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How many characters can you assign different voices on stage at one time like a conversation, and can I import 3DS or is there a converter for it that will work with animation master. thanks
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I'm having a problem with the toon shader which when I render it, I get these weird shadows and lines in the background of my walls. Here's a picture to show what I'm talking about. :)
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I'm trying to recreate an effect i saw in a game. to the point its making a dark mater blast . a black liquid ball with a white Aura like outline. i have been experimenting with creating a black water material with varied success. but the aura is still "not happening" . i have tryed to create a larger form of the bolt and tint and tweak it but it in some way or another covers the black core which is supposed to be pure black. does any one know way to do what I'm asking. i found this image online, its a beam version but the effect is simmilar
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Hi I’m new to the world of AM I’m still learning the basics and all and am using a book to assist me in my learning process, Animation Master 2002 by David F. Rogers Now a while back I read in some article or magazine about AM being used for photo manipulation. My memory is somewhat fuzzy on the article, but I believe it got used to enlarge their heads and alter them in shape somewhat. All I can recall was that a grid/mesh was placed over the picture, adjusted to in shape of the head and neck and next thing, the picture stuck to the mesh and it could be readjusted and dragged apart. After the heads/bodies were somewhat adjusted shadow/light effects where added w…
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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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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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how do you make an "eye target"?
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Hi Splinesmen! I think this must be a rather simple question. Im using AM 13r on Windows XP. I just want an object to follow a path#1 (I know of Ease and Enforcement) - so this works great. At the end of path #1 my object has to do some "strange" movement, where a path is not apropiate. So I append a normal choreo action. Now my object "lands" somewere - and now following a different, second path (lets say path#2) would be the easiest for me. But I've no success in doing the last step. A added the second path. I set a path constraint on object with path#2 as target. But now matter how I edit Ease & Enforcement: MY object does NOT move along…
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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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Ok, I'm trying to make a stone road bed, but I'm having trouble with this. I used a picture as a displacement map, and the same photo to add color. But no matter what color stones I use, it just looks bad. Is there something I need to do to the displacement map prior to applying it? ***The displacement map is first and the color map is next**
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After modeling and rigging a character, I decided to test it on the walk cycle from TaoA:M. Having spent so much time in the Project Workspace, I got use to double clicking on an item when I needed to start something new... I did this for a new Choreography Action as well, thinking I could do the walk cycle that way. However, near the end of the process I discovered that I did not have access to the "Has Stride Length" setting. Can this be turned on somehow inside a Choreography Action? I decided to render what I had, even though it isn't constrained to a path: SarahWalkTest2a.mov Also, I need to enable the Neck and Finger bones for the 2008 rig, but I'm no…
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So I'm working through the flower tutorial. After drawing my line with 7 control points, and clicking the lathe, I wanted to adjust them. Every time I try to group a line of cp's it's always leaving one or two control points out. and therefor cause my stem to disform. Does anyone know what I can do about this so it'll change the way it groups?
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Does anyone have a small example PRJ that shows a "surface constraint" in operation?
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Can A:M use shatter maps (or some other technique) to simulate exploding/breaking materials such as a dropped glass or window being shot out? Seems like it can do about everything else so this may also be a pleasant surprise! Thanks. raf
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Hello, I am working on the Flower tutorial and the tutorial talks about using a tilby key or clicking the right and left buttons on the mouse simultaneously to close the leaves. I only have a one button mouse and use control click for a left click. How do I do this with a one button mouse. What is the tilby key? Thanks, Lori Hiatt
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I've been searching through the old posts (for answers to questions that I'll be posting as soon as I know the answer is not already here), and I keep running into links that have expired. Several of these 1+ year-old-posts have links to johnl3d's website at http://johnl.inform.net . Unfortunately, the site is gone. Have you moved to another home, johnl3d? Or are those valuable documents lost forever? - Wes
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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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I experience lag when I drop in a complex model such as Chewie. I run on a 64 amd duel processer. With 1G of ram. Now my question is I run on a low end video card. If I invest In a new vid card will that fix the lag issue. And what card would you suggest? Not a huge problem now I just got the program 4 days ago.
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Hello, I've been experimenting with Ambient Occlusion and notice that it takes a lot of time at higher sample rates. I'd like to render AO at a lower rate (15%-20%) and then use the "denoise" post-effect to smooth out the dithered look. I've attempted to find the definitive way to do this in the forums, but have only gotten spotty information. Can anyone lead me to a tutorial that shows how to render and SAVE images that have been processed by the "denoise" (or other) post effects? Thanks a lot! Tim
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Is it possible to do motion capture (.bvh) with AM V13, If yes, please can i go about this , help please.
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A real newbie question. I have looked in manual and can't see where it is on how to save as an avi or mpg to play animation outside Animation Master.
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I have a MPEG-2 that I want to use as an animated rotoscope. To what do I need to convert this video file? An AVI? A MOV? Help me, kids. - Justin Curfman
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Hi there, I want to toonrender a model of mine with blackoutline only upon white. I made all the according changes in the renderoptions, modelproperties and cameraoptions and it works fine in the previewrender, but when I do a final render in the chor, I get only a total black picture. Any help anybody please? What am I possibly doing wrong? AM12 q WinXP Thank you ;>/ Jake
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I had a student ask me how to move the camera around in the choreography window and after showing him a truly awful way of doing it I realized I had no clue. =) Is there an equivalent to turning and moving like the modelling view that can be used to manipulate the camera views in choreography? Much obliged, Chris =)
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I just tried to flatten my exersize 11 for a decal, and I was unable to find the dilog FLATTEN in the Rotate Window. Has something changed in ver 13? I've flatten a face before and thought I had it all figured out. Also I tried to submit this to the Forum FAQ but it wouldn't let me Any help would be welcomed
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Hello - I attached an image - I am using fluids and getting a black circle outline on the water droplets. Is there a setting under the fluid emitter or something that is causing this? Thanks - Eric
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I would like to make a wireframe render of my object but i do not want the teal background of AM. I would like it to be white with the wireframe to be black. I tried to change the background color under the camera settings but it still gives me a teal color. Can that be achieved? Thanks. Pierre
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Hi, does anyone know how to render in 48 bit color in AM? To get the really loooooong gray scales Redgards KG Holmqvist
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is there a way to lock the camera so it can’t be moved by accident? I seem to be always moving the camera inadvertently in the choreography window. I can’t seem to see a way to prevent accidental movement when( I move around the camera window as I would in a front or side view, the camera as well. very annoying.
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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 have looked through every reference I can on the documentation for adding lights to a scene but I have not found how to do it. Everything I have found describes properties, luminence, etc but not how to add. Anyone here point me in the right direction? I know three lights are added to a new scene but I want to add more. Thanks a million! MrM
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Do the graphical glitches (glitchy update during bone manipulation) happen in XP? I picked up AM and read the forums before hand. Knew there were some small issues, but it's quite persistent and gets you out of the flow. Work around (for me) is to minimize the window and then bring it back. But it's happening often enough I don't think I can stand it. Comp: Q6600, 8GB RAM, Vista Home Premium x64, EVGA 8800GTS 320MB, AM 15b. Driver at 169.44, Vista up to date. I have a render node with an E6600, 2GB RAM and XP SP2. Is XP that much more stable and reliable running AM than Vista? Interested in hearing someone with Vista that has encountered this issue and li…
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Yes the name is Raptree, myhalomovies is my site that I own. I do Machinima, I know some of you don't know that, but if you've heard of Red vs. Blue then you would know they came from Machinima. I myself do movies like them on halo 2 and halo 3, I've taken notice to your product "Animation Master" and was surprized at this spectacular program that is in my price range. I ain't a jump to person on these programs, but I am wanting to purchase the 1 year trial for $50 and if I like it I will buy the whole thing. Myself, currently, is making a few series in halo 3 and your program matched a design texture that I use for many episodes to come. I am hoping to enjoy my…
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Hi im Yarkool and I have Animation Master 2004 (I know its old). What i want to do is wrap a video game skin image around a video game model? Can anybody tell me how to do that or if i can? Thanks!
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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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Hi everyone, Even though I've been around for quite some time, I'm still very, very new to modelling. What I would like to find out, is how would be the best way to make a golf ball in AM? I have looked and searched for the answer here in this forum, and come up with using bump maps on a normal sphere as a good way, and this sounds great. (Here comes the newbie part). I have found a bump map, but it is basically a big rectangle with the dots stretched at the edges (mainly at the top/bottom). I have tried just applying the image as a decal, and flattening the image (although Im not that great at flattening). Both results varied in effectiveness, but ba…
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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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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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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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Can I apply a procedural texture over top of a model that I have placed decals on? Does the procedural texture have to be in a specific place in the PWS heirarchy for it to show up? I'd like to add a turbulence over top of bitmapped images to simulate staining or grunge. thanks
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Hey Guys, Is there an easy way to blend the CP weights between two bones? Here's what I've got below. I just want even distribution between the bones. I have a lot of CPs because I'm going to make the thing rough like rock and I didn't want to do it using materials and combiners. I just don't want to have to go spline by spline to fade the weight between each bone. Thanks. Justin
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So I am working on smartskin to adjust the area where my penguins flippers connect to her body. I am selecting the torso bone and doing New > smartskin. Problem is when it jumps to the 90 degree rotation. I understand this is normal, however, I can't see the bone to move it back and it seems to *really* distort the model. Should I keep my model in shaded wireframe mode while doing this, or would just wireframe make seeing the bone easier?
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The link to cap wizard from Brian Levine seem to be dead. Is there a new link??
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I asked this Q a long time ago but couldn't find the original post, so: Where can I download the basic male model character? He's not on the '05 extras DVD i have. Thanks!
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Flocking does not seem to be working in 15J+ no models show when you drop them on the flock.
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I somehow forgot how to do this. I have made a boolean cutter that is meant to cut the hull but not the innertube of this screw. So, how do I achieve this? Cant get it to work: see picture BoolScrew.mdl
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I'm having an issue with my AM V.12p modeling window. Seems like I may or may not have pressed a button that may or may not have changed something in regards to the way the screen responds. Before today, the modeling window was fun and easy to work in, the model turned with relative ease when I used the manipulators on it. Today, after some quick key strokes, something changed. The modeling window is now noticeably less responsive, the model sorta jerks into position when I turn it and the view sometimes doesn't update. Very strange. I changed from DirectX to OpenGl and back but no change. Which one is the better performer anyway, DirectX, right? After s…
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I just upgraded to v12v+ and I have read Yves Poissant's Mini Tutorial on AO but I can't seem to find it in the Choreography properties. I can't even find a Global Ambiance property under Choreography. Can anyone help?
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i wanted to try using decals on my character but i guess im not too good at making character decals they call it skins or something right? how do you set up the skins on the decal before its applied to the model? how do you compensate for this stretching effect that im getting when the build reachs the edge of the skin thingy? help?
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question, is there a way to tweak the gold, in the a.m. libraries to look like this picture? i want to have the gold render with the lines in it like this picture, its more realistic looking, or do i have to find a gold texture? thx
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