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Hi I was doing really well with a new model, but it started responding VERY slowly - a simple pan took 30 seconds and selecting a control point about the same. It is not a massive model. I found that if I was in perspective mode it was fine, or if I turned the Rulers off it was fine. I have several marker lines and the arrow indicators for these seem to 'shimmer'. Anyone any ideas as it is unusable at the moment with the rulers on. I could carry on without rulers, but I would like to know what is causing the problem. I am running version 15c with 3.5gig RAM, PENTIUM 4, 3ghZ, 120gig HD. Thanks Hoggy
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I bought Version 8 a long time ago. If I rember correctly I paid over $400 bucks for it. I tried to use it but after working for 6-8 hours on something and just when I went to fine tune the modle, BOOM! "Program has preformed blah blah" and I would lose all that work. I got frustrated with the program so I took some time off from it. I had it in my CD case at work. We had someone steal a computer from our department and ya they got my CD case with my AM cd in it. I called hash and figured I would just pay to have them send me another CD since the program will not run without the CD. WRONG! I was told the only way I could get the software is if I upgraded for $150..... So …
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Hi - can anyone show me a sample of a lawn of grass they have done using hair material? Thanks, Eric
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Hello - does anyone know if you backup a model - does it also backup all the pose sliders associated with it? Or is that something you have to do seperately? Thanks, Eric
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I don't seem to have the - -Files - Plug-ins - Wizards - Duplicator The duplicator isn't in the wizards section - can someone tell me how to get it in there? Thank you, Eric
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Hi, I was donig a little bit of research and i came across this web page. They claim to have the latest technology in Animation for Films and games. For what it looks like it seems that they are doing a prertty good job. Ah! What do you guys thinK? Check the link bellow. http://www.image-metrics.com/
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Hi Caroline - awhile back you very nicely posted some printscreens showing exactly how to shape hair (material) in the timeline - it was specifically for the "feathers" of a Tucan model I had created. I am creating grass using hair material and cannot find that post, I need it to brush up on how to do it... do you mind seeing if you can find your post and send me the link? ;-) Thanks - Eric
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OK heres the deal i try and import a .obj fils i made using an extraction program , it gets to the point where it says imported X where X is the polygons and points and such , then the whole thing freezes any thoughts
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I've had Brian Fisher working as an intern for the summer at HDStudios, where I do graphics. Brian has been playing with Hash now for only 3 weeks and has just posted an animation on YouTube that I think is quite good for an early 'go' with any 3D software! He used the Porsche model from my V14 CD, and modeled the roads and environment himself. Hopefully this will be found inspiring to other Newbies or folks considering A:M purchase.
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Not to clutter up an already cluttered thread.. KenH wrote: What implications would that be?
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I am trying to get a laser firing effect on a moving TIE. I know how to do it on a stationary object via a path. However I cannot get it to work when the ship moves. I tried making two extra splines coming out of the guns and constraining the blaster bolt to them but i couldn't find any way to constrain it to the splines. Is there anyway to constrain a strait path to a moving object to constrain the bolts too? Any help would be appreciated.
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Hey all, I was wondering how can i make spilled water like water affected by gravity sliding down or i rather mean like blood sliding down or spilled from a bucket or dropped down.would it be cloth or rigid body or inverted bubbles. i'm totally lost in this case coz all may work somehow so i need a certain idea or strategy that can help.
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I was just showing how I can start-up 3 versions of A:M on my PC...be rendering in 2 while working in the 3rd... when the question arose 'Can you do that on a Mac'? ---We have tried it, but A:M will only start once... I know there HAS to be a workaround, right?
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Hi - I have a character (robot) I made for a client and there is one scene where the robot has a wig on. The robot and the wig are two different models. I created on bone on the wig called "wigbone" and a bone on top of the character head called "head bone" - I am trying to to a Kinematic Constraint to attach the wig to the robots head. Clicking on the wig's bone "wigbone" and right clicking and choosing "Kinematic constraint" and choosing the "head bone" - it is showing that I picked the correct bone and it is 100% enforced in the properties, but the bone isn't jumping on the robots head? Isn't that how it works? I even tried doing it backwards by clicking on the ro…
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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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im looking for a tutorial about materials, can u help? thx, but wait... before u give me the web sight please make sure the web sight works also has any one notest, most of the animation master tutorial websight on the web dont work? is any one ever going to fix them? web sights that advertise help that dont work is not verry professional dont u think? thx paul
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do hairemitter simply not apply on five-point-patches? how can i solve this problem? help please!!!!! i attatched a screenshot of the rendering an one of the a:m window, that might help to understand. short sytem info: i´m working with a:m 12.0 on a macbook pro 2,33 ghz dual with 4 gig ram, a:m is used on parallesls desktop under windows xp (runs smoother than in osx)!
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Hello - I have a client that wants her character to have non-material hair. Does anyone know of an older tutuorial that might be out there on methods to model the hair? Thanks - Eric
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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 may get a little long winded, so please feel free to move on to a more interesting post. I was a child in the 50's, watching Lassie and the Beaver in first run in black and white. My dad had one of the very first remote controls: Me. In Junior High in the early 60's I explored Time and Space with Heinlein, Asimov, and Van Vogt. I went to my first concert in 1965. The Beatles played the Memorial Coliseum here in Portland Oregon. In the late 60's I explored Time and Space in a different manner, and from the few high points I remember, I had a pretty good time. Pong became a sensation and "Asteriods" became astronimical entertainment at a quarter a pop. …
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I Wanted To Know If Anyone Knows Any Tutorials On Decals,How To Flatten Your Models,Then Ways To Import Pictures,Textures Onto Your Models.
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Hey all, I can't understand how and what is the IK. Like in a human skeleton having 3 bones on an arm for example and the same bones are copied above and below the arm for IK thats what i don't understand. Also what are the constraints used for IK? I read the reference but still things aren't clear enough for me. hope you can help me by a good guide or useful information. tnx in advance...
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Hey i made many models on my friend's pc A:M software long time ago and I want to buy the software. how can i do that like what is difference between 299$ and 1 year subscription 50$ beside the reference and other add-ins. Also can i get a 1 year subscription if i don't have an A:M software installed previously on my pc?
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I cant seem to figure it out. best regards Jason Hampton www.hdjibguy.com
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A few days back I was advised to obtain the setup machine for use with my simple models. I did this and have spent a few days trying to install the rig into the model. .. with not a lot of luck. I follow the tutorial through steadily and get all the way through to the point of installing the final rig. That process goes through but, when I try to use the result, there is an error listed in the PWS, "Error Loading String 5003" When I try to use the figure in an action the cp's in the mesh don't seem to be affected by the bones so that, for example, when I move the bones in the arm the mesh just stays in the standard T position. When the pelvis is moved, l…
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Hi folks, I'm trying to install A:M 15.0c on my Intel MacBook running Mac OS X 10.5.3. I have the yearly subscription version. After install, when I try to open one of the tutorial projects, say, the flag tutorial, I get a message about 'Missing image IO plugin for 'BetsyRoss.bmp'. I checked the Image IO plugins folder preference and it looks okay, with the exception that the capitalization of the path was off. The path that was set ended in 'ImageIOs'. The path on install was 'ImageIOS'. So I corrected the path and restarted A:M and then I was getting 'Cannot load 'TGA.iio' or something like that. This is very odd behavior. This is a fresh install of Mac OS …
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Hello - I am creating the mouth poses as pose sliders for a dope sheet - one of them (pose sliders) isn't editable "Edit Relationship" for some reason when I right click on it - is there a setting or something I missed... didd't do anything different than the other ones - only having the issue on the one. I have closed out the program and rebooted the computer, which didn't fix the problem. Thanks - Eric
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I just got AM 15 and I want to transfer my settings and prefs from AM 14. In the passed when I went from 13 to 14, tech support told me how to do it via reg edit, but I dont remember how to do it. Is there a better way now? Best regards Jason Hampton www.hdjibguy.com
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I have always had issues with the library when I install A:M. After I downloaded v.15, I installed it. everything seemed to be fine. I didn't notice any duplicate library stuff. I then downloaded the 'big' data file. I erased the original data folder from my A:M 15 folder and moved the new 'big' folder into it's place. Now, in most of the library folders, everything shows up twice. How do I get rid of the duplicates?
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Got a general question about walk cycles. I have fought these things from the beginning so I want to make friends with them. Say I'm making a short with a very charismatic preacher on stage pacing back and forth. Each of his walk paths are of varying lengths and sometimes it's a stroll; sometimes he's walking a little faster. Can I use the same walk cycle for each of these? If I set the starting and ending frame for each time he walks, will it adjust his walk speed and keep his feet from slipping? The last time I tried to do this he would take one step and then slide along the walk path. I hope am able to figure out why that was too.
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Before choosing between jumping off a nearby cliff or dusting off the old light-box having ripped the rig out of this model three times and still having the same problem - I thought I'd put this to the forum. The character is rigged with the 2001 skeleton. As soon as I move the arms downwards they flip and/or disappear. It's most likely a constraint problem (?) but after much trial and error and comparing arm bone by arm bone to models with the same rig and that work, I admit defeat. Any ideas? Attached is a top view in which can be seen that the right forearm has boldly gone where no forearm has ever been (eh - no rude comments please lads) and the left has flipped ba…
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Ok, I know this has been covered many times.....I have v15, and I downloaded the data file. The models appear, some of the actions appear, two materials appear. Everything from my Extra CD appears. I can't get my materials and actions to show up. I know I did the file location correct, because I have my extra CD's data in my libraries. Any ideas? I'm on a Mac using 10.4 Thanks
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Hi, I added a background image (jpg), an underwater scene, to an animated fish I created. Some of you who have been assisting me may be aware of the fish. Anyway, every time I render the animated fish with the background the background image is washed out almost completly. This happens with every image I add not just the under water one. I tried removing all the lights to figure out which light was the problem but even with NO LIGHTS it comes back as washed out. Any ideas or suggestions. I really am stuck. THX all. 4 got to add that my modeled fish is lookin like it's got lights beaming out of it in wireframe mode. What's that about? See atache…
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im using the shaggy rig on a model i made. in both the shaggy model and mine, i can't change or add smart skin to lets say the thigh bone. when i try the bone dissapears and all i see is the right foot target. you can't add smart skin to the target and in smart skin mode the target node is frozen so i can't bend the knee and then adjust the skin. i see on shaggy they did add smart skin to all the leg bones. how did they do it?
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Does anyone know if you can make a model cast a shadow without the model itself rendering in the scene. I have some trees that have foliage made out of hairs. Takes forever to render with the shadow option on. I was going to fake the shadow of the tree by decaling a single patch with an image of the tree as a cookie cut, then placing it correctly in the scene so that it casts an approximate shadow of the real tree. The trouble is the cookie cut patch renders in the scene as well and I can't see anyway of making it none renderable whilst still casting a shadow. If I place the cookie cut out of the view of the camera then I can't get the shadow position corr…
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Hello- I have recently been playing with the "Distortion Mode" in AM (cool feature!!) and while researching the AM TechRef Manual (page 209).. I discovered that you can add bones and poses to Distortion Boxes. The manual says you can also save Distortion Boxes and nest them but it doesn't seem to give instructions as to how to do these things. Has anyone added bones etc and saved Distortion Boxes? Many thanks for any info or links to tutorials! Tom
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I thought these resources were no longer online... but here they are: For those still looking for some great A:M models you really should check this out. (Some random links from the old Extra CD resources site (Volume 1)) http://www.hash.com/amtutes/X_Vol001/Menu/html/Cartoon.htm http://www.hash.com/amtutes/X_Vol001/Menu/html/Anubis2.htm http://www.hash.com/amtutes/X_Vol001/Menu/...cifiFantasy.htm http://www.hash.com/amtutes/X_Vol001/Menu/html/Household.htm Thanks to Martin for still maintaining these files via the Hash Inc site after all these years. Its greatly appreciated. *Important* you must find and click on the name of the resource to the…
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Hi - I am working on a character for a client and she want the char's cheeks to turn pink at a certain point in the animation. Is this possible to do w/ a decal in an action over let's say one second - having the decal transparent at 0 - then non-transparent at one second? Or even set as a pose slider? Any suggestions on how to solve the cheek problem would be great. Thanks - Eric
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Hey all... I am new to A:M and am starting to attempt to make my own models. The problem is i do not know how to make eyes. If anyone can explain to me how...or even just provide me with a link or tutorial, please do so Thanks... Dango
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In short, I need to apply a texture onto an object, but within the shapes defined in an action. I think this may be possible using poses, but couldn't find the answer. (For a few more details, I'm trying to apply one image to the end of a morphing shape's action, then render that out; apply the other to the beginning; once those two are moved in the same way, a simple fade between the clips will create a smooth, 3D morphing transition between them.) Thanks.
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Why in propertits are not displayed importances rotate for chosenned groups in modeling mode? Where see coordinates rotate?
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I'm doing a composition with some models which are meshes built around prelit images. In other words, I want the exact pixel values for the colors, without any adjustment based on lighting. I'm looking for an option, but I see nothing. I deleted all the lights, and of course that just gives black. I want no shadows, no reflections, just the decals' original colors. Thanks!
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Is it possible to make bone movements during an action - for example a 5 second walk cycle is it possible half way through to manually have the character's head turn to the left or right? (not a part of the actual action) I tried to key the neck bone and rotate it, but it wont turn until after the 5 second walk where I created a new chor action. Thanks - Eric
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Hello again. I wonder why i dont make some easy thing's... well my questions is this time can i make wheel spin and that way only "car" or somethin else move forfard by self. or need allways path to move. i have make video on that. second question is can i use rigid body or somethin else to move thing. video explain a lot. meaning if i make only first (engine) to move ( hope whitout path) and rest follov it. or last and that push others... now my broblem is i cant make wheel spin. try lood training video but that old. diffren version. i have now ver 13. thinkin to by ver 15 but i even dont know how. i download it and install but yell activate code.…
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i made an anime head this time (still working on a more real looking face; only want semi-realistic though). i like it okay except for some creases and the mouth looks defective to me. Also thinking about changing the hair a little bit; i think i should've made the bangs spiky. Any suggestions?
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Hi guys, I was reading the manual and it says on page 128 "click the right-mouse button while the left mouse button is still down" to create a hook, now when I do that I get this error.......can someone in form me what am doing wrong....... thanks.
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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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Hello, I need to create an animation of a Winkie raking grass. What's the best way to constrain a long handle (the rake) to both of the characters hands? If I constrain the handle bone to only one of the hand bones, It works fine for that hand. Which means the other hand has to be manually placed. This causes me to have to line up and create a lot of keys to make the other hand appear to be holding on to the rake. If I try to constrain the other hand (to hold the handle) to the same bone or a child bone of the rake, I get a drifted attachment to both hand bones making it impossible to work with. I think it's because the contraints of each hand are compensating for ea…
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In some of the 'given' rigs I notice there is often a 'switch' or pose to change between forward and Inverse Kinematic linkage on a model ? i'm using my own setup ( too basic to call it a rig ) just simple bones with points assigned. The default seems to be that it becomes an IK system ? Is there a way to have the joints of the torso on forward while retaining the IK on the legs and arms. Or to be able to switch between one and the other? regards simon
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I have my doggle on one vlan and my computers on another. Thus does not work unless someone can give me a work around. I can't put them all on the same vlan for they are at different campuses. Help. Thanks Andy
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