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is there a way to detach a bone in a rig, I attached my pelvis to thigh bone and need to detach. how do I do it,if possible?
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Trying to do a quick animation of a model walking over and hugging another character. However, 3/4 of the way through, the "hugging" character just stops. The timeline halts. (The scroll bar on the bottom still shows there is some more "scroll" to it) but nothing. I'm using (well, attempting) keyframes. I'm using version 15a. Any thoughts off hand? Other things I thought of are, i'm clicking "shift+keyframe" and selecting the first option. Animation seems to working well, but it just stops. Any suggestions? Help? Thanks.
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ok iv made a modle and colored the whole thing grey but im trying to make a few patches red but when set its still grey am i doing something wrong
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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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Probably a simple property that got altered, but as I'm trying to do Exercise 6 and position shaggy, some of his bones have turned blue in colour and I can no longer control them properly. I can't grab the base of his hand bone and drag the whole arm around...I can't move it at all except for rotating it, or if I use the arrow keys on my keyboard it actually will deform the model itself. The bones that have remained while when un-selected operate as I would expect, just not the ones that are blue when un-selected. I've attached a screen shot of what happened when out of frustration I had the bone selected and used the arrow keys. ...what silly thing did I do? Th…
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I Could use some help. I am trying to change the group surface properties over time (Ambiance percentage and Glow). I've got the latest David Rogers A:M book which states, surface changes can be made over time. The section on surface property relationships is a bit confusing. I've tried it in a relationship using both percentage and On/Off sliders, but I get no results. I'm sure it is some simple but important item that I'm missing. If someone could point me in the right direction I would be most grateful. Thanks Camillo
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As an example, I will use the MirrorBones plugin available here: http://sgross.com/plugins/index.html 1. Download the mirrorbone.zip file. 2. Right click it and Extract All. This should give you a MirrorBone.hxt file. 2. Right click it and left click Copy 3. Click Start Menu > My Computer 4. Click the Folders Icon on your top toolbar to show a list of folders on the left hand side (If you don't have this, you will have to double click your way down to get to the hxt folder, instead of doing the next step). 5. You need to click the plus signs next to My Computer Local Disk (C:) Program Files Hash Inc V15.0 6…
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I assume from absence of any real information in guides that it is not possible to use any form of scan software (eg on clay models) to develop character in Hash... characters must be created by the stitching method described I think. Any advice welcome. also about importing characters from other programmes outside Hash... I understand that inanimate objects can be imported. Are there any tools for converting an inanimate object from say 3dstudio max into an object that can be animated in hash? Many thanks. Look forward to responses! Sorry, I am an AM newby and just learning the ropes here... and clearly this is much the best character animation software on the m…
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Does anyone use a Graphics tablet and if so, how is the interface with AM? Would it work with the 3d painter program? Just doing some research for a wish list item in the future....Thanks for the feed back... I finally finished a character, just some tweaking to do and now on to rigging
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Ok i know this is going to sound like a compleatly dumb question but iv have some how managed to lose my manual , ok how do i take a image file say a jpeg of sand and import it into AM
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ok this one is not so much a AM question as it is a AM forms question , in a lot of the post you have both the rendering and the PRj files as a link , yet i cant find a way to upload eather of those , how do you do it?
Last reply by Caroline, -
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ok i know how to use the pose option to move a model into a pre defined postion , during a few of the much appreceated help topics iv put up plp have said to use a action to get something to do something , i dont know how to set one up or even how to get started , any help would be most appreceated
Last reply by Caroline, -
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ok if youve seam avp youll know what im taking about though still invisable you can still see an out line of what ever it is.
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im making a jet and have got the base frame down but i need a after burner effect and was woundering if any one had any ideas
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OK, I am stuck. I have spent the last 2 and a half years building models, sets, animating and assembling choreographies. I am going through our final renders, and have hit two huge problems that I cannot figure out how to correct. I called Hash's number and they told me that the problems were with the version I was using, and I needed to upgrade. I took them at their word, paid for v15 and I am getting the EXACT same issue. So I am hoping the collective knowlledge of this forum can help us. First, I have these random "blotches" appearing on a model. They are showing up what appears to be randomly in a rendered cho. they show up for just one frame, but if I …
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Hi - I am trying to get the effect of bright light bursting through a triangle shaped window - any suggestions - would I set the window transparency down and what type of light should I use. I have tried several things and can't seem to get the light concentrated or "glowing" through the window. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks - Eric
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Hello, Can anyone help me with info on how I can load the Animation Master 2006 onto my Mac G3 blue tower with Panther? I keep getting the error message that says I need Tiger or Leopard and I don't want to spend another $100 bucks to upgrade. They told me at Fryes that it would work on Panther using a patch from Hash??? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Scoonie
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ok after 8 hours of modeling and shaping ans the such i have a model of the monkey lord form sup com , no i need help i need to know if any one know how to do this kinda laser
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When I select mirror mode, it does not mirror oppisite side. Is there another setting I need to adjust? I am running V15a.
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Hey, This time i cant get the wheel to lathe properly. It says to move pivot. I dont get it lol. This modeling is a lot of learning lol Hopefully ill be able to be proficent with it soon. Thanks Geoff
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Can someone help me understand the limitations of baking? I keep trying to bake a model and it just hangs at "Organizing Map Layout". How long should baking take on average? My model has crumple, eroded, and a simiont material.
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i was wondering if there was a way to set a object to rotate as long as its pose is turned on , i have a mega laser cannon with some rotatin parts and they spin quite fast so rotating this every 2 frams would be quite anoying .
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ok i found out that having a spline in the main animation screen works really well for moving a flying object , how every it seams to auto set the movement from start to end without proper setup Ie i wanted a "asteriod" to over 50 secons slowly come in and eventualy hit the ground , but it hits at 20 seconds and for the life of me i cant figure out how to change this
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I've had problems with the terrain plugin before, but now whenever I use it at all my computer comletely crashes! Is it something wrong with my computer or just the program? Can anyone help me?
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ok iv been told that by using this constrant you can make it so that a bove can only move in specific directions , i have robotic arm and it has 3 joints 1 goes left and right , while the other 2 are up and down , (think a tarancalas leg) how do i set these up to work correctly as i tried myself but they didnt apperantly kick in
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I found a font I downloaded awhile ago called KR smiley anyway I used the font wizard to get the letter e which is a smiling fish Did a simple action on it and got this cfontfish.mov fontfish.zip Just another way to get a model
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Hey, Im working on the plane tutorial and its come to the part where you are supposed to form the cockpit. I cant figure out which CPs to mmove in order to make the cockpit with out screwing up the model. Heres a pic of the splines and what not. Thanks Thanks Geoff heres a pic with the wing hidden Plane_cockpit_pic.bmp
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Hi - I have a potential client that want their plastic bottle modelled in 3D and animated to show how it works. I have been playing around w/ the fluids tutorials and all the samples that people have generously posted and it seems that fluids is more designed to work as a faucet, hose, water fountain... anything flowing. Is it possible to have fluid in a bottle for example tip up the bottle and have it flow into a second chamber. I posted a flash anim of the bottle I modelled doing a 360 spin, so you can see the hole in the center that connects the two chambers that I need the fluid to flow through. Any help would be appreciated - even when you check "object collision…
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Hi - I have been seaching the forum for materials trying to learn more about them. I see the following darksim link http://www.darksim.com/html/simbiontam.html How does this work - it says the Simbiont Plug-in is already in version 13... and up I am guessing. I just upgraded to the latest version - how do I know if I have the plug-in. Also, are the free materials they have on on the site applied like you would a regular material? Someone help me see the light, was a little iffy about downloading the plug-in, didn't know if it was just for an older version
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ok im making a gun with a extendable barrel in the top down view the barrel is facing north , i now that there is some sort or constrant usable but i dont know which to try
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i have this wave file from fosters home for imaginary friends and because i only have one audio clip with all three of them talking how can i get it so all 3 of them can use the same one and all come in at the right time.
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OK i really somehow gotta learn this slowly, but i need to learn this, itll make my animating like 100x easier. Whats happening is when i animate someone in a choreography i make then maybe jump or jump then spin, or also recently happening the can can then a slap on the face, but whenever i do this it always starts from the begginning so for the can can move, it totaly ruin it, because he starts slapping himself in the face at fraom 0 moving his hand slowly up. and for jumping he starts rising into the air from the very begginnimg and for the jump and spin he start spinning from the very begginning too. i dont know how to make it so they start the second actio…
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if youv ever played any sci phi games you will notice that they usualy have a force field or bubble that has a really cool plasma effect , halo 1 in the control room for example , i was woundering if there was a way to do this in AM sort of like this with out so many colors and transparent rainbow image and sorta lke this, its the one on the bottom as i couldent add the pic here as saying something about picture extentions picture any other vareation on this would also be appreceated as i need some thing workable before flashy
Last reply by Caroline, -
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Hi - I need to create a golden planet w/ a glow around it - for the planet I just used a sphere, and created a material for it - but I noticed the "glow" in the property attributes doesn't have any sub setting, there is just an off and on. Is there a combo of other property attributes that I can use to get the effect I am looking for - just a glow around the planet - thanks for any suggestions.
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with all the help if been getting im getting close to rendering my first longer that 5 secons movie but there is one last thing ( at least for know) that i still dont know how to do or at least correctly , the movie is going to have a car getting chased by a plane of sorts and there is going to be shooting . my questions are , A is there any way to do a good muzzel flash, B since there is going to be at least 50 differant shots fired do i have to have 50 models in at the start and
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i recentaly saw a cool wizzard use in witch a font wizzard was used to make a fish that was golden brown and still smiling and that got me thining , is there a wizard that would take a picture and create a model from it ( noting that it woud need to be cleaned up ) .
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ok here the deal in order to make a laser that actaly works for what i need i had to make the beam about 10000 cm long , my question is is there a way to asign a model a value that would cause any part of another model to no longer show up , ie putting a block of this model behind a giant robot so the beam is hitting it and not just passing through it?
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ok im trying to do a wepon system with a laser blast but for some reasion when ever i place the shot at the time its ment for it gets placed at the very begining in some weird place. all i want to know is how should i put a lasser shot in with out it being placed at the very start of the movie , or does every model you are going to use have to be in at the start?
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I'm making a walking animation, using the action window, I completed the action, however it only seems to play the first 10 frames, why is this. =/
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Hi - can anyone give me a link to a sample of of a fog effect that they have done - or possibly a tutorial. ;-) I need it for a project and I need some ideas. Thanks - E
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ok heres the deal i have need of a laser shot for an animation i have tryed using just a rendered line but that wasent glowy enough and then i tryed to use a pipe that was good but some how went all the way back to the start causeing issues how can i make a laser that fires and then ends
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I am having trouble with multiple control points. I'm using 2005. I create a sphere by making a 2 point line, latheing it (lathing?) then I delete the bottom cps. I then highlight all the cps and rotate by typing in 90 degrees. The result is a perfect sphere with the exception that multiple cps are created at each point. When I pull one cp away, there is 1 or 2 more where I pulled the first one away. Can anyone help with this? Thanks
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After making manipulations with a model (rotate, scale etc.) in choreography in a zero frame, how can I null values in order them to become new default values? Thank you all!
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ok i set a 6 point crystal to render as lines but fo some reasion its still rendering the surface as well s the lines is there a way to turn this off.
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Would a model of a single "red blood cell" be available? I am experimenting with a very simplified depiction of blood flow through veins for a video project on a medical subject. Thanks so much.
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I've been looking online but all I see are downloads for the 3dsmax version. Any help is appreciated.
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Hi, I got this program about 2 years ago at a macworld exhibition, when I got home I immediately put the disk in my drive and started playing with it, but I found that it was too complex for me at my age, so a year after that I tried it again, still too complex. But now, after a few months getting used to other 3d programs, I want to try it again, but I am hindered by a very simple thing! Whenever I have a new composition, there are always only 100 frames, and i want to increase that number, and its driving me mad, I know there's a simple solution but I can't find it. Help? Thanks in advance, r4z2 (Hopefully an animator in the making)
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Hi again, I'm gradually working my way through the tutorial book that came with the A:M package, I'm on the part where I model a FW-120, but half way through, the pictures I've used for rotoscoping have gone blank, I've tried upping the transparency as it was on 0, but still nothing, help? r4z2
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Is it possible to have 2 actions at the exact same time in animation master? Dragging two actions on the character is not working. I want the character to bounce and talk at the same time.
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Is there a kind of template for material combinations and settings already laid out anywhere? x+x+x+X= glass, or chrome ... ect.. or do you play with the setting until you get what yoou want....Thanks for answering in advance.
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