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Hi - I am creating a walk cycle for a character and I have the first pose at 00:00:00 - I am trying to "copy frame" and "paste mirrored" into frame 00:20:00. For some reason it isn't pasting the "hips" and "pelvis" movement. Has anyone run into this problem - where it didn't copy the whole keyframe - that can let me know what I am doing wrong? Thanks - Eric
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Hi - this has happened to me before... I created all the characters mouth movements for the Dope Sheet and also and "eyes close" pose slider, that after I created them origianlly I tested all of them in an action and they worked fine. Now none of them are working - has anyone had this problem or know what I am doing wrong? Thanks - Eric
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Greetings all; I am brand new to Animation Master after using Truespace and Lightwave in the past. Yep, I'm a bigtime newbie. Although my Amiga days are resurfacing. I have found myself needing to animate a horse. We purchased the Anim master program and NAB to do this. Now I'm in a time crunch, having to learn Anim Master as well as how to animate a horse in AM. Could anyone possibly point me in the direction of an action library for a horse? Thanks.
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Hi, I guess I'm more confused than I thought. Is there any place to really learn how to work with actions in a choreography? I'm trying to do some simple stuff, I think. Like get a character to walk about 1/2 way across the screen, maybe wave and turn toward the back. Then have the character walk further across the screen. I got the whole keyframe thing down now and the first part works OK. But when I want to continue the walk I try adding a new path and constraining the character to the new path and then try to add the walk from the actions again. except the walk doesn't add with any duration. Do I need to start another action in the chor? Is there any plac…
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Ok, I fully intended to buy the 2007 current version from the Hash website. I had tried to purchase on e-bay and lost at last second of bid time. Well unknown to me untl it was too late my wife put a bid on another copy of Animation Master 2006, which was described as "new in Box" and "This is what you would buy from Hash for 299.00" She did this for me for Fathers Day, and so she was just trying to do something for me. And I was excited to be able to get the program before I expected. Ok, now it came in the mail yesterday. The box is in great shape, their are two cds, one is Yeti character AM cd. The other is Extras CD volume one. The large box it came in had only…
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Hi, all. I work mainly with video, and I use a program called Pinnacle Studios. It supports picture in picture, which is basically overlaying one video file over another. I've found that AM can export animations to .avi, which works fine. I insert a clip I made and then I overlay an animation created in AM. Unfortunately, the animation has a nasty background. When I insert a model in AM, give it an action, and export it as .avi, it always comes out with a blue 'sky-ish' background and a brown/tan-ish floor, and the model will do an action. This presents a problem, obviously, because I have a clip of humans acting and then it's a whole other clip of an animation …
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how can i mix 2 shaders as phong and anistropic with a decal? thanks )
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Concerning the models on the CD and Extras CD : it is often asked here about the rights of these models - can they be used in commercial productions... etc. etc. The answer seems to always be "check the notes in the model" and yet, for the life of me, I cannot find any notes for any models I have ever checked. I do not have the new DVD, but rather last year's Extras CD. This seems to be devoid of any notes, and it has me quite curious about the rights for certain models. Any information anyone has would help me out alot.
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When applying my walk to character and playing animation... the character speed walks the path. Is my problem in the keyframing or could it be the stride length..again any help is greatly appreciated, Thanks.
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When I save a file it gives me a saving error saying exception #005, and it may not have saved right...anyone have this happen or know what to do... thanks.
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Is there a way to render files through the command prompt? For instance they have the following command that will render a single frame: Then the command prompt spits out the output. Saved: ..\render\yourfile0001.jpg Time: 02:16.60 Does AM have a similar command?
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Hi, OK I've got my AVI and import issue taken care of, at least for now. Something I don't expect is happening when I add a character and motion to my scene. Basically, I'm just doing the walk and wave exercise from the tutorials with a little different twist. I define a path on my screen, from left to right, and contrain my character to the path. I would like the character to walk down the path to the end and stop. So I add the walk action to the character and set the constrain ease to 100% as it says in the tutorial. Making sure my character has enough walk action to get to the end of the path. When I play the scene everything looks fine. So I set a key…
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I bought AM resently and so i have the 2007 lisence. Should i download the V14 update? If so which one? There are a lot of them. Are there many new features? Animation Master workes fine for me but i want to know if i should get the update? Also will i have to download it this year? Will they not be avalible on my subscription next year? Thanks
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I'm working on a quick project, and I could use an electric guitar. I've found a very high quality model for sale, however I don't need that kind of detail. If anyone has a link to a free (or cheap) guitar model, that would be awesome.
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attached is a short animation test. the chor is 3:01, the action (walk exhausted) is 4:00 long. I'm trying to figure out how to make the action slower. I can't. I must be getting "slower" with age. How can I make him walk more exhaustedly (slower)? test.mov
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Demo?
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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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I have a model I built in version 13, and I would very much like to import it into a Choreography in version 12 of A:M. Although the ideal solution would be to use version 13 of the software, but this may not be possible. Is there any way to import a newer model into an older version of the software? Thanks.
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My model is leaning forward when I turn "ON" the Ik Leg setup and bring her into an action - I'm pretty sure I did something wrong when rigging it. Here is pic. If anyone has run into this please let me know what I might have done wrong. Thank you - Eric http://www.flashanimationwebsitedesign.com...itlGirl0006.jpg
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ok here is what I get when I try to launch my update to v.13.... This application has failed to start because MFC71.DLL was not found. Re-installing the application may fix the problem. I have tried to reinstall, redownloading the exe. update ect... What am I doing wrong?
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Hi - I am smart skinning my model and everything in the upper body looks great, but it is a girl with a skirt on and I need to have her walk without her leg coming out of her skirt - what bone do I smart skin to fix the skirt when she is walking? When I click on one of her thigh bones and right click New Smartskin it bring me to the screen to do the smart skinning and her thigh bone has dissapeared. I don't know what I am doing.. help ;-) -Eric
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Video Codecs
by greg- 1 follower
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Hi there, I've been trying to get a video clip converted from WMV to AVI so that I can bring it into A:M. I've tried Movie Maker, which I understand from another thread here that it probably won't work, Ulead Video Studio and Virtual Dub. Working with the A:M support people they suggested I might try a more standard codec than the ones used, Virtual Dub uses Microsoft DIB and the Ulead codec was not obtained by AVICODEC. Does anyone know of a rendering package which will create an AVI movie which A:M can bring in? Or, can someone tell me how to change the CODEC on the packages I am using? I can't seem to find a place to change the COODEC to one of the ones sugge…
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Hi - I am playing around w/ CP Weighting and for some reason it isn't working. Is there anything beside clicking on "show advanced properties" in the options that I need to activate in order for CP Weights to work? I just made a 6 sectioned tube w/ 3 bones in it. "Has Falloff" is on and set at 75% and 30% for the bones - you can see from the image below. Anyone who knows what I am doing wrong, please let me know. - thanks - Eric
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So I find myself having fun with particles. I really like the explosion that comes with A:M, and I need it for a project. My only problem is that I need it to be eg 10 times bigger. How do I do that? I've tried to scale the material itself but it didn't help. Any tips?
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im trying to render a video of the starship enterprise . it rotates from a black hole towards the camra, when the key frame or counter gets to 12 it freezez. it suppose to goto 14 frames, i did set the counter to stop at 14 frames. some times it stops at 11 or 11:20 or higher some times lower but it wont hit 14. i have a 2 gig.60 prossesor pc. i "had" only 512 ram, so i bought a gig ram, and it still didnt wowk please dont tell me i need a nother gig of ram :s any ideas? thx
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Hi - I cannot figure out why my char forearm is raised when I bring her in an action and turn the "Ik Arms Setup" to "on". I just put the skeleton rig in this character for a second time since I screwed the first try up pretty bad. Has anyone run into this problem? Thanks - Eric
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Hi There, I'm just having trouble viewing any of the tutorials that use the Ensharpen CODEC. Quicktime quits when I try opening the tutorials. I downloaded the latest Ensharpen 1.1 Universal installer from their site and updated to 10.4.10 - but still no luck. Any help would be much appreciated. Cheers Ben MacBook MAC OS 10.4.10 Quicktime Pro 7.1.6
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i screwd up my disc to the point of it barely starting the program (once in every 5 tries basically), i dont think it can read the disk image anymore, and i (obviously^^) dont want to repurchase the program, so how would i get it replaced by Hash?
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Everytime I try to load stage, it says "parameter incorrect". I am trying to follow online manual, any help appreciated...
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Hi - I did something wrong when rigging this character (newbie rigger) - I used the 2001 Skeleton from ex 13 in the manual. Below are two images - one of the skeleton, and one of the char brought into an action - she if offset to the left as you can see - can anyone tell me what I did wrong. Thank you - Eric
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Ok so here is my problem: While i am modeling in a modeling window my FPS is about 80fps +/- and is very good. but while i rig my character, and use it in a action window to animate it drops to 7FPS and this only happens when i use bones. I wonder why this is happening becase i have a strong computer. The model is only 1600 patches Animation is very hard to do with this low framrate here are some pictures i took This is in the modeling window And this is in the action window I hope somone ca help me. thanks!! Elias
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Hi - I created a hair material and applied it to two seperate groups - one above the eye on the eyelid and one below on the lower eyelid. I created a pose slider "eyes closed" - when I moved the eyelids down in the closed motion the eyelid hair stayed where it was and kinda stretched it down - even though the group it was attached to "eyelid" moved down. Can I not do what I am trying to do, or am I doing something wrong. - Thanks E
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Hi - doesn't anyone know of any links to decals for eyes, or a tutorial on how to make realistic looking decals for eyes they can point me to. Thanks - Eric
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is there a post or guide with simcloth settings? you know, like settings for silk or leather or denum and all other types of cloth. its getting tiring to guess and check my simcloths and any help would be apreciated.
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i dont know how to save a model seperate of a project, i know how to use libraries, i just cant find that save option, please pretty please someone help!!!
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I'm creating a "dance" animation. My action is the character "hopping" forward (puts his hands in front, pulls them back at the same time he jumps forward.) I created this action. When I'm in my choreography, I drop the action into the character, then create a path for him to follow. What I want is for him to continually perform that action while moving on this path. Do I have to do multiple paths, or somehow "cycle" that action? He performs the action once, then stops. thanks. Ok. Nevermind. It's working now. I now have to "extend" the action so it looks like he is stopping after one "thrust" forward with is arms before the next action.
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Okay, this is prolly stupid, but... How does one save a .mov file? I have no trouble saving AVI files, but of course they're huge. (Just finished Ex. 6, it's 18meg) But when I try to do a compressed .mov file it only saves the last image rendered - not an animation. So what exactly are the steps? You may be as condescending as you choose, and I'll deal with it, as long as I get the answer. BTW I've tried it both with V13 and V14.
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does anyone know where people place models for free download for others? or is there none? because i'm planning to donate a model, not too fancy or anything, for people to download, i also want to see other people's models and download ones that look interesting
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I'm having a hard time figuring out how to put bones on, i read the booklet thing but i still don't understand it. When i click the bones tab thing it comes up and theres a bone there, but when i got to test it out it doesn't work. And i wont let me add another bone. So if you could help me that'd be great
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.gif
by elliotclem1- 4 replies
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hi there, I would just like to know if A:M can render as .gif's?? Because i wanted to make MSN emotions. How can I put an animation on my fourm avater? Elliot
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is there a way to get a snake to slither across the ground or something like that?
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this training series is suppose to be Quicktime Movies, but really isn't. I have training videos from other vendors and they don't act at all like this. everything should be on the CD, don't see the reason to bother with the website (open index.html in your browser??). why bother with a CD? also, the window is difficult to re-size once launched. disappointed that I can't view these. can Hash revamp all training into a format may user friendly? (like DVD's other than for PC only). just looking for tutorials that can be viewed on other than a PC. thanks.
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Hi all I am having a problem in trying to get seamless decals to work in v13 and v14 on my computer, can someone confirm or assist in showing how its done. here are the steps I have taken without any success. 1 Made a patch surface 2 Import an image tba or jpg and applied to surface 3 In the image properties I applied 4x4 images and selected seamless 4 Quick rendered or full rendered resulted in seamless not working, leaving it in normal tiling effect. I might have a virus! Please help Oh I really love this program, thanks Mr Hash
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on the 3D frog store page, in "Seller Info", what does it mean by "8) Usage Tips/Limitations" ? never mind, sorry
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what are patches? and how do you find the amount there is in a model?
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I am searching for a rigged Crash Test Dummy. Does anyone have one or know where I could find/purchase one? Vegas_Skippy
Last reply by MMZ_TimeLord, -
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if i wanted to get my particle emitter to start emitting at a certain point in time id just modify the time in "Preroll" under properties for the particle material but if i wanted to get that same emitter to stop emitting at a certain point in time, how would i do that?
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hi, i made a path then assigned my character a running action but it's running too fast then i want i to.. where do i go to change the speed.. plz helpp
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Hi, I'm new to this program, I used it a bit in high school some 5 years ago and saw it on Ebay and decided to buy it since I had so much fun with it. I started doing the tutorial on the CD that came with it, but it keeps telling me to open models in the Library folder as several locations in the tutorial, but I don't have any Models in the said folder, I tried mailling the person who sold me the software (package and all) but didn't get an answer. So I was wondering if there's somewhere I can download a Model, any model, just so I can try the "Chorus Line" and "Baseball Throw" exercices. It's really hard trying to learn how to move bones when you don't have a m…
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question: when im in the choreography making a avi i have alot of ditortion. what can be makeing this?? take a look: mmm for some reason the web sight wont let me upload the avi so heres the pic insted it looks fine when it is rendering but when its done it looks something like this :s
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I am trying to add some simple models to a photo using the photo as a layer. How do I adjust the image so that lighting will not affect it?
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