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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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i have managed to extrach a model file in the form of a smo any on eno how to add this to AM
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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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Hi everyone, I was wondering if it was possible to render a spline as a line. The image below is where I would like AM to draw the line, but I'm not sure if I can get it to: Can I get AM to draw a line on a spline? Thanx everyone.
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I'm animating a character. I rotate a bone using the "red" / X axis. But in the graph editor, it shows that I'm rotating the "Green" / Y axis. Anyone experienced this camelion/ rogue switch.
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I have a group of students working on 30 sec animations in groups. Each person is working on diferent parts. My question is can you put 2 choreographys together in one project. The effect they are looking for is almost like a change of scenes. Is there a better way to do this? Andy
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I don't have the, preset settings in the render to file dialog, Is there any way to get them back?
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(my best headline yet. yay.) it's about cloth. spring systems are in the past? what is the new fabric making technique called, i don't know what to search for here? is there a date/version nr to search by as well - as in, newer than?
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Hello again, just finished a figuring out the skeletol heirarchy for a character I am starting. Now my question is......... When I smart skin a joint. As I move the sliders up and down in time line. Am I setting permanet characteristics? i.e. I bend the hip 90 degrees. does that limit the flex of the joint until i reset it? My character's right leg "disapears" and "reapears" as I try to move the joint in choreagraphy window. Also is it important to set all Joints? dont know if I being clear enough. I am so close to being able to create my toon walking and acting in the world. You know how I feel! I can almost see my ideas in real life. Please help!!!!!
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Hi, I've done my first animation model and I was animating him. I had some control points not animating very well and I've heard about smart skin that could solve my problem. I did a search in the help and followed the instuctions but, when I do "new smart skin", on a thight bone, in the relationship window, I dont see that bone, I only see the other ones (look at image) if I try to select a foot and move it(so it would move the thight bone as well), a msg box poops and says "circulatiry found: "balance left foor" shortcut to relationship1 /translate to ..|left foot target" what am I doing wrong? thanks tido
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Hi, I need to Know where the wizard folder is in AM15 I downloaded .hwz files from the ftp but I cannot find the proper place for them Also, I have Bryce 6 and Poser7 Can use or swap files between them?
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While making an original character speak, I have tried creating a separate pose for each phoneme, but find that in an action the frames between one mouth pose to the next are unmanageable. My solution so far has been to create poses for phrases, each phoneme pose set at, say, increments of 5% in a percentage pose. Is there a less tedious approach that allows you to use a set of phoneme poses and animate between them smoothly?
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I'm having some difficulties with 5 points and turning them in a 5 point patch. Either i'm doing something wrong (most likely cause) or have a problem in my model that that I'm unable to spot. From what I know, to create a 5 point spline you need 5 splines connected to one another forming a closed loop. This is a portion of a hand, or where the fingers meet the hand. 3x 5-point patches between each finger on each side of the hand. A few of those 5 point patches are not working. I got 5 points selected, but the button remains grayed out. Normally, I select the 5 points by manually click on them one by one. If the button fails to light up, I hide ev…
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I know when you are pulling points you can constrain them to a specific axis, x, y or z but what I am curious to know is can you constrain a point along a single spline and adjust its position on that spline?
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Hello, Here in France I have a few days of vacation to accelerate my exploration of AM which I find brilliant, only the rather long calculation times bother me. The rest of the program is fine with me. In the tutorial : at 8:57 the user clicks on a bone and duplicates it with the control key. I can not reproduce this action !? I do not understand why ? Do you have another example please? I don't have any examples of how to use smartskins, do you have any? This is what animation master lacks. These are simple examples of simple situations. When I understand the basics of AM better, I will try to find time for many very simple examples. This can help…
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i have motly lurned the particle emiters exept sprites can any one type down or show me a tutorial that will help me lurn and get the know the sprites emiter better? thanx and sorry for any misspells i typed this in a hurry
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Whenever I try to apply an action no matter what model It always shows an error message say something like invalid action and then the file name. I don't want to have to animate a walk cycle every time i need one. SO how can I fix this.
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I'm creating an animation of a person walking down some steps. I started with "Eddie" and got him walking down the steps ok, but in scaling his feet up to what I considered to be about the right size for the steps it seems that his legs are very short. So I want to scale his legs up (longer). That screws up the bones. In trying to fix the bones I reviewed the "Show some backbone" tut. The book has more detail than the video, but still leaves something to be desired. His lower legs seem to work, but his upper legs kinda crimp. This raises a broader question. Is there a better reference available that gives a lot of detail about how to set up bones, exactly…
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Are there any plug in's and tools for the hair sys other then what comes with A:M?
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I keep getting a message "Exeption #033 Realtime Render" everytime I try I try to do something with the model I'm making. (selecting it, turning, adding CP's, ...anything with the model I can't do.) I've tried the www.hash.com/reports, but it wouldn't let me log in. Anybody ever have this problem before?
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Can't give too many specifics since I'm at work right now but I thought I'd get this out there... I was working on a scene last night (v16.0b 64 bit) and had a model with only one group, with the glow surface property set to on. If I do a screen render in the model window the model glows quite nicely. If I drop that model into a chor and render to an avi file, there is sadly no glowing. Anyone know of a quick workaround? What I'm working on doesn't need fancy dancy solutions,is a quick down and dirty bit for the tech conference I'm attending so I'm perfectly willing to lit it slide, but glowing things look nicer than non-glowing so if I could get it to work, I'd…
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Hey, Im working on the plane tutorial and its come to the part where you are supposed to form the cockpit. I cant figure out which CPs to mmove in order to make the cockpit with out screwing up the model. Heres a pic of the splines and what not. Thanks Thanks Geoff heres a pic with the wing hidden Plane_cockpit_pic.bmp
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i like the particle system don't get me wrong but for me it slows down the program considerably. render time is also very slow. it's good enough but it isn't very versatile in the way of spikes or other hairstyles like that. i was wondering how do you model hair? i'm not sure where to even begin. any ideas? -hisako
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dose anyone know if theres a site were i can upload video's have have them "on" my site. useing html. and yes i did try you tube but for some reson i can ever get my e-mail confermation e-mail.
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Is there a way to create shortcuts to images, materials, models, and actions in bulk. This one at a time is ageing me real quickly. I even tried going into the files and placing all models in the model folder, images in images, and material in material but they still do not show unless I right click > creat shortcut > one at a time.
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I'm trying to learn how to mix animation with live action video and I'm having a hard time learning. I've seen a few tutorials but they aren't complete enough as I'm too inexperienced to pick up on how to do the directions. This CD is referred to often, but it always points to pluginz.com and apparently they don't have it anymore. Does anyone have any idea how I can get one, or the replacement if there is one? Thanks.
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I've completed ( for now at least ) all the actions I want my figure to perform in a choreography. All the actions were completed in an action window and I'm dropping them on the same figure in the chor. Wherein lies the problem. When he reaches the end of action two he is on the right of the sceen The next frame is the start of section three and he starts on the left side of the screen again ? |Is there a way to prevent this so the third section starts in the same position as the second ends? regards simoni
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Occasionally things just cannot be explained. Even then though... there are clues... While troubleshooting some hooks and 5 point patches earlier today I noticed really strange behavior from A:M. A:M wouldn't save, locked up (kinda sorta) and the display... well it wouldn't display things as expected. Restart A:M. Nothin' Restart A:M Again. Little improvement. Change models/projects. More improvement. Spline stuff. Crash and Burn. What the heck... Maybe it was one of those updates I recently installed!!! Enter very distracting kids who remove my attention from my #1 hobby for awhile. Return with fresh perspective to see same odd …
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Dear Forum, I recently recieved v12t of Animation Master and am wondering how to locate the features listed in the promo The Sweeper Modeling plugin, Newton Game Dynamics, Dark Tree Simbiont textures the new cloth utility, new compositing features HDRI rendering and a good skin shader. Are there actual tutorials on these items. I tried to locate them in the Help Topics but did not find them. What suggestions are there for finding and learning to use these features. Thanks, Michael
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There was a previous thread on this, but I wasn't sure what version was discussed (I could have missed it). But is there a way during modeling, as I move a control point, to limit that movement (for example) ONLY to X? As I choose windows, it tends to allow movements in a plane, so I would be moving in X AND Y... But in many cases, I want to ONLY move a single vector at a time. Thanks much! John PS: The other post had mentioned using #'s 1-6 or so. I took that to mean using the various camera views, but this would still have the CP move in 2 coordinate systems (ie: X and Y, Y and Z, X and Z), yesno?
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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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Hi, Would anyone have a cape model they would like to share? Not looking for anything fancy, I just want to integrate it with another model. I'll either do a sim-cloth on it when I get it to a chor or else I'll just add a couple of bones for simple movement maybe instead. Thanks in advance!
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I am setting up for a video tour of a house I have made for You Tube. And after taking two days to figuring out how to get the doors and windows to work at the right time throw an action. It maybe faster to just ask. I am using a path with a camera. 1. How do I speed up/down and stop the camera along the path so I can have the camera stop and look around. 2. How do I set up so the cameras movement as the actions that dictate the time of the video instead of the path. Since it is a pain to recalculate the time ever time I make some changes to the cameras tour of the house. 3. How do I set up an object on the path ahead of the camera so the camera will ai…
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I have followed exercise 5 "Take a Walk" and everything works fine. I made walk action for Rabbit and then used it after creating a path for rabbit to walk on and everything was fine. I even used a 'stock' action and still everything was fine. As I experimented with actions using a path I chose a new ground (the ground that is slightly hilly that comes with AM) and then applied the path and Rabbit (as well as other actors) to the path with a walk action, his feet are in the ground and NOT on the serface of the ground. I have tried constraining rabbit to the surface of the ground; I have tried constraining the path to the ground but I cannot get rabbit to follow the path A…
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Hi, Just got back into AM11.1 was wondering what Rendering options are available for this version? I read something about net rendering and it comes with so many licenses however i don't even see that option in my version so maybe its to old. 2nd Question: I have a duel Core CPU, is there anyway to make AM11.1 use both cores? Thank you in advance for your answers. Wayne
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So I saw this program at the anime expo last week and I thought it was pretty cool so I decided to buy it. I came home, installed it, and proceeded to create a model.(that's where you're supposed to go right?) And in the 3 hours I spent trying to figure things out, all I could figure out is how to make an oval! In my frustration I was tempted to throw the disk out the window(though considering how much I paid for this thing it's good that I didn't...) people tell me to look at the manual but here's the thing: ALL I GOT WAS THE DISK! I thought it would be okay because the guy at the booth said there was a website (this one) with video tutorials....none of which give me a s…
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I'm making a character walk, and it's not even a very zany walk, but there are certainly times when he's moving forward, and moments when he's recovering from hitting the ground. Problem is, the walk-cycler seems to take all frames as equal parts of the forward stride. This results in some moments that my character slides forward, and others when he seems to moon-walk. Is there a way to vary the forward-movement within a single walk cycle?
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Hello again, Im still new to the Targa rendering method. I cant seem to bring the targa sequence back in A:M to save it as something else. It either brings in one frame, or it tries to open Adobe Photoshop to show the frame. Could someone share the Targa secret?
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Please can anyone help me?I am trying to model a bunker that would give me a trench effect,ie showing the top half of a character from a straight on view.But when the camera goes above the character i would like to see into they're trench.I have attached some screenshots of a simple model but when i put the model halfway down the ground the hole is filled by the ground.(hhhheeeeellllppppp). [attachmentid=17133][attachmentid=17134]
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I've got the model nearly completed ... however, I cannot figure out how to put a small working light inside the Volume Meter. If I put it in the model, the entire model lights up ... any help would be appreciated. Thanks ... GW
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anime hair
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i want to be able to make some cool anime hair thought about using the hair modifier particle system thingy (havent touched the thing in so long forgot what to call it) but i find that any type of particle has a tendancy to slow down my system by ... alot so i was thinking of modelling the hair, but i cant concieve of a decent method to modelling good looking anime hair. whenever i try to model anime hair, it tends to come out wierd and boxy or something
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Hi Guys! Hope u all had a good Christmas and don't drink and drive tonight for the New Year! Just a quick question. When I try to bring up the Help in A:M, it just comes with 'Failed to Launch Help'. I know I can just go into the Programs, Hash etc using explorer but I'm lazy Anyone know the secret? Thanks!
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There's been quite a few threads on the forum lately referring to baking of this and that in them. Its something I would like to know more about. And I was wondering, as this was not around (except for the baking of actions), when the TechRef was written would someone like to add an entry to the Hash Wiki about Baking? What can be Baked? Why you would want to do it? The pros & cons of doing it. etc... Think this might be helpful for other users and the curious.
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I'm wondering: when you are editing around in an animation and tweaking key frames, is there a way to "reset" a keyframe to the state it was in when you visit it and before you move off it? I'm aware of undo, but with subtle changes it seems it would be hard to tell when you get to the exact point you started, and maybe you would overshoot and undo something else you didn't want to. I suppose you could save project at each keyframe and reload it if necessary; seems cumbersome though. -SB
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Bizarre stuff keeps happening as I try to learn how to make an action with my flour sack (chapter 4 AM A Complete Guide). I made an action with the flour sack "hopping" which looks fairly OK when I play it. However, somehow the keyframes are "lost" to the toolbar -- pressing next or previous keyframe does nothing. And the action defaults to keyframe "1:00" when I load it -- when I play it, I see the counter jump to 0:00 then play to 1:00 where it stops, as expected. But I can't jump to any of the keyframes Now, I think something changed, because when I built the action, I was jumping from keyframe to keyframe. But I took a side experiment to see what wou…
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I made a copy of my models head to do the hair.(to speed things up) But when I copied it back I lost the hair info. and I can not drag and drop the info. to the main model.
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The issue occurs when I use the render mode and depending on the detail involved, it will cause the program to show a 'not responding' message at the top of AM program's title bar (where the project name is listed). This issue also occurs in renderring lock mode, however, it works perfectly fine when renderring to a file. Working with AM v15.0 I disabled desktop composition. System Alienware Custom M17 Notebook Video/Graphics Card: Dual 512MB ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 3870 - CrossFireX™ Enabled! Processor: Intel® Core™2 P8400 2.26GHz (3MB Cache, 1066MHz FSB) Chassis: 17-Inch WideUXGA 1920 x 1200 LCD (1200p) with Clearview Technology Operatin…
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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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and now A:M won't boot! I know A:M thinks I am trying to scam more time on my sub...but I'm actually NOT---I've a good 7 months left! HERE's what happened... last week I checked the calendar on my PC to see a date in July... I was on the phone so I highlighted a date and after I hung-up I accidentally hit 'APPLY' instead of cancel. Now today I checked my calendar and noticed the date was July 24th- which is wrong... so I realized what I had done and changed it back to todays date, no harm done, right? WRONG! --- when I go to start-up A:M I get a 'SYSTEM CLOCK HAS BEEN SET BACK(-40)' error and A:M will not boot. WHAT CAN I DO? AND::: Let other users bew…
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In the tools tips Curved mode by selecting an object and hitting c or shift c. I cant find out what it does. Cant find it in the tech ref.
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