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Please can someone help me?I am doing a birthday card for a friend and have come to a standstill. As you can see from the quick render screen the picture(wip)is ok.But when i do a render to file the Thom model on HAPPY disapears and the HAT ends up on the floor. I am using the current version of V13a. Please someone tell me this is just a silly newbie mistake. [attachmentid=17679] [attachmentid=17678] [attachmentid=17680] P.s.I am not worried about the skydome problem as this is just a tempory item.
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I figured I would post this to show, I've working on walks, and doing some jumps, i decided to see if I could make a character just stand there and be believable as opposed to the static frozen pose. I've had AM for a week and half.
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Hello, I am looking for a 3D character animation software that can export into Flash which is may main platform. Can AM export the animation as a sequence of images (Lightway can)? I am aware of the AVI export option and Flash capability to import AVI. importing discreet images would be more useful for me. Any comments/suggestions?
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Help, I have a simple model that I paid to have created a few years ago... in HASH Animation Master. Now, I am finally ready to do something with it... but am using Cinema 4D. The C4D gurus suggest that if the file were exported as a Polygon File to OBJ, I can probably work with it. Is there anybody reading this that could help me out with that? Thanks! Taylor Collins taylor@soaringstuff.com
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When I am in shaded mode my decals look good. Howeaver when i render the lose their clarity. They go from looking sharp and defined to having a smooth look. I realize this might be good for some images but i am annoyed by it. Is there any way to set the sharpness for the render
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I've lathed a jar that's supposed to hold a bunch of marbles one of my characters later pours into a dish. I figured either the rigid-body thing or the Newton plugin would do the job. I went with Newton. Marbles are clones of the 32-patch sphere and are used as Dynamic Sphereobjects [sic]. The jar is "Static with Action." I put 24 marbles in a semi-random vertical stack over the jar and ran the simulation. The marbles all pooled at the bottom of the jar in a likeable fashion. So far, so good. Later in the chor I lifted the jar and, to my horror, the marbles all simply fell through the bottom of the jar as if it wasn't there. This included the marbles that…
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The libraries are on the program CD (OZ), not on the HDD I can't drag and drop a primitive from the library panel to the modeling window. I can't drag and drop a primitive from the Library panel to the PWS model that is open, or to any other (new) slot in the PWS. I CAN import a primitive to a new model window. But drag and drop would be easier. What am I doing wrong? Thanks,
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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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ok i did a tread post a while ago and got a few helpfull suggestions but unforunatly due to the complexity of the movie im making it was going to be litteraly hours of work ( think 30Plus models fighting over a landscape) so i was wondering wourl there be a way to set a part of a model ie the tracks/tire to change the color of the ground it moves through ?
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Hello everyone, In the modeling window there is usually a gridded background, but I accidentally hit a hot key, and it disappeared. Does anyone know how to get it back to normal? Thanks in advance, Masna
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Hello everyone! I'm really excited to be finally getting a taste of what Animation Master can do. After learning all the industry standard programs at school and bemoaning that I could not afford to legally own any of them, I'm finding a promising home here to continue my passion for animation with far fewer obstructions and more intuition than say, Maya. That said, I have actually hit a bump that you might be able to help me with. I am doing the A:M tutorials, naturally, and thought it would be logical to preface "The Door is Stuck" (exercise 6) with a walk cycle like I did in the previous exercise. Cool. Shaggy walks up to the door, nonchalantly to set the…
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Is it bad to have a model where two patches cut through each other? I'm modelling a Harrier GR7, and the fuselage does not taper to the rear, as with most jets, it’s just a cylinder ending in a hemisphere. The tailfin looks like it could be modelled as a single object with the lower part cutting through the fuselage and forming the small ventral fin, for simplicity and reduced splinage. Is this sort of modelling frowned upon? Are there any rendering considerations I need to take into account? The biggest question, though, is that if I should be modelling the whole thing as a single assembly, is there a quick and dirty way of turning the interface…
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I scanned in parts of a book.I'm making a book prop(s). The scans are saved as jpegs, I choose them as my new decal, the bounding box appears, but no image. The image is in the DECAL section. I don't know why. I've done the same process before, and it worked. I scanned the book cover under 200 dpi, is that too big? Ahhhhh!
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I'm having trouble getting the right results using the flatten command, and its mostly because of the instructions in the manual. It says "To correctly orient the pivot, click on the Red handle at the end of the Green Axis (to orient the pivot around the X axis) and drag in the direction of the arrow in the image below until the Properties panel shows -90° rotation in the X axis." But the properties panel doesn't tell me anything!
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how do i make a completely different character (just made) do that timeline and talking thing, like " can you say that?"
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ok i remember in times past that you could manipulate the bias of a spline with a hook , currently i cant figure out how to do this again any one know
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I'm a newb... 100%... even though I bought the software at NAPP in Miami a few years ago. I never did find time to load it and use it. But... I come to ask a question from the experts... Will this software allow me to create 3d textured text animations for use in video production? I was looking at Boris Red and then I remembered buying AM and thought I'd see if it might handle the job. Thanks in advance for your comments, suggestions, insight, etc. Vince
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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 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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Hi guys! I just got hash Animation master at the San Diego Comic Con. I've installed it and started working with it. I noticed that I must have the CD in the CD drive in order for the program to work. Is this always the case? Can the program not run without it in there? Also I'm wondering if the copy I got at the show is a 1 year subscription or the full program. I had thought I was buying the full program, but after reading the website I'm now unsure. Thank you!
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Quick question regarding something I am not understanding. If I have a Choreography with two actors in it, and then create two paths. Say I constrain Actor 1 to path A with a Chor range of 4 seconds, and then I contrain Actor 2 to Path B with a Chor range 15 seconds, somehow Actor 1's contraint to Path A will automatically change the Chor range to 15 seconds as well. My question is how do I keep actor 1 going long Path A for just 4 seconds?? Is there a way to edit the keyframes or something else I am missing?? ANy help would be greatly appriciated... EDIT: or I could just go watch the video tutorial on this. Sorry, I didnt see it earlier.
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I was having many problems with crashes and nonworking features; a moderator suggested I upgrade to the newest version. I upgraded from V12 to V13 and all the crashes went away and the features now work... but the libraries have disappeared. Does anyone have any suggestions?
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Is it just me or can you not import external applications' file formats, poser for example... help? .obj 21
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Just wondering why I'm getting a sandy look from my lighting when I render. I haven't done anything here but import Keekat.
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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 im not sure if the topic that was posted meens the same as this one but how do i make something on the model light up. like say i had a gountlet, and i wanted "power" comeing out of a spacific point in it. the power i want is a red light. so how would i make the red light look as if it was comeing out ofthe arm pice?? EDIT: should i just constrain the light inside the models arm and have a transparant part red?
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Can someone please help? Ive been watching A:M tutorials for past few months, even read the manual online. I now have a new computer running win 7 and brand new A:M. Both 2 days old YAY! Ive used Maya and Bryce for years and dying to get into A:M now. For some reason my render Bounding Box shows solid (or last rendered pic underneath) when i drag a box. This also happens when selecting splines or points. I looked thru tools/options but couldnt find anything. I also tried running A:M in XP mode 32 bit and had same solid bounding box. Can anyone help? Thank you Michael
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is there any way to have aline , preferable glowing going between 2 objects, i tryed to make a good laser using a long pole thats set to glow but its to hard to aim a pole when the thing shooting it is is rotating as at the moment i have to aim on every frame and thats like 5000 frames ( i gave up at 200)
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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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My question comes from pages 141 & 142 from the guide. I don't really understand what rotating a single CP (the flour sack's top most corners, I'm assuming) is suppose to acheive. Is there a posted example of this? or possibly someone can explain the desired results in a little more detail. I realize muscle motion is an advanced topic, but I want to make sure I'm understanding it correctly before I move on. TIA. John
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I am a new AM user and am haveing problems. In exersize 6 of the instruction manual" The Door Is Stuck", I can't seem to make the charactors feet stay up against the door for any length of time. The automaticaly come down no matter what frame I animate them to come down. Can any body help me?
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I've got a very detailed photo-realistic facial mesh that I'm trying to re-fit to a 3ds prop that's a 3D scan of an actual person, I then have high resolution flat lighting orthogonal photos that I'll be using as decals... The eyes, nose, mouth, and ears are obvious things to group and move around to match their positions on the actual face, so I've made groups for these and the surrounding patches. Later on the eyes, nose, mouth, and ears will have to be tweaked, adjusted, and (possibly) remodeled (a bit) to closely match the real person - but I'm just wanting to get them into the right relative positions to start. The problem I'm running into is that as I move…
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Hi, i just bought a new pc, p4 2.0, 512 ram, win xp sp2, but i cant get to load primitive.hxt!!!, i unzipped the primitive.zip to the v11.1/hxt and then i run rhe AM (the little witch version) and then an error apears that says "unable to load plug-in c:program files/hash inc/v11.1/hxtprimitive.hxt no se puede encontrar el modulo especificado" that translates to "unable to find the specified module", thing is, that in my laptop and my pc at work, it runs fine!!! HELP PLZ!!!
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How do you take a noise you've saved onto your computer and transfer it into your library? Can anyone help me?
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Hi! Hopefully you've all seen the movies "Alien" and "Aliens". I need just three models. Any help would be fine! I need a normal alien or soldier alien, a queed alien and a colonial marine. Any help would be welcome! Please help! Thanks!
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Hello All, I am just trying how to figure out basic light placement and adjustments. I tried downloading the tech ref manual but I can't seem to download it from its current location. Is there another place where I can download the tech ref manual from? Also, does anyone know of any basic lighting tutorials? Mark.
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I have a piece that I am working on. I'd like to post a short movie of where I'm at, to get some pointers. How do I do that? Are there size guidelines for attachments? Carl
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I found as I was doing Exercise #5, having the rabbit walk on a path, that as I was making the walk cycle, his feet kept sinking below the ground line. I know this is because A:M defaults to using a curved, flowy arc between keyframes instead of the most direct route. Usually this is fine. How do I turn this off so I don't have to key every frame to keep my foot on the ground?
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ok for a while during testing the time line thing was ok , but know im starting to get confused when 00:30:00 = 01:00:00 and so on , is there any way to set it to use normal time setting ie 00:60:00 = 01:00:00
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Alright so anyways, on the characters, when im trying to move their bones, or pose em, on choreography, there is this huge bone at their feet getting in the way. I saw it a while ago, then didnt see it, and now im seeing it again. Heres a picture of it do you see that large black bone right at his feet, it is really blocking the view from bottom view, side views, top view, birds eye, and even camera view. and if i accidentally click on it, it rotates my whole character. Can anyone lend me a hand?
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i was playing a very old game by the name of "Total Annihilation" and i tough i would try to recreate the way things build in the game. in which a energy grid is sprayed with a nanite cloud and it forms a full structure. and so i came down with 2 problems. 1 i could not find very much info on making smoke though it seamed it had to be using sprites 2 what i could find has an object moving leaving smoke, i need the smoke to move from an object preferable in a controled maner towards another model
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I was putting decals on my models roof until I reached this curved piece I have tried a few things but it cames out distorted. So instead of poking and hoping all night I’m posting it here. What would be your approach to applying the decals to a curvy surface?
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well the fun four days are over, here's the result. a whopping two seconds. on the bus stop theme though the set is not there. this would be the beginning so yes, he just missed the bus. only just animated the hands today, couldn't post without at least an inkling of follow through. arms were the hardest thing to do. the balance i've been at for the longest, have a hearty go! it was very interesting to move the hips in relation to the feet to experiment where he is the most tired, when the motion is the most cumbersome. what's here is not the only thing that worked, but the most "thom organic". a dead tired jogger does his best to not let the hips sink cause …
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Hello. below is a question I emailed to Hash. Thought I'd throw it out here to see if anyone has the answer. Hello. I purchased a copy of Animation Master about 6 years ago at a comic book convention. The price of your software attracted me and the demonstration at the convention displayed it's user friendliness. I later learned that I needed the CD Rom to unlock the program each time I wanted to work on it. So I hesitated installing it on any computer fearing I would loose the disk. Needing the CD Rom in hand to unlock the program is very impractical for me. Does Hash offer a new version of Animation Master that does no…
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Dear AMasters, I have downloaded the v13 release and am seeking how to's for the new features listed. Does anyone have any direct links that demonstrate how to use the features. In addition, are there any forum locations or links on how to output alpha channels and how to use the compositing feature I have heard is included? Is there a master technical reference for the new features? I am using Zbrush to create displacement maps for Maya. Has anyone used this tool for Animation Master? Thank you, Michael Angelo
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I've been modeling a face using the Cooper face tutorial (which has been very helpful, by the way) over the last few days, however, for some reason my project file won't open today. A:M starts up as always, but right in the middle of loading the project, an error box reading "Error in model file, spline attachement. anchor= 1439 cp= 1318 Atempting to continue." (I didn't misspell those works, A:M actually did ) appears. I click OK but suddenly the program crashes. Anyone know of any means to save a model file embedded in the project file so I can save my work, or at least part of it? Thanks a ton!
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Bias handles
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Hi Im trying to do the hand tutorial on demented3D.com and am having some trouble adjusting the bias handles individually. I select a cp on a cylinder and see the handles then while holding down shift when I try to adjust one handle they both move. Shouldnt I be able to adjust each handle by itself? What am I doing wrong? Im using V13.0a on a PC. Thanks Don Rhodes
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Seriously $100 is amazing and a GREAT marketing scheme esspecially for those people that love this program (I being one of them and I don't even have it yet, I'm watching the demo videos). It makes Hash Inc some more money and it doesn't break the accounts of the users. A great deal and fantastic work Hash Inc. Has it always been like that? (I can't wait to get this proggie...)
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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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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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