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I am having an issue when I attempt to either import or open an AVI 15 second clip that I created with Windows Movie Maker: Error with AVI file. The file does not contain a video stream. Any basic rules or suggestions to start off with? Thanks, z
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I was wondering if anyone knows of a place that has a complete tutorial/production journal with all the steps of creating an animated short. That's all EDIT *sigh* another thing... copy keyframe and paste mirrorred is jsut not working for me.... everytime I do it, it only affects the toe bones on my character.... I've tried in chor and action, tried everything it seems like. thanks!
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how do you make a texture look bumpy, or rough, in a 3d fashion way? i've seen it before, i just don't know how to make it. how do i do it?
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Hello! I'm trying to import some 3ds files. The result is very bumpy models. Why is that? I'm I doing something wrong when importing?
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I know I post a new topic at least once a day.. just wanted to say thankyou! to everyone that has answered- I am learning so fast, mostly because I get quick and accurate responses from everyone So my newest questions: 1. I need to know how to restrain my bones on my character from going past (ex.: elbow overextending, head turning all the way around) I think once I can get that done, my model will really be animatable. 2. in what window (model, action, etc.) can I add constraints in, so that every time I import my model into an action or choreography, I don't have to add them in again? Thanks!! EDIT 3. I just applied materials to my model for …
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This is a visual tutorial Red ball with simple black and white decal Key color not set both colors show. Key color set to black, black portion does not show Key Color set to white, white color does not show This was done in v14a keycolor.mov
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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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how do you make it so that anywhere you look at an image, it always faces you?
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In choreography and action whenever I move a bodypart and then pause and move another body part and press play the body parts move simoltaneously. Does anyone know how to fix this?
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practically every time i try to import a texture into my project, it says: "Exception #019 in the "Jpeg" image to open." and about after half a dozen of these most of my current textures are gone. on top of that, the program quits very easily if i'm not careful, or even careful at times. it will easily freeze, in which i would need to forcefully quit, here is the data that the system gives me when i send the error report: szAppName : Master.exe szAppVer : 12.0.0.0 szModName : hungapp szModVer : 0.0.0.0 offset : 00000000 and i can't even render anything anymore.... i always get an exception #010, what a pain. this issue occurs in EV…
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anyone know where I can find a simple full-body rigging tutorial, not just how to put an already made skeleton into something? If not, can someone tell me which constraint I should use to make feet not go through the ground? thanks !
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First off, thanks to Robcat for giving me the link to answer my last question. As usual in the learning process, it answered the Q, but brought many more. My most pressing, currently, is that above: Any links for this one? I am REAAAAAly close to getting this one...I may even have it but it's just too late to try it again tonight, and I wouldn't mind finding out that there is a tutorial that addresses this one, as well. Thanks, in advance. Mr. Bill
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Hello all: I am animating a character with a stem and a wheel at the end of it...no legs. I am making 'walk' cycles for him and am having to do all but the arms in every keyframe. In other words, it won't let me make any significant moves of the stem body, and the hips (other than up and down, of course) if I want to mirrorcopy to another keyframe. What happens is: My character becomes a lump on the floor with a head and a wheel. My character has been specially modeled and so has its own rig. So, is there any way at all to use mirror copy with a character like this?
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Hello again... now i try do simple physcis practice.. i try shaggy throw ball on frying pan..... but ball come through pan.. first i have problem to shaggy keep hold on pan. now its move his arm with. any idea how i can make that. and what i do wrong now... or link where is tutorial or viedo.. Physics_test.prj
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so my problem now is I'm applying a smartskin in a model window, but when I open up a new action or choreography, my smartskins don't seem to be working. any ideas? thanks!
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Chessboard
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Hello. Here my Chessboard model. not good but start anway. mayby some day i can make shaggy and rabbit play the game and move chess pawn. (sorry my english language is not good) (dont know is this right place put file in share....) All comment where i do wrong is welcome... Chessboard.mdl
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So I want to have a force blow some hair on a model, but I also have some smoke particles in the same choreography I DO NOT want to have that force effect. is this possible... and how? Thanks for any help that can be offered...
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Im having trouble with bones. The bones worked fine in choreography until suddenly i pressed the bone button but all I can do is adjust the bone size. Can anyone help me? Did i press a wrong button or something? Please help me if you can.
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how do i make it so a particle is rotated the way i want it to be??? like if the particle is vertical, and i want it to be horizontal, you know... something like that. thx
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I cannot figure out how to put a still image or AVI in the background of my character animation. I want to do my digital sets in LightWave 9.3 and then bring them into a Hash scene for compositing.
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I'm trying to render a camera view with a solid white background and for some reason it's not working. All I can render is a black background no matter what I set the camera background to. I've also changed the codec to none to check if the problem is compression. It still renders black. I'm thinking there's another setting that I need to set. Can anyone tell me how to make this work? Thanks, George
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ok my question is how to add details like a brush tool so i can make details on clothes and things like that.
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Well guys, here he is. The first model since stupid Windows murdered Sparky. Yes, he is pretty cool, but I can't think of a name for him. Any sugestions guys?
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I have AM version 12.0w and I did the particles tutorial to create fire. When I look at the realtime preview it looks great, but once I render anything the emitter can be seen. I attached a picture to show what I'm talking about. I searched the forums and did a lot tinkering trying to fix this problem, but I'm really lost on how to fix this. The book blatantly states that emitters should be transparent, but that isn't the case here. Any ideas?
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Hello, I am attempting to import Ai files into animation master via the plugin wizard. However for some reason it will not import the files. With recent Ai file formats it will exit the wizard, but not import anything. With older files, the software shuts down. I can't figure it out. Has anyone else had this problem? I'm using Windows xp pro. service pack 2. Any idea's/thoughts? Thanks. MC Also are there any plugins that allow the import of an .eps?
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Hello People! I just received my A:M in the SnailMail box today and I'm totally new to all this : ) 1. Do I always have to insert the CD when I'm launching the A:M program? It tells me to do that every time. 2 Is 13.0 the latest edition of the program? I thought I got the A:M 2007 but the program says A:M 2006. I'm so exited learning how to use it!! So far everything seems to work fine I've tried it for one hour now. : )
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hello all i used the dup wiz to make a length of rope,this worked fine. but i've hit a wall i need to make a circular length for a knot and i can't seem to figure it out.any help would be appreciated.
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I'm working on a project and need to get a 3d model of a pith helmet - anyone know where I can find one?
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downloaded animation masters 2005 version 11.1 succefully but when i try to open it an error messag come up that says "This application has failed to start because KSAPI32.DLL was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem." but i reinstalled it like 3 times and it still is not working so i looked here and i found an older thread that said that i need to download the ksapI32.DLL but the link was inactive. im hoping someone can help.
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My name is Hayden Mitchell and I live in Spokane Washington. I currently am a Senior University High. I am required to do a Senior project and after seeing someone learn the program two years ago, I became very interested. I am hoping to be able to make a few short videos by May 08' Any help I can get would be greatly appreciated
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Hi Everyone. I am a newbie and eventually I would like to make a 15 or 30 second TV Commercial. Is this possible? How do get the studio's to air it? Has anyone doen this before? Thanks, Bob
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Hi Everyone, I just recieved my software today. I installed it on my c:/ drive. The problem is that each time I start the program, it asks the disk to be loaded. I thought I saw this earlier, but I can't seem to find it when I searched. Thanks for your help... Regards, Bob
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Hi. Just need help with eyes in general-- not necessarily realistic, and mostly with rigging, i can't seem to find any tut's about it. Thanks!
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Sorry to those who may know the obvious answer because I am not sure how to go about searching for this certain question. So I will try to ask as best I can. I notice on some of the rendering in the W.I.P the background is a whitish color while the model comes out in a light gray look that looks very real. How do I go about setting it up so my preview renders look the same way?
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Hiya. As an old newbie (ie, I started with AM '98, '99, ...then recently upgraded to '07), over the last 8 or so years I've been a poly-modeler. I can model in poly's quickly, smoothly, and have a fun time doing it. Now, back to give AM another spin around the block, I find myself fighting the spline-mindset. I attempted to model in AM as if each spline was the part of an edge loop, and I was planing on using the bias handles to get my desired cuveature. This didn't work out quite so well as I had envisioned. So, anyone have any good links to free or pay tutorials on AM modeling? Something that covers hard and soft surfaces (cars, buildings, etc. and…
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Hi - I have a light set as a klieg and I want it to be an obvious spotlight where you can see the light rays coming down and only the light - almost so the character would have to stick his hand in to see him in the surrounding darkness - is there a setting for that, I have been turning everything off and on in the lights setting, but no luck. If there isn't a setting - any ideas to get this effect would be great. Thanks - Eric
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Hi... just wanted to ask a newbee-question... When I use hair on a group, the hair gets often the surface-attribute "transparency" of the group underneath it... If I set the group for the hair 100% transparency, the hair gets that too... even when I set the hair-property for it to 0%. I couldnt find how to overwrite that... Any ideas? *Fuchur*
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Yo guys, long time no post. I'll save the catch-ups for another thread, but I have a question that's been bugging me lately and I figured it seemed a little newb-ish, so I thought this would be the place to put it. The topic description pretty much says it all; I've been reading alot of 3D tutorials about edgeloops and I'd like to know exactly how they make facial expressions easier to work with. Maybe I'm just missing something cause I haven't really done much outside of blinking and some fairly simplistic expression work, but I feel like I'm kinda missing something here. Thanks in advance and I hope you hear from you guys soon.
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I read that you can select one control point and edit>inverse selection will select just that spline ring... anyways, I can't get it to work... is it supposed to? thanks.
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Hey everyone, Been working on a model of Kisuke Urahara from Bleach for the past couple weeks and so far, I'm liking what I've got. However now I'm on the task of dressing the man and it dawned on me that the more robe-style attire of his 'wannabe kimono top' is a little more complicated to work with than I anticipated. So I wanted to know if anyone had any good suggestions on modelling that sort of thing. I went ahead and attached my reference image if anyone needs an idea of what I'm working on. Thanks in advance, I look forward to hearing from you guys soon.
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So far nothing has stumped me as much as this one--- I would like my particle emitter (smoke) to begin on <x> frame. How can I do that? Every time I try something, it just keeps blowing out smoke starting on frame one and ending on the last. For example, how would you get someone to have a cloud of green smoke come out of their mouth when they open it, and stop when they close it? muc appreciated.
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Hi Everyone, I just ordered my software and I have not recieved it yet. In the meantime, I noticed there are a bunch of GREAT Tutorials on line and in Zip format. Is there a place where I can download all of them? Thanks, Bob
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decals
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when applying a decal to a object like a vase, how do you get it cover uniformly? Thanks for your help.
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Hi - to get some more modelling experience, I am working on my first "real" character who actually has a mouth that isn't against a flat face. ;-) The rat is a request from my 3 year old - All well as modelling experience I am trying to get more experience with hair. I like it so far, but I would like to add longer scattered light brown colored hairs that match his feet and hands throughout his entire body to give me a scruffy look. I currently have the following set up for the body hair Do I set up another hair system or another hair emitter under this one - or a new material? Or is it even possible to do? Any help would be appreciated - also and s…
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I recently got a new computer and downloaded v14 from the Hash site - for some reason my library folders are empty - all the folders are there, but nothing in them. I opened up v13 and not having the problem in there. I went to the site and re-downloaded, but did not fix the problem.. any ideas? Thanks
Last reply by flashawd, -
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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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Hello there, has anyone have ready walking action for animals I have a project have to do it very fast. Thank's Edo.
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I'm working on a short film using AM and I'm interested to know how people organize their projects and chors. My short, like most, has a number of shots that need to be animated using a fairly consistent group of objects (characters, props, scenery, lights etc). I've started by making each shot a chor in one single project: if I was to have 12 shots, I would have 12 chors in that project. I am rethinking this since I've noticed that each chor seems to get stuffed into memory whether I'm working on it or not. So my question is, how do you take your scenes and shots and organize them into projects and chors? Thanks, Alan
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Hello, I am trying to use some of actions with animals model, but it dont work. sorry I am new to this software. is it possible to do that? Thank's Edo.
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Allrighty--I've attached the project with the walk cycle-in-progress, and here is the really screwy thing that messes everything up. If you move one of the foot controls down in the y axis, even just one click, the whole foot control goes flying out and away--but this only happens on frame 20! Unhiding the knee controls, it looks like they're misbehaving--but just sometimes. I am able to do a clumsy and still unreliable workaround by hitting frames 19 and 21 and then keyframing the resulting interpolation on frame 20, but that shouldn't be necessary. Also, rendering the test choreography of him walking along a path doesn't render right. He walks correctly onc…
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