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im using the tool know as a rotoscope to help we draw some items but for the life of me i cant get the rotoscope to show more that what seams like 25% transparancey is there a way to change this to 100% as i am using a pict with may dark colors and they are not usable when its dimed
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im trying to make a mech of sorts and as you know they usualy are not very curvy. how do i make a sharp edge on a model with out it turning into a black brick this is the best i can get but there are still distortions in the back , alos the have been black blob things as well any help would be most apreceated ow the only way i managed to do this is to set inmagnitude and outmagnitude to 2%
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Is there a readme.doc somewhere that will provide a chronology of the changes and improvements to the subsequent versions? thanks...
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Hi. I purchased the 15.0 v of the A:M DISC (the upgrade from the previous version). I did buy this on this site. Now, when I put the disc in the drive and click the shortcut, it says it can't find the disc? I tried it on two different computers and the same problem appears. Is it the disc? The disc seems "level" when placed on a flat surface..... any ideas please?? update: If I put the disc in, and run the 13.0v shortcut, it runs. But when I run the 15.0v it says "insert the correct DVD-ROM(HASH)". I haven't used this in awhile, so it wasn't sitting by any heat or anything.... update 2: Ok...bare with me. The 12.0 version of the disc has the YETI. …
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Hi guys, All of a sudden when I go to create a GRID using the wizard option it no longer creates that grid affect....... [see pic below] I tired this in V11, V13 and 14 and it still won't work.... any ideas?
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Hello, I'm working in the new v.15 and the purple Title and Action-Safe lines that are traditionally visible are not showing. They are necessary, so I know where to place my objects, in regards to the screen. How can I turn those guides on in v.15? Thanks, Tim
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spline
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I upgraded to v.15 and now my splines are drawn at sharp anglses, I can't seem to find the setting to fix this. I have tried the smooth button and nothing changes. anyone know what I need to do? I want to draw a three point spline that loops hangs between the fingers on a hand....but they are angled instead of curved.
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Hi Is it possible to either move the start of my action in the chor to say frame 30, or to start the choreography at frame minus 30. I can stretch all the keys to the right or left (up to frame 0) apart from the first one that seems glued to frame 0. I know should have thought about it in more detail before I started, but I was sure I could tweak it afterwards. I am using v15. Thanks. Hoggy
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hey i cant upload my animation into a post and i dont know why is the file to big? i did change it to a .mov format, but when i changed to to a .mov format the file size also got like 5x bigger. so then i tried to upload the file and it never uploads. i tried to upload it and let it sit for like 10 minutes but it never uploads it just sits there saying uploading. the circle thing that shows its uploading is moving too.
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I made a copy of my models head to do the hair.(to speed things up) But when I copied it back I lost the hair info. and I can not drag and drop the info. to the main model.
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I was making an animation when I accidently clicked on the project workspace, I dont know what folder I clicked but now all my constraints are gone. I searched through folder after folder, but I can't seem to find the constraints. Can anyone help me?
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OK this is kind of hard to explain with out an aimated example but when i animate i dont know how to make something to start move from a certain frame. For example. say im animating a guy jumping. when i get to frame 5:00 or so i start to make him go up into the air but when i do this he starts going up into te air slowly from frame 0 instead of a few frames befor 5:00. i dont know how to make it so i doesnt do this?? is there a certain button or mode to make the movement start from a certain frame instead of from the beginning. Also what is the button force key frame can any of you give me what it does and how to use it etc??
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Hi i suck at modeling and i need a alien and it needs to look real and scary any help.
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ive been able to follow the path ease tut no problems. i cant seem to make this one work for me. i put in the two actions and set the action ins and outs on the timeline. then i set the ease point to 100 and poof the secound action disappears. i can find it and i try to stretch it out but the action is still. any ideas what im doing wrong?
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hello again... why does my deflector material deactivate other materials on the group? i have a group, the body of my character, it has a skin-material on it... then i created a group for the deflector material, containing large parts of cps of my body group... when i drag the deflectormaterial on my deflectorgroup this part turns white, its no longer skin-colored.... please help, it´s drivin me nuts....
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i just upgraded to v15, and now i have 2 problems: i was rigging a character, done that a 100 times before... when i switch on my ik-arms setup in the action the right arm of my character stands curiously out to the right (bild14), when i turn it off and on another time the arm is in the right position, but the elbow-bones are now placed at the shoulders (bild15 & 16)!!!??? something like that never happened before... has anyone an idea whats up there? my second problem is that when i use the skin-shader it affects the white of the eyes of the character, they go hyper-white, no shadows on it at all!
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OK i have an animation that ive made thats about 10 seconds long, but it starting to say itll take about 2 days just to render out all the way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! or like 42 hours, is this going to be really that long ir will the time shortenup a lot??? because ive got to have this done in less than 24 hours. AYE KARAMBA!!! its for a friends birthday present.
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sorry for bothering you all again, i wanted to start an experiment with cloth simulations, i have a character with shorts on that should be cloth simulated. i created two materials, one cloth and one deflector... i put the cloth to a group of the pants except the belt-area, the whole body of the character except the head is the deflectorgroup... the whole pants-group is attached to the pelvis-bone. when i start the simclothsimulation in my choreography, all cps of my pants exept the beltsection and the one splinering of the clothmaterialgroup snap to one position!!! i attached some screenshots, maybe someone can figure out what did wrong... thanks agan...
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hey i have one big problem, i dont know how to change a .avi file taht i have for an animation to a .mov file. could someone show me how. also i got a sound recrding program called audacity that i found on these forums and i made some sound files from it but i dont know how to change the format of the sound to .wav. if anyone has any comments or suggestion that'd be great because i have no clue how to change the format.
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In the hair system. Dose anyone know a tutorial on parting hair?
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I'm looking to create an effect with sprites (sparks) that will swirl around an object in a vortex like shape. The effect I have in mind is along the lines of when the Beast turns back to a man in Disney's "Beauty and the Beast". Anyone have some ideas on I can do this??
Last reply by fae_alba, -
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Could anyone tell me how i could animate text?
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Hey, this is a very "newbie" question, but does anyone know how to change the color or texture of the ground in a choreography? I've tried making grids with control points and then modeling a land scape from that but it doesnt work very well. If anyone could give me any advice or tips that would be great. Masna
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I was going to rotate a bone on the x-axis when i realized my bone was off axis. How do I fix this?
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When I try to stitch in points into a spline they are offset or snap to existing points. Does anyone know what's going on?
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Hi - where does it show who got 2nd, 3rd and 4th place or the January "Heroes" contest?
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IF any of you know very well im not quite sure how to model a cube. usually all i get is a square tunnel that has 2 sides open. Im not quite sure how to atch it and im not sure what a few of the modeling tools are and do. If any of you can help me then that'd be great, thanks.
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One of the things I always enjoyed looking at, to inspire me with AM, was the old PDF file that looked like a software box, that showed AM's possibilities and feature set. Although its VERY out of date, I miss it. Is there somewhere I can re-download that? I can't seem to find it, one the revamped site. Thanks! John
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In addition to A:M, I've also been working with the Daz/Poser programs. I would love to be able to work with both of these programs on my projects. Is there any way to export A:M models into Daz/Poser readable .obj files?
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I created a character wearing a robe. I gave the character bones. I set the lower section of the robe (the hangy-cloth, skirty part) to the default settings for cloth. I then set both legs to be collision objects. As a test, I created a ten second choreography of the character lifting his left leg. When I right-click and go to Simcloth Simulate, the cloth geometry goes all wonky and I get the following message. System found to be unsolvable. Possible causes: forced intersecting geometry, very sudden movement, or other setting... I also created a character wearing a skirt. When I do the same animation, and apply SimCloth, her skirt constantly wiggles around, as t…
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is there a tutorial that explains how to make a model, verry realistik looking? thx.
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Hi. I won a copy of Animation Master in the Renderosity Animation Contest and received my prize yesterday in the mail. The CD is version 12 which when installed won't run on my computer. It quits unexpectedly on start up. I've tried installing updates versions: 15, 14 and 13: these all start fine but none will recognize my CD to let the program continue. Any help would be greatly appreciated! -thanks, Perry
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I just tried to work with the uv-editor and created a blank 800x600 tga which I imported and applied it cylindrical to a head mesh, then stared the uv-editor and expected to see the headmesh in order to be able to push the CP`s like in the Zandoria-Tut, but instead I only get red dots see picture attatched. What can I possibly be doing wrong?
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i´m workin on a hammy-like squirrel-character to learn more about hair. i figured out how to work with decals on hair, in this case i´ve decals for the color, the length and the density of the hair... first i had only one hair system, and it looked totally like a stuffed plush toy... then i added a second one, so that i now have a short one with a high density (375) and a long one with low density (25).. looks way better now, but i´m still not satisfied. i still get this kind of pattern, it looks not really natural... i thought about adding a third system, but i doubt my computer can take any more. the image i added took about 1 and a half hours to render (multipa…
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I created a tucan bird model with feathers (hair). Before I play around with it, I wanted to make sure it is possible if I have the bird flying that the feathers have a "blowing in the wind" look. I did the "Waving the flag" exercise about a year ago, so I'm going to run through that again, but wanted to make sure it would work before I put the time into it. Can anyone advise me on this or even have an animation they have done, that I could see the effect. Thanks - E
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Hi everybody, I don't know if I have a glitch or what, but I have had this A:M software for a while and I am finally getting around to using it. I went through the first tutorial (still image of Keekat) and hit the "render to file" button, saving it as a targa file on the desktop as in the online tutorial and the final scene just renders black, no KeeKat. What did I miss? Thanks! Bob
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I am following a tutorial on modeling Coopers face. I brought in some rotoscopes for the front and left view. The problem is that when I make the rotoscope unpickable the red cross is on the little gloved hand but the rotoscope is still movable. Makes for frustrating modeling experience. Do I need to uninstall and reinstall or can this be fixed in a faster way?
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Landscapes
by Masna- 10 replies
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How exactly would you go about making landscapes? Do you create a grid, manipulate that grid, and place it on top of the ground? Or can you manipulate the ground in a choreography? If anyone could give me some tips that would be great.
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Hello all, I need to use the horse from the 2006 CD, but I need a walk cycle. There is a run cycle, and other items. Anyone have any links, resources for creating a walk cycle for a horse? I have the CD, and the model. I need to figureout the walk. Thanks
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I have heard this word over and over in A:M, and I am confused about it, what does it mean? What does it do? Did I spell it right? Stuff like that....
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I'm currently making a new character (my first one ever) and I need help assigning nulls on the bone hiararchy. Can anyone help me?
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another hair problem: i want to drive the color and the length of my hair system by 2 different decals, or one decal with 2 different images in it, seems to be no difference. driving the color is no problem, works fine. but when i add the second image for the length, it affects the color of the hair too!!!?? i´ve done it all like in talbots hair-tutorial-video, but it won´t work... first i thought it might be a windows-version problem (sometimes i´ve some problems with images there, won´t be displayed etc...), so i tried it in the osx-version too, but same thing. all i do is select "other" in the decal-images "type"-menue, then add a property and select l…
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Long time user(since Playmation) just returned to A.M., upgraded, yada, yada. I cant seem to find my beloved Isometric rendering function... Has this option for rendering been removed? If it has, what was the last version it was in? If its still in there, where is it hiding? Sorry to ask such a nobbish question but the option isnt where I remember it being. Ty in advance for any help/hints, I have a client who wants flat shaded Iso type graphics and AM was my first choice.
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How do i upload a video from my computor to use in A:M like the T-Rex in the demonstration video?
Last reply by jzawacki, -
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I am running a PMac G5 dual 2.5 Ghz, 3G Ram, ATI Radeon 9600 video card. A:M v15a. While working thru the EX17 tutorial, the simulation freezes at frame # 2:15. I saw on another thread from August 3 2007 ( User named "someawfulbridge", post "why can't I bowl cosmically?" ) that someone else had the exact same issue. A Hash person responded that they were able to set up/do the simualtion from the top view in the Chor window and make it work. I tried that and had no luck. They also said that the tut file may be corrupted and that they would try to fix it by next release. I just updated to v15a, but still had the problem. Has anyone had this issue and found a way to ma…
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Can anyone recommend an artist for hire that could draw a character (front & side) that could be used as a rotoscope? I have to search the internet for pics when I create a character, since my drawing skill is limited to a bad stick figure. It really limits me to what I can create. Thanks - Eric
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Lens flares
by Hoggy- 2 replies
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Hi I am trying to make a star 'twinkle'. I am using a Kleig and have the intensity varying so that it goes from zero brightness to maximum brightness and back to zero over the sequence. I thought I would add lens flare beams to make it look a little more 'starry' using "Sun 1" type, but I can't see any beams after render. Lens flare is turned on. Any ideas where I may be going wrong? Thanks Hoggy
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I am refreshing my memory with the online Ref Manuel for Hair/Fur http://www.hash.com/Technical_Reference/v110/Hair.htm They refer to "Stiffness" below - I am just not seeing that setting in the Hair System or Hair Emitters properties "Stiffness: Controls how stiff or ridged each hair strand is. The stiffer the value the less affect dynamics and forces such as gravity has on the hair. This value is a percentage to adjust all the child Hair Emitter's Stiffness values." Has it been changed or located somewhere else in v14? -E
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Hey Rodney, i was wondering where do we post our finnished book projects for all to see so we can qualify for that kewl certification. thanks mike
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Need some help with decals. All of the decals tutorials use photoshop pro but I have paintshop pro. I would like to use the eyes from Miki model on my model. Here is a shot of my anime face model(center). The left model was a modified face from Miki model. I remade the face so it is easier to rig. But since the eyes are spherical and not cylinders and I am missing a step or two in applying the decal I have been having problem applying the decal
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