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Hello, im very new to animation master, but unfortunately not new to 3D modelling, and I now what lacks on animation master :/ I have finished most parts of my 3d Tyrannosaurus rex BUT, I can't find any option that can remove triangles or a smooth shading option*. So my first question would be: Is there any model correcting button? Or any smooth shading button? and.....my second is: How can you mount an UV map to a model instead of drag and droping decals? Thanks a lot 8imon * smooth shading is shading the model from flat triangles shading to smoother.
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Ok to check out the program I bought a subscription. First thing I tried to do was add some actions I got off eggdrops and add them to my library but program does not seem to recognize them. did I do something wrong or is subscription limited to only 3 actions? I put them in the correct folder. also if I create my own actions can I save that to actions? please be kind as this is my first opening of the program and my first questions. forgive me if I seem stupid at the moment. I will get better.
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How easy it to learn on? What I wish to learn in using this product is the basics (if not most) 3D animation. I have a good sense for animation, I used to do 2D using programs like EZtoon, Pivot, and Flash 8. Do you think I will be able to pick up on the normal motions of this program in about a month? Usually, I don't keep my expectations high, so I don't get frustrated, and this is no exception, but the look of the program is promising. EDIT: Could anyone point me in the way of a guide? Or is the Extras DVD sufficient?
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Hello I'm newbie in A:M. I'm learning the soft using the tutorials. In Take a Wlalk, my rabbit stops wlalking on the path at about 20% of the line. I see something like separate vectors in the path line.The path is a straight line builded with only two points. Where am I wrong? Rémy
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Alright, Thank you so much for the quick replies on my last post. I appreciate it. So I get the program up and running with no problems. But for some reason when the program starts up I am not seeing the camera view. I drag a character out of the library on to the stage - a load bar at the bottom goes to 100% but I see nothing for some reason. No grid, no camera, no character. I must be doing something retarded. Any advice? Thanks in advance, Eric
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I know I should know how to do this, but I don't. I've been messing around with it for forever and finally decided that I need help. It's probably something simple that I'm not doing, but I can't figure out what it is... Okay, so I'm playing around with the Knight and reusable actions in the Dark Room (in the projects folder). I have him be idle and then yawn. (No problem) Where I run into a problem is when I try to have him walk on a path after that. When I create the path and constrain him to it and the type of walk I want, then it automatically constrains him to the path when he is idle and yawns. So I end up with a knight yawning as he slides along a…
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Hi folks, Could somebody please clarify some "simple" question about texturing for me? -Decaling renders faster then the procedural materials right? So if I would paint ,for instance Tom, in color red in 3D-Painter he would render faster as if I would set his surface property-color from yellow to red, correct? So would I gain some substantial time saving effect in rendertimes in big chors/scenes this way? Would I have this effect as well, if I would use the toonshader? -then ,If I would like to have Tom shiny (reflective) in the painted/decaled version, I would have to make reflection maps for Tom, right? or could I combine the decals with su…
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For Gabe mostly but for everyone else too! Because I know you'll want to use them with your manual! http://www.hash.com/2007web/vm.htm
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Probably a simple property that got altered, but as I'm trying to do Exercise 6 and position shaggy, some of his bones have turned blue in colour and I can no longer control them properly. I can't grab the base of his hand bone and drag the whole arm around...I can't move it at all except for rotating it, or if I use the arrow keys on my keyboard it actually will deform the model itself. The bones that have remained while when un-selected operate as I would expect, just not the ones that are blue when un-selected. I've attached a screen shot of what happened when out of frustration I had the bone selected and used the arrow keys. ...what silly thing did I do? Th…
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ok against m better jugment i strayed away form robots and such and actualy tryed a organic characer , and i must say , i did...... ok , qustion is i being notto good in this area made the characters hair using tubes and such , it looks ok but is there any way to (A) make the tubes fill with hair or something that looks like hair or ( find a way to appliy a hiar texture to the tubes in a way that doesnt look patched
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I'm extremely knew at all of this, but I was wondering how you import model files into A:M. I have some Twilight Princess models I downloaded that included the model and texture files and I would really appreciate it if someone could explain step-by-step how to import the model and get the textures on it. I've tried, and it says it can't import the model. I believe the file is compatible with A:M, they're .3Ds files and the textures are .tga files. Thanks in advance!
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Greetings all, Well I have a new situation and not sure how to fix it (if it can be) without having to start all over again. I had modeled 1/2 of my ladies dress and then was going to COPY/FLIP/ATTACH but (not paying attention of course) I hit SNAP TO MIRRORED POINTS which at some point later looked right. So now my main seem down the middle won't move, when I HIDE her to just see the dress you see what i get. Close the model and reopen I get this Repair message and haven't got a clue. Any ideas folks????
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Sometimes when a spline is directly over a grid line it disappears. I am using the version 16 beta and I am wondering if this is normal behavior, nor not. These really are square objects - a four-sided box.
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I'm following the modeling tutorials in the new David Rogers book, and I'm trying to extrude a cube. Easy, right? Well, when I'm in the front view and I try and extrude the four cps, instead of extruding them outwards, it just makes another square right beneath. When I change to the perspective view the square gets extruded, but it's all cockeyed. Any help or pointers out there? Thanks Sruli
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I have this wolf model, but I need some help with it. I have some stubborn folds that won't go away. I'm also getting this weird line in the middle of my wolf's head when it's in toon render. Also if anyone has a tip on my wolf be sure to tell me. For instance if the legs are to long tell me, because I'm going for a cartoon wolf, but I want to stay proportional and a little realistic. fullbody.mov bodytest3.mov wolf.mdl
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OK i recently posted a post with a test of a helicopters main roter , now i have been testing some spin speeds and have gotten mixed results , apparently the blades need to spin The right way or every one dies. my questions is that in order to get some of the good spin speeds i have to rotate 4000+ degrees a second and that number is getting pretty big like 12000+ 8-9 minutes into the animation, i heard a while back there was a way to make a item rotate X amount of time by using some pose option but the only ones i could find where on of or 0-100% . any one know how to do this?
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does anyone know how to bring audio into a chor so you can sync animation to it? I have not done it before. Could you point me towards tutorials?
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Hi all, I'm doing a project that involves rotoscoped video with animated characters. I've found that AM will not accept DV AVI's and when I use cinepak or indeo to compress the video, upon rendering in AM the digital video turns out terrible - get lines all across the screen. Any suggestions on how I should bring the digital video into AM and then render? Thanks, Mike
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Hi Everyone, I just ordered my Software and while surfing on the web I found these 3D characters for sale. Can I use them in A:M for Animation? http://www.daz3d.com/i.x/shop/itemdetails/...3&spmeta=ab Thanks, Bob
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Hey I'm trying to make a fire sprite system that i created appear in the choreography during the middle. I dragged it into the CHO window at the frame i wanted it but it apeared at the beginning of the CHO. How can i make it disappear until the frame i want it at? Thanks for the help, MasterFunk
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Hi I am trying to apply a decal to my model, but every time I bring it in, it appears it appears very pixellated (large pixels). The original photoshop psd file is 7670kb and is very clear and sharp. I have tried saving it as as jpg, bmp and tga files of different sizes and reducing/enlarging them, and varyious resolutions but it always seems to come in to AM the same. I have searched the AM forums for an answer to no avail. I'm sure someone out there knows what I am doing wrong or will know the resolution! Thanks in anticipation Hoggy
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While working on my model (which is inside a project) I constanly used 'Save Project As', thinking I always have previous versions of my model if I dont like the current edition. Only now I realised that all project versions have the same version of my model. Is this how it should be? Maybe there is an option to have all models inside a prj file or smth?
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yeah, uh..... the lens flares in A:M, i want some of them to be so that they dont shine light, cast shadows or make it look like its a light, i want it to just be a lens flare, nothing else, for example, a very shiney knife, exe. i hope you know what i mean because i cant seem to know how else to say it. thx
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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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Not to clutter up an already cluttered thread.. KenH wrote: What implications would that be?
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i'm not sure if this is 100% true, but i found that using an actual photo for a facemask on a character is better than painting one in photoshop or whatever. upon doing some research and looking at some high resolution 3d characters, it appears that they use high res photographs for texturing. i've tried going to stock photo websites to find images, but the results are not so good. does any body know where i can find or purchase high res images for 3d characters? -hisako
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So I can't right click. I am using a mac and as everyone knows you can't right click even with there new mouse. So since I can't right click is there another button that I can press on my keyboard that will simulate the right click when I am holding something. For example: I want to attach a bone to another bone and I have no right click how would I attach them?
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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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OK i have been fuddling around with the material editor trying to get something like a blood spatter effect, its not blood thought more like oil but most people know what a blood spatter looks like , the best i have been able to produce is a orb that slowly bubbles then does nothing , any suggestions as to the correct settings i should use?, the effect is to show a bullet puncturing a hydraulic hose if thats any help
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Can any one give me a pointer in the right direction to do 3D Text? My Boss wants me to take the Company name and make a 3D Image out of it. But I am not realy sure were to Start.
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i have a prob, im working of flower power and when it says open the attributes of the stem the little arrow isent there any ideas?
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In the hair system. Dose anyone know a tutorial on parting hair?
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So I added a Blur post effects to my main camera and saved my animation as a sequence of .png files. When the images render in A:M's window the blur effect is added, but when I open the same images in a photo editing program the picture has no blur to it. Can someone help me understand what I did wrong??
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Does anyone know if the newest verson of A:M works on a windows vista 64 bit system. I can't use any of the previous versons of A:M on my new computer, and will get a new verson but only if it is compatible with a 64 bit system.
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I made a group for "top eyelids" but realized I wanted to move them independently at times. So I selected "top eyelids," hit "G" for group mode, held alt and deselected one eye's cpts. But NOW my "top eyelids" group doesn't select the cpts I deselected at that moment. Is there a way to narrow your cpt selection from a group without altering that group?
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Quick question... Is it possible to delete a control point from a spline so that the curve of the spline is maintained? Something like when you shift click to add a CP to a spline and the CPs before and after the new CP automatically adjust their bias to maintain the curve. For instance, I have the following spline... But when I delete a CP, it distorts the spline, which is what I don't want to happen. Thanks... Al
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I was rendering a long set of jpeg. and A:M had a problem. The last frame rendered was 979 I would like to start the render on 980. There is nothing spacial with the animation that I need to worry about I just need to restart it where it left off.
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I see HA:MR quite a bit on the forum and I am not sure what it is...anyone care to explain? Thanks.
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I am going through the book and i am at the show some back bone. When i load 2001 skeleton it looks like it is missing bones. it there a place i can download this file to make sure i have the right one. The bones it is asking to adjust are just not there! thanks
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I am very new to this and it would be very helpful if someone has a tutorial that follows the same process as the Demo Video on the main Hash page. I've tried to follow the steps he uses to animate that vase several times, but it's obvious some steps are gone over so fast you don't notice them, and you can't stop and start it anyway. I want to make my own model and animate it, and things aren't going well as yet. For instance, how do you save a model to begin with? I can save my project, but don't seem to be able to save models. I can make new folders but can't see any way to get my models into them. And bones are eluding me. I draw bones and attach cps to them -- get the…
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here's a screenshot of my problem-- I apply a hair length map, but where I want there to be NO hair, there's still little tiny hair bumps-- is there a way to get it down to 0% in those areas? In my hair length map, those areas are pure black. Thanks!
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Hi I have a project file with several models in it. Something went wrong with one of the models in it and now every time I try to open the file I get a "error #004. loading" message followed by "exception #001" message and then A:M shuts down. I have no backup of the file (hopefully this is the last time I will make that mistake) from before the preblem started. I am not happy at the prospect of losing everything in this project file as it is for an animated children's story that is already running behind (yikes!!). I hope I don't have to start again!! Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks!
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Thanks for everyone who has responded to my questions. I really do try to read the fourms and figure it out myself before I ask - I just don't always get very far. 1. Can you lock an object so that you don't accidentally move it? Seems like my students are always moving the stage by mistake. 2. When in the camera view, I want to move an object up and down ( I guess that's the Y axis) and not back and forth. Can you constrain movement to a certain axis? I know I can go to the side view and move it up and down from there, I was just wondering if I can do it from the camera view. 3. Any advice on further understanding the nulls? I've done AM exercise 3 a coupl…
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ok i made this face using the tutorial i got a few posts ago but for some reason its a little sharp i cant manage to get the sharpness out with out a way to big distortion so im asking for help heres the file face.mdl
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I just spent the last several days making the dust for the left leg in a five step walk. Is there anyway to copy the keyframes from the left leg to the right? I know I have to off-set the start and change the x,y,z starting co-ordinates, but that my only take several hours not several days.
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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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I am createing a simple model to export to photoshop for a logo, however i would love to have a shadow to drop on the ground. but my problem is that i am not using a ground. i deleted it because i dont want it. my question is... how can i get the shadow to fall as if there was a ground there but have the ground completely transparent, except where the shadow is? Thanks, -ALL
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Is there a demo version available? Even an old one. This looks interesting and I'd like to give a try for a few days before spending a good chunk of money. Thanks!
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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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ok i have a section on my model where 3 lines need to connect with out a seam what is the best way to do this
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