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Hi - I have played around w/ materials a bit from my last practice model and have a basic understanding of how it works. I have a couple of questions - I need practice modelling as well so I modeled a small dinosaur which I will use to work on materials and textures. What I am going for is for the dinosaur to have an alligator skin look - I am going to put the dinosaur in a short humerous animation - so I am not going for photorealistic, but I still want an alligator skin look. I also want to have green stripes going down his back - which is where I am getting confused. Is the skin texture (alligator look) done w/ materials and the stripes done w/ a decal? Also…
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i was wondering if there is a way to make a material have fire come from it , i know that this is most likely the way its done but i can find out how to do it ,
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I am trying to use a material effector with a transparent material to make a part of a modell invisible in a chor and can`t get it to work. Does anybody by chance have an example project or mini tut for this matter?
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Hey all, I just upgraded to v13 the other day. Now my old HDD crashed, luckily i was able to back up all my materials and other important stuff, so I loaded in v13, worked good. Finally decided that I should continue to work on my project i have going. I made all my materials before the models. I just finished a model and wanted to import the material in to A:M and apply it. I go to load the material, and it gives me a "Missing IO plug in" error. I didnt have any plug ins like that when i made them, so there couldnt be anything wrong with the materials themselves. Heres the kicker, After I say "fine I'll remake them", I close down the import window and now my ma…
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Hi All! Ive created a striped material in Hash and have applied it to a cylinder. The problem I have is the the stripes are horizontal and I want them vertical. Can I use this material as a decal or is there another fix? Perpetual Newbie
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hi i try to implement a material to an objet and i get the missing plugin error, what should i do?
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I am trying to modify an existing material, "ceramic cup" to have a black color instead of white or off-white. I set both the diffuse and specular colors to black, but it is not black, just has more of a gray tint. Did I forget something, or is there another attribute I have to set the color for?
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ok it should be simple but i guess for me its not , im trying to apply a material to a model but when i do it applies to the whole thing , iv tryed selecting only the sections i want but it stil does the whole thing, what am i doing wrong
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Can anyone link me too any good materials tutorials? - I am trying to figure out the basics of creating them. Here is a link to a really good one, but a little advanced for me at this point. http://www.colins-loft.net/free/mats/Demon_Skin_Material.htm Thankyou - Eric
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Hi - I am a newbie to materials and how they work - I am looking through the tech ref and it is talking about Material Diplacement - they show 100% - 200% and it looks like actual bumps instead of just a flat surface. When I used Roughness and Roughness scale it doesn't give the bumpy look - just distorts the colors to make it look bumpy, but still has the flat look. I am not getting something here, can anyone clue me in. Here is a great example of a "real" look to everything I am looking to learn to do courtesy of Matt W Bradbury http://www.hash.com/users/amfeatu...pertiesRoom.jpg Thanks - Eric
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im looking for a tutorial about materials, can u help? thx, but wait... before u give me the web sight please make sure the web sight works also has any one notest, most of the animation master tutorial websight on the web dont work? is any one ever going to fix them? web sights that advertise help that dont work is not verry professional dont u think? thx paul
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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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Ok, I did the tutorial on Yves' web site (very helpful by the way) for wood grain. http://www.ypoart.com/ I've been trying to make railroad ties. ( Rodger Reynolds has been a great help by the way). Anyway, I made the material and it looks fine, how ever in the final render the grain seems to go away. I notice if I angle the model or camera this happens. Is this a normal look for a material? I thought you would be able to make out the grain no matter what angle it's at. Any advice would be great. Andy
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I was making my archery bow and had some materials applied. When I opened my project today, the materials were still in the PWS but non of them are showing up on the bow?!?!?!? I made a new project just to see if they worked there and they did. Not really sure what got changed to where non of the materials are visible on my model. Thoughts?
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Hi, Am wondering if it is possible to have a 'personal library of materials'. I see in the tools->OPtions->folders it is possible to add extra path for A:M to search for additional LBR files. I have a number of materials files and am wondering how can I put them into a LBR file so that A:M will recognise them. Have searched the internet for a utility without any success. Any ideas - or am I simply barking up the wrong tree and there is an easier way that I've missed? Thanks, Oliver
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I am trying to work on my modeling skills to bring them up a bit and decided to create a red eyes tree frog character and had a couple of questions about the materials I placed on him. First question- is there a way to make where the green and white mix under his mouth "blend" together instead of a perfect line? Second question- is there a way to make the green skin not so perfect - have some of the green bumps smaller and some larger? Thanks for any help - Eric
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I would like to use some of the Math Functions that AM has to offer - but I need to know what the Functions / Variables are so they can be used - I dont see any Help. Tom
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I want to try a Matrix effect I want the sound they use when the characters go into ths slow mode fighting stuff. Please attach her or Email it to me Please. THis is for MMC#3 and I have a deadline
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Me again, sorry. I worked on this all day yesterday, changed settings, did every thing I could think of, even Reset AM to defaults. I just cant figure out why my rendering looks like this. Any Ideas? This is what my finished animations look like or just Black. After it finished then AM crashes. Have to go to work now just to clear my head. LOL Wally
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ok some of my models have goten really complex so i was wondering if groups can be merged as i have like 200 on this one model and all there for is 5 differant colors
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Hello, I'm experimenting with depth of field in my animation. The problem I'm having is that I can't figure out how to actually determine distances within the program. My settings are in centimeters (cm), but I can't accurately determine lengths so that I can have the proper objects in focus. Are there ways of measuring how far an object is from the camera, or is using the side 'rulers' the best way? Any tips are greatly appreciated.... Cheers, Tim
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Do we have any type of measuring tape feature in am aside from Guides and grids. In other programs you can draw a line between 2 points to measure, thats kind of what im looking for.
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Anyone know about this.... I slapped my Al Capone rotoscope onto my model as a decal, and it looks OK until I move any of the 5 point patch CPs in the UV editor and then they look like a cigarette got put through them. They still look OK in a final render (left) but the real-time view is out of whack (right).
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In a model window, I have an unattached 4 point spline. I click on a CP to select it, then right-click to bring up the context menu. I select "Delete", and it asks me if I want to delete "Untitled". I click "Yes", but nothing happens -- the CP is still there. However, if I use the "Delete" key instead of the menu, I can delete the CP. Is this normal? Is the Delete menu reserved for something else? (A:M 11.1i, WinXP SP3) -SB
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Ok hopefully pretty simple i have farious block type shapes that are all 50% transperant in a project im working on , is there a way i can have to objects that are say yellow move to the same space but have both the parts that are touching and the parts that are not remain the same 50% transperancy. more or less a block moves through another block of the same type and i dont want you to be able to tell that theres one inside the other
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Typically, the initial mesh I plot out looks just fine. Of course, I have to move it around to get it looking right, and once I do, crinkles and creases start showing up from some angles - even though the splines look perfectly smooth. How do I fix/avoid this?
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ehmm, could someone give me a property set up for a metal shing surface that can be used for a car and a cool glass surface. thanks.
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OK iv done a lot of fooling around with making materials but know i need a material that has a metal effect to it any suggestions on how to get that
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Hey everyone. I'm attempting to simulate an object colliding with an airplane in mid air. It gets hit from the side rather than head on or from the rear and there is no explosion....just a physical hit that needs to break it apart. My question: Can some type of dynamics/ simulation break the plane up and simulate the pieces falling with drag? **Additional complication is that the airplane appear to be moving at about 100mph even though it's only moving up and down with a little rotation. So when the plane breaks up, there is no forward speed for the simulation to work with as far as the pieces dragging..... Is there a way to do this in A:M without goi…
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THe midi plugins seems for me a great addition to A:M , music is a important factor in story telling , rythm and mood . I m wondering if it could be possible to have more info about how to use midi control plug efficiently...!
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Hi it s seems that the Stephen Gross Midiplugin does not longer work or i doing some thing wrong.I can download it in the prior section but it gave me an error message when i launch A:M. The other section give me a broken link. I ve tried the Wayback machine but i have the same result. Does some one have the plugin somewhere. Thank you all. M.
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mirror an action... Let's say keekat is dancing on stage in front of a bunch of other keekats. the keekats in the audience are following his actions... but they are wrong because they are mirrors... keekat stops shakes his head and turns around, back to audience, to show them that they are doing it wrong.... they get it and start doing it correctly. and, with the jump action in the library, i'd like to have the charachter jump forward... and then by doubling the lenght of the action... reverse his jump... is there an easy way to do these things... ? I found this in the search of the archives http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showt...l=mirror+action …
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I forgot what it is called but I modeled half of my guy on the left side, and since he is symmetrical there was a way to copy, invert (mirror image) and attach the other part to him. I thought it was Mirror Mode but reading up on that tool it is designed for making adjustments to the right and left sides at the same time. I would look for it but I don't remember what it was called?
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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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Copyflipped/attachted this modelhalf here, fixed the hooks and expected the mirrormode to work but nothing. What can I possibly be missing here? SimpleRigMan15H_130808.mdl SimpleRigMan15D_130808.mdl
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When ever I do Copy, Flip and Attach to a model, depending on how complex the model is, I'll end up making minor changes to fix things. Correct some splines re do some patches, nothing major. Pretty much everything that wasn't modified is still nicely working with Mirror Mode, but those control points I modified are no longer mirrored. Once my model has been made whole with copy flip attach, I've to worry about making adjustments to both half's Mirror Mode takes care of that. So, is there any way I can get control points back in sync again with there mirror control point, so they work again with Mirror mode?
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Oh BOY! A new mystery. Trying to use the Mirror function with the attached model - no luck. What am I doing wrong? I've used it with other models/projects before but can't get it to work at all anymore. Any help appreciated. MirrorTest.mdl
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OK, everyone. I have been on this for days now and can't quite seem to get it right. I've searched the posts so that I am not duplicating a previously discussed post issue, but I can't quite find what I'm looking for. I want to create a highly polished surface looking like gold, but the only thing that it will be reflecting is the light from a single stage light, no other objects. I have the surface reflectivity, blend, and filter all set to 100%. I have also tried some polished looking materials. I have tried using the light as klieg, sun, and bulb, different intensities, different positions, but I can't get the light to bounce back into the camera with a s…
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Well I am still very new to A:M but I have finished the workbook and practiced a little bit on my own but am still very new. Anyways...I am running the newest version which is version 13 point something, Well what my question is, Is how would I go about making a mirro or reflective surfae? Like say a typical mirror in a room or a mirrored reflection off of a car or sunglasses? Do I have to manually "Paste the mirrored image" over the surface? Oris there a way to get the computer to "know" that it is a mirrored surface that reflects? That way it will be better and more accurate with movements than if I did it manually. Because I really waana use this effect and make a char…
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According to sgross' website the MirrorBones plugin is available in AM v16. However I don't see it when I right click PlugIns/Wizards. I only see MirrorConstraints. Should I be downloading the MirrorBones plugin from sgross' website?
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Hi, I am working on my flower project and creating an action as review. I can get copy keyframe and paste key frame to work but not copy keframe/paste mirrored to work. Here's a screen shot after I did a mirrored paste for frame 25. Lori Hiatt
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I'm trying to do exercise 5, except I'm customizing the animation some. Since I have many keyframes, I'm looking for a convenient way to quickly mirror a range of time without having to cut/paste-mirror each frame, so I can quickly and easily preview the animation after making minor tweaks to it. Does anybody know how to do this? The closest I've come, is that I've figured out how to copy/paste a range of control-points in the timeline window. Thanks for any help!
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I am exporting a character with Animation to Quest with the Osidian-Export. Now I got the problem, that the character is always coming in mirrored (that means what was on the right will be one the left. To solve this, I would go the easy road and do all the animations visversa. But now I made a mistake and animated not mirrored. So is there a plugin or a function which can bring all the animation in the action from one side to the other and visversa? *Fuchur*
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Is there any way to mirror a pose from one side of a face to another. For example, if I make a pose that closes a person's left eye can I mirror that to the right eye?
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The Copy/Flip/Attach command is mirroring my half-model across the XZ plane instead of the YZ plane. How do I fix this? It doesn't happen for all models, but it does for this one. On a related note, is there a real instancing-based mirror mode? The face-icon mirror mode (although useful for gluing points to YZ) doesn't cut it, because it only mirrors transforms.
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It's been a while since I've been on the forum, but I was away working on an idea for an animation that I intend to expand on. Now that I am back back, I have a question for anyone who can answer. I'm experimenting with smoke and I know how to work that. One thing I don't know how to do is to get smoke to start up after a certain period of time. I have an aircraft with missile bays. When the bays open, I have the missiles firing. That is when I want the smoke to start up and go. The plane will be moving too, obviously, and I don't think it would look to good with smoke coming ot of the fuselage in some random area. Anyone know how to work this? I'll put the missile video…
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I am trying to work through the SHOW SOME BACK BONE tut. I follow along with the online video tut, but when I open the 2001 Skeleton rig, there are bones missing. Also during the video tut, when the instructor clicks on groups of bones, the grouping bracket that comes up looks like a little reel to reel tape recorder. That bracket does not come up for me when I click on different bone groups. Can anyone help me out? I am using version 13.01 Thanks in advance! T MAC
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Closed out my camera view so I could make some changes in bones mode. Now I can't get my camera view back. I don't want to start a new choreography, but that is the only way I can think right now to get the camera view back. I checked the View options but didn't see much there. What am I missing?
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Maybe this will help me with some of the other questions I have been posting... I am trying to just take a character (i.e. KeeKat) and lifting the right arm at frame 5 and the left arm at frame 10. I do not want the left arm to lift until after the right arm is done (frame 5). However, the left arm begins lifting at frame 0. I have tried to nudge the left arm at frame 5 (by the way, you can only nudge with the mouse cursor...moving by arrow buttons on the keyboard doesn't make it recognized as being moved) to set it in the same position as frame 0 but that doesn't seem to work. I have done several of the tutorials but it seems that I may be missing some basic…
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I am using the shield prop from the extras CD in a choreography. Every time I open this project I get the message "Missing Image IO plugin" for the file "bouclierADc.wmp". That file is in fact in the path listed. I checked my options and determined that the IO plugins are in the standard place. However, there is no iio file listed for a "wmp" file. I have these: AVI.iio BMP.iio EXR.iio JPG.iio MOV.iio PCX.iio PNG.iio TGA.iio Is there someplace to get the needed plugin?
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