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Hi, I'm new to this program, I used it a bit in high school some 5 years ago and saw it on Ebay and decided to buy it since I had so much fun with it. I started doing the tutorial on the CD that came with it, but it keeps telling me to open models in the Library folder as several locations in the tutorial, but I don't have any Models in the said folder, I tried mailling the person who sold me the software (package and all) but didn't get an answer. So I was wondering if there's somewhere I can download a Model, any model, just so I can try the "Chorus Line" and "Baseball Throw" exercices. It's really hard trying to learn how to move bones when you don't have a m…
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Hello - for some reason I bring the "smoke" in from the library and it isn't emitting anything, I have done it several times before, is there a setting I forgot about that turns it on? Thank you, Eric
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I just installed AM, and the library shows files, but they all have question marks in them. What can I do?
Last reply by Wiskey, -
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seem to have lost entire content of library wondering if i could pick up a few primitives to play around with cheers demt
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Hello - I tried to open AM and the words come up - License has expired (-3) this has never happened to me before - I am guessing it is the new way it is being done? And is it as simple as going to http://www.hash.com/store/index.php?main_p...f43d22eb17a474a and paying for it and downloading it? Thanks, Eric
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Hi Spline-Wrestlers, As I just got my 2007 subscription I was very happy about also finding the "AM Extras DVD ROM" in my package! Thanks to all the people who donated all that stuff and to the people who compiled it into this nice DVD. Maybe a typical "newbe" question... But now I wonder what I am allowed to do with all that fantastic material - especially the models & materials. I could not find any licence file or something like that. I think users would need some clarification here...? - What exactly means "donated" (as stated on the label)? Public domain? - Or is it all for my personal study and learning, only? If so: this should be stated …
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I don't know if this belongs here or not. Here's my problem. I had a Win7 machine that I downloaded and installed v19 on. I bought a one year subscription. It died, the machine did. I bought a new computer. It's pretty bad-@ss. I used my old invoice and link and downloaded and installed the program but my activation code says that it's already in use (by me). I've contacted about transferring my license like two weeks ago and never heard back from them. What can I do? I'm not exactly looking forward to spending another $80.00 to put the program on this new computer when my current subscription is only a month old. Any suggestions?
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So if I buy the subscription License for $79.99; What happens when it expires? Does the software become useless or I just don't get the latest updates/patches? Thanks
Last reply by Blickfang, -
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Hello everyone, i need help with AM V18 Licensing. I got a Master.lic file from Hash, added it to my AM folder as directed and got this Message Wrong Host for License (-4) Thoughts??
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Does anyone one know if Animation:Master allows you to install it on both a laptop and desktop? Most applications allow this nowadays...I just wondered if Hash was following the trend? Thanks. Dave
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hi all, i am using v 13 of AM. can somebody please explain how to make search light.
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please does any body know how i can make light show with the rays showing.
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As the last bit of the "Moving Foxhole" set, I'm building an alley where the action starts. I want it narrow and dark. So far, so good. But the lighting is giving me fits. I want a bright light at the far end so the characters throw long shadows in front of them as they walk forward. It's coming. But slowly. [ Biggest problem is that the right amount of light to produce the shadows makes a a burned-out, hot spot at the end of the alley]. But my biggest headache is the yellow rays indicated by the arrow. I searched Tools>Options> and there's no fog or volumetrics turned on. I looked in Properties under the light used in the alley: Volumetrics WAS turned on, now it's …
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I'm just not getting this light thing. I made a space type ship. In modeling mode, I added a light in the center of the ship. I wanted the light to shine out. The light shines out but the model turned black. Is this normal?
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I wanted to build a room. But the light didn't come through the window. The light came through the wall. In the testproject can you see light and shadows from other objects in a close(!) room (camera1). What make I wrong? room.prj
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...HELLO! As you can see from left to right, I have a simple Model inside I've created a simple (50% intensity, BTW...) light, then you can see how its represented in the realtime view and more or less that's how I'd like it appears, and finally what I get when I make a Render instead... And (as always ) I don't know if I'm missing something although I have played whit all the options I have found... Well, the case is that if I add a simple Bulb light inside a model, it seems like if this light be added to the "default" light that any model has, so in real time view I obtain that I wanted to get, but when I render I obtain a double? iluminated object... …
Last reply by Ramón López, -
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Hey everyone... I have worked with light mapps on props that don't move.....You render one frame and that lighting is used for all the other frames...Well...that's how it works in some other apps. QUESTION: There is an option in the choreography to "Export Light Maps".....Is that what this option does?? Does it work??? How does it work?? Anyone have any experience with this option?? William
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Hey guys... I have a model that I have attached a bulb light to. It is not working. It shows in skeletal mode that the light exists and can be manipulated, but it is not working when it renders or anything at all. Suggestions? Am I missing a command or something?
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i try to select a light that is with a model, and it won't let me select it, or even move it. what do i do?
Last reply by Ravager, -
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now what am i doing right (in racking up a fresh batch of newbie points); light affects model but not a prop. last time it was about light lists, so now i tried every option and ended up having to create a whole new light to believe that this is so. the prop does not receive light. and no, it's not black. the chor is saved as from another chor, prj from another prj that already rendered just fine. only thing i've changed is "lens" from 30 to 50, so that's hardly the solution. how do i troubleshoot this one?
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helow all! i make some scene with single plastic object. and i need this effect in scene: white back, white ground, object and shadow he cast. i`ll try do this by four lights, but this is not good (no glare) Thanks any help! Project1.prj
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Hey I really need to know if anyone knows how to make a realistic saber. iv asked this and i keep getting the same tutorial, and the saber looks nothing like the movies.. i want to know if it is posible to make a light saber almost identical to the movie
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Hi - looking to create the effect of light shining back and forth through some text or around text maybe - just curious if someone had an example that they could show of something they have done to give me a visual for ideas. Thank - E
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Afternoon everyone. I'm getting back into this again after the clean up here in California from the fires. So, I apologize if i'm rusty or sound stupid, but, I have an animation (simplistic), using the lamp (the pixar looking one). I want to animate it (which i've done so far). I want to have that light bulb turn on or stay on. How do I add a light source to the lamp? Thanks!
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I'm trying to create a Choreography, that is better suited to make reflective metallic surfaces more realistic. The default Choreography with ground and background makes a reflective objects look a bit unrealistic and dead. Adding more objects helps, but also increase render time. I've created a 360° skydome, what does a good job making it more live like and realistic looking, but it's missing a visible light source, the sun. SO I'm trying to make a light source to actually show up in the reflection instead of just emitting light with out being able to be seen. Problem is, I'm doing something wrong and I don't know what, any one able to give me nudge in…
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Light Type
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Hello everyone, I am going nuts over this: I put some lights in, and I want to switch what type of light it is. There is no option in the properties menu to change the light type. There is Animate Mode, and Width. The Type is just not there. I am using a Mac, and I'm running 10.4, with Animation Master 2006, with the latest update. Any ideas would help!
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ok im not sure if the topic that was posted meens the same as this one but how do i make something on the model light up. like say i had a gountlet, and i wanted "power" comeing out of a spacific point in it. the power i want is a red light. so how would i make the red light look as if it was comeing out ofthe arm pice?? EDIT: should i just constrain the light inside the models arm and have a transparant part red?
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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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Hey, I need a really good tutorial to help me with lighting. I have no clue about lighting. I just need some good ones or where to look for them. Thank you. PS. see there are pictures i make and they could probably be better with better lighting (like these) my turkey doesnt have feet yet!
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hi, i want to light up, a square patch, i know how to make a light bone, and i know how to make a klieg light, but i need the whole suare patch to light up without anything els around it lit up, i can light up the patch with the klieg light but it looks like a spot light is on it. i also know i can make the whole patch glow, but i dont want it to glow, i just want the square patch to be lit, can any one help? thx paul
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question, can any one tell me, how to make the "lighting" in the first piture look like the "lighting" in the 2ed picture?????? how is it possible to make the lighting brighter? thx paul
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Hi Everyone, I am working on a project and I need to adjust the lighting from the default in the choreography window. I have the reference manual, but I can't seem to find examples of what each type of light does, and how to use it. Do you know if there is a Tutorial available, or maybe a secondary website from one of the members? Thanks, Bob
Last reply by Jentham2000, -
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Is it possible to have a light in a lightlist so that the light itself only affect one model, but still have that model cast a shadow on other objects? How would I do this?
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lightning?
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can anyone show me a good tutorial for making lightning and electrical effects in A:M and i would like a tutorial for making mussel flashed for guns
Last reply by Stuart Rogers, -
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My choreography mode is all black and does not have the keylight or fill light. How do I go about adding a key light and a fill light? I am using AM 12 Thank you, CCMS
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Hi Guys, Coming from Lightwave, i m wondering if it s possible to rotate/ move a light from the current light point of view ? It s definetly easier to target when you are "inside the light". Thank for you help ps: did the cA:M ommunity stop the developement of the T.W.O project ?
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Ok, I know this can be done but I can't remember how.....I have several lights and cameras set up. How do I turn off the direction lines or what ever they are called, so my work space is not so cluttered. I don't mean turn off the camera, but the lines that show where it is pointed.
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I got the lights to 'go on' by assigning a high specularity to the patches that make up the lens. I also gave it a large specularity-are value. Then I enabled 'Glow'. In the Modeling Room, they look right. But in the final rendering, they do not. How do I make the Rendering lights shine also? [attachmentid=18212]
Last reply by Kelley, -
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i discoved somthing so cool, you can put lights in the modeling window!!!!! i shacke when i did it and did another test to see if the light in the modeling window would effect in the choeography, and i dose!!!!! i know how to have specific lighting on a model in an animation. thats exactly what they do in the show jimmy nutron, no mater where they are there is always 3-point lightin on the chatacter. man this is so cool!!!! all you have to do is rightclick ( import-> lights ), then all you have to do is possition the light useing the poperties(you can't do it any other way)
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Hey Gang, Anyone know the best way to get similar lights? I mapped a TGA sequence and got some good results on a convex plane that was about 1/4 of a full circle. The thing I can't figure out is how to apply the TGA sequence to a circle. Just can't get it inside like this. Clues? Thanks in advance!
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Starting with the basic three light setup, I began adding lights to my chor. At first, the additional lights did what they were supposed to do, but after about five or six additional lights, my keylight seemed to turn off with the other lights doing all the work. Turning off the last added light, turned the keylight back on. I figured the last light was somehow defective, so I deleted it and created a new one. The same thing happened, the keylight, although the chor said it was on, was actually not doing anything to light the scene. Another test confirmed this. Instead of deleting the last added light, I just turned it off in the chor and the keylight immediate…
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Would a Lightwave ver 8 (.lwo file) be compatable with AM 2005? Thanks!
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I was wondering how you change the line colors in the Decal View because I have a white background(for now) and I can't see the lines. Also how does the UV Mapper work? I mean I can just take the UV Coordinate picture and put it into an outside image. How does it track that? It doesn't make sense to me.
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Umm my dad bought animation master for me bout a week ago and it seems really cool. I would like to start making backgrounds and got some of the basic understanding to modeling but i am having problems with maching to the rotoscope the lines like keep going hexagonal or somthing like it when i want it straight. This is a very annoying feature so any ways to turn that off or go around that would be greatly apretiated.Thanks in advance for the help.
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Hi - I am working on a character and remember in the manual somewhere doing something that lined all the cps up along the vertical center so I could mirror the one side of the character more cleanly - can someone let me know how to do that - I can't find it in the book. Thanks - Eric
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Ok should be simple im drawing a top down view of a building and using a grid. only problem is that the lines seam to hid behid the grid so in the tod down view you only see parts of the cps and no lines what so ever , is there any way to set the grid to be behind the lines?
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Hi! I'm currently learning about Decals. I noticed that when used as a decal, any particular image can only have one property (i.e. Color, Bump, Displacement, etc.) Let's say that I have a color image and I made the same version of it in grayscale, to render the exact decal as a bump, as well. Are there any tips on how I can position the color and bump images exactly on top of each other? It does not appear that a decal can be moved once it is applied, so I'd need to know how to apply two with certainty that they would overlay each other as if they were one image. Thanks, Tim
Last reply by Laconic, -
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is there any way to have aline , preferable glowing going between 2 objects, i tryed to make a good laser using a long pole thats set to glow but its to hard to aim a pole when the thing shooting it is is rotating as at the moment i have to aim on every frame and thats like 5000 frames ( i gave up at 200)
Last reply by robcat2075, -
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Hi there, I'm curious as to whether A:M allows for external assets for workflows. I may be going around it the long way but it is a newbie question. For example:- If I'm making a scene and it was my job to animate it and someone elses job to model the character. Would the character model update automatically the next time I loaded my project? How does that work? You can point me to a chapter in the book if you wish, I have a copy of it. So in theory, I could animate several characters that look the same as a base model and then change them later to be individual people? Cheers Clinton
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I am working on a scene and in this scene, my character talks; i ve already recorded what my character should be sayiny in my friends studio. MY question is how can i put the voice to my AM so that it appears as if the character is talking that is my characters lips should be moving. Help pliz
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