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i was wondering...what is a proxy model?
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Hello, Somehow I solved the problem of the character not mouthing the words from my previous post. I'm not sure what worked but the character now does mouth the words from the voice action. However, when I render the clip which is about 11 seconds long a couple of things are not right. First I have a picture in the camera shot which I imported. When I move through the frames in A:M the image is visible when I want and not visible as I've set the active option in the properties. However, in the AVI render the image does not appear. Also in the rendered AVI the dialog is greatly speeded up. Probably at least three times normal speed. But when flipping through t…
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We are trying to open the door for Shaggy to walk through later but it starts opening at the first keyframe.
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Hi Everyone, I have short chor project that I would like to render in a Letterbox Format. I believe I am looking for 720 x 480 resolution or similar. Is there a way to set this, or hopefully is there a letterbox option or button? Thanks again, Bob
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Hey all, I'm having a bit of trouble with Bones. When I select CPs to attach to a Bone, is there anyway I can DEselect CPs if I make a mistake? I tried every possible key+mouseclick combo I could think of... And is there any way to attach a group from the model hierarchy to a Bone? I'm running A:M 12.0n I understand there is a later version for the YETI CD, but the FTP site is a mess. Multiple version scattered around and I haven't got a clue which one to download. Thanks for your help.
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Well, hello ...I've been searching and I asked this question too into another post without very luck for now but I think the reason could have been it has gone unnoticed there, so... I'll try new luck here. I'm treating to take advantage of Expressions in general for some automatic movement tasks and specially of that command called "Rand()" but I have a doubt about how could I modify his "temp", do you know how I could get more quick or slow variations with that Rand() value? I mean, I know I can vary the "Amplitude" in this way Rand()*100-50 (in example), but I can't figure how could I vary the "wavelength" to control the velocity with that random movements are ge…
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sorry 2 bother u guys but, is it just me, or should i say my pc? or is the video tutorials at http://www.hash.com/VM/ not working.? let me know thx:)
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I am still trying to find out exactly where the ease in and out command is on the path constraint, I tried to click on every sub category in the properties panel to no avail. I must be really blind, could someone lead me to it please?
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I wanted to know if there's a way to remove all the lights in the room and have the model self luminated. I know this must sound like a strange request, but I'm making a game with my animations and the engine already has lighting for the models so it would look strage with shadows and lights reflecting off the character. I'm using a pre-render method for the game, I'm not using the model itself which is why this is important. Thanx guys.
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Hi all, Is it necessary to apply the constraints first and then the action for the actions to work? I have some difficulty to get a working propeller rotation action to function again after i have applied a translate to and orient like constraint to the plane, then the propeller is no longer rotating... Jake?
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Hi guys, I have just bought my new A:M and discovered it needs the installation CD to run. Can A:M run from HD? Thanks
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I am working on exercise 5 (take walk). I am in action window, created action upto frame 00:00:15. Now I went back to keyframe 00:00:00 then copied it, went to keyframe 00:00:20. Now trying to Paste Mirrored but it is not doing anything. Sometime it is creating a abstruct pose not exactly mirrored of 00:00:00. What could be the problem?
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Okay, so I'm a student at Clark College, and since I can't model worth a crap I decided for my final to do an A:M music video. My min, requirement was 30 seconds, butttt, i went a little overboard and did the entire video. Yes, there are some obvious time filler spots, and some of the audio is off sync, (its all sync in the A:M program but I put all the rendered clips into Sony Vegas Pro and things got a little shaky). I just wanted an opinion, tell me what you think! Sadly, it is a youtube link... Thanks! Payton
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In the Hash online Store, I plan on upgrading to yearly subscription. It will be a yearly part of my Christmas from my wife. I also will spend an additional 50.00 dollars in the store? Should I buy the 2005 dvd or 2006 dvd. My wife originally bought AM off of e-bay. It did not come with the hard copy of The Art of Animation Master, so Should I buy it and the The techinal reference guide which totals 50.00 as well. Any advice would be appreciated.
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Hello all, I recently found my old A.M. 8.5 CD and manual and after much hesitation because I remember A.M. as being somewhat addictive, decided the give it a final whirl in the computer before making a donation to a Salvation Army charity sale. Mistake and here I am again but it struck me that AM might be used to create visual works combining traditional art and CG. About me includes that I am a 'middle-aged white male', I live down-under in Australia in the hills west of Sydney, I earn a living painting murals and have a degree in communications recently obtained having nothing much to do these past few years. Look forward to sharing my born-again experience wit…
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Well I make My basic shape but how do I put the arms and legs on I can make them just how do i connect it so where ever my person goes the legs and arms go and how do I make eyes and a mouth and how to I make it wherever the head goes it goes
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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'm trying to make this model's mouth, but as you can see on the left side, it sorta dies down to a grey-er shade, I'm trying to keep it as look-alike as much as possible, is there a way to, say, start as a color and have it slowly change into another at some point? Another thing, I don't necessarily know how to use Photoshop, nor do I have any drawing talents whatsoever. Latent or potent. And rather than draw a mouth, eye, anything really that isn't 3D and make it a decal on a model, I basically just draw it with splines, render as lines and add colors to it. I've been doing this for a while and I wanna know if it's frowned upon, for lack of a better term, …
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Hey when your animating say a story on a choreography how do you get the camera to move, for example if someones walking around a corner of the street how do you get the camera to move with him.
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Does A.M. run on 64bit OS? Thanks.
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Hi - my next practice model is going to be a Tucan, and I have searched all over for pictures - and found some great ones, but can't seem to find any with their mouths open, to where I could see what the inside of their mouth looks like. Any Tucan experts out there. Does anyone happen to know if they have a short, small or long skinny tongue? Any good pic links would be appreciated. There was this link - it looks like a long skinny tongue, but not sure if it was something he was eating... Pic of Tucan w/ Mouth open Thank you - Eric
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How do i get them to show up? i have all the files there just not there.... Please Help Thanks
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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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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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Hi - where does it show who got 2nd, 3rd and 4th place or the January "Heroes" contest?
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In the hair system. Dose anyone know a tutorial on parting hair?
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Hey, ive made a really cool animation, that is 15 secs long, but the play display stops at 1 second, it does not continue the animation. How can I change this?? Thanks for the help kind regards 8imon
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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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Are we able to import live footage and do a "Human Torch" effect in A.M.? And if so, how?
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Hey guys, I've been trying to import a quicktime movie as a rotoscope for sometime without success. The only real info I've found says to rightclick on the camera and select new rotoscope. It also says to change the file type to what ever I'm importing, but I never see that option. The video shows up in my choreography as black video, which I think means it doesn't read the codec. I have a MacPro, running OSX tiger, with quicktime pro. So I would think that my computer has the proper codec for Quicktime movies. I've tried many different compressors on the quicktime movie, Animation, Sorenson, and even None. Neither work. What I really want to do, is insert a model in…
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dice modeling
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helow, Hahsers, i need some help, i modeling a dice (picture attached) how i can crate this shape? thanks to all!
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ok i watched the tutorial one the flower and bones but one bit of info still iludes me, on may of the medels that come with AM the bones have a preset location of where they can go such as only being able to go up or down on the x axis 30 degrees or the such but for the life of me i cant find out how to do this
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I originally bought AM V10.5. My last update is version 11.1b. Is there any later update that I would be permitted to get for free? I have had AM for many years but never gotten off the ground with it. My original computer had display problems and was too slow, there were crashes, and I found the program difficult to catch onto (I'm a right-click addict and expect everything to be discoverable by right-clicking on objects). Now I'm running Win XP on several computers (HP a1600n, Toshiba laptop, custom dual XEON) so should have the power if my version is XP compatible with my AM. I'd like know if: 1) Is V11.1b compatible with XP? 2) Can I get…
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Someone give me an idea on how to make a bird's egg... just the geometry. Thanks guys!
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OK whenever i am modeling sometimes i use the lathe key. but then maybe i wont like what is lathed so i select it and delete it. but when i try to make more splines they wont show up. its pretty much like deleting a lathed item makes any other splins that i try to create invisible.
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Hi, I got this program about 2 years ago at a macworld exhibition, when I got home I immediately put the disk in my drive and started playing with it, but I found that it was too complex for me at my age, so a year after that I tried it again, still too complex. But now, after a few months getting used to other 3d programs, I want to try it again, but I am hindered by a very simple thing! Whenever I have a new composition, there are always only 100 frames, and i want to increase that number, and its driving me mad, I know there's a simple solution but I can't find it. Help? Thanks in advance, r4z2 (Hopefully an animator in the making)
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ok heres the deal i have need of a laser shot for an animation i have tryed using just a rendered line but that wasent glowy enough and then i tryed to use a pipe that was good but some how went all the way back to the start causeing issues how can i make a laser that fires and then ends
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Hello! I have a simple model made in A:M v15 and would like to decal it with an animated Quicktime ".mov" file. I created both the model and .mov file and tried to decal in A:M but the decal did not show up on the model. The .mov file successfully imported (I can see it in the Project Window) but it showed up only as an empty frame on top of the model and did not apply to the object. 1) When making the .mov file, are there certain types of compression that must be used (animation, H264) for it to work? Frame rates? 2) Are there special procedures that need to be done when applying a .mov file as a decal? A Screen Grab is Attached Any help wou…
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Trying to do a quick animation of a model walking over and hugging another character. However, 3/4 of the way through, the "hugging" character just stops. The timeline halts. (The scroll bar on the bottom still shows there is some more "scroll" to it) but nothing. I'm using (well, attempting) keyframes. I'm using version 15a. Any thoughts off hand? Other things I thought of are, i'm clicking "shift+keyframe" and selecting the first option. Animation seems to working well, but it just stops. Any suggestions? Help? Thanks.
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I made a model, imported it into the choreography window, however, when I do this the bounding box (the yellow box around the models), is diagonal and mispraportioned. I have attached the project file and an image. Edit: I have reuploaded the project file(should be the second one) and the model file 15_second_project.prj 15_second_project.prj Guy.mdl
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How do I change the rulers to Ft. & In. from the metric? Man... what an idiot!
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i posted, or uploaded models in some topics in this forum, and i wanted to re-download them... yet when i click on the link i get a billion text... what happened? was there an error?
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Date completed: 2/24/08 Any and all comments welcome. Had a little fun with it. Thanks, Charlie
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Ok my models or more presisly my terrain in a movie im makeing has gotten to the point where i can no longer rely on color to show what i want to that end i have aquired a 500X500 pixel image of sand that i wish to use only problem is that only 1/10 of the ground area will be sean at any one time. to that end i need to know how to "tile" this image on my terrain model so that when close up it looks like sand. ( if youve play supream commander youll know what i mean)
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I am redoing the bones for my model using the skeleton provided in hash, i bring the model into an action window, but the bones that i have applied to the legs do not show up. I would appreciate the help. The knees are also skewed quite a bit for some reason. An uploaded fixed vesrion of the model would help too. Guy_v2.0.mdl
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I noticed if you make an object white (255,255,255) it always has a silver look to it - is there a way to give it more of a "white" look? Thanks, Eric
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ok i was wondering if there was any way to remove the lines of a model but not the points that make them , i know due to importing models i have had this a few times but i though this was just a clean up issue.
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I recently stumbled onto this website, I watched some of the sample tutorials and they seem very good. These dvds are on the top of my to get list, here a link for anyone interested... http://thestructureofmandvd.blogspot.com/
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Hi to all, I have a problem with AMWeb 15.0b and the SimbiontAM plugin. Changes in the material properties are not rendered in the material preview until I click on the preview window. When the material is already applied to an object, the changes are not visible on the object, until I delete the material and apply it new. Also some tweaks I made on the material are only changed in the material preview, but not at all on the objects surface the material is applied to. Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Frank
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just a question i have , will a texture render the same way every time its rendered or will parts move? ie the borg simbiot texture per say
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