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I have alot of plugins "hxt" in my hxt folder. why cant I use them. Trying treez but wont show in wizards
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how do I create or make the avatar for my model so in the model library you can see him?
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So when I import something into a choreography or model they look like this. It just cuts off the screen. Any help would be nice.
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What is the official "CREATE" button after making a new pose? I'm making sliders for different facial expression elements (eyebrows raised, etc.) but after carefully putting all the teeth in place for a "mouth agape" pose, I closed the window, and when I started working on another pose, the last new pose slider no longer had any effect! Is there an official "save" function for a pose you're working on? I'm trying out renaming right now. I remember the TAO:AM tutorials always left renaming the pose for the last action. Hopefully that's significant.
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I have a simple animation completed. I want to replace the animated model with another model. Can this be done or do I have to put the model in and animate again?
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hey all, I was having a problem exporting models to 3ds including textures, but finally i managed to do it successfully. The problem I'm facing now is that i want to pack all the decals used in separate jpg file into one image and then export the model with its pack textures so i can load it successfully because when i export my model, only one decal is used and the other are ignored, so exporting a solo texture for all the model will solve the issue. So is there a way to pack the texture in only one image. I've used the generate bitmap but it was unsuccessful. can someone help?
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Hey everyone. A friend just let me borrow his A:M CD and I'm diving right into the exercises along with the book. I was working on exercise 5 "Take A Walk" where you make the rabbit walk along a path. And for some reason, the path has a decline in it. I have no idea how to make it level. In the final rendered movie, the rabbit appears to gradually sink into the ground, like he is walking through a swamp. Below is an attachment to screenshots. Any answers how to fix this would be much appreciated. THANKS!
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Ok heres my deal, i use a program to extract a model from a game , the program saves it into a format usable by a program called 3d studio max, when it loads into max the models akin to perfect , ie surfaces are nice , colors are accurate, and hey there are even textures , now when i save the model in a format usable by AM ".3ds" it loads in about 1 min and as said above looks like it went through a blender , the main form is still there but thats about all that there is , also i will try and upload a pic soon as due to a system change i currently cant access AM
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Hi - I am working on another dental animation and need to have a metal piece move in and attach to the upper jaw bone - then have the mouth close and it stay in the exact place I put it in the chor. I tried using Translate to and Orient Like and also Kinematic... it moves a little bit when I close the mouth because the jaw bone is moving. I tried setting some different interpolation methods - but didn't seem to help. Is it possible to lock it in place like I am trying to do to remain in the exact place I constrain it? Thanks for any help. -Eric P.S. - Happy almost Thanksgiving!
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OK I'm using a 4 point tube to try and make a antenna looking device , and why the main part looks good the end points which do get quite small and shape looking are getting weird artifacts , is there a way to correctly close off a tube? heres a pic
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Hi folks There was a thread with a hasher documenting a way to attache a grid within a grid for added resolution on particular patch. I cant seem to find it. and I also cant figure it out on my own. Could someone please let me know what the link is?
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How can I write an expression that will keep the "Y" position of one CP exactly centered between two neighboring CP's "Y" positions? "(Y1 + Y2)/2" I want to try to control a few individual CP's so that an area will not crease. Thanks,
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Hi all Is the Animation Master 2006 book by David Rogers a good resource for those of us who are new to A.M in additon to the great information you can find on these forums. Thanks!
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I imported the 2001_skeleton to a robot I modeled, adjusted the bones and assigned points to the bones, but when I open a new Action to check the model's movements all the bones below the pelvis disappear. Any ideas?
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Im trying to use the Translate to constraint to pick up a pencil and draw with it but whenever i try to use the constraint thing, it shifts before being constrained to the hand how do i fix this? ---- should i be using a different method where there are 2 pencil objects, one visible and one invisible and when the hand reaches to pick up pencil, the visibility flops from the stationary pencil to the one attatched to the hand?
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the title says it all where can i find a smoke tutorial? thx
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Hi! I'm good at a number of things in A:M. Materials is not one of them. Does anyone have access to a good Army-type camouflage material or have good instructions on how to create a convincing one using the Material plug-ins? There's an old post with a material that has "extended" .trb files, but when I put them in my plug-in folders, A:M says it can't load them. Any help would be appreciated. Tim
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I've been experimenting with the bouncing ball, and I've just finished texture mapping my soccer ball (previously using a mono-toned ball), officially entering the realm where the object's rotation actually matters. The problem I hit pretty quickly is that if a ball rolls let's say just 45 degrees before being lifted, in order to simply raise it, instead of holding 2 and dragging it, I have to alternate between two directions, or enter a perfect side view- and the latter only works if the ball has a pretty direct trajectory, and makes it hard to line up with my rotoscope. There has to be an easier way- to rotate the ball, while keeping the translation angles po…
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So I made a triangle and I want it to look not as straight and I want it to look deformed. Is there a way to do this without doing it one by one.
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just a quick question , is there a easy way to make fog nothing special just fog
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Gradients folder on AM 15.0e WEB ??? , not found it in my installation Anime.gra ?? Cartoon.gra ?? Thermo.gra ?? Three-Tone.gra ?? Two-Tone (hard).gra ?? Two-Tone (soft).gra ?? Two-Tone (with line).gra ??
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Is there an easier way to make a movement at a specific time? Like is there way to just start a movement at 1 sec. instead of at 0 sec.?
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i need to know how to add a null to a model thankyou
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how would you come about to add a light to a model...not on a choreography?
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When i try to put it in shaded mode, a black box appeares around the prison.
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I have a Choreogrophy set up with my characters. I have him looking around then i want his body to move later. What exactly do i do to keep his body still??? I read the Manual but I'm still confused... plz help!
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ok so im doing a dope sheet and for an imported WAV file and i did all the words for the sound but my characters mouth is not moving.... i need your help like WHOA!! Thankyou
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Can anyone help me? I am trying to rig a face but all i can get is the jaws to rotate. I am trying to make an action where someone is talking since my phenomes and dope sheets aren't working. plz respond ASAP
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Exercise 5 Take a walk I did not save the action file into the library. I found it in the catalog menu. Is there a way to copy it to the actions library? HELP PLEASE? ref
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I spent 3-4 hours attempting to model a face for a character of mine, and made pretty decent headway. I've got about a quarter of the way around, and things are pretty smooth. However, I attempted to put hair on it and quickly discovered that the normals, every single one, face inward, towards the center of the head, rather than outward, where hair would be desired. My question is, do I have to select all 200+ patches individually and flip them, or is there another wat that shall take much less time? I ask because, knowing my luck, it shall happen to me time and time again.
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I know this has been covered before, I just can't find the post. I want to make a brick wall, which I know I can use a decal. However I want to add a bump map or material to make the wall look more textured. Wasn't there a post about this? So what will give the best result.... just a decal, a bump map, or just a material. Thanks!
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Hello: I am a newbie to AM. I have v12. I am following the "Take a Walk" exercise and have created the 4 poses for the rabbit (frames 0 - 15). The tut says to copy frame 0 and paste mirrored to frame 20 and so on. When I do this, I don't see any change in Frame 20. I tried doing all the other copy/pastes as indicated in the tut. When I play the frames, nothing happens. Only my 4 changes show up. Is there some setting I need to do to make paste mirrored work? Whats the best way to troubleshoot? Thx
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Hi All, I just wanted to see if anyone has any info on making toys with AM. I remember talking to Victor Navone about making Blitz model / statues like ages ago and he sent me some links to toy makers which I have lost, like ages ago. I do know that the models are created on Rapid Prototype Machines and you need to send them to the Toy makers in STL ( Stereolithography) file format for the machines to output, but not how to convert AM models. Animation Master is such a powerful organic modelling application, it is such a waste to not be able to this sort of work with it. If anyone has used AM to create toys or models, I would like to hear about the…
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so im in a animation class and were working on a independent project some of the models have to be mad from scratch but we can download or import models since i suck at all things computers can you tell me what this is and how to do it please and thank you
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Rodney, I have a very basic question- and figured this is the place to post it. I'm working through the exercises and am having trouble with posing Rabit. In essence, I want to rotate Rabbit's foot- but every time I click on it the whole leg moves. The video manual moves through this step very quickly. It appears that the pointer changes (from a standard arrow to two ying-yang arrows) when the foot rotates. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Brian
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Hey, I want to do a room with an even lighting, almost like fluorescent lights, what would the best method be?
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What I'd like is a toggle switch for simple, repetitive actions - like a spinning doodad on a prop or a character breathing. I've been playing around with stuff, digging through the manual and searching the forums... either I'm missing something obvious or this isn't something that you can do. Thanks!
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OK i better explain myself first, i need to be able to make a part of my model glow but not have the glows fading light at the edge of the model , i don't have a pic to show u of what i need , but maybe think lines of power running along a wall they glow but just enough to light up the whatever there power is flowing through
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OK short and simple i have a scene where a bot triggers a emp device , id like to have a explosion based on an expanding sphere comprised of lightning or something that resembles the such , I'm not expecting much but any idea are welcome
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I have tried the "Eat My Dust" tutorial several times, and I can't seem to make it work. I use the constraint picker to select the bone for the left foot just as the manual says, but the dust sphere will not move to the edge of the foot. It stubbornly floats near the thigh. I was able to drag the dust sphere once but now I can't figure out how I got that to work. I watched the video tutorial and the dust sphere naturally snaps right onto the bone when the user clicks on it. But mine wont do that. Has anyone else experienced this issue? I'm using V15.0.
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Hi - I have done it before... I think. ;-) How do you change the background color from the standard blue to a different color in the modeling window - not a chor. Thanks, Eric
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Sometimes when I try to readopt the timelineview to the keyframes that exist, I find that a negative timeline shows up also. What is the use of that negative timeline?
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Hi Everyone, I am selling the computer on which A:M is installed (PowerMac G5), and I want to deactivate the application before wiping the drive and reinstalling the OS. How does one do that? Thanks! Arka C.
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Im working on a project, and i came across something that I thought I knew. Well it turns out i didnt. Whats going on is shaggy is picking up a bucket, but i cannot figure out how to keep the bucket handle in the same position in his hand with using contraints. heres whats going on and what contraint i used.
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hello all you talented animators!!!, You probably herd this 1000 times but can I use a video as a rotoscope? like Live reference and animate it by frame by frame? if so.....HOW? because i think itll be easer to record myself and others and overlap it and animate it.... Can one do this?? THANKS a BUNCH
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I have Animation Master 15.0b (Universal), and I'm using it on a Dual-Core Intel Mac Pro running OS X Leopard version 10.5.7. I installed AM from the disc. Now when I try to launch AM I get an error message that says "Please Run Program With the Current Subscription CD In The CDROM drive!" Is it possible to run AM from the hard drive without keeping my Super Drive tied up by always needing the disc in it?
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Hello and me again. now i had make catapult wheel on and again problem get that roll.. first mistage was draw wrong side catapult. front vas left side so i take while a go figure why i cant wheel roll right.. so question is: here was tutorial on car where wheel spin. i cant find it.. i must print on paper manual for me becouse i forgot too easy i become too old) here catapult what and i make video. i get wheel spin when they was only second model ( so catapult is one and wheel was alone, that way i get wheel spin) now both are same. and not get spin right way now. (damn) katapult02.mdl And what is "right way" done video. any tips? resolu…
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And hello again... Now i wonder how i can speed prosessor time? meaning now i render mov file and cpu is only 48% use. (damn) is any trick how i can use all cpu speed in a:m to use? ( i am so happy now.. i by new monitor.. now i have space to draw.. (24" LG w2442pa) i bit difrent now... 24day left draw.........
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Instead of starting my movie at 00:00:00 in the time line I would like to start some were in the negetive numbers since I forgot my beginning credits..... is it possible to start and render my movie at -00:49:02 to 01:59:05 Thanks, Eric
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Hi, I'm Jonathan. I'm new to A:M. But that's not really important. I wanted to make a cube, just a simple cube. From scratch. And everytime I plot points for a cube, the lines the points make keep bending, making my cube look like a kind of square-ish marshmallow. Is there a way to fix this? _Jonathan..^~^Meow.
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