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Yep, it's time to update my OSx version ... been cutting my teeth off 10.5/11.0 ... what exactly do I need to do, who do I need to contact? My USB dongle will need to be updated also. Any and all help appreciated. TIA!
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Quick question regarding something I am not understanding. If I have a Choreography with two actors in it, and then create two paths. Say I constrain Actor 1 to path A with a Chor range of 4 seconds, and then I contrain Actor 2 to Path B with a Chor range 15 seconds, somehow Actor 1's contraint to Path A will automatically change the Chor range to 15 seconds as well. My question is how do I keep actor 1 going long Path A for just 4 seconds?? Is there a way to edit the keyframes or something else I am missing?? ANy help would be greatly appriciated... EDIT: or I could just go watch the video tutorial on this. Sorry, I didnt see it earlier.
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I am very new to animation master . I did install the jeti 12 version 2006 yesterday. Today i got a message about a new version of the program and installed version 13 beta. Now i want to start for the very first time with the program, so i tried to launch help topics in the help menu of version 13 What do i get : Failed to launch help When i do a search in the v13 directory there is not even a help.chm file there ? What to do now ???
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ok rodney here are all of the stuff i have done [attachmentid=16383][attachmentid=16379][attachmentid=16380][attachmentid=16381][attachmentid=16384] and here are some links http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=12894&st=90 http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=12895&st=120 http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=12893&st=90 that should be all the ones that are missing
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Lee's World please check it out its cool and it has my pictures i made on it
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Hi guyz Ive just been wondering about something, have been working in Maya and have recently moved over to Master and find it an awesome package. question is: in Maya you can take two CV's (as they call it) and attach them (merge them into one) how can I do that with A.M? what I mean is, if I want to attach two pieces (splines) that are seperate, and want to make it into one spline. have made a character and in the modeling process it came up. am just curious to know if it is necessary to do this? I know it probebly sounds like a stupid question but,hey Im a nube to A.M,,,,,,,,,, gimme a break! hehe
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Hi All, I started doing the exercises in the TAoA:M book last night and was wondering if the render time I got on "A Chorus Line" was typical. I did a render to a Quicktime file and it took over 4 hours (using whatever the default settings are). I'm running a 1 GHz G4 MAC Powerbook with 1 GB ram, OSX Tiger, and AM version 12. Any insight would be helpful. Thanks, Keith
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Can the A:M Splash Screen or the little walk cycle animations that appear during rendering be replaced? I'd like to add my own original creations if possible. I just thought I'd ask. Thank you for your time.
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How do we render the background as one color besides black? We want to edit our cat into a film so it is dancing with a live person. Our teacher can't figure it out when he is supposed to help us!
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Exercise #6 is going to be a large learning curve for me because not every step is spelled out (which is good) and I'm taking some liberties by adding my own touches to it. The oportunities for learning started when I couldn't figure out how to save the project w/ the model with out A:M squawking that it could not save the model back to the CD. Got that question answered and banged head 1st into the next issue. I knew there had to be a way to add a keyframe for a single bone with out keyframing everything on that frame. Every time I have tried to learn this software I always get jammed up about those buttons at the bottom left of the screen. (Forgive me when I use th…
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When I start A:M, the MS Agent Wizard's hat pops up in my system try. It doesn't seem to do anything other than just sit there in the tray. I was just wondering what's the point of that? Thanks again for your time and I apologize if this is a stupid question.
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Morning everyone. Ok, i'm going thru the tutorials (again and again!). I'm trying to have my character walk a path, then wave. However, I can't seem to have my character mimic what the tutorial does. My character walks, then "glides" for a bit, then waves. What am I missing? I thought I followed the tutorial, but maybe I keep missing something? Thanks. Steven
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Hi All, I figure I should start by way of introduction as this is my first post. I have never animated anything in my life. However, that did not stop me from picking up a copy of Animation Master at NAB 2006 after watching the demonstration a couple of times. Kudos to the demonstrator for a very lively demo and for knowing the product well enough to make EVERYTHING look easy! That being said, part of the demostration showed how one of the 'Tak' commercials was donw using objects layered in the camera's view. Something that stood out was that there was a card (for lack of a better term) off to the side that the camera panned over to that had the logo and inform…
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What types of files can be imported in and out of AM? I don't have the software but am considering it because of it's animation prowess, but not real keen on the whole "spline, patch modeling process" and wondered if I had a modeling software like Silo or Hexagon can I have some file format that I can import in and out of.
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Hi All, Well, I found the technical reference document of my A:M CD and was just curious if there is a printable copy somewhere that I havem't found yet (PDF perhaps)? I'm the kind of person who likes to have a hardcopy to leaf through on the bus ride to work. I could print the web pages, but wanted to check and see if an alternate format was available first. Thanks, Scott
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I'm kind of a new user to Animation:Master. I recently started working on the software after quite a while and it wont let me animate. For example I cant do keyframes or anything. I'll put my character in position and then move the time bar to 10 frames and then move the character again but when I go to 0 it is just the previous pose.
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I am trying to change the texture property of a decal to 'bump' to use as a bump map. How do I do this is A:M v.12v+? -Chris
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when i make modals and i try to make a modal or a group reflecive it wont be come reflective want do i do to help this?
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When I open A:M, I get a message that says, "Error running scripts on this page. Do you want to continue running scripts on this page?" Then, while I'm working, I keep getting an annoying ding-a-ling chime. Over and over. What's happening here Johnnyb
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Hello, I'm looking for a way to adjust a model via it's bone hierarchy, and then apply those changes back to the original model. In case that doesn't make sense, here's what I'm trying to do. I'm exporting models (via amxtex) for use in a role playing game. One particular model needs to be of a dead body. The body doesn't need to be animated, so I don't need to export an animation, but I do need to move the limbs around to suit the position I want. I also want to add some other static scenary objects to the model before exporting. Thanks, Scott
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I am looking for a lobster model for a project i am working on. I also need a guitar. I any one has these or knows where i can get them please let me know. i don't think i am that far along to model them myself. thanks!
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I was having many problems with crashes and nonworking features; a moderator suggested I upgrade to the newest version. I upgraded from V12 to V13 and all the crashes went away and the features now work... but the libraries have disappeared. Does anyone have any suggestions?
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ok i have seen some stuff in the forum that V12 can do can any one tell how to do the newton plugin and the AO setting?
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I am doing the Flower Power exercise using AM 12.0v on a Mac OS X (10.4.6), and I have noticed that I am having difficulty making a complete group from a lathed object. I create a seven point spline, then I choose the control point nearest the X axis and hit Lathe. It makes a nice round stem. Then I try to group the control points manually (selecting a big box well around the entire stem), but I can't capture all the control points on the screen. Most points are green, but some remain red. I try Select All to capture all the control points before grouping, and it appears to work (all control points are green). I name the Group using the F2 key. Then…
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Hi. I am trying to find information re: eyes. I understand how to make spheres and modify them to look like eyeballs. How do you make them more realistic? Decals? Materials? I appreciate the help. V 12.0
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Hey, all-- I'm working through the David Rogers book and I'm making your standard remote control. It is laid out with circle-holes (lathed from a diagonal line, top circle deleted, resulting in a four-point hole) for buttons and a rectangular face around them, with the face comprising five-point patches connecting to the holes' cps. So, theoretically, especially since it will not be animated with any flexing/bending, having a 0-y-scale mesh, even chock full o' five-point meshes, should be crease and wrinkle-free, yes? But at every corner where two or four five-point meshes join, I'm getting a tiny crease. I've tried various combinations of how to lay out …
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i know this as been answered before i just never read the post because this has never happened to me i downloaded the 13 beta and all my librarys are missing can any one tell me how to get them back?
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Hello, Is there anyway for me to setup the forum so that when I click on a topic, the most recent response (post) comes up first instead of the initial response? Right now, when I click on a topic, I have to go through all the pages (or click on the >> icon) to get to the end. With most forums, the last response pops up first. Thanks for the help.
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can someone tell me how to attatch objects together? ex: leg to body
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While I was having problems getting back into the modelling groove for my Batmobile project, I decided to take a little break and work through some of the tutorials in Animation Master: A Complete Guide by David Rogers. I modelled the flour sack and attempted to animate a walk (hop?) cycle. [attachmentid=18185] What do you Animation Masters think? Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.
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Is there a way in Animation Master or maybe through a plugin that allows you to apply an animation such as an AVI or an MOV and stamp it onto an object either as a decal or a texture? From what I can see the only plausible method is to save it as frames and keyframe the transparency of each frame, but this is extremely impractical. When I try to apply an MOV as a decal it crashes the program (resulting in 1 lost model due to not saving) and I can't figure out how to add an image to a texture object in a project. I can't even figure out how to save a 24-bit AVI to try using that, and GIFs (the original file format) are somehow entirely unsupported by the program (A big inc…
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After doing some refinement on my climbing action. My knight ended up with the right bicep bone underneath the right forearm bone in the project workspace. It ruins the entire arm movement. How do I get it back to the correct place. I have attached a picture.
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Hey, does anyone know if A:M works on Intel based Macs? For example, I have a MacBook, and I was wondering if it would work correctly on it, seeing that Blender doesn't (that is what I am upgrading from). Thanks in advance, Ben.
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I'm not to sure if this is the right place to post this but i am not sure where else to put it. I am currently setting up my personal website where i can post all my animations for exercises plus anything else done with A:M. I have already put a link on there for the Hash website for people to go to,but my main question is can i also add a link to the TWO website.I really would like to promote this great project done by the Hash community but was not sure if i was allowed. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Please note the site is still under construction and may change shortly. Cheers Jay http://www.freewebs.com/youngman1/
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Hi, I making my frist charater and I was wondering how the heck do you put eyes and a mouth in? Thanks!
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Hey, I saw in the demo a white render, I was wondering how to do this, so I came here for help. I am using A:M v13 on an Intel Based Mac. Thanks, Ben.
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I'm working on exercise 10 (FW-190) and whenever I try to rotoscope any image I just get a stupid white box instead of a plane or girrafefeff. I watched the online tutorials and He does it fine. Grrrrr! I hate boxes.Evil White Boxxxx! GHAAAAAA! Please send help before I hang myself. P.S. I am new here. -Harrison
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hello. i was wondering could anyone point to a tute which addresses how i can model or animate an actor who has to either put on or take off clothing? for example, if i were to do a Superman model and i wanted him to do his famous "rip open shirt to expose the "S" shield", how is this done? or how about if he was fighting a villain who had on a helmet and was taking it off? thanks.
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i would add an image to my model and i cant see the image, any suggestions?
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Hi all, Wondering if anyone has suggestions for a good online file storage site? I'll need one to place some of these finished TAoAM projects... I've done a google for them, but to be honest, I'm not sure which is reliable, secure, etc. I've tried one in the past and it seemed fine - until I tried referencing files I'd uploaded there. It started blocking the files (and it was nothing copyrighted). When I logged in to check on the files they were deleted. So I really don't want to find another one where they mess with, block or lose your files like that.. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Mike
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My journey starts with trying to get Shaggy to walk on his hands. Of course, as hips and legs move, the hands want to move, but I want them to behave like feet. I look into the Hand Targets, but it seems like in the models, the hand targets are not set up the same way the feet targets are, which just seem to work. I try to look at other actions, and see that the stock action 'salute' seems to get gala's hand targets working, but I can't see how? So how is setting up hand targets done? I don't have setting up constraints to other things, but I want the hands to act like feet, and not drift while the hips and legs and such are flailing above them. …
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I need help with most of the constraints. I know about the Rigid bodies, but I need help with: -Aim at -Kinematic -Aim ROll at -Roll like -Spherical Limits -Euler Limits -Translate Limits -Surface -Aim like two -Roll Like Two -Bone to Spring
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Hi All Ive just completed excercise 10 FW 190 Fighter, and although I have completed ok, there were a few things that didn't match what I was doing to what was stated in the book and on the video tutorial? At a few stages it refers to going to the edit menu and selecting compliment group and compliment spline, but they are not listed under my edit menu. Im using version 13 (its the only one I have) and Im not sure if its called something different or it doesn't. Any Ideas?
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I an trying to do a 50%/50% CP weigh for the first time and I have looked at clips showing how its done....the problem is the "Edit CP weights" menu never appears I've tried it in modelling muscle(under an action) and skeletal and yet nothing.... ANY ONE CAN HELP ME ... BTW I have A:M 10.5
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exercise 20
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i wanted to know if there was a video tut on hair i know its in the manual, i was just wondering
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Hi all, I am embarking on an animation project and just decided to purchase AM but I am a bit hesitant that I will be able to pull this off since I am not a professional. My charachters are simple, a smiley face and a chalkboard with a straight forward story. I worry that I won't be able complete my character rigging and will be dead in the water. How hard is this and do people offer rigging services? I use a Mac and have 10.4.7 (Tiger) and I noticed the additional available software that helps you rig doesn't work with 10.4. Thanks in advance, Lori Hiatt
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I'm having a bit of a problem with a model I'm working on. Some of the CPs & splines are pale blue, not the usual red/white combo. I can't select the CPs (even with {Ctrl-A}). The attached image shows the problem areas, surrounded by red splodges. I think what I'm doing wrong is something very basic, but I can't begin to think what it is. Any of the experts care to shed some light...?
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Hi, I imported Dennis' sig frog from my desktop and only 1/2 of him shows. Only what is above the y axis shows. I can rotate him to supine and sure enough just the top half of him shows but only in shaded mode. I can see the whole wire figure. Renders above the y axis only. I can stand him on his head and see only his feet! I wonder if it is because I don't know how to add him to my library and I am just importing him. Other A:M characters are working OK Dennis says it is working fine for him. I'm on a G5 iMac Lori Hiatt Sig_frog_test.mov
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hello all. hope everyone is doing well. i was wondering while im learning how to model, does someone who knows how to model, also have to also be good at animating? or vice-versa? like, say if youre the type of person who is "so-so" at modeling, but if someone gave you a pre-built rigged model, you know you could animate the heck out of it? or if you know you suck at or dont have the patience to animate, but would love to be down with a project just to build and model a character? is this acceptible that although a person is assigned a job doing either/or, knowing the other is not a requirement, i.e., and artist that gets paid to model doesnt need to know how to anim…
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Hello.. This isn't a complaint about anything, but rather a "how do you deal with this" sort of thing. I'm working through the AoAM book and am still on the "It's a Pitch" project. It's taking me some time thanks to rl issues and, most pertinently, because I'm finding myself having trouble working on it. Basically, I'm finding it very difficult to work with the armature. It seems that I can't get the right angle to move/rotate things and it's causing me alot of headaches. For example, I'm working in left-side view and everything looks fine.. until I look at it head on or from any other angle, then I realize that everything is out-of-whack looking. Then it's…
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