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GENERAL FORUM GUIDELINES
The A:M Forum is for technical support and the sharing of tips and ideas between users/prospective users of Hash software. It is moderated constantly by technical support representatives.
DO'S!
-Ask questions about the software.
-Assist other users... everyone was new at this once.
-Inform people of your version/platform when asking for help.
-Share resources; tutorials, models, textures, tips and techniques (link to useful websites).
-Post links to your work, or where your art is being used online (on websites, in games, toons', etc.)
-Search the A:M Forum and FAQ. The question you are about to ask may have already been answered.
-Organize and inform others about user groups, IRC chats, image and animation contests, job opportunities, etc.
-Discuss what you are working on and let everyone know about magazine reviews and articles that relate to your projects.
DON'TS!
-Do Not be rude or disrespectful or mean to other forum members in any way. Personal attacks will be removed.
-Do Not post bug/crash reports to the list (send bug/crash reports to http://www.hash.com/reports.
-Do Not complain about forum content. Complaints or suggestions can be sent directly to hash@hash.com
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-No complaining or whining on the forum or distribution of misinformation.
-No flames of any kind.
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-No soliciting of any kind without prior approval.
-No threads or comparisons related to other 3D Applications.
-No "Wish list" or feature requests, they should be sent to www.hash.com/reports for categorizing and prioritization (User requests define the future development of the software).
-No "me too!" posts
-No discussion of Hash Internal Affairs (finances, advertising, PR.)
-No posting of private email to the forum unless permission of the author is granted. (Private correspondence should remain private)
-No very general questions like: "how do I make a good 3D model" make your questions as complete and concise as possible.
If you have questions as to whether it's appropriate, send it to: support@hash.com, We'll be happy to let you know whether it is, or is not appropriate.
User Led Forum Considerations
Firstly and foremostly, please remember this is Martin Hash's forum and that it is every A:M User's primary resource for information about A:M. In order to remain relevant we need everyone's continuing support and interest.
Secondly, understand there is a distinction between A:M (the program) and the A:M forum. There are some topics and issues that are outside the scope of this forum and most can be deduced by reading through the forum guidelines. These include such things as Hash Inc internal policies, business practices, trade secrets, and specific plans for the future not yet publicly released. Each of these would be fascinating topics of their own but are better reserved for private communications with a representative of Hash Inc.
Related to the second, is purchasing, customer service and other areas outside the purview of the common user who may have no interest in such things; subjects relating to money exchanging hands are beyond the scope of the A:M Forum and often can lead to conflicts of interest between users and/or Hash Inc. (If Hash Inc cuts you a deal on volume purchasing it's really no one else's business). Likewise, individual complaints about a product or service are best remedied by going direct with Hash Inc representatives empowered to make decisions. Please allow them them the time necessary to resolve your specific issue and consider the cost of customized solutions.
This last area is likely the source of much confusion because many see the A:M Forum as the official outlet for Hash Inc... and it is. But the forum is not designed for conducting business and private matters best resolved by going to Hash Inc directly. Similarly, bug reports are best resolved by entering them directly into the A:M Reporting system.
Many problems can be easily addressed at the user level just by asking fellow users in the forum. If someone at Hash Inc suggests the forum as a source, it is very likely a problem can be easily resolved. For tougher issues there is even more reason to take the issue directly to the source... you don't want the issue discussed... you want it resolved quickly.
Finally, remember that we want to pass this forum on to future moderators and generations of A:M Users in the absolute best condition possible. A:M is just that good a program and is worthy of our consideration.
Thanks for making the A:M Forum a great community.
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Hello, I got my A:M software about a week ago, I've been fooling around with different things. But now I'm ready to get serious on learning how to use A:M. I'm trying to create some gun shot blood splatters for head & chest hit's for my film. (www.revelation2222.com) I found A:M at an FX show in Orlando and was hooked on the spot! I could post some clips for examples from Land & Dawn of the Dead, But I'm not sure if that would O.K. there only about 19 frames long. Thanks! This is were I'm at so far.[attachmentid=14729] Blood_Test_1.mov
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NEW 2 HASH
by oliver- 4 replies
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new animation artist. the best in my class.
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I was just wondering,If I wanted to create a completely new library...Say in the name of "Sprinkler". Can this be done? If so...What are the steps to do it? Thank You very much
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Happy New Year All April 2008 I purchased a one-year subscription for Animation Master. I am trying to create my first short animation music video with five characters, 3D backgrounds and various musical images. I am looking for someone to help or get involved
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How do i get a character that i create to move his mouth to a dope sheet?
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Hello - I searched the forum for 64 bit info- and found a few posts from the beginning of the year. I am planning on getting a new computer and considering 64 bit w/ windows 7 - I have read a lot of info from the internet - and saw that in general there are no issues w/ running 32 bit software on a 64 bit system... I did read someone saying - some 32 bit software tends to run a little slower on a 64 bit system? Is there currently anyone running A:M on a 64 bit system w/ windows 7 that I can get some input from good or bad. I am aware of the hardware issues w/ 64 bit, but that doesn't effect the A:M software, just my 15 year old scanner. ;-) Thanks - Eric
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Hi everyone, I'm currently running Animation:Master on a Mac G5 with 3 GB of Ram. OS version: 10.4.11. The computer's about 5 years old. I can still edit with Final Cut Pro just fine, but A:M doesn't seem to like it very much. A:M will crash once in a while, rendering is a crapshoot, and some tutorials like putting fur on Chewbacca was difficult for the computer to handle. I'm anxious to learn and use A:M for all sorts of projects, so I figure I should get a new computer. The PC I currently have is pushing 10 years old, so I was going to buy a new PC, but alot's changed in 10 years!! Can anyone recommend a good PC to buy? I was hoping to get one unde…
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i just downloaded A:M and the files i was working on and everything's working great, somewhat. when i'm in model mode and i have the bone mode shaded and wireframe, everything's wrong. when the bones flash, the CPs don't flash, they just look like black dots, even though i try to do color matching with the bones to help myself out, i'm still having a very hard time( because some of the bones have the same colors! and i can't make them all different colors!) and when i'm in action mode, if i move,rotate or even rotate the camera view of the bone, all of the bones turn into a solid black color, and are no longer transparent, and if there is a bone in front of that cert…
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After making manipulations with a model (rotate, scale etc.) in choreography in a zero frame, how can I null values in order them to become new default values? Thank you all!
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I heard there`s something new about how the diplacementmap is handled. Where can I find something about it? Maybe Tut, examplesß Thank you Jake
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Will I decided to sown load the new version of AM. I'm using V13. I pay, get the email, download the Mac web version, and I get this message after I enter the code: Any ideas? Thanks
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Dear Forum, I recently recieved v12t of Animation Master and am wondering how to locate the features listed in the promo The Sweeper Modeling plugin, Newton Game Dynamics, Dark Tree Simbiont textures the new cloth utility, new compositing features HDRI rendering and a good skin shader. Are there actual tutorials on these items. I tried to locate them in the Help Topics but did not find them. What suggestions are there for finding and learning to use these features. Thanks, Michael
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hi i'm writting you becoz i just discoverd this soft and the images he can make ! great stills and great price ! still be 299$ ? well we have a movie in produc and i would like to know if this software can read models with or without textures from c4d, maya and 3dsmax and well all the rest perhpas in dxf but is there any direct loading propreitary c4d library and other programs ????? if yes i buy the software in the month last question: c4d has occlusion rendering or something like that two questions then: - is rendering one of the fatest ??? - is rendering can render radiosity as far as c4d 9.52 latest version ? i know i speak a lot of c4…
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in the new laptop i just bought, my libaries pannel is empty. please could someone give me the link so that i can download the missing items. thz
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I want to model a Spitfire. I have three views. How can I import them to the model/airplane folder? Thank you, Artful
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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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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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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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Hello all Im looking at AM for my game creating projects, waiting on a return email from support on some questions. I would like to make a suggestion that one of the Admins or the webmaster make a quick webpage with the specifics of AM, file formats for import/export, video formats import/export etc so that folks can get a quick glance to see if AM will suit their needs. So AM is spline modeling? And doing searching on the forum I see that X format is supported, as I use Unity 3D Im thinking perhaps converting x to fbx. I would not need the advanced material support, just basic materials and I know those usually carry over in X. And video export seems to be Avi …
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I have been toying around with a number of programs, recently I purchased a program called iclone studio. Do any of you know if AM is along the same line of program, well assuming you might know what iclone studio is. Anyway, it seems that it might have been wiser if I had found the program, AM first. Right now, it is not within my budget to purchase AM. But I intend to someday. I will keep exploring the forums and learning what I can. Thanks for aany advice in advance. Have a good day.
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I don't know if you are suppose to make new threads for this but I have a question. I am thinking of getting this program and I want to know how hard is it for new users? I have dabbled in 3Dsmax but I can't afford the full version of that monster. I have been itching to do my own animating for years and I wonder if this program can help me. Thanks for your answers in advance.
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Hi im just join Today and getting started on animation. im like seriously animation illiterate atm ,but i consider my self as a fast learner. If u can help a fellow member out feel free to post or add me thanks...
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Hey everybody. I have been on the search for a while now for something to explain computer animation. I have done some stop motion projects but I would reall like to get into computer animation soon. So could you guys give me some info or places where I could get some info about computer animation. By the way I want to know about the technical stuff first because I can animate on paper and Stop Mot but I don't know all the technical stuff for computer animation. This infromation will probaly be a factor in whether or not I save up to buy infromation master. Thanx everbody.
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Rob, Just watched the rigging basics video and have to admit you make it look so easy. Was there a reason you chose to use a fan bone instead of a smart skin for the knee joint? Also, if you were rigging Thom's torso, how many bones would you use for the spine? Would you use 2, 3 or more? I'm curious because it seems kind of arbitrary and I noticed that TSM seems to add a lot of spine bones, and I've seen other people using a lot of bones for the spine.
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I was wondering if anyone one would be interested in me making a tutorial. I don't claim to know all the ins and outs of AM but I have learned a lot working full time for the past 2 1/2 years. I mainly am a modeler, so I could do some tutorials showing how I built some things. I was thinking about some exercises for beginners, then move to more specific items like cars or buildings. So anyone interested? They would be free for all. Hopefully I could post them on the forums.
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NEW TWO HASH
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BEST IN MY CLASS ANIMATION MASTER. IF U NEED HELP TELL ME IM A TEACHER
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I'm thinking about buying A:M for a dinosaur movie I have in the works. Is this software good for that, and how hard would it be exactly. PS: Dont show me the t-rex chasing a car video, ive seen it!
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Edit: I guess i should have posteed this in the introductions page but o well.....also if you are using firefox or have a slow connection you may not be able to view my videos Hello...I thought Id just introduce myself or something. My name is Kevin and i'm 17yrs old, I got animation master on august 9th. I became interested in animation 2 years ago when i discovered a shareware program called Blender3D, I used it for a science project, but after that i didn't have time to learn about the software. But now I do have time and I decided to buy software. I have finished the requirements for the certificate thing. Instead of posting on every single topic I just put all m…
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Hi My name is Graham Easton and I live in Lancashire England. I am a retired mechanical engineer having run my own engineering company for 30 years. During that time I have been amazed how the drafting techniques have changed from pencil and paper to computer graphics. I now make short videos and I love trains both full size and models, (yes an anorak as we are referred to in England). However I have always found animation fascinating, particularly moving machinery rather that actors. Some time back I purchased a copy of Animation Master 2004 version 10.5 but never had the time to use the program due to work. Time has moved on and I now have the time but not…
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I just received a copy of Animation Master from a friend and am just starting to learn the ropes. Although I am not new to animation (I come from "Infini-D 4 days). Any tips and tricks you might can give me to get familiar with the interface and flow I would greatly appreciate it.
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Hi all I am new here and I hope to look forward on what I am doing with Animation master And to meet you all for talking about 3D as well I am learning from now and I hope to bright some of my work too. Thank you to Team and all to artist for keeping this wonderful 3d software. See you soon.
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Hi Shannon here...New to AM and forum. I have been working on exercises for a week now and I am up to the Fighter Plane. When extruding the shape of the plane I noticed it seemed sharp the shape is not totally rounded between control points. My wheels are stiff (not round) I clicked on the smooth button for control points and no change. Im sure I've done something stupid but cant figure it out...Help Please.
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I am very new to animation master . I did install the jeti 12 version 2006 yesterday. Today i got a message about a new version of the program and installed version 13 beta. Now i want to start for the very first time with the program, so i tried to launch help topics in the help menu of version 13 What do i get : Failed to launch help When i do a search in the v13 directory there is not even a help.chm file there ? What to do now ???
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First of all I just want to say hello, second I would like to apologise for the length of this post, I am a new AM user and have had the software for a month now, I find it to be a great piece of 3D software, however I have encountered a few problems along the way and would like to ask for some advice on a few issues. Thank you in advance for any help given. I am using HASH AM 2007 OZ CD V13r on a Compaq Presario SR1937uk, Pentium D 3.2ghz, 2gb ram, GeForce 7600 GT, Windows XP Home ed SP2 1.Matterials as bump maps: When I use materials as a bump map, the bump map only renders if I use Multi-Pass, if I render without Multi-pass the bump simply is…
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Howdy all. I just purchased the web subscription to get back into using A:M (started using it back in the early 90s when it was Playmation)..but am having some trouble. I'm running on an MacBook Pro with 3GB of RAM and 10.5.1, but am crashing constantly. It's a clean install of 10.5.1 so there are no old preference files from my older version of A:M that I previously purchased. What I'm wondering is: 1. Is A:M 15.0a the only version that I can run under the web subscription? I was expecting to be running a final release, not alpha. 2. Is there a specific version of the OS that works better than others for the most current release of A:M? Thanks! I'm dying…
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Hello, I just stated to setup the bones in my model and am unable to return back into Model mode. It's grayed out. What a loser? Anyways, some help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Frank www.frankfreeman.net freemf@ci.loveland.co.us
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hello rigomortisfx studios here finally getting into 3d modeling useing Animation:Master and opening the box that version is 2004 ......i know i am late i make horror masks and props and have been doing that going on 8 years and video editing and have used some other 3d software and other fxs software , so many things have delayed me from getting into useing Animation:Master my son was born and is now 8 years old Animation:Master i am here and have one long hill to take on and have the time to do that now . just dont want to make horror masks anymore other hobbies i use to do was drawing mosty horror and sci-fi stuff thank you for …
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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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Hello to all, I just purchased AM this week and started looking around the interface and exploring a little for the first time last night. I created sign in name in the Community panel but when I click the sign in button, a panel comes us saying (Sign in name does not exist). What am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance! T MAC
Last reply by KenH, -
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hey everyone, here's the deal. We bought this software couple of years ago, and never did anything with it. Now the boss man has "asked" that i learn it....i am a video production guy, NOT an artist. I need some help learning this stuff...i can walk through tutorials, but when i start building things on my own i just can't get it to work. Any suggestions, thoughts, videos, that will help me. thanx jay
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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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I am new at this program. I bought the AM at the Anime Evolution Convention in Vancouver, BC, this month. The first question that I have is this: Am I supposed to update the program?
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I've had Brian Fisher working as an intern for the summer at HDStudios, where I do graphics. Brian has been playing with Hash now for only 3 weeks and has just posted an animation on YouTube that I think is quite good for an early 'go' with any 3D software! He used the Porsche model from my V14 CD, and modeled the roads and environment himself. Hopefully this will be found inspiring to other Newbies or folks considering A:M purchase.
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Hi people, i was just wondering how much is too much? ive looked at some of the pre-made models that are floating about and they are mostly around 2-3k patches... mine usually end up with around 10k patches ive noticed a little lag... does it matter how many patches my models contain if i can deal with the lag?
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Hey guys my name is Adam Wermus and I am still trying to learn the ropes of Animation Master(v15) 1) How do you change which camera is dominant during choreography? Say from t= 0 sec to t=3 seconds I want camera 1 to be dominant, then t=3 seconds to t=6 seconds I want camera 2 to be dominant, and then back to camera 1 for the rest of the film? how do I do that? 2) When I try to render a file it takes hours to finish rendering (20+). Is there a way to make that process go by faster or do I just have to be patient? 3) When I have more than one object in a scene for choreography mode, when I play what I have it drags, skips and is very slow making it hard for …
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Hello im new to A:M. Theres a couple of things i've already tried out in A:M, I have like discovered things myself by experimenting and so on... STILL, theres some things I wonder about: - Is It possible to make full lenght animations? because I noticed that the frames are only to 01:00 min If it is like that, then is it possible to melt all the short clips together by using A:M? - I wish to add special 3d effects to an already made .AVI clip. I try to load the clip into A:M but it says that its an invalid choreography file. How can I correct this? or is there any tutorial that can show how you can add 3d models into avi clips etc. - Is it po…
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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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I'm a retiree looking to expand my creative juices. For years I have dabbled in photography/videography, video editing, and simple graphic work. The A:M application really caught my eye, and I will probably purchase it. I've gone thru most all of the information on Hash's home page, including the tutorials. It looks like I should be able to get a handle on the operational techniques. How far I'll be able to go with it depends on my commitment and interest. (and lasting brain cells!) But my question is, how well will my little puter handle the application and it's rendering chores? I'm running an iMac with PowerPC G4, 800 MHz; 768 MB SDRAM; 60 Gig; OSX 10.4.8. …
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IS there anywhere to get the old AM stock models and props?
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Ok i have shaggy walking along a path....at the end of the path i want him to, stop, turn, and face the camera. Now i'v put my Transition to next action "ON" i'v put hold last frame to "OFF" Put my blend method to "Add" I'v even tried to make a new choreography action...but no matter what i do....it changes what happens in his walk cycle "Which i dont want anything to change in his walks cycle!" Hope someone can help.
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