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Hey, I havnt been able to be using AM for a long time because of homework problems, and ive been trying to get it back up. anyways, Im needing a bit of help. For example, when someones jumping, how do you make them look like thir really jumping up fast like in AM movies that have been made. I cant get the quick and cool movements in the characters when im making an animation in the choreography Any Help please?
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Please can someone help me?I am doing a birthday card for a friend and have come to a standstill. As you can see from the quick render screen the picture(wip)is ok.But when i do a render to file the Thom model on HAPPY disapears and the HAT ends up on the floor. I am using the current version of V13a. Please someone tell me this is just a silly newbie mistake. [attachmentid=17679] [attachmentid=17678] [attachmentid=17680] P.s.I am not worried about the skydome problem as this is just a tempory item.
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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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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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Hello New user here. I was wondering the fastest way to handle making a scene where to characters talk to each other back and forth. Do you have to make a seperate action and dope sheet each time a character speaks. or can I make one really long dope sheet for everything each character says and then space it out in the chor. I hope this makes sense
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Gang, I recently purchased the ExtraDVD and cannot successfully link the library tothe PWS for drag n drop. I have followed the instructions found at link http://www.hash.com/lib/. They were very helpful. I was able to move the original V11.1 data from the CD and the models, materials and projects all show as expected. I successfully transferred the ExtrasCDVol1 and the folder shows in the PWS and I can drill down to all the great content. Unfortunately this does not work for the new ExtrasDVD. No folder exisit in the PWS area for drill down. Perhaps there is some folder hierarchy which I am not following. Any help is appreciated. Thanks, Mike
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I have been using v11.1 for over a year, and just recently downloaded the upgrade for 12.0 It installs fine, but once it is installed, there are no plugins. WHat I mean by that is that any tree that has a plugin, when plugins is highlighted nothing comes up. Also, help topis brings up an error box saying "failed to launch help". Just to see if it was aproblem with v12.0 I downloaded the upgrade to my laptop and it brings up all plugin fine. Have I done something wrong or is there a setting I have failed to turn on. PLease tell me someone has had this problem and has a solution????? Thanks
Last reply by Luuk Steitner, -
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I am working on a project where I want to have several orbiting balls bounce off each other while orbiting a central gravitational object. While I've played around with A:M for a while this is my first real project. I just haven't been able to find anything that seams to address this particular subject.
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Would anyone be kind enough to help me out here ... for two days now, I've been trying to create this knob ... any and all help is greatly appreciated. I'm totally stuck ...
Last reply by vf124, -
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i can make eyes, and now a decent mouth; but my weakness (besides connecting a face) is making a good nose. i can make one without nostrils, but since i'm aiming for semi-real, i do want the characters to have nostrils. i've tried drawing the nose from a profile view, i've tried drawing the bottom of the nose and extruding it upwards (it works but the bottom turns out flat and the nostrils don't show) and i've tried drawing it flat and then bringing it outwards. That one worked the best, but the nostrils end too big (which might be okay for some noses but not all) i need to know do any of you have any other tricks or techniques for making a nose?
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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…
Last reply by Slipin Lizard, -
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OK i still have yet to give up on my TA style building and am still trying to find a way to make it work but have run into a problem , i have made a diamond that should count as sold but when the Boolean hits it it cuts it off as if it where hollow . is there any way to make it cut as if it where solid
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When I am in shaded mode my decals look good. Howeaver when i render the lose their clarity. They go from looking sharp and defined to having a smooth look. I realize this might be good for some images but i am annoyed by it. Is there any way to set the sharpness for the render
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I'm trying to extrude along a path but not getting anywhere. I created my path in the shape of an arc (working on a handle for my chest) and I created the cross section ( an ellipse). When I choose Plugins > Wizards > Extruder then choose the arc as the path and the ellipse as the cross section to extrude along, I am not getting the results I would expect. I get something that sort of looks like I wanted, but not quite. One end is pinched, and I was expecting the cross section to stay more or less vertical in the middle and then curve off in the opposite direction on each side, like an arch. Here are two screenshots:
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Like to know if there a way to lay font in a arc or instead along a straight path... Think I saw a post here I have been digging but cant find it or if someone can explain again or direct me to the link. Trying to make a logo for a friend. thx...Here is a sig i made i put lettering around logo moved each letter manually.is there a easier way
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What does the remember me option mean, when signing on?
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I am a newbie but I have been doing pretty good with the tutorials. I have been trying them first out of the book and then watching them online to pick up some extra tips, etc. However I can't seem to find an online version of Exercise 11, Giraffe. Does anyone know where I can find one? I am having some trouble following the book and could really use a visual tutorial. Thanks, Robbin
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I'm trying to make some grass and i'm following along on http://www.hash.com/am2004/Modeling/Hair/index.htm but when i change the color of the blades from green to yellow on the diffuse color timeline, the color changes in blocks--that is it begins with a green, then abruptly changes to a lighter green, and then to a yellow. there seems to be no gradient.
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In all the versions of help I've found, the Java table of contents crashes. Java doesn't crash on anything else. It looks like it's looking for privleges and not giving me a chance to grant them. Why I don't know. Is there any version of the TOC that doesn't rely on Java? I'm using... Version 1.4.2_04 (build 1.4.2_04-b05) Copyright 2003 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. Use is subject to license terms. (Also, any advice on where to get help on the 101 little problems I seem to be running into with learning the program? For example, attaching two parts of a model changing the colors assigned to patches, what all the different frobs mean in the…
Last reply by DNew, -
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Hi All, I have had Animation Master for a while now but I haven't really done anything with it so I am still just a newbie. What I would like to do is import some objects from DAZ 3D, Poser and AC3D and a few others. What I need to know is, is this possible? If so, how do I do it? And finally, what control will I have over them? Ideally, I would like to scale them and move them within 3D space. For example, take a imported box and have it fly across a room and bounce off a wall. Any help with this will be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Hiroshi01
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hi i am a newbie and i need someone to help me to get the right lighting effect to make the model look more real and not like a plastic puppet. is there any kind of softening render effect or something? is there any tutorials on the subject please help THANKS BILLY
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Hello, I am new and I'm trying to find out how I can make my own patrticle sprites. I've done the Smok, Wind, Fire tutorial but I don't understand what does what, I just did it. Can some one please guide me to a tutorial, or and explanation how to manipulate and come up with your own particle sprites? Right now I'm trying to make a rocket with a trail of fire and smoke.
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I been two years now that i had this program and figured out that.....I have no modeling skills what-so-ever ( I should have known sooner when I couldn't model the basic flour sack ) So i decided to work with what skills (I thats what you would call them ) in animating. The project I Am working on is going steady right now but I am having some trouble. Itrying to have one character walk to a certain point at a certain time but can't seem to get it right. How do I do this
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I been two years now that i had this program and figured out that.....I have no modeling skills what-so-ever ( I should have known sooner when I couldn't model the basic flour sack ) So i decided to work with what skills (I thats what you would call them ) in animating. The project I Am working on is going steady right now but I am having some trouble. Itrying to have one character walk to a certain point at a certain time but can't seem to get it right. How do I do this P.S. working with Am 2002
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I have been working my way through the projects in the manual. I keep returning to excersie 6 "The door's stuck" to try and resolve a major problem I have been experiencing. I will create a path for Shaggy from offscreen left to just infront of the door. I assign the action of walking to the model of Shaggy. The animated character "Shaggy" walks neatly onto screen and pauses in mid-stride before the door. So far OK. I then advance the frames by 5 and position Shaggy standing with both feet firmly planted in a standing at rest posture. In addition I move the right hand to the door knob. At this point I will run the animation to see how the motion flows and, to my consterna…
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Hey so i was trying out the sweeper plugin that comes with animation master and i cant get it to work. There is a drop down list for crossections but mine stays blank. I looked at the tutorials on the sweeper website and i follow the directions percicely (i think) Is there some hidden setting or a secret code i have to know? I named the crosection the right way but it dosnt display. If anyone here uses sweeper could you please help me with this? Thanks
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OK thanks to all for your help yesterday with applying texture as i have been getting some good results from that. my next questions is hopefully simple i have 2 textures ones is of sand the other soil ( light tan and dark brown) i would like to find a way to have them blend at different amounts so i could create a beach of sorts with stretches of both soils and sand at different rates
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I've tried everything and I just can't figure it out. Is there anyway to turn IK off for that rig without messing up all the other key frames? I tried adding a second chor action. This worked but then I can't key the bones. Is there a way to key all the bones at the point the second chor starts? I'm very desperate for a solution. Time critical. -vern
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what would be the best way to go about making a pine tree?
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HOW DO U MAKE THOSE SUN RAYS UNDER WATER? anyone know?
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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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Hi, this is Joe, I just purchased an AM subscription for my Mac, running OSX 10.4.11. It downloaded fine. I tried launching it; I get an AM box that says "System clock has been set back (-40)." It gives me only an option of "OK," which, when I press, the whole AM application shuts itself down. I have checked the computer's clock and everything is fine there. What is going on? Why won't it launch? Very frustrated, Joe
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Can someone please help? Ive been watching A:M tutorials for past few months, even read the manual online. I now have a new computer running win 7 and brand new A:M. Both 2 days old YAY! Ive used Maya and Bryce for years and dying to get into A:M now. For some reason my render Bounding Box shows solid (or last rendered pic underneath) when i drag a box. This also happens when selecting splines or points. I looked thru tools/options but couldnt find anything. I also tried running A:M in XP mode 32 bit and had same solid bounding box. Can anyone help? Thank you Michael
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I forgot how to put decals on a model, and I can't find how to do it in the book! Oops, I accidentally posted 2, sorry.
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how do i add details ? i can make a person but how do i add details?
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I was animating today and I hit something and lost all my control points. I don't know how to get them back. The model is fine and I can see all the splines it just all the control points are hidden. Anyone know how to unhide them?
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I made a post in another thread that consisted of this: I have a friend who wants to see the video, but isn't on the internet (Oh, the horror!) but he's not that stone-age, he has a big screen TV. I want to burn a DVD to take to him, but I need to convert the file. I have an AVS Video conversion program, but I'm not up on specs enough to know what to convert it to. Here is a shot of the settings as they are. What do I change them to for: A: A Big screen TV B: A Big Screen HD TV If there is a difference. Could one of you amazing A:M Forum Technophiles help me get a clue? Thanks Thought I'd try a fresh thread.
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Hey, all-- I'm working on tutorial #15 (volumetrics) in tAoAM, and when I apply the "Resolute Walk" action to the Knight model, his knees bend backwards in about 3/4 of the frames. I've rotated them frame by frame for some barely passable results, but I figger there's some "balance" setting somewhere that I just need to turn off. Yes? No? Anyone else have this problem? Thanks-- Mark www.someawfulbridge.com
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I need some help. I tried to make an animation, you know, moving the bones into position and load up a song from the sound folder, a mp3 song that I converted to .wav. Well it did work once I converted it to .wav, it does play the song in the program, but the problem is that whatever my animation is, plays first and then it plays the song. This happens when I loop the animation which it was just about 5 seconds; I did that just to try it since I am new at this and I am just learninig how the animation master program works. Any Ideas on how to blend the animation with a song file when I loop the aniamtion? This is what I want to do: I want to be a…
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Help Help! I thought, the links to the older releases wouldn't point to the same file, but they do. Is there any way I can get version n, because I think there is a problem with o that's forcing me to roll back.
Last reply by Tralfaz, -
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I was having many problems with crashes and nonworking features; a moderator suggested I upgrade to the newest version. I upgraded from V12 to V13 and all the crashes went away and the features now work... but the libraries have disappeared. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Last reply by Rodney, -
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Help! I was approved for the 14 day free trial. I had to go out of town the next day so I waited til I got back 6 days later to download the 64 bit version (Windows 10). I clicked on the temp license file and… nothing. I searched my entire hard drive, and cannot find it anywhere under any of the possible names Hash suggests in the approval letter. I clicked on the file link again but it tells me I’ve already downloaded it or are not approved. I tried opening the shortcut on the desktop on the off-chance that the file is somewhere within the program and hidden, and it says I’m missing a “mfc140.dll” file. Ack!!! I’ve emailed Hash, but no response. I plan to buy the…
Last reply by Jason Simonds, -
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I have been using V. 12 for while with no problems. All of sudden today, the program loads, but immediately crashes almost like it is timed to stop working. I have V. 11.1 and that works fine. I have the Yeti disk. I uninstalled V. 12 completely and then reinstalled -- same thing. As an aside, I tried to install V. 13 about two months ago, but could not get it to work -- it did the exact same thing. Does anyone have any idea what the problem may be? If I hold down shift so nothing loads with the program, it stays up for slightly longer, but will crash if I try to do anything. I'm in the middle of a project that I need to get done, so any help would be grea…
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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…
Last reply by John Bigboote, -
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Helpp ! Can't select Action Mode in Choreography !! Driving me nuts !! Drop a model in, then select action mode to create pose etc. Then after 10 minutes or so the action button gets locked or something - greyed out - you can only select the choreography button - which is already selected. Poses Still work , eg. eyelids etc - BUT you cannot enter action mode to pose model with bones ? Has anyone had this problem before ? Very Very Strange.
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hi, i made an animation of a dog walking. now i want to put that in a video where i am running and i want that dog to be like it's following me. i got the video of me walking now what do i do to put that animation on there.. please explain thanks
Last reply by satish, -
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Same crap every YEAR. I buy a subscription renewal for one of my two machines and - NO download, no activation code-nothing. When I go to the download page it tells me that I haven't bought anything. Is there something I'm doing wrong EVERY year same thing happens. Any help appreciated.
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Every frickin' year same thing. I pay for an update, got the activation code and cannot download the install exe. What am I doing wrong? Any help appreciated.
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I designed myself a new character today. Very happy with him but............ when I go to render him I get this................ I know it is a toon render. but his entire body and all the rest of him are not tooned! only his face! So I started with the nose of another character, that nose must have had the toon settings set on it. How in the world do I turn this off??????????? I have a half toon/half 3d character LOL
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hello. i was looking throughtout the forum but couldnt find the info i was looking for, so here i go. i want to start modeling biped characters and i was wondering if i had an idea as to if i wanted to model/bone a character, say like Marvel Comics X-Men "Cyclops" or "Wolverine", who in real life might be 6ft. and 5ft.tall respectively, and im thinking of using a measurement scale of 6in./5in. or 6cm/5cm in relation to actual footage onscreen, would this pose a problem once i got ready to animate? and does modeling/boning something this small aid in creating smaller file sizes or faster rendering time? and if in doing so would cause a problem, how small could i model …
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