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Hello - I have never really created actions before and used them in animations and I am running into a problem. I created a character and a walking action. I then created a new chor dropped in the character - created a path and put the character on it - and dropped the walk cycle on the character. All that works great, the character walks for 10 seconds and ends at the end of the path. When I go to move the character's bones around from the final walk pose to a standing position it screws up different parts the 10 second walk - depending on what bone I adjusted after the walk. When I set it to "hold last frame "0ff" on the walking cycle, it shoots from the final wal…
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I'm an oldie-newbie. I was an AM user up to v.13 and I'm wanting to dust off some of my old v.11-13 projects with v.15. Are there any issues/procedures I should become aware of ta do dis ting, right? I searched the archive but found no clear answer. MAC G4 Quicksilver, Leopard Thanks, Mike Hart
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i have managed to extrach a model file in the form of a smo any on eno how to add this to AM
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Did you miss the announcement earlier today? Martin Hash officially announced "Scarecrow of Oz" as the next film project. My advice? Get involved! Read the script, see the film's progress thus far and thoroughly explore the world of animation and filmmaking with A:M as you only can by being involved in a feature length film!
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Hi im Yarkool and I have Animation Master 2004 (I know its old). What i want to do is wrap a video game skin image around a video game model? Can anybody tell me how to do that or if i can? Thanks!
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I have a client that I am making a character for and she wants the eyes to be able to change from white to black when angry. The problem is I have a decal applied to the eye that has a white background when I make an action to make the eyes black you can see the white background of the decal. Is it possible to apply a decal w/ a transparent background? Or does anyone have any ideas how I can make this work? Thanks - Eric
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ok, what happened was that there were constraints for the feet to make feet targets and i removed them (because i wanted to use the simpler IK system instead), now, i followed the steps for a basic IK system for them, but the problem is, i try to move the feet in a choreography and it wont let me, any ideas?
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how can i correct errors like this correcz.mov
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i m making a pose for the eye lid. in my character, the eye lid it not attached to the model as a continuos spline. but i just fixed it to the model and attached it witH the bone as a floating patch. After making the pose it worked as in the relationship window that is eye lid open and close, but it didnot work in the action window, what can i do to correct the malfunnction.
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This is odd... I have been using the "copy keyframe" and "paste mirrored" creating a walk cycle for a chacter and it has been working fine - then for some reason it will not "paste mirrored". It doesn't paste anything. I have shut down AM and restarted it, and also rebooted the computer and still have the problem. Has anyone ever had this problem?
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As a guitar instructor, I sometimes forget to remember that the knowledge of some basic things that I take for granted, they have yet to learn. I've had no experience with animation of any kind, but the concepts of posing and lines of motion & force, along with exaggeration and how to make an animated character behave like a real actor are understandable to me. I'm about to approach ToaA:M exercises again. There are a few things I don't quite understand: Scene & Background: sky & ground, how to change & manipulate Lighting: Tutorials? Cameras: Tutorials Editing: The steps for turning the animations I make into "film" form …
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are there any tutorials on particals. I know there is one in the TAOAM but I mean more cutom stuff.
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Alright - I am simply trying to create a walk cycle and having problems.... when you move one of the foot targets forward to step forward, you obviously have to move the hips bone to line up above it - that moves the whole character forward. Throughout the whole walk cycle do you move the "root" bone to keep it centered the whole time? Also, when you "copy keyframe" and "paste mirrored" it doesn't seem to paste the root bone? Can someone fill me in on what I am missing. Thanks - Eric
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Simple question I'm sure but one that seems to be eluding me...: I am extremely impressed with this software but am having an issue with decal setting onto a model. If I position the decal it sets and looks great. If i save the model for later use, the decals are gone when I re-open the model and I can't figure out why. The file name of the decal still shows in the decals folder, but the image no longer appears on the model. To use the decal in the choreography, I have to first open the model, then open a new choreography, then re-apply the decals individually and then choreograph the production. Not impossible for some simple projects, but mind numbing for the dec…
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i rigged a character and the finger bones are invisble in the action window what can i do to make them visible. In the pws and prop window i made it visible. i m using v13 thz
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Hi - another walking question. I referenced exercise 5 "Take a walk" - and created the 4 poses at 00:00:00, 00:00:05, 00:00:10 & 00:00:15 then I copied the frame and mirror pasted. The walk cycle looks good. When I bring the character into a chor and apply the walk action and have it repeat lets say 10 times. Each time it repeats there is a 'jerk" motion when it starts over, so there isn't a smooth transition between the last frame 00:00:15 - going back to 00:00:00. Is there something I am doing wrong... some setting I didn't set or something? Thanks again - Eric
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was wondering if any one had any idea about making crystals and crystal formations
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Hello - I have never played around w/ putting a character on a path - so I thought I would try it out. I have the character placed in a chor and created a circle path to have the character walk around in a circle. I constrained the character to the path and it all works fine. I also had created a walk cycle for the character as an action from 00:00:00 - 00:01:05 that I dropped on him in the chor. When I play it, it takes a long time to go around the circle - my question is how do you adjust the 'speed' of the walk on the path? Thanks - Eric
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I am doing some final renderings in A:M v15, and after reading these boards I decided the best way to go was to do them in layers and then composite said layers together. That way I can use post effects to blus my background and foreground objects. Except when I render a model that has particle streaks, A:M is putting their transparencies into the Alpha channel even if there is a visible object behind them. (so if I have streaks in front of a wall, and both the streak emitter and wall are to be rendered, the wall should be sorta visible though the transparent streaks. Instead, it is just transparent all the way through. Shouldn't A:M only be applying transparencie…
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Hi - I think I had this problem before, but did a couple of searches and can not find it... so maybe not. When I click on my character in the project workspace the "main" bone I guess it would be is huge and seems to get selected on accident because it is so large - can I shrink this down w/o shrinking down the character? It isn't the "root" bone - because when I click on that it is a normal size. Thanks - Eric
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i was wondering if AM has the ability to save a small animation as a animated gif or a item of the same relevance
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I created a landscape using the terrain wizard and wanted to populate it with flowers. I decided to use the crowd flock and tested it with 16patch spheres 1st from the primitives library. I did a quick test render and sure enough there were the spheres floating just above my landscape. I then used the "flock to surface constraint" to constrain the spheres to the landscape surface. Sure enough, after scrolling through the frames a bit, the spheres moved onto the surface in my choreography window. When I did a test render, much to my confusion, some horrible great big black shadow things had appeared on the landscape, as though some massive thing was casting a shadow. I…
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Hello All. Really newbie question here. I've modeled a fish and am supposed to animate it useing deformers. I've done a serach on the TechRef. PDF and can't find anything that'll show me how to use deformers. I've searched this site and have only found people talking about them but not how to use 'em. Any toots out there? If you need more info let me know. Thanks. SMC
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i m using v13. i rigged a charater and when i turn ik arm ON the result is displayed below , how can i correct this.
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So I have this guy So is their a tutorial on how to add bone cause I need an easy one.
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Hi! I want to animate a little logo - i.e. spice up a fly-by type of scene that holds just one model that was done using the font wizard. Here's my problem however: I'd like to have the text object change it's appearance over time as the camera moves past it. I do see two options for this. 1.: Use a material effect and aminate it as desired. Problema: The effect just doesn't "look right". This may be a bug or the font wizard object I can't tell but the material just "dissolves" and not the way it's intended... Also the effect just ends with the effect object. So there is no way I can have the object "all 100% effected" at the beginning and gradually move to…
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So I added a Blur post effects to my main camera and saved my animation as a sequence of .png files. When the images render in A:M's window the blur effect is added, but when I open the same images in a photo editing program the picture has no blur to it. Can someone help me understand what I did wrong??
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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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I'm working on an entry for the 11 Second Club, which has three Squetchy Sam characters in it, plus a couple of stationary props. My problem is that the choreography is playing back so slowly that I can't get any sense of the motion or the timing without rendering out a quicktime every half hour or so. I've got relatively big iron hardware (3.0ghz P4 HT, 2GB RAM, 80gb HD running WinXP and AM14), and I usually I can get 30fps with an older rig, like the Knight or Shaggy. I know that the squetchy rig is more complex, but does it really slow things down that much? I've got version 15 on my dual core Mac, but I can't even run this choreography at all on that machine …
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Hi, I would like to take my A:M with me for an overseas visit and continue with my learning there, using another (my Dad's) PC. Will A;M allow me to install it and re register on another computer? Thanks
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What exactly are the capabilities for this. Can also do and movements and stuff or only mouth.
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My students and I are doing an alien invasion of our school. Question: we want to compose things in After Effects so what we want to do is render out only the aliens and ships in Animation Master. How do we get the front projection maps not to render out but keep the models that pass behind them blocked? For instance, when a ship passes behind our school building, how do we get the render to not show the portion of the ship passing behind the school (our front projection map) without rendering the projection map or it's objects? I've been through these tutorials, Ed explains multiplane rendering but not this particular issue. http://www.hash.com/users/ed/…
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Hello all! I've just downloaded A:M and [im a beginner]. So I started doing some of the exercises from the video turorial. The problem is: when I try to mark something, It makes this random black box that covers up whatever I'm selecting. So I can't tell what I'm selecting! Someone please help me with this! (Just in case you need to know, I run windows vista SP1 and my video card is not one of the greatest ones.)
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Hello Group. First point here and first time using this software. I am trying to close the Points on a tail for a Fish that I modeled (see photo) but can't. Not sure if 5 points applies to this or not. Thx in advance for the assistance. Sal
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I am making a face and made part of the right side of the face and wanted to copy flip and paste it to see what it looked like and I'm not sure why but when I do it makes a copy of partial face in front of it and attaches the tips of the nose... I checked my views and yes I'm in frontal view when modeling the front of the face so I don't know what's happening. I'm very new to AM so if you answer my question, please be as detailed as possible. original face my problem... Thank you guys.
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ok i have made a model for a tank with a bottom and top and have attached the bones only problem is that its not rotating right when on an angle, i know that there is a way to make it only rotate 360 degrees on only one axis but i for the life of me cant find out how. also the needed setting to do this would be nice
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Hey anyone... I am new to A:M and was performing one of the tutorials and it asked me to insert a photo via Rotoscope (or something to those lines). I picked the image they wanted me to insert, but once it loaded to the program, there was no photo, only a white square/rectangle. I have no idea what that means or how to fix it. Please give me some advice or tell how to fix that. Thank you, Dango
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Does Animation Master Work With Windows Vista? Pretty Soon I'm Ganna Be Buying A Windows Vista Pc. I own Animation Master v12.0
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Rougue model
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Hi all. I'm trying to sort out two probs really. Background: I've built a cartoon ship and have created its eyes via this fantastic tutorial: http://www.hash.com/amtutes/Bootcamp/EyeTut.html. within the same Model window. Issue: When I proceed to an Action window, my model has sprouted another inactive top eyelid. It disappears and reappears with the legitimate 'Topeyelid' when toggling the 'Hide' button. It seems to be a replica of the original eyelid shape pre the extrustion. Frustrated I've deleted the complete eye model, but it stays there until I also delete it from the GROUPS folder under the Project Workspace. It seems like a set…
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I am using a model that will need to talk but it has no mouth things in the pose slider or a jaw bone. So how can I make this easy by just adding the voice and the mouth move along with it. And also can I use the model in a movie without dealing with copyright issues if I make it look significantly different.
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ok i have a circle for the mos part and i wat to attack a few lines to it only problem is that every time i do it warps is there a way to fix this
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Hi all, Just got a problem, I wanted to create and simulate water. I have made the material but the water is just a material. How do i animate it? does it do this automaticly. I have selected animate but i dont realy now what i am doing Please help
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Hi, Everyone: I see something odd when I'm in an action window and move a bone. It looks like the normals flip and the character is inside out. The model is okay and it seems like it's just a problem in the display. It will return to normal if I click on the screen off of the character or sometimes space bar to refresh or sometimes just rotating around it. Here is how it looks in the model window: And here is what happens sometimes in Action: Thanks for any help anybody can offer. Oh, I'm using version 13.
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Most software companies give an overview of the product they are selling listing features and such. However, I'm not able to find this on the Hash website. I have no idea what Animation: Master is like and would like to know more about it and what it can do. Can anyone lead me to some articles, reviews, etc?
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How do I import IGES files?
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I seem to have misplaced some free animation master models had believed they came with the extras cd volumn 1 but was unable to locate them anywhere they are the Office Props models, stored a small assortment of desks, chairs, and various other office models figured i might be able to use em for my animation considering they are not my primary focus
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Hi i am new when it comes to animation master and was wonder if i can speed up the rendering process? I take me like 5 hours to do a 15 second clip but when i saw demonstrations it took them 30 seconds to rendering. I love the program ans everything works fine, I just want to know if i can speed it up.
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Now, I can call myself a NEWBIE... I have some questions about AM plug-ins. 1. What are those plug-ins that are included in V15? 2. Where can I find more plug-ins if I have to pay for it? 3. Does the V15 support importing the OBJ format (I have made some bodels in from other app)? 4. Where can I find free plug-ins? One more question, Can my 1 yr subscription fee be used toward the cost of the CD? Thank you for your responses.
Last reply by Rodney, -
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I can't get the AM to find he license manager. I have done exactly what the instructions said. The dongle is runnig but the software can't find the license manger. I am running 2k3 server , which the dongle is attatched to. The license manager is running. Don't know what I am donig wrong Help Thanks.
Last reply by rusty, -
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I need some help. I installed the animation software no problem. But when I went to click on the desktop icon, I received an error message saying, "Cannot locate the CD-ROM: Please insert the correct CD-ROM (HASH), select the OK and restart application." I removed the CD-ROM, restarted the computer, inserted the CD-ROM again, tried to open the program from the desktop and still received the same message. I tried opening it with the CD-ROM in the disk drive, not in the disk drive, from the desktop icon, and from the pearl programs menu. Still nothing. Again I have tried opening it with and without the CD-ROM inserted into the disk drive. The pamphlet that came with …
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