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Long ago I used to think that decalling was a simple process but then this started happening. I can stamp this image a dozen times and sometimes it ignores different patches randomly.Anyone else ever run across this or is AM picking on me again? Have tried making the patches larger-no effect. Tried applying decal in an Action with all the CPs flattened completely-no effect. Tried a TGA-no effect. Higher rez image-no effect. I've run out of ideas to try. Any help appreciated. LandTest.prj
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A long time ago, I used A:M for titling and some minor add-ons to video projects. I have a multi-media idea and think I can use the cricut for making a mold. I am talking 5-10mm in size. With the text to object feature, I can do personalized things. It is a challenge. I want cricut instead of a 3d printer because I can use a soluble mold. I do gemstone composites and have an idea. Sorry, no like to an example as FB url or non-https are not allowed.
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Question on hair direction [solved]
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Hi, I'm using the 2008 version on animation master on xp. When I place hair, a lot of times the program places the hair on the wrong face of the object, so it's pointing the wrong direction. Is there a way to change the face? Thank you
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Hello! Thanks to Jason Simonds, I got the free trial version to open and work, but not until after my Power Supply Unit croaked, which I had to replace today. Anyway, I'm going through the tutorials, and they show an option to save the animation in AVI format. The free version I have (v 19.0) does not show that, only .tga format. Is this something that only comes with a paid version? I'm happy to report that my wimpy Dell Optiplex 990 SFF running Windows 10 with a 240 power supply, intel factory integrated graphics card, icore 5 and 16GB RAM.. seems to be able to render a short animation just fine, so far. That's why I wanted to try the free version first…
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Trying to get a Leafy type material using the hair function but can't shape like it shows in the tech manual (Sutton's Dodo bird) using the thickness timeline. Keep getting this octoganal shape instead of a smooth curve (see image). Render is set to multi pass final quality. Any help appreciated.
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How do i start the Treez plugin in AM 16?
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I might be a bit absent minded, but I forgot how to obtain fonts scripture into Animation Master. I know there is a restriction for only Ariel fonts, but for now I can't find a way to reach a way to access fonts when I'm in AM. For the good of all I would reconstruct scripture fonts myself, but I know there was a way. At least I did in the past. Thank you.
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What is your experience in modeling for character with Hash animation master ? My purpose in long term is to create a beautiful a character and to share you all my work I have seen some very good character from website to hash animation master itself and all are impressive 😁 Have a good day !
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Currently using v19.op but want to see if there's a newer version I could install but when I try to go to the AM FTP site it wants to open up Edge. Is the FTP site where you get updates? Been so long since I've done that and don't remember. Am I going to the wrong link? Any help appreciated.
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Following along with the book Excercise 5 Take A Walk, I've been unable to fix the slipping occuring. I've adjusted the stride length, shortening both points, lengthening both points, lengthening one point while shortening the other, nothing seems to really work. How do you adjust the stride length to get rid of slipping?
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I am still on exercise 7 and having some more trouble. I have tried to find the index file on the disk. I am using a mac 867/ 1gb memory and tiger 4.3 When I right click and go to the dope sheet. I then add "I've got a secret ect. I click on ok and get the message: Dictionary modified or Index file missing. Recreating Index File. From there it just goes in a circle with: Trouble opening the dictionary index file! I need to know where the index file is on the disk for the mac. I can't find it. (in the tutorial it says that you take the file from the disk and drop it into animation master folder) Thanks
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HELLO! Hmmm, I treat to explain me... A Patch or surface is not generated when the area is delimitated by five points/lines/faces/splines (I don't know how call it...) or more and I wonder if there was a secret way or ways... Well, THANK YOU very much (in advance) and CIAO!
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I am trying to change background color, permately if possible, so I can key out background when compositing. I can't find the color chip mentioned in the help files to save me. I find a control for the ground color but not background color. Any help is appreciated.
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OK, AM crashed, and the file got corrupted. Luckaly, I had an export of my model. So I imported him. He was perfect when I imported him, but when I did a Render of him, all I got was a colored wire frame! (all of it was white, but the wireframe only was colored.) How do I restore my model to his former glory?
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Ok for a Wotw movie i'm doing i want to use nulls in the legs of my tripod but i don't know how to work them all i know how to do it file new null and thats it how do i get the nulls to act like the ones in the feet, hands, and hips of actors?
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I followed the online tutorial for it's a pitch. I tried it with the skeleton as well as the knight and I have the same response (twice with both character's). When I set the frame 18 pose and use the slider to see the animation, both feet end up in the air between frame one and thirteen. It looks like the charter is hurdling. Its appears that it didn't regester the foot placement in frame ten. I can go back an replace the foot but I have to do it on a number of frames establish foot contaqct on the ground. I am using v12q. I don't have the inverted knee problem others have discussed. I did set the balance and balance riged to 0 per the tutorial. Any ideas??
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Ive been working on a movie, not for a very long time. I need someone that can take a look at it from time to time and see what parts need tweaking. Could you help me out with that, if so just reply and ill Private Message you my link.
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Hey there. A:M newbie here! I'm and Anime animator for those who want to know. and being a newbie, I have TONs of questions, but I'll just ask the one I want to know now.... How the heck to you to cloth?! I saw a post in the cloth forum and it looks cool, ("I'm thirsty, water anyone") and I wanna do somthing like that to a peice of clothing. unfortunatly, the only way I know how to make that peice of clothing is to model it, and...well you know how that doesn't flow. Any tips? -JAR3D P.S. Inore the typos. I don't normaly do that much, but right now, theres a TON of construction going on at our place, and there are two hammers pownding on concrete less then …
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i am running 11.1v in animation master and the choreography actions are not working in the choreography window, if i drag and drop a premade action to the model from the librarey, like the cancan it works fine. but when i go to skeliton mode , advance the timeline slider, and move something, it make a action movement, I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling but it dosn't help. i was hoping someone could help Thanks
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How do I export a model to create an avatar?
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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
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Im having big probs when i render.. i made a model with small yet amazing detail but when i render it, its hardly visable. how (when i render) do i get it to look more realistic. its really hard for me to explain this
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I guess the title says it all. Now that I'm not stumbling over my thumbs, [as much] it's time to jump into the deep end of the pool.
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Just wondering for people who have done a lot of decaling, what resolution do you save your decals at? I've been using AI to create decals, save them as 32 bit Targa files, and I choose 300 dpi for resolution instead of 72 dpi for screen resolution. My thinking was to use the highest resolution I could so that if I'm getting close up on a model the decaling will still hold up and look good. Is this correct? Or am I just adding unnecessary file size to the decals? My final destination for most projects is to end up as an AVI file going to DVD.
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hello all. im looking for some old super-hero models for referrence that was made in A:M that i once found on the now gone 3DCC.com website. they were Flash, Batman, and Wonder Woman, and i just got a friend of mine interested in A:M, and i wanted to show him what Hash could do. anyone know where these can now be found? and who made them? i thought they were pretty cool. thanks.
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When I use a .png image file as a decal, it renders it as super bright and saturated, really blown out. Targas work fine, but I'm just wondering if anyone else gets this problem with .png. I wish I could use them because they're usually quite a bit smaller in file size....
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Hello, Can A:M export to the FBX file format, or any similar format which includes UV mapping and animation information? Thanks! kali
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If I create a simple action that has a sound effect associated with it, the sound plays in the chor when the action happens... but only for the first occurrence of the action. Subsequenct actions are silent. Am I not understanding something here? or is that a bug?
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I tried to uninstall A:M since it had some install errors, but when I use the Uninstall Animation: Master thing it gets partway through before it says "Uninstallation could not occur due to an error.". Has anyone else had this problem or can anyone help me uninstall it? I'm running it on a Mac on Tiger, if that makes a difference. Also, the uninstaller says Uninstall AM 11.1, whereas I have 12.0 installed. Is there another uninstaller I need to download or something? I couldn't find a 12.0 uninstaller anywhere. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Hello, I've been using Master for a while, but there's one thing that I still find tedious, and that's texturing my models, which probably means that I'm somehow doing it the wrong way. Here's an example -- I'm creating a piece of lumber, a 2x6 board 8 feet long. I want to texture all six sides of it with a wood texture. For simplicity's sake, I want to apply the same wood texture to each side. There are several ways that I know to do this. One is to select the whole model, and then drag&drop a texture onto it. This "stretches" the texture to fit the model. The 8 ft long side of the 2x6 gets a long skinny version that's all stretched out, and the narr…
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Okay... I downloaded V 12.0 T of A:M and the Help installer for same. I have attempted several times to use the help installer.... and it connects to the Hash site, I think, and begins to DL the files... A couple of times it "failed to connect to server" or some similar error msg. So, I downloaded the Zip of the Help file HTML. I unzipped this to the help folder in the Hash directory (that was probably the wrong thing to do). Then later, I tried again to use the help installer... It seemed as though it was working... said it had about 174 minutes left.... (and I'm on DSL, shouldn't that be faster?). Then all of a sudden (about 3 minutes later)…
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Ok, so I've just modeled half of my head, but when I select it as a group and select copy/flip/attach, it flips it along the wrong axis everytime so that it connects the left half of my head nose to nose! How do you decide which direction to copy? I'm using AM v13 Alpha, and my help topics won't start, but I'm sure there is an easy explanation for this... Thanks! -Tim
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I have a window that I want the bone to be constrained so that it will rotate only on the x-axis. In the default models for A:M they have similar bones for knees. How is this accomplished? Here is a picture of what I am working on.
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Hi I am making many models in the same project. How do you combine them borrow a group from one and apply it to another? Technodandy
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Hello, I'm trying to do an orthographic projection in choreography mode, but I can't figure out how to configure the camera. I don't see any options on the camera settings to do this. Can it be done? What I trying to do is to create some flat textures to apply to my models. For example, I created a riveted wall model, then I'm going to shoot it in choreography mode to generate a rivet-wall texture that I can apply to my other models. So far, using the default camera options I'm getting some stretching of my model toward the outer edges, and I'm hoping an ortho projection would correct this. Thanks!
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Hello, I'm practicing rigging and posing in A:M 12.0 on a Powermac G4. I need help in understanding how to maintain the relationship between bones while I'm building a pose. Here's my situation: Let's say I have Two (2) bones: Bone 1 and Bone 2. I'd like a pose where they move in relation to each other in a Percentage Pose. I right-click on the object name in the workspace and choose [New][Pose]. This opens a pose slider which is set to 100%. I then set up relationships between bones using "Orient Like" [bone 2 is set to "Orient Like" Bone 1,] When I move Bone 1 with Bone 2 related, it works fine and the bones moves as they should with the re…
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Hi everyone, I organized my coreography and put in a Character, a camera and a path. What I wanted to do was to make the camera follow the path while pointing to the character. So, I gave the camera a Constrain "Aim at" in compesate mode to the character. First step done. Then, I applied a second constrain to the camera in order to follow the path (a 3 point curve around the character). When I did that, the camera begun following the path but aiming the path too. I clicked off the Store roll option in order not to aim the path and the camera started aiming to the front... but not to the character. I tried to do this in A:M 7 and A:M 12 obtaining the same results…
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I created a movie that I thought looked good in a 3 min Choreography window. After rendering it and watching it as a movie, 3 mins makes it look like it is in slow motion. Is there anyway to Fast Forward the movie for rendering? I want the same movie to take only 1 min and not 3 min. Hopefully I do not have to rebuild the entire movie again. I am using V11
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Ok, everyone, I have tried the help files and searching the online forum, but can't locate this one. I have used the Preston set quite successfully, but now want to try the higher set. I set up the aa and the ar, but when typing in a dope sheet, "How are you", the "are" is translated using the Preston set instead. Can someone help me with this?
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how would i go about making a glass triangular prism that refracts a light that is pointed at it?
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hi i'm writting you becoz i just discoverd this soft and the images he can make ! great stills and great price ! still be 299$ ? well we have a movie in produc and i would like to know if this software can read models with or without textures from c4d, maya and 3dsmax and well all the rest perhpas in dxf but is there any direct loading propreitary c4d library and other programs ????? if yes i buy the software in the month last question: c4d has occlusion rendering or something like that two questions then: - is rendering one of the fatest ??? - is rendering can render radiosity as far as c4d 9.52 latest version ? i know i speak a lot of c4…
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Hey, all-- I'm working on tutorial #15 (volumetrics) in tAoAM, and when I apply the "Resolute Walk" action to the Knight model, his knees bend backwards in about 3/4 of the frames. I've rotated them frame by frame for some barely passable results, but I figger there's some "balance" setting somewhere that I just need to turn off. Yes? No? Anyone else have this problem? Thanks-- Mark www.someawfulbridge.com
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Not sure where I should post this, there are sssoooo many places. I did a search but got a million hits. I am probably over looking something simple, but for some reason I am unable to make splines. I hit the "a" key and get the cursor and the "+" but no splines. I have saved and closed, shut down and still no splines. I did open a fresh project and was able to create splines there, reopen my orginal project...no splines. At this point there are no decals, colors or any thing else. I have version 12t. I am creating a StarTrek look-a-like space ship. I have built 3 tubes, and was trying to creat the saucer. Any ideas or do I need to provide more info. Many thanks in …
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i want to build some missles, and have about half a dozen of these guys fly out in random randomly in a general direction is there an easier way of doing something like that besides modelling each projectile, and moving each missle separately? is there an easier way of makin missle fire that i am missing?
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I have made the models and the actions and now in the chroeography I am putting together my movie. But when I want to add a new model in the middle of my action, say at about the 5 sec spot, the item I add then flys in off the side and moves around during the first part of the movie where I don't want it. How do I add something later in the footage without it being in the first part. Thanks for any help. Lucine
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I just spent alot for upgraded hardware and the rendering time is mush slower. My old system of a 1.7g CPU and 1gbite of ram will render a section of my model in 2 sec. The new computer which supports a 2.9 ghz CPU and 2 Gbite of ram takes 2 minutes for the same selection. The old computer is using a GForce 5500 AGP board and the new computer has a ATI 600 board. WHAT did I do wrong?
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I have a model that's getting too complex, so I'm hiding huge chunks of it while I work. this means that sometimes there are CPs visible but the spline running through them is not. When drawing a new spline, is there any way I can force a new CP to attach to one of these CPs? As an example of the problem: lathe a four-point circle and extrude it twice to make a cylinder. Select the middle spline circle and hide the rest. Break the spline twice and delete the two remaining splines. Try to attach a CP from a new spline.
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I have looked and looked and can find no information on how to control the box that lets items come in front of and go behind other objects. I can fool around and eventually get the item I want in front where I want it, but I can not seem to find the key that does this with any consistancy. Where would I look for this information? Thanks, Lucine
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I've looked all over the forum and can't find anything that addresses this problem - Rabbit's legs wont Paste Mirrored. After frame 15, his ears, arms, feet and toes all swing along nicely (the feet sort of look like they're flailing about) but the legs stay in the same position they were in at frame 15. Jason told me that I have to move the leg bone to set a key frame for it. I went through all of my key frames moving the feet up and down and rotating them. Then I rotated the pelvis which moved the legs around a bit. I even rotated the knees with the arrow keys. I rebuilt the exercise from frame 1 along with the video tutorial, step by step. The instructor's Ra…
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So I'm working on the lesson when I come to p.178. Pick the "smoke" emitter in the Project Workspace. Click on the Opacity Over Life property and set it to 0%. Well, I looked and looked and I can't find it to click it. I don't see it in the Workspace, or the properties window, and I have all of the trees opened. All I see is the properties (Bone position, transform, etc) Can someone help me? What am I doing wrong? Oops, I forgot to say which 'it' it was I can't find. I found the emitter no problem, it's the Opacity I can't find.
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