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The A:M Forum is for technical support and the sharing of tips and ideas between users/prospective users of Hash software. It is moderated constantly by technical support representatives.
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This last area is likely the source of much confusion because many see the A:M Forum as the official outlet for Hash Inc... and it is. But the forum is not designed for conducting business and private matters best resolved by going to Hash Inc directly. Similarly, bug reports are best resolved by entering them directly into the A:M Reporting system.
Many problems can be easily addressed at the user level just by asking fellow users in the forum. If someone at Hash Inc suggests the forum as a source, it is very likely a problem can be easily resolved. For tougher issues there is even more reason to take the issue directly to the source... you don't want the issue discussed... you want it resolved quickly.
Finally, remember that we want to pass this forum on to future moderators and generations of A:M Users in the absolute best condition possible. A:M is just that good a program and is worthy of our consideration.
Thanks for making the A:M Forum a great community.
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so I am brand new to using hash patches, and am getting the hang of it except, in modeling my faces in the shaded view I'm seeing alot of small bumps, and some undesireable creating. Does everyone have problems with this when they start and is it just practice ? I've been using 3 point patches sparingly and trying to smooth things out... Any tips?
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Hello all, I have been following the video tutorials but a few things haven't been going so smoothly. I will list the two problems I have below: - I am doing the car exercise and the tutorials car has perfectly round tires. The tires on my model are like a octagon. Also I made my flower with another exercise and the ends of the petals wore round... when I closed A:M and opened it the next day the end of the petals were a sharp point. Did I click some feature that I'm not supposed to? I compared my screen to the video tutorials screen and every feature selected is the same. - As I mentioned earlier I completed the Flower exercise. One "problem" I have is th…
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Hello, I forgot how to NOT display back faces in the modeling window. Would someone be so kind to enlighten me as to how I turn them off? Thanks, George [edit] I found it! For anyone else wondering, to set your model display to not show the back faces (makes it a lot easier to see where to flip normals), first you have to set your render mode to shaded (the default is final). Then the option to "show back facing poly's" is available in the render options. Check out the pic. George
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Hi Everyone, This is a really lame question but I can't find the list of Mac A:M shortcuts anywhere. Could someone please let me know where they are? Thanks, Mark.
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What is the best way to get photorealism in A:M cause I'm making a movie and I need some Monsters to look Real.
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Hello, I am running A:M 15c on a Dual 2 Ghz PowerPC Apple G5. When I do multi-pass renders, my shadows are not smooth, but have a grainy, "dithered" look. I have attached an example pic: What are the settings to make shadows more smooth? Any help would be appreciated. Tim
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i made an animation in the action window, when i played it in the chro it played to a certain frame and stop there what can i do to make it play the entire frame range of frames.
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if any one has played halo 2 you know what i mean with when you go into a flood infested area i has a brown hase any one kno whow to make this
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i was wondering how to get different properties of a liquid, for example, if i want it to be oozing, like blood or lava, and splashy, like water... by the way is there a way to cease water from emiting? i cant seem to find an option for it, and if not, will you come up with an update concerning a way to stop the liquid? thanks, i am excited to have liquid in the animations!
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any one know of a way to make a nice plasma bolt thats coming from aepons fire?
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I want to use a still pic of a model for use as a graphic. I can't seem to find anyway to export one. Any way to do this. Thanks, Lucine
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This one is new to me, did you know you can add a material to lights? I knew this was available in other programs so I tried on AM. I read some post about lighting effects, and I thought I would add this. Again, new to me but this could be old news to some.
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Will I decided to sown load the new version of AM. I'm using V13. I pay, get the email, download the Mac web version, and I get this message after I enter the code: Any ideas? Thanks
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Hi everyone, I've noticed some of the renderings people are use are soft and almost gradient like. The rendering setting that I always use is just final, which looks sort of like plastic. Does anyone know how to get a softer rendering? Masna
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i downloaded the 1 year subscription and i was just wondering if i am suppose to have shapes cause i dont i tried e-mailing service but they never e-mailed me back the download was 4 mac please help thank you
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what do i do? i mean, i bought it, i have the code, but where do i activate it? (hash update)
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i might have asked this already but, how do i add movies to the A:M films area? i think it was by sending it to someone and then they would upload it, but it never got on...
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I'm trying to get a character to do a somersault and or a back flip. When I turn IK off everything seems to move for the somersault, but having the character return to IK on for walking does not seem to work. (legs fold) I'm using the shaggy character, and it does the same thing as my character that I rigged with the 2001 rig. Would the set up machine help with this? or Version 15? I'm on 13 now.
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don't laugh... but i've manged to make this partial 'face' after owning A:M for a month. but my problem is the creases and folds around the outside of the eyes and i think some around the nose. i know in order to get rid of the creases i will have to eliminate some of those three point patches, but i'm not sure where to relocate the splines and control points. maybe i should just redo the portions that are creased but i'm not sure how to rearrange it all. does anybody have any suggestions? hisako
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my model was going fine... yet some kind of issue occured (i cant remember what) and now i can see only parts of the model, yes the model has textures all over it, and no matter how i load it, like into another project, it is still visible in partial places, but when i render it it looks just fine.... does anyone know how this might be fixed?
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I have put together a long scene and I'm having issues rendering it. The clip is 57 seconds long. When I render 10 second clips of it, it turns out okay. But, when I render the whole thing, using final render settings, the image becomes a negative and the top and bottom are swapped (kind of like the old TVs with the "rolling" picture, only locked into a half roll). The preview screen as it renders is okay, as I check it periodically throughout the day. I am rendering uncompressed. Is there a specific setting combination known to render this kind of result?
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here is my last work done in the 15V. What a you think about. tell me please what`s wrong... Thanks for any ideas and critics!!!
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i was wondering how to make it so that something can be completely invisible, yet you can see reflections and/or specularity on it clearly.... and i have no clue how to do it, can anyone help?
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i'm just curious; how do you add eyebrows and eyelashes to a character? i've tried using the hair systems but they are to thick or just don't show up in the group (i guess the area is too small; when i apply it to the whole face it shows up then.) or would i use decals? if you use decals, how would you position them correctly on the face? also where would i find eyebrow/eyelash looking images/materials? is there a website that supplies that kind of stuff for A:M? thanx - hisako ps - also looking for skin & hair textures too.
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i am trying to render the lens flares in a choreography, yet no matter what direction i render it, it wont appear... the fade behind objects is off, fade with distance is off, and fade when aiming away is off. does anyone have an idea of what may be the problem and how to fix it?
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I need a model for a friend , I’m looking for a female who is anatomically correct on the top , bottom don’t matter , it will be changed into a fairy so one that would look good would be appreciated
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Hi all, My students and I are working on a live action film with 3d aliens and spacecraft in it. Who knew school could be this much fun, eh? Anyways, we want to have the spacecraft land with that weird heat wave present. I thought I saw a forum topic on this year's ago but couldn't find it. Any ideas? Thanks! Mike
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The title says it all. I know it is a total noob question but how do you do it? Do you need special software? Help much appreciated ! -Photoman
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Hi, I'm trying to make a spiring seashell using the duplicator wizard. I got the idea from a reply on an old posting from the man that seems to know it all on this site (Rodney). I've been messing with the wizard but so far cant get anything remotely close to a tight spiral. I'm confusd as to what all the settings on the wizard means and how to control them to get a quality shape. If anyone has made something like this before feel free to share what settings you used. Thanks for looking. -PM
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I am looking for someone to beable to assit me in learning how to use the SynthEyes software
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I just noticed this: When I open the Libraries of A:M v15 (web), I can't find any primitives-objects... am I just blind? In v8-v14 they where available, so they should be included here to. Even so it is only a small collection, this is missing in a 3d-programm. *Fuchur*
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hey guys, long time no question. i need help. i am making a movie and i would like to put cgi characters into the film. how would i do that?
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Hi I just got a new iMac. After installing A:M 05, I went to register it. I entered all my info. Name,I put none for Origination, email, I also put none for URL and serial number. Then I clicked OK and nothing happened, the window just stays there and will not accept my details. If I close this window the A:M opens but I think this is a demo. Could someone help me with this. dan
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Greetings, I want to apologize for this post in a way, but I also hope that this post will help me. I'm every new to AM but I've been in film making for awhile. I was wondering if anyone could direct me to a post or post on here about how to get a picture on to AM a picture of a logo and then Animate it to make it into a movable motion picture logo?
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Ok...long story short, I had a "fraud identity theft" happen to me last week. Not fun. So, I was told that maybe my CPU has a "rootkit" which reads you credit card orders, etc and send them off. So, I'm wanting to reset / format my computer and reload everything (fun huh?). However, if I do that, I lose the license key for AM15 right? How do I go about doing this so I don't have to repurchase this?? I've written the "shop online support" and never heard anything back. Anyone know what to do?? Thanks.
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please help me making this character please i cant design it please help me
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mirror an action... Let's say keekat is dancing on stage in front of a bunch of other keekats. the keekats in the audience are following his actions... but they are wrong because they are mirrors... keekat stops shakes his head and turns around, back to audience, to show them that they are doing it wrong.... they get it and start doing it correctly. and, with the jump action in the library, i'd like to have the charachter jump forward... and then by doubling the lenght of the action... reverse his jump... is there an easy way to do these things... ? I found this in the search of the archives http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showt...l=mirror+action …
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hey guys I'm new to the program purchased about a week ago, I'm a 2d guy making the move from anime studio, so far I've been blown away by how easy its been for me to learn. However in most of my other programs to add points to a selection, I just hold shift with those old points selected, then select those points I want to add, and they are added to my selected group. I've noticed this doesnt work for me in AM, is there a way to do this? Sometimes lassoing doesnt work well, and as I'm building a face model I want to create groups like inner mouth etc and give those groups a diff color, but its hard to select the right points without this feature. Any tips?
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after animating my character, i made a secondary action with the month in my action window, when i play it in the chro the month donot move at all what can i do about it.
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Hey, ive made a really cool animation, that is 15 secs long, but the play display stops at 1 second, it does not continue the animation. How can I change this?? Thanks for the help kind regards 8imon
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Hi - Work mellowed out a bit, so I just started back up modeling a motorcycle from a few months back, and I am working on the tires and need some suggestions on how to put tread on a tire w/o the use of a decal. I did a seach, but didn't really come up w/ anything. I created a torus, but not sure where to go from there. Any suggestions would be appreciated, or even better if there happens to be a tutorial someone knows of. Thanks again - Eric.
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I was working on one of my models and AM experienced a problem. I hit save and it messed up my file. And the last back up I have is just the head. Can someone see if they can recover a model file. If you think you can give it a shot “post”, I will be grateful I will not be posting the file since to many people will try and download this file and crash there programs. I get Exception #039, trouble saving patches.
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Do the graphical glitches (glitchy update during bone manipulation) happen in XP? I picked up AM and read the forums before hand. Knew there were some small issues, but it's quite persistent and gets you out of the flow. Work around (for me) is to minimize the window and then bring it back. But it's happening often enough I don't think I can stand it. Comp: Q6600, 8GB RAM, Vista Home Premium x64, EVGA 8800GTS 320MB, AM 15b. Driver at 169.44, Vista up to date. I have a render node with an E6600, 2GB RAM and XP SP2. Is XP that much more stable and reliable running AM than Vista? Interested in hearing someone with Vista that has encountered this issue and li…
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Im having a heck of a time with this one. Im working on a planet shot of SATURN and the globe itself is fine but doing the rings is killing me. Found some MAPs for transperancy as well as a separate one's for color. Nothing I cant duplicate my self but the problem is that it is just a cross section of the disk. Basically when you look at it, its just bands of various color or lines contained in a rectangular framed picture ( if you can figure out that discription). I have no idea on how to get the one stamp to repeat itself around a selected axis so that when it renders you get bands of transperancy around the disk. Does that make any sense? I have been beating my …
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I've real new here and still learning my way around the program. I've been trying with no luck on useing a ftp program to get into ftp.hash.com/pub. I was wondering is the site down or do you need a password to get in? Thanks
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I just bought this and wondering how I can import my project to video format, to import into final cut timeline. Thanks! Kris
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I need a bed model where is one.
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I downloaded master.chm on the FTP site for help files: Where does it go? In AM v 14 C when i call up help topics, I get this: clicking on a topic I get this: What can I do?
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are their any window models like these. http://www.gpschools.org/ci/images/west.jpg
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Hey I had AM a year or so back and got busy and ended up giving it up and now am considering coming back to it. My question does anyone know about any decent and affordable motion capture suits that are compatible with AM as well as maybe some tutorials for it. Thank you all for your time and I am sorry if this has already been posted.
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