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Hello, There is an important procedure that I do not understand in animating a character and his poses. 1 - I created a model: the head 2 - I created a bone to be able to move my eyes horizontally or vertically. 3 - I assigned the points of the eyes to the bone 4 - I created two poses (vertical and horizontal) for the eye movements. When I place the head object in the choreography, the pose sliders work but the eyes don't move !? Is there a basic tutorial (exercise) that allows you to follow the different stages of a simple creation chain: from modeling to the calculation of movement in the choreography ? The tutorials that I find always c…
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Got a new mini pc but it came with OS11. Anyone know of any compatability issues?
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Thought I could just make an action with the character applauding and add it to him during a chor but no. Even tho the ONLY things moving in the action I made is his arms when I add it to him in the chor. he gets all "whacked out" - jumps to a different position and every joint in his body is twisted horribly. Also, how do you copy a figure's pose at a given frame? Have tried Copy Keyframe/Paste Keyframe - no effect!!!! Shouldn't this be a simple thing to do?? Any help appreciated.
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I am attempting to buy the latest version of A:M for my computer. Received an email with code numbers and was directed to this forum. Now what?
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I have seen a model from sample as character on the face has some shading artifact ? Why? Can we eliminate this artifact by a better modeling ? What is your experience from this ? Thanks !
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laserbeam.mdlHEY HEY HEY !!!! Its your favorite slice of pizza! Yummy Hey guys I was wondering. What are some ways I can make laser fire come out of a starship. I'm trying to make Mutiple shots come out of the cannon of the starship it seems like a headache. Check out the zip file "Rwing attack mode" for my progress any help would be great!Please any method that can be less of a headache would be nice thank you all! this what I would like. Rember Pizza is good on Friday!!!!! My attempt.avi Rwing attack mode.zip laserbeam.mdl laserball.mdl Rwing attack mode.cho rwingdemo.mdl
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Got a 2nd machine which is not on the net, do I download Am installer to a USB and install on it or is it more complicated than that? Any help appreciated.
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I'm building my first path, but one of the points developed a kink where I want it smooth. I found the path in the PWS Choreograhy list, I've got it selected with a yellow box...but how to display the CP that I need to fix?[attachmentid=13115]
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I find that if a texture is applied 'planar', it looks as it ought to. [unless stretched over a large area] But if textures are applied spherically, or cylindrically, [even if the bounding box area is reduced to fit] they want to look blurry, or smeared across the object. Has anyone else had this problem?
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So... how, or when does a 'newbie' (or should I say apprentice) get to join a user group, or no longer be considered a 'newbie'? (newbie... I always hated that word)
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I am trying to get started with A.M. I can't seem to get the Pose Sliders to come up. I am on exercise 7. I am using tiger. Everything was working before I had to reinstall everthing on my mac and now I get no pose. Is there anything that I can do? Thank you for any help.
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Hello, I am new to the forum! I just recieved AM 2005 I believe (V12?). It the one with Sorserez on the front of it. I have done the exercises up to "It's A Pitch" and got through that one all in one piece! I LOVE this program! Is there any place I can paste these exercises for suggestions and/or grading?
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I'm trying to finish all of TAoAM and was just about to start the one where they all do the cancan...number two i think. i open a choreography, and start to drag the stage to the choreography window...then a window pops up that says "parameter is incorrect" and the mouse dissapears onthe AM screen...help?
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How do I completely duplicate a model with groups, poses, and sub folders?
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I've had good success using a Klieg light with a rotoscope on it to fake being an overhead projector. However, I need to switch to another image during the choreography. I've put multiple rotoscopes on the light, but only the first one turns up. I've changed the order of the rotoscopes. Again, just the first. I've changed the transparencies of the rotoscopes. Still nothing. I've tried changing the "on top" setting. Again, no change. Stranger still, in the choreography, I get a group of blank oddities. They are attached. How do I make this work right? Is there another way to do this. I don't need to go as fancy as faking sliding an overhead sheet off the su…
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Hi! I've been working on "The Door's Stuck" animation chapter. I've devised the script so that Shaggy tugs on the door slowly once or twice, then tugs three times in quick succession. All of that gets me to frame 00:06:00 or so. At 00:06:00, I'd like Shaggy to turn his head to the camera as if to say "What the Heck?" So, at 00:06:00, I did a "Make KeyFrame" and at 00:06:10 I set a key frame and turned his head toward the camera. My PROBLEM is that now his head starts turning to the camera from the first frame (00:00:00) instead of at 00:06:10, where I'd like him to start turning. Please help me figure out how to isolate moves between a set of frames,…
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You will have to excuse my very green question but this is what I need the most right now. I can see by the demo videos online that AM is very intuitive and seems fairly easy to learn...just what I need. I am so close to buying AM but need to know how easy it will be to import Illustrator files of say a company logo with paths, extrude them, fly a camera around/thru it and then settle into the scene where I want it. I've played around with other product demos online but they lack a good set of tutorials on just doing something this basic. Do you have any examples of logo/text animation done in AM and a step by step guide. Thanks in advance for your help and understandi…
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Hey Rodney! I just want to thank you for your never-ending efforts to cheer on the new users who come to A:M. Thank you for using your powers for good and not for evil. Continue cheering for truth, justice and the A:Merican way! If only a certain former cheerleader were more like you...
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I am trying to export a video file to DVD for playback on TV. I am doing 720X480 with aspect ration of 4:3 but the TV is cropping the sides off of the video. Do I drop it down to 640X480? Do I go smaller? If any of you guys are video-heads please let me know. Thanks, Justin
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Hi all, I'm starting up again with exercise 6 after being away for quite a while, and I'm running into a problem right off the bat. I want to have Shaggy walk up to the door before he tries to open it, so Ive made a path, dropped Shaggy onto it and then dropped a "resolute walk" action onto him. When he gets up close to the door, I'm hitting the "force keyframe" button at frame 30, moving his hand up to the door and placing his feet together on the ground (in skeletal mode), moving the frame counter ahead by about 3 frames and then hitting "Force Keyframe" again. What happens is that the hand and foot motions I've changed are stretched out over the entire 33 frame…
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I created a simple model and hit the create icon button. Then I saved the model and the project with embedd on. Now I wanted to save the model to the library with the icon as the preview image. I created a shortcut in the library pane and now could see my model in the library, but only with the default Hash guy preview image. How do I substitute the preview image I created in AM with the default image?
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Hi there, I've been an on-again off-again AM user since version 4. When I download the v12 updates or the v13 alphas I get this message when I try to install:- " An I/O error occurred while installing a file. This is normally caused by corrupt installation media or a corrupt installation file" It happens with any .exe file I try to download. Anyone got any idea what this is, as the problem must be at this end. Mike Logan
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Models, Models, Models... Also - where can I get (preferably realistic, european) vehicle models for A:M? Thanks
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Hey All, I have had AM for a week now and I am having some weird things happen. I have been trying to follow one of the video tutorials on walking cycles. I double click the an actor, it opens up, I close that window and double click Actions, set the view to shaded. But, when I try to rotate the model it vanishes leaving only the bones visible. This is happening on a lot of different models. What is causing this? Thanks for your help! T MAC
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I'm working on a fire extinguisher model to put out some text I've set on fire. I'm at the spray part of it and am not sure how to handle it. I was thinking about using a particle system to generate the spray on the end of the nozzle. I want the fire extinguisher to be able to be "turned on" though so I need the spray to be off and later on. My other thought is to use a small circular model placed in the end of the hose to generate the spray from. I can put this in place or remove it any time I want. Is there a way I could group this with the end of the nozzle so I don't have to consantly position them individually? ie if I move the nozzle the spray model shou…
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I'm attempting to use "Paste Mirrored " in an action, and it just won't work. It used to, but now it won't? I cant figure out why. Has anyone else had this problem? I'm wondering if perhaps I hit a key without realizing it and deactived it. I'm using 11.1 Ed
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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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hi- i have 2 questions for the group. i want to add my own material to the library but what format can i use? what is ".mat"? i'd like to add a photoshop file: jpg or bmp or ?. can i? and- if i want to create a cube with specific dimensions- can i do that? if so, where do i specify that? thanks much patter
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Ok, I purchased what was listed as Animation:Master 2006 a couple of weeks ago. The box has a witch and broom on it. The CD has a Yeti on it. The software version is 12.0 and everything in it states that it is AM 2005. (Help/About), etc. Now, I somehow came across Version 13 Alpha and have been using that (as I am a bleeding edge kinda guy and love to debug things). Today, it said my "trial" is over with and to call a 1-800 number. So - What am I supposed to run? What did I purchase? How do I work on the TWO project without version 13? IS AM 2006 even out yet? Thanks all! -Tim
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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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HOW DO U MAKE THOSE SUN RAYS UNDER WATER? anyone know?
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I'm thinking about buying A:M for a dinosaur movie I have in the works. Is this software good for that, and how hard would it be exactly. PS: Dont show me the t-rex chasing a car video, ive seen it!
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I'm having a bit of trouble getting this to work. I want to delete this patch in here, but it won't work! If you look in the little square you'll see the selected patch... VVVVVVVVVVVV
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I was wondering where I might find tutorials on version 13's newest features, especially simcloth, the compositor and hdri lighting. Thanks for any links or instructions. Sincerely, Michael p.s. I asked last week but could not find my posting to see if there was a response.
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Hi, My name is Jennifer. I have been wanting to learn as much as I can on animation master, so my dad said that I should try doing TAoA:M. My dad is a childrens' educational software writer, and he is using animation master to write his science program.
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Ive put a walk cycle onto a path, but I wanted to adjust the speed. I tried increasing the 'chor length' and 'cycle length'. I think thats what they are called. Anyway, that was great for slowing it down, but when I tried to speed it up again, this time by reducing those parameters I lost part of the cycle. ie, part was truncated.. then my character slides the remainder of the path, where once, he walked.. Do I really have to be so linear in my work-flow? Im sure theres a way to change the speed without this problem.
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I hope this post is in the right place, I'm a new user and am not sure how to post. I've completed a few of the tutorials and would appreciate some feedback to see how I'm doing. Iv'e tried posting before so if I've put anything up wrong I am sorry. I've just realised this is put up as exersice7 and should be exercise6, sorry about that.[attachmentid=16028] through_the_door.mov
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Lately, I've been having a problem with in the Choreography. If I have, let's say, four key frames on the Timeline, and I hit the 'Play' button, the action will go the second, or third, key frame, and then cycle back to the beginning. If I step through the action [not to be confused with an .act file-type action] it will go all the way to the end. But what's causing it to fetch up?
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Lately I've had splines leap away from a CP and go as far as A:M can see. [ I'm using A:M v.11] I've zoomed out as far as A:M can go, and no end in sight. Sometimes it's happened as I've connected two points with another spline. The ones in this pic happened when I extruded a ring of eight CPS. Is this a problem? They can't be selected or deleted. But when I rotate the model, they disappear in most of the views. [attachmentid=16238]
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Deciding to take a break from the Bird/Flock problem, I set out to build a dino-type beast. But of late, my smooth splines are coming out with kinks. How to stop this from happening? Thinking that it was a Bias problem, and that setting the In Magnitude & Out Magnitude would smooth out the splines, I selected all CP's and set the value from 100% to 0%. Big mistake. So...[1] How to stop splines from kinking? and [2] can this model be saved? I tried Selecting All CP's and re-entering 100% in both boxes. No go. [attachmentid=16243]
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Ok, I have been trying to figure out for the last 2 days how to make the background colors of a decal or rotascope transparent. I have done the exercise with the fighter jet, and maybe I missed it but I didn’t seem to tell me how to make a decal, and I cant seem to get my decals to not have that big white background. Iv searched the forum and cant find any topics of this, but maby me iz just stupid LOL Iv got PhotoShop 6 and have tried ever format combination I can think of, and still cant get it. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
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Hi everyone, I'm still relatively new to AM so please forgive me if these sound like a stupid questions. I've seen some incredible animated shorts posted at AM Films. I'm working on one myself ("The Door is Stuck" exercise). My question is, How do you create a final render with different camera angles? I was told it can't be done in AM but people are doing it some how. I'm hoping you can do this completely in AM and not have to buy another software package. Specifically, Is there a way to see camera changes in the previewed animation before rendering? If no, then why allow you to turn camera's on and off? Basically I want to make my "Door …
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everytime i make a movie on quick time theres always a black sky how can i make the sky blue?
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anybody know were i can find a dragon model
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I'm using version 12.0 Socereze version. I have to render a few animation files for my class in .mov format. The short I'm doing first is 10 seconds long and is simple enough to render in 12 minutes as an .avi. When I render with default settings, it takes the same 12 minutes. But when I go to watch it, an error pops up that says " This is not a movie file. When I render with Sorenson Video 3, no error pops up but my computer completely locks up. Another, not so serious, problem; when I rendered the above mentioned animation as an avi, the sound was this loud static type sound and not the music it ws supposed to be. And another animation I've done as a…
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Iam having some probs with hooks .I can get them to work but go a long way round ,by stitching as normal then breaking and deleating the unwanted cp and then making the hook ,is there a key to press or some way of doing it without the rigmarole ? cheers
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Hello Guys... When i actually installed Hash Animation Master, for the 1st time all the libarys where there in place all good. But then i did a format due to some computer problems and when i installed Animation Master the libary wasnt there? in the libray folder there is Hash Installed Libary, but no Data/Models this time any body know where i can get that data/models folder from, the 1 with keekat etc in. Thanks People just wanna hurry up and start! PS: its version 11.1 second hand...
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Ok i have shaggy walking along a path....at the end of the path i want him to, stop, turn, and face the camera. Now i'v put my Transition to next action "ON" i'v put hold last frame to "OFF" Put my blend method to "Add" I'v even tried to make a new choreography action...but no matter what i do....it changes what happens in his walk cycle "Which i dont want anything to change in his walks cycle!" Hope someone can help.
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Hello, I've been creating actions for the figure I've created, and I am now practicing stringing them together in a choreography. Two problems I'm having: 1) I'd like to move to a frame, say frame 00:01:00 and have all action start there. When I move the frame counter to 00:01:00 and drag an action onto my character, however, the action starts at 00:00:00 and not the place that I'd like it to. 2) I've added an action to a choregoraphy and it ends at 00:01:00 I want the next action to begin at 00:01:10 with a blend in the intermittent frames. Again, when I set the frame counter to 00:01:10, and the last action ended at 00:01:00, the program ignores the ten f…
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Hi all, I have been doing the tuts the video ones as well as reading and after the 3rd I decided to play with the actors and there bones a bit to get used to them. I can't load certain actors though I get "The parameter is incorrect" even thought I get the right file for hair and such things. I tried restarting A:M and my computer as well as checked my drivers, they are up to date... Any idea's? I await your wisdom Thank you ahead of time
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