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All I'm trying to do is to have a ball rotate 360 degrees on the Y axis. If you look at it from the top, what happens is it goes counter clockwise to 180 degrees then goes back to zero clockwise. What I used to do was just set the rotation to 359 degrees and then it would rotate once. What do I have to do in AM? I know I'm missing something simple. Thanks
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When I model, I never use the bias - I always fill out with splines. I am sure that I should be using the bias handles, but I always seem to get creases instead of the nice curves I am looking for. Do "real" modellers always use bias to get definition? What's the secret to stopping that little handle from slipping out of control all the time? Is the secret to create the mesh as far as possible and only then tweak?
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I have alot of plugins "hxt" in my hxt folder. why cant I use them. Trying treez but wont show in wizards
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Hello, I am looking into different 3d animation programs and found out about Animation Master. I am mainly interested in animating realistic people, like the kind that Poser and Daz3d can do. But A.M. seems to be easier to use so that's why I'm considering it. I've looked at the A.M. examples and have read some forum messages but I'm not quite sure if A.M. is best for what I need so I thought I'd ask here. Specifically, I read that importing Poser/Daz3d human models into A.M. is not wise, but how hard is it to build a "person" from scratch in A.M.? Do A.M. humans look as good as Poser/Daz3D humans? I saw the talking male head in A.M. and that was pretty imp…
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ok in the sharp lines on the face i made post there was belive it or not a movie to show me how to redirect splines (THANKS) and somethin gthat was shown was the ability to move a cp along a spline with out actauly moving the spline , i coundent quite make out the buttion that was said. any one know?
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How do you guys convert your animations to NTSC video without getting interlaced fields or desynced audio?
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I'm working on a shot where a driver is seen from the front of their car. I've added subtle shakes, which have added a lot, but I definitely need objects to zoom by. I'm not a stickler for their non-uniformity (we can pass systematically placed palm trees for all I care), but I've encountered a problem: The first passing tree was nice. The second one I set up to complete the same distance in the given time, and then dragged its keyframes forward in the project workspace. Now it DOES pass by later, but during the time before its first keyframe, it appears stationary at (0,0,0). This is obviously unacceptable. What am I missing here?
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Hello, I don't know where to post this so sorry it's here, I cant seem to be able to access the support forum. I want to reinstall my operating system so that means I will need to reinstall Animation:Master, Anyone know how I would do this because I used my subscription key when installing ti the first time - can I unregister my copy of A:M on my pc and reinstall it once I have rebuilt it? Thanks Tony
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Right, I'll try and explain my problem here as best I can. It started a while ago after I did the "Door is stuck" animation. I completed the exercise and I went back to it to re render it and when I played it in the editor each keyframe stays there while it carries on and it seems to kind of create a copy of the same model at each keyframe. So I end up with my model at the end of the small animation being a mess of what looks like lots of models all in one. Then I was working on something yesterday and the keyframes slowly started deleting themselves when the animation bit finished. it will output to an animation file ok, there is noting like this on the ac…
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ok i made this face using the tutorial i got a few posts ago but for some reason its a little sharp i cant manage to get the sharpness out with out a way to big distortion so im asking for help heres the file face.mdl
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I'm starting a job soon, teaching teens to make movies. Since I've been dabbling with A:M, I was thinking of showing them some of the basics, get them excited about special effects. However, I'm registered on my home computer. If I go to one of my work computers, can I log in my account and use A:M? It's fine if it deactivates my home copy until I re-log-in there, I'm really not trying to pirate it. I'm trying to see if I can bring it to a class, that could very possibly get some kids to save up for their own copies. Of course, if the answer is a simple no, I understand. Whatever it takes to keep this awesome team employed I could talk to my bosses about …
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ok usualy this does not bug me much but on a really complex model its starting to , for some reasion both lines and CPs are being put behind the Grid is there a way i dont know of o fix this
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okay so iv'e seen this before but im not getting it. i have 5 cameras. i want camera 6 to be the master or render master. i tried translate to and orient like camera 6 to other cameras but it does not really snap to those views. am i forgeting something? ive done this before so i know it works great...any ideas?
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Hi, I was wondering whether, as a rule, A:M pros usually build each character from scratch, or whether some use an existing base character to generate others? Thanks
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before i try this, is it possible to have two actions run together? i want to use a talk action with a walk action layered together. i tried using blending but it did not seem to work...
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I am making a pond and I thought I could fill it with fluid and the stop filling it a the first frame. How can I go about doing this. do I manipulate the material directly? I tried setting keys for the emission rate and it just completely deleted all the fluid.
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I made an animation called Step up, using the knight he steps up some blocks, the hands didnt stay still but i couldnt get then to because wheni moved the waist target, the hands wouldnt stay in the same spot. How do i fix that? Step_Up.mov
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OK so i was trying to animate the knight to step up these blocks that i put in, i was having a little trouble with moving the bones then on frame 25, shown below, the arm flew out of place and was messed up, also it was saying rotate instead of like moving. can you see how the arm went out of place?
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OK, so anyways, i put what i learned together and made the knight jump. i thought it turned out nicely The_JUMP.mov
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My question is totally covered in the subject title. I want a sunset/sunrise shot. What will this take?
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I'd create an image sequence of this display in a paint program, going from lowest price to highest price, and apply that sequence as a decal to your sign. In your chor you can control the displayed frame of an image sequence. It would be easy to make it go up-down-up-down as needed for your story. And easy to revise the timing of that as you refine your animation. Is "image sequence" a technical term? I made a bunch of .jpgs of the various prices, but I don't see an obvious "apply image sequence" option under applying decals.... (the glitches I'm getting w/ jpgs is another problem, I'll just mass convert them..) Is this just another way of saying m…
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Once I've created the "poses" involved, the biggest factor becomes timing. Of course, sometimes I didn't make keyframes where they belong. This results in a lot of selecting all the body-part keyframes down a particular frame, and then moving them. But my monitor isn't big enough to make "selecting all the different body parts' keyframes" into a graceful motion. There's a lot of scrolling involved to even reveal all the keyframes at a given frame! Is there an easier way to distort an object or project's timing?
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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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Ok when i might go to side view weird things happen when ill grab a bone sonetimes, like just now i went to side view and tried to push the door in from side view and all i did was grabbed the whole door with me and it was dragged out of the door frame completely??
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i made an eye lid move up and down. In the relationship window it works, in the action window it work, but in the chro, where i use it for animation it will not work ie is movin up and down. please what can i do to correct this mess up. thz
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I would like to create a fire the shape that like the little dragon exhales, that appears frequently, when you render to file with A:M..... Could you give me any advise, example, tutorial for this , please?
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I'm making facial poses right now, and I find that lots of emotions have common traits (for example, both anger and sadness would have a slouched mouth). So my question is, once I've made one pose, can I select the positions of SOME cpts and then use those to jump-start a new facial pose? I hope people don't mind me asking as many questions I can think of- this board's response time is too good to pass up
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I made a group for "top eyelids" but realized I wanted to move them independently at times. So I selected "top eyelids," hit "G" for group mode, held alt and deselected one eye's cpts. But NOW my "top eyelids" group doesn't select the cpts I deselected at that moment. Is there a way to narrow your cpt selection from a group without altering that group?
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Ok so i subscribed to version 15 for 50 bucks, but then i got version 15, put the activation code in and tried to run animation master, but strangeley, a lot didnt show up, a lot of actions werent there, a lot of folders werent even there in the library under models, there was no props folder a lot others, ill get a pic
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ok i have made a gattling gun kinda thing and am riging it to turn 30 degrees play a fireing animation and then keep rolling , what i would like to know is is it posable to play a action for say 1 second then snap it back to its zero second and have it continue on from there
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Is there a way to turn the X/Z axis into a shaded texture map? I'm also making a road, but I'll probably make it finite.
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I have created an awesome old tree but have no idea how to start adding leaves to it to finish it. Is there an easy way to fill it out?
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this is really funny but could somebody tell me how i can delete a pose i made from the pose slider window
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Copyflipped/attachted this modelhalf here, fixed the hooks and expected the mirrormode to work but nothing. What can I possibly be missing here? SimpleRigMan15H_130808.mdl SimpleRigMan15D_130808.mdl
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I have started a WIP model of a my own Knight and I would like to add maybe some small engraving or mostly some dents in his armor. Are there any TUTS out there to show me how to do this? Thank you very much!
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hiya please dont take this as a moan, I am new to animation master and am trying to get some answers to queries i have, I am used to lightwave. After purchasing animation master i have found some queries which i just cant find the answers to. I am in the uk, I hope some friendly americans can give me some advice. First of alli have a problem in that having done the tutorials on the website several functions seem to be different, on dragging a image onto an object, which is on the tutorial, I am asked if i want a rotoscope or layer, this doesent appear on the tutorial, in this it just moves across and you can move it around, is there any way i can give a cho…
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ok going through some of my models i wanted to try an optical camo on a unit , if you dont now what that is its a sort of cloak per say , unlike say a standard cloak a optical camo is more like im putting a tv in frount om me and a camera behind me on every section of my body, a good example of this is from phantom crash . in essence the body becomes clear bu the bacground is distorted due to the buold of the body.
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Hi guys, OK, I have the potential to use A:M at work for some business projects. I've been given an assignment to animate a big assembly project we have going. If it turns out good, My company will let me animate more in the future. I'm currently using my V14 CD so I can do this during work and hopefully not interfere with my SO assignment while I'm home. Not to mention it's great to be able to use A:M for a work project instead of AutoCad and Inventor hehe. OK I have to model a huge multimillion dollar assembly process and then create an animation of it in action. It's for our company's website to give a visual of what our product does. Again if they like it, I…
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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 was just wondering if anyone could help me figure out how to make part of a model act like a dreadlock or ponytail compared to the rest of the model, for example, if one wanted to make a ponytail with patches instead of using the hair feature, how would they make it so that whenever the head of the model moved, the 'patched ponytail' would move automatically with the head as if it were actual hair, and needed no manual tweaking of the bones within the 'ponytail' every couple of frames? I'm sorry, but is the best way for me to put it. I could show you an example of what I want, I want the dreadlocks on my Predator model to move in relation to the head in a hair like …
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While in tutorial 7: "Can you say that?" I have a recurring problem involving the "S"-type phonemes. I should note that when I first selected "create new dope sheet", it told me there was some problem I didn't understand, a file missing, maybe a dictionary? But it said it would build anyway so I proceeded. Everything seems to be working fine, except when I get to where an S should be in a word, I don't see it: And when I scroll all the way to the left, I finally find the missing phoneme, but I can't click it: Any tips on how to work with this? I've also found I can accidentally create phonemes like this at times by pressing Command-Z (w…
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I do have a chor setup containing a dome and a character. I use the dome with an hdr image for reflection (reflection map on a material on the character itself is out of the question). So my problem is this: I need to render an animation with only the character (alpha) eg make the dome cast shadows but not make it visible in the render... Any tips?
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Someone please answer these two question!!!! Question #1. I am far into the TAOA:M and have yet to be able to save a model as actor or model or as anything but .prj! How do I save it? I know it sounds like a stupid question but I am very frustrated LOL. Question #2. after doing "Make it Talk" my work was great but when I save it to .mov it has no sound. I noticed many peoples had no sound either. what file type or how do I save it with sound? Thanks a million to any who answer these.
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ok as of part 5 of my not machine project im trying to build a not machine face, as in humen (shutter) but for the life of me my hash library is completly empty atm. my first attempt was less than impressive so was wondering if some one has a basic face spline setup they could post
Last reply by Gerry, -
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Hi all I have some mocap data in bvh format. I have already imported a sample bvh file into Animation master (version 2005), but when I try to export it I get 1 frame as an output with "Shortcut to ground" as a root of the hierarchy. All I am trying to do is to examine the format that Animation Master exports bvh files. Any ideas what is wrong? Export from animation master HIERARCHY ROOT Shortcut_to_Ground { OFFSET 0 0 0 CHANNELS 0 End Site { OFFSET 0 0 984.252 } } MOTION Frames: 1 Frame Time: 0.0333333 Imported BVh looks like this HIERARCHY ROOT Shortcut_to_reporter { OFFSET 0 0 0 CHANNELS 0 End Site …
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i have this square that i was experimenting putting hair on. I added a bump and a trasnparancy but when i render it, the whole top part of the shape gets cut off. maybe i should stick to the particle system, but i don't think it can make ponytails and braids effectively (am i wrong?) here is the image of the hair square. does anybody know what my problem is?
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I'm a newb... 100%... even though I bought the software at NAPP in Miami a few years ago. I never did find time to load it and use it. But... I come to ask a question from the experts... Will this software allow me to create 3d textured text animations for use in video production? I was looking at Boris Red and then I remembered buying AM and thought I'd see if it might handle the job. Thanks in advance for your comments, suggestions, insight, etc. Vince
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for some reason i can only auto assign. i cant seem to select CP to bones myself. any ideas? holiday_card_08_1.prj
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Hello - it's been a few weeks, been working on another tooth animation - hope everyone is doing good. Have a small issue I have a model in a chor and had to make some changes to it, but wasn't sure if the changes were going to work - so I renamed it so I wouldn't effect the original if it didn't come out right. The original is in the chor as "impression2" - the one I want to use is called "impressionFinal". Is it possible to point it to that, so I don't have to go in and redue that portion of the chor? Thanks - Eric
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Hey, i was wondering, if i possibly might have lost my cd, just in case, because i moved a little while ago. But if i happen to lose my cd, is there a way to get another one or something?
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