K_Stream.mov
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Hello, how can i weld these two points ? and what is the Path group model icon for ? Thx
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Ok so I redid my model of my penguin because for some reason it became corrupt but no matter i like this model better.... I'm having trouble though getting his skeletal structure right though. Cause every time he is in the action tab everything is just screwed up.... any suggestions?? As of right now im using the skeletal rig that came with Version 13 but should I just make one of my own? here is what he looks like
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I'm an Editor/Motion GFX Artist considering purchasing A:M. Since I do most of my finishing/compositing in After Effects (CS4), the ability to export camera data to AE is an important consideration. Does A:M have this feature?
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OK so i was trying some thing new from the standard and watching my friend play a game got an idea to try and make some form of portal effect just for fun . i crafted a glyph of sorts and tryed to get it to form to the terrain with little effect. i have uploaded the project file itself as its still Farly new . the effect I'm going for is the camera moves to the glyph which then burns onto the terrain below then the portal opens , the first thing that i hit is that i cant get the glyph itself to form to the ground. is there a way to project the glyph down wards so that this happens or is there another way to get something similar. portal.prj
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OK heres the deal i have constructed a terrain in the form of a grid. there is a part that i want to flatten that contains around 25 cps . is there a easy way to make them rise/fall to the same selected level other than attaching a bone to each cp and modifying manually
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Wood Floor
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Hey, I wanted to see what my living room would look like with a wood floor. I built the walls, and now I'm working on the floor, and thinking of my options: 1. Make a large decal in Photoshop by copying a sample of floor I found on line 2. Putting a decal or material on one board, and keep coping that board until I have a finished floor (I'm thinking that will kill my render times 3? Am I missing another option? (I tried the duplicator plug in, but it won't copy the decal. Any ideas?
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so im having a hard time trying to combine the sparkles materials in a scene. basically i have a space ship. i want a trail of sparkles to follow it. easy so far? well the sparkles for some reason have been causing large black dots or holes on the space ship. turning the sparkles off seem to render fine, no holes. so i figure ill just render the sparkles separate and alpha channel them in. problem solved.... except the sparkles dont show on an alpha export. i have to turn the alpha channel off to see them.... is this an expected result? sparkles materials dont show in alpha?
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Hi everybody, I m wondering how i can have the same big Current frame indicator as Mr Jeff Lew, is that a plugins ? or a special command ? Thx M. in fact i think it s not an A:M option...too bad.
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Hi Guys, Coming from Lightwave, i m wondering if it s possible to rotate/ move a light from the current light point of view ? It s definetly easier to target when you are "inside the light". Thank for you help ps: did the cA:M ommunity stop the developement of the T.W.O project ?
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Hi digital people, I m trying to do the walking rabbit tutorial, at certain point i have to copy the first frame and to paste/mirror it somewhere and you know what ! it doesn t work. i ve tried to find but i m stuck. Help is welcome..ok Robcat where are you !! THX M. rabbit_anim.prj
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Hi how can i go from "Bone edit" to "skeleton edit" and inverse ? Thank you by advance!
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I guys i ve followed the setup machine basic video and manual, and i still can t deform the character ! Can you check and tell me if i missed something. Thanks a lot ! the file : new_test.prj
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ok quick question i have made a map in inchs that i would like to render for printing in real life to be in inchs as well , what is the best way to do this ( ie i want to have the grind that is 1 inch spaced to be 1 ince spaced when printed out)
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I just saw this in 15f
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Is it just me or does AO NOT effect Hair? It seam no matter what I do the hair I create looks bright and catoonish as if I am rendering with "toon" on Any ideas on how to make it look more solid?
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ok im tryin gto put off an effect simmilar to the one in this image in the bottom of this lords staff you see the effect im looking for. i have tryed a few attempts but have since got nothing of the sort.
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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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I have been working on a model, no hairs but just ordinary patches, and I have now 3034 patches including about 70 5pointers. When is it reasonalbe to encounter problems with the computer, at what amount of patches? I have some modelling to go and I have all sorts of delays and even a black screen from time to time, just in the modelling window. No problems with the rigging or animating in chor. What is your opinon? - is my graphic card too old, a Radeon X1650? - too little RAM, 2 GB - all too weak? Or too many patches? Grateful for some advice here
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I will be needing to make some neon signs. I have figured out how to make one using render as line and adding glow to it in notepad but if you save the file it deletes the glow entre. I wanted to see what other options there are to make them?
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The manual says sometimes you need to switch to edit mode to properly shape the hair. How do you do this, the manual does not illustrate or explain.
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