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I have had this really odd error. Basically, I right click, <new>, <rotoscope> and then select an image. AM: Then gives me a white/blank image of the correct pixel dimensions. In the project workspace it lists the correct image, and if I double click on the image it opens up a new window in which the image is correctly displayed. These images are all comming straight off the CD and they worked prior to me attempting Exercise 10. (FW-190 Fighter) Midway through I had to save and quit. After that I have never been able to get the Rotoscopes to display. Any Suggestions on how to fix this?
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Hello, I'm new to AM. So far I like it a lot. I have a question: I've seen several animations that show different camera angles. How is this done? Do I render different angles and edit them together in iMove or with in AM? Thanks Andy
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i would import an action to my newest model in choreography mode and a window pops up and says, "Exception #033. Realtime render. If you repeat this exception please send data and steps to http://www.hash.com/reports Thanks." I'm not exactly sure what it means and I do'n know how to send data that it might not list, and every time my mouse enters the screen with the camera, modle, exe... it pops up again! and that's hard to get away from, can anyone help? thx
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I don't know how to save the models that you make on AM, i would also like to know what do you save your AM movies under,(i use quicktime) also i am having a hard time with making people, more spaciffically arms and legs, note that this isn't the main topic, so don't feel bad if you say, "practice and you'll get better" Thanks to anyone who replies to this topic.
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Well I am still very new to A:M but I have finished the workbook and practiced a little bit on my own but am still very new. Anyways...I am running the newest version which is version 13 point something, Well what my question is, Is how would I go about making a mirro or reflective surfae? Like say a typical mirror in a room or a mirrored reflection off of a car or sunglasses? Do I have to manually "Paste the mirrored image" over the surface? Oris there a way to get the computer to "know" that it is a mirrored surface that reflects? That way it will be better and more accurate with movements than if I did it manually. Because I really waana use this effect and make a char…
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Hi all, I've found myself bogged by the move frames dialog. Can someone give a quick rundown on this? What's Before and After entries for? What's the Offset and Scale for? Or is there a portion of the manual I'm just missing?
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Ok so I've been playing with A:M for a couple weeks. In the process of building my first real model. Here's what's done so far. Still have a long way to go before it's done. Love to hear comments and suggestions. [attachmentid=19864]
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ok its a white box again........ but when i render the final pic its fine and i can see the picture wh does this mean and y can my graphics card show the pic in the final render but it doesnt show up when its not rendered?
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Hello. I am very new to Animation Master and have just installed version 12.0n on my Windows 2000 PC. I have a P4 2.4GHz PC with an ATI 9000 Pro Video Card, 512 MByte RAM, several large hard drives (as I do some video work on the side). When I try to load some of the models, I get a "Parameter Is Incorrect" message. The same thing happens when I right click on the short cuts in the Libraries window. I can load SCHLITZY, but when I try to load Sir Nigel or any of the other Realistic Actors models, I get the error. I have tried downloading the latest version of A:M 12 from the Hash FTP site, but when that was installed, I ended up with duplicate entrie…
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I had originally built a Star Wars AT-AT in Anim8or and would like to bring it into Animation Master. I have tried exporting it to a .3ds model and them importing it, but it did not translate very well. The other option I have is to re-create it in A:M. Since the majority of the AT-AT is made up of straight lines, is it possible to have A:M default to Peak instead of Smooth when drawing the splines? Here are some pictures of the model created in Anim8or. [attachmentid=20224] [attachmentid=20223] Thanks in advance... Al
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when i go to render project 1 "posing keykat, it wants to render multiple frames?" M i doing somthing wrong? please let me know what i em doing or should i just let it finish?
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Hi, Here is my It's a Pitch movie. I am perplexed on how I lost my blue sky and would like to know how to get it back. Look forward to your feedback. Lori Hiatt It__s_a_pitchSide.mov
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I just completed the "Giraffe" chapter of the book, accidentally got rid of the project (Model) window -- and now I can't find it! Yes, this project was saved -- I've restarted -- I even went back to 'reset controls', but to no luck. I can open up any other project and I get its corresponding window (in this case, the "Model" window), but just not the one I spend the last five hours working on. Another interesting thing...when I choose to open another project A:M asks if I want to save my job, "Giraffe" -- so I know it's there, just no window. So what stupid, silly thing am I not doing? I swear I've pushed every button more than once now trying to get …
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Hey! I'm an new old user (worked a bit with AM in '99). I'm trying to remeber everything fast and catch up, but I really need a model of a needle. Anyone have any ideas? I need to create a "through the eye of a needle" animation 2night. Thanks!
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I vaguely remember reading somewhere that modelling can be done in A:M's choreography window. Is this really possible? I've tried but all my CPs always end up disappearing. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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hello all. i just wanted to show picts of a face i did by lathing a sphere and extruding where i felt was needed first, then i added the mouth and eye sockets later. i know this isnt common practice, but i just wanted to see if it could be done, i also have a wireframe if anyone is interested. any and all critiques and feedback is appreciated. thanks.
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My computer is a P4 2.6 GHz with 512 MByte RAM, ATI 9000 Pro video card with 128 MByte RAM, Windows 2000 Pro with all the latest service packs and patches. All drivers are up to date. I am working on a WIP project using Schlitzy. What I am finding is that A:M seems to be getting slower and slower as more objects are added to the project. I am now at the point where I would like to start animating Schlitzy in a chor. The response time between mouse click and something happening on the screen is better than a second. I have tried creating a new project with only Schlitzy and the main objects of the scene, but response time is still pretty slow. Does anyone ha…
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hello all. now ive been researching on my own for the past couple of days since i first noticed ive had this problem, and ive tried all the solutions but im still having no luck. im trying to import a new .jpeg rotoscope, but all i get is a blank square in the modeling screen. i tried one suggestion to switch from "OpenGL" to "Direct 3D", then the whole thing disappears, but i still get a selection box( i even resorted to following one guys suggestion to switch from one to the other, then back again quickly, but that didnt work( no, i didnt try to do the chant yet ). i cant update the video card driver as im doing this on my day-job computer( to clarify, ive been pla…
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anybody got a medium-difficulty tutorial that focuses on making a model? i want something thats fun to make and easy to animate. thanks!
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Hello, I have a character face that should be flat, but the surface is actually has "ripples" and little intentations. I'd like to align the control vertices to one plane, to help flatten this out. In Maya, I can simply select the points, turn on the grid and then move the points, which aligns them on my chosen axis. Is there a way to do similar in A:M? Thanks, Tim
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Hi, please help me! I need this project: If someone has this project, please send it to my email office@boomradio.net, or upload it here. Please!!! Please!!! Please!!! Please!!!Please!!!Please!!!Please!!!Please!!!Please!!!Please!!!Please!!! Thanks! Igor from Serbia!
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I've been searching the internet for hours trying to find (and understand) a way to create two dimentional hair. I'm using the GIMP and trying to save as targa files to make use of alpha channels, but I don't really understand them very much. I found a couple tutorials that seem to explain what to do, but I don't understand the terms they use and looking them up isn't helping much. Basically I want to make it look like Coopers hair shown here.... http://www.colins-loft.net/new_coop_tutorial/CoopHair.html but I just don't know what this guy is talking about. I'll keep looking, but I hoped I could save some time here... And I don't really need any info on 3 dim…
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I would like to know if it's normal not to have sound when rendering from the choreography mode? I have been able to get sound with the Action mode.
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Hello all! I'm an Interactive Media Student, majoring in Film, Video and Audio Production. After taking a class in Maya, i bought this program to help myself with my own projects. I have owned Animation Master since July and have worked with it very little due to time constraints. I can model efficiently and compile images together and know some basic animation in A:M. Now that you know where i stand skill wise (beginner) my question. Does anyone have any tips on creating fluid effects such as a body of water? I can create a simple grid and apply the water effect to it, but as far as animating it and compositing into a live action video, i need to get w…
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This may be obvious beyond belief, but...to make 'paste mirrored' work, need I be in Mirror Mode?
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hi i am trying to model a female character and it is going ok but i have got a problem with a part of the model and not sure how to make i look better and smooth i have added a few attached some pics of the model and circled the area with the problem any help would be great thanks [attachmentid=22069] [attachmentid=22070] [attachmentid=22071]
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Here's an animation I created to try to help out Technodandy in going from path animation to breaking from the path and continuing with a choreography action. Here's the finished product. I didn't make it perfect. Also, after seeing how cool it looked I wondered if I could modify the Hash Rabbit and give him a superman (or bunny in this case) costume. It was relatively easy to make the costume so here it is. It's not great but still pretty cool. Here are the steps I did for the animation. I'm sure there are a few things I could have done differently (like use blend to match up the path actions) but I at least accomplished my goal. I took the walk cycl…
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how do you make something change color? like in an action or something?
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two questions: one, how do you make something look magnified by looking through a model, like a magnifying glass? two, what are the hash contests for and how do you enter them? thanks
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well, i did the advice on the magnifying class one, and it looks all blury( i use it for a sniper rifle scope). does anyone know how to make something appear at least 3x larger by looking at it through a model (or patch) without looking blury like under a magnifying glass? (hope i'm not being complicated) NEVER MIND FIXED one more thing, how do you make something completely transparent and have a reflection, like a glass window? thanks again.
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Is there a place I can go to learn more about how to model and set up things like tubes sliding around circular rods, making cymbals flop around on a stand when struck by a drum stick without the stick passing through the cymbal, making machine type assemblies rotate on an axle without sliding through the axle. The learning experience has been hard for me, but I am determined to learn no matter how long it takes. Thanks in advance! Tony
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how do i make a completely different character (just made) do that timeline and talking thing, like " can you say that?"
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is there some way to generate water or liquids to make a stream or fountian exe, like a sprite, only in water form and not "particles"?
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I scanned in parts of a book.I'm making a book prop(s). The scans are saved as jpegs, I choose them as my new decal, the bounding box appears, but no image. The image is in the DECAL section. I don't know why. I've done the same process before, and it worked. I scanned the book cover under 200 dpi, is that too big? Ahhhhh!
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Why does AM keep on making that annoying Windows "dong!" sound when I run it? It seems to happen randomly, every minute or two. Any suggestions? Thanks, Sruli
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is there any such thing as an "object collision" for a bone? if there is, can you tell me how to do it?
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i made a simple model and tried to make a whole by making the face transparent, unfortunately, when it renders, it renders with cross lines where the face should be transparent. attached is the mdl im having trouble with helmet.mdl
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Even though I am not a newbie, I am having a problem. I created some pose sliders and did the poses. When I looked back, I realized that I could do what I wanted without half of them. One slider has nothing attached to it. I have tried to delete them and they are not deleting. Is there a specific technique to getting rid of these. Any help would be appreciated Leo
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Hi all, I've had AM since v8.5 and have always marvelled at how easy it is to assign cps to bones, add fan bones, smartskin, etc... My question is why can't you do it the same way in a poly program (C4D, LW, etc...)? I am just curious here, trying to understand. It seems that it would be so much easier to lasso select a bunch of points in a poly program and assign it to a bone. The problem would of course be subdivisions (right?). But wouldn't it be feasible to say use the model in "isoparm" mode (less subdivision). assign the points to the bones and then subdivide after. The software would then extrapolate the extra points from subdividing with reasonable results. Jus…
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Hi there, I am rendering a scene for an animation, and am having a rectangular artifact appear in the final image. The animation is being rendered out at a multipass of 16 (4 x 4). The artifact does not appear until the 12th pass of the image. I am using A:M 13.0n on Windows XP Pro SP2. I have an ATI Radeon 9000 Pro video card and have all the latest drivers for the card and Windows. Out of 150 images rendered, 14 of them have the artifact in the same location and same height, but vary in width. Sometimes the frames affected are sequential, other times they are not. For instance, the frames affected are 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 then skips to 27, 28 then skip…
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Can someone tell me how do I Load a BVH file into A. M. I BVh files I Know there is BVH files that are reuseable. And since I just started to use this program I have not be able to import a BVH file to see if it works with a 3D Character. IF Somebuddy can explain a little bit how to do it I woud apreciate it.
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I just got Animation Master at Ces show and this is my first model I just made. Now I have To keep working on him
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First- I can't find anything for font in plug-ins. Can anyone help me with putting together a sporting event tunnel. The type that football players walk onto the field through except this is going to be for boxing. I would like about 2 or 3 turns in it and be able to show clips at different spots on the walls. I'm hoping to find someone to help me with it. I'm just getting into Hash so it's tough for me but I'm sure it'll be easy for someone who knows what they're doing. Thanks, Ron
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Hi everyone, I'm just starting to do my own modeling in A:M, and I'm trying to close up the "hole" in this shape. How should I go about doing it? I was wondering if I could just extent the splines from the bottom up to the horizontal spline at the top of the hole and attach them as hooks, but it doesn't seem to work. On the other hand, I'm not sure if I'm successfully creating hooks. When I see pics of people's hooks, it's just a spline leading into another at a 90 degree angle, but with no control point joining the two. When I do it, I get a control point... what am I doing wrong? Or if hooks is not a good solution here, what would you suggest? Thanks for any…
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When animating an object, how do you keep it completely still in one segment between keyframes and then move it again? An example is a character that stops everything it's doing briefly, frozen in time, then looks around. It seems like any animation program won't let you do that because it only allows constant movement while you're animating. Can anyone help?
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ok, i have a complicated model, with a complicated walk cycle. in choreography mode, i add the action to the model, yes, it works- but one thing, if i move a bone manually, the bone in the rest of the action cycle will not do the action, instead, it goes back into the position it is before you would add an action to the model. i hope i'm making sence, its hard to explain this any help would be appreciated
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Hello All I just want to say that ive been looking at animation master for a while now and im pleased with the fact that i have finally purchased my own copy of it and im really looking forward to it. NOW I HAVE A QUESTION FOR EVERYONE... I RECENTLY M WORKING ON A PROJECT THAT REQUIRES MY MODEL TO MOVE OR EVEN DANCE AND I SAW SOME TUTORIALS ABOUT MODELS THAT MOVED AND DANCED AND STUFF.. WHAT I WANT TO KNOW IS WOULD I HAVE TO START FROM SCRATCH AND CREATE THAT MODEL OR CAN I IMPORT IT AND IT WILL STILL RESPECT OR CREATE BONES AND SO I CAN MANIPULATE IT? MY MODEL IS A MAN THAT HAS HHIS ARMS STREACHING OUT IT IS 2D BUT I WANT TO MAKE IT 3D AND ALSO MANIPULATE IT IS THAT P…
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That AM should have a 7-14 day trial version. just a thought.
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Hi Splinesmen! I think this must be a rather simple question. Im using AM 13r on Windows XP. I just want an object to follow a path#1 (I know of Ease and Enforcement) - so this works great. At the end of path #1 my object has to do some "strange" movement, where a path is not apropiate. So I append a normal choreo action. Now my object "lands" somewere - and now following a different, second path (lets say path#2) would be the easiest for me. But I've no success in doing the last step. A added the second path. I set a path constraint on object with path#2 as target. But now matter how I edit Ease & Enforcement: MY object does NOT move along…
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I took time out from the exercises to read the help files start to finish, and now that I'm marginally less confused than before I restarted the exercises. What, I wonder, is this huge circular geometric thing that overlays the Choreography window called a Rim? I moved it here, then there, then did some fairly dramatic moves with it and it seems not to affect a thing. I suspect it's a lighting thing but just how and where the two are connected escapes me. Could some kind soul spend a few words and enlighten me?
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