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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
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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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I made a flour sack with a skeleton and made an action of it kicking in the sky then coming down. but the skeleton was really hard to use, unlike the models that came with AM already. if u got any tips then itll be great if u can tell them.. anyways heres the video. Flour_pack_kick.mov
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Please, i need manual of the NetRender. Thank you all.
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OK whenever i am modeling sometimes i use the lathe key. but then maybe i wont like what is lathed so i select it and delete it. but when i try to make more splines they wont show up. its pretty much like deleting a lathed item makes any other splins that i try to create invisible.
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OK i made a tooned rendered out version of walking, and it looks great, but the walking could use some improvements i could say. ima post it righ down here, but if you have any helpful tips, hints stuff thatll help and tutorials i could find( besides the video tutorials here, watched almost all of em) and done em. Running_movie.mov for the info its my very first ever alone completed running (meanig i did not use anything but my head, no tutorials or posts on the forum. wohhooo!
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When I am using Wire frame mode of my model, edges of the model shown rounded (Please check the attached "Wireframe" pic). When I am using Shaded mode of my model, edges of the model shown sharp (Please check the attached "Shaded" pic). But I have seen from a tutorial that it does not happen with others. Just wondering if it is some set up problem. Can anyone please explain it to me?
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Hello, everyone whos looking at this. i made a hammer and it looks great i think. i added wood and steel materials to it, but the place where the materials touch together that doesnt look realistic at all and i needed some help to make it look more realistic. Also the head of each side of the hammer has this black thing on it and i dont know what it is. if any of you can itd be great if you could help me out and give me tips.
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Howdy all. I just purchased the web subscription to get back into using A:M (started using it back in the early 90s when it was Playmation)..but am having some trouble. I'm running on an MacBook Pro with 3GB of RAM and 10.5.1, but am crashing constantly. It's a clean install of 10.5.1 so there are no old preference files from my older version of A:M that I previously purchased. What I'm wondering is: 1. Is A:M 15.0a the only version that I can run under the web subscription? I was expecting to be running a final release, not alpha. 2. Is there a specific version of the OS that works better than others for the most current release of A:M? Thanks! I'm dying…
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Hey guys, I've been trying to import a quicktime movie as a rotoscope for sometime without success. The only real info I've found says to rightclick on the camera and select new rotoscope. It also says to change the file type to what ever I'm importing, but I never see that option. The video shows up in my choreography as black video, which I think means it doesn't read the codec. I have a MacPro, running OSX tiger, with quicktime pro. So I would think that my computer has the proper codec for Quicktime movies. I've tried many different compressors on the quicktime movie, Animation, Sorenson, and even None. Neither work. What I really want to do, is insert a model in…
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Okay guys new problem!! I need to model a heart for my girlfriend but idk how! Ithought it would be cool if I gave her a taste of my work but I NEED A HEART!! HELP!
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i have a complexe model thats set to a grid of 5X5 and have a circle with 8 points , the whole lathe thing , but i need it to be connected to a specifing point as to not and seams , is there a way to select say the bottom point and snap it to point A with the others folowing but the circle not being destorted
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Hello - I have a client that wants an animation project for a website - and she also wants it put on a High Definition DVD - Does anyone know anything about that, and if it would be rendered at a different setting or something? I have made DVDs, using a render of the animation from AM and making a DVD from it with Premiere, but wasn't sure about HD DVD. Any info would be great. Thanks, Eric
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I'm probably missing something obvious. I have a downloaded file called "AM2005.exe" that I downloaded years ago. It is apparently the installer for AM version 11.1b (which it announces on startup). It is the latest version I have been able to use with my original AM Orangutan CD. I'm installing on Windows XP Media Center on an HP a1600n computer. It does install and successfully start up. However, there are no models, choreographies, actions, images, etc. in any of the libraries. The library droplist includes: All Libraries Hash Installed Library My Library Under the "Hash Installed Library", in the Tutorials tab, there are two tutorials:…
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just wondering how if possable you can do a plasma like effect like you see in star gate sg1 , or a shield like effect as seen in supream commander
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Im currently trying to create a model from some pictures of a character, does any one have a tutorial on how to make a good model fom picture? note that most of the pics arnt a direct 90 degrees onto the face
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Hi I'm trying to add any text to a simple choreography. Is there an easy way to do this in animation master? I have not found it at all...I would like a simple opening text saying the movie title.
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Hi - I just upgraded to v15 w/ fluids - but I haven't has a minute to run through any of the fluids tutorial... I have a new client that contacted me that owns a plastics manufacturing company and they produce bottles that he wants an animation of one filled w/ fluid and have it tipping up and porring into a second compartment on the container - basically it lets you measure out a certain amount. My question is for anyone that has been playing around w/ fluids - is this something that can be done - having the fluid/water starting in the bottle about 3/4 full and pouring it out? Thanks for any help - Eric
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I've made this great body for my wolf, but every time I try to make the head it comes out wrong. I tried rotoscoping and everything. If anyone has any past experiences with canine heads or has a tip please tell me.
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Greetings all! While I have puttered around with A:M since 2000 I haven't really done anything other than some interesting stills but my real interest is animation. So here are my questions: 1. Is the A:M 'school' where you upload your progress through the tutorials and have them graded still in effect or am I too late? 2. The TWO project was begun in 2005 as a three year project so I assume it must be in its final stages. Considering the fact that I still must go through the A:M tutorials and that I hold down a full time job is it too late for me to hope to contribute to this project? Finally, a side note: I noted somewhere that there was still some t…
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after getting the upgrade i am missing models most noticable the gia girl model where can i get these back
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I'm looking for a page turn type of thing again... I think I asked this before a long while back. I'd like to be looking down at stack of pieces of paper, and have the top page curl from the right lower corner to the upper left, revealing the next page. Would it be better/easier to do this as a cloth, or with a series of bones from upper left to lower right? In my ideal world, the first page would flip, exposing the rear of that page as it passes the camera, then showing the next page in the stack. "I'll hang up and listen" = I'm doing a search again while waiting for a reply.
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my intense textures are slowing my computer down, at least when i am trying to edit in a choreography. i've seen that in some models, the textures aren't visible, yet when you render, there they are! (Ex: Gala model) (and this increases performance A LOT) how am i able to do this? anyone know?
Last reply by Ravager, -
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i finally got this animations file size lowered so it should be able to be uploaded here it is, i uploaded it finally!!!!!! ians_birthday_party3.mov if the sound happens to work for you then great because its not working on my computer or is it the file. i dont know, im not really sure
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Is there any tutorial showing how to shatter text, like glass
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it the actual animation mode how do you change a path , i put one down in top view but need it to go up a hill but cant get it to do so
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ok i watched the tutorial one the flower and bones but one bit of info still iludes me, on may of the medels that come with AM the bones have a preset location of where they can go such as only being able to go up or down on the x axis 30 degrees or the such but for the life of me i cant find out how to do this
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Ive learned a lot from Rodney and others that have helped me with things. especially modeling. so now ive learned how to make a cude easily. super easily. in less than a minute i guess. but using a cube ive made i made a pretty good looking garbage can. my first ever completed model that involves inorganic city street models garbage_can.bmp garbage_can1.bmp Also how do you make the pictures just visible on the post like ive seen before, because i could only do this. where you download it.
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there seems to be no setting here and i was wondering if the avi dv export no compression is progressive or lower field non progressive?
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