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Hi! I am a long time user of A:M but sometimes even we have newbee-questions So: How do you set the pivot of a model to a new position? When I model a character and rig it and than I want to reset the pivot of the model (in the model-window) to a new position so that for example the feet of my character are at the 0 / 0 / 0 point. I could translate the geometry and after that the bones with a translate-comment on the highest hierachy-level, but I wounder if there is a way to just set the model-pivot with a number-input like "Set new pivot to 50 cm lower."? Thanks for your time and your answers *Fuchur*
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I'm having a strange problem with a model - I modelled it on my laptop using AM v11.1i and it looks like this - (see "strange") but the original model (created in AM11.0t) looks like this on my desktop (see "Thomas") I only need an answer - I must have phrased my question wrong in my original thread that got deleted - but do I need to delete the hair material shortcut and re-apply or should I start the hair all over again? Apologies to Hash if I say anything wrong, I've been off the forums a few years and may say the wrong thing the wrong way. Alf
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I appologize if this question is in the wrong place, but I couldnt find the info through several searches. I currently use version 12, and am seriously considering upgrading to 13. I was just curious what the new features are in 13 and if you guys thought it was worth the money to upgrade??
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I have some problems and therefore question with the use of multiple chor actions: 1) Multiple chor actions are used for better structuring a scene, correct? 2) When I create a new choreo action, the first key frames are always automatically drawn at the beginning of the whole choreo (starting that way long before the action's chor range; see attachment). Can't I have the action really only start at the exact frame the action is meant to begin? 3) Do I have to start every chor action with a full keyframe on all bones to get my desired action? An unkeyed bone - due to the effect from my previous question - gets his "history" from the first choreo frame! …
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i have a prob, im working of flower power and when it says open the attributes of the stem the little arrow isent there any ideas?
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Hey, Im curious as to how you get involved in working on TWO i would love to help but i would obiously need to concentrate on working in certain areas before i get involved. Do you have to show a certain proficency or what? Thanks Geoff
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So I'm not fully comprehending what in the world this problem is. I've been running through the tutorials in the book. They've really been helping me out, but I got a problem. On lesson 5, where you learn how to create loops such as walking, running, sitting, and etc. Well, I was pasting the final frames, you know, where the mirror pasting is put, and I made a mistake. I accidentally placed a mirrored paste, when I wanted a normal paste. So I quickly did undo, and tried to paste... It wouldn't work, I don't know what it is. For some reason, it just wont let me paste on the final frame. I tried deleting the frame, and so on. I'm working within the time line setup up of man…
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I have a decal applied to the floor. And it repeats over and over abot 20x20. My problem is when it renders it realy starts to blur as you get closer to the camera. I thought i read something about antiailising. Is this what I need? If so where are its controls? Please someone help. I'm at work working on this right now. Help before the next hour or so is crucial. Thanks for yalls help.
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Dear Animation Masters, I am using Zbrush to make models and texture them as low rez poly cages, creating displacement maps to add detail and would like to import them into AM and use the displacement maps. Are there any plugins around that are recommended for this process? Also, I have spline models in IGES format, would they import as spline objects in AM using a plugin? Thanks for any suggestions, Sincerely, Michael Angelo
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hey no need to post ne thing here this is a test A_wing.prj
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I have the 2007 version of A:M. Using 13.0s. On the extras disc, there is a Penguin.mdl. When I bring that into my choreography, 1/2 his body is in the ground. Do I need to "pull" him up or is there a setting to make the "floor" non penetrable?
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I've been practicing the walk cycle, and then I decided to try making a hop cycle for rabbit, but can anybody give me a idea of how I would set up the stride length for a hop, or how I would gauge it correctly? I've been experimenting, and I've gotten the animation action to look good, but the stride length is somewhat hard to gauge what I need to base it on. I keep seeming to end up with rabbit either hopping way too fast across the screen when I set up the choreography of it, or if I slow it down, every time he lands he slides forward a bit.
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Woohoo, should be here Monday, I can't wait.
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Hi everyone! when im doing the distortion mode is there any way i can change the default number of points i can select to distort the model?. On another topic, when i do the scale mode (example im doing a banana), is there any way i can close the top/botom of the banana by using the scale mode?
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Is there an auto save feature on animation master?
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OK, now im getting ashamed of asking a lot os q´s , i bought the book "Complete guide to animation master" and on some point it says that to make a perfect sphere i have to use the porcelain material, but i cant find it, does any1 knows where it is?
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Hi, another question....being a noob and all, is there any way to loop a video decal, you see, im doing this 10 secs animation and on the background i aplied a video decal, wich is only 2 secs, is there any way to loop it to 10 secs?
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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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Hey guys, Im back with another question thanks for the help with the las question i asked i was able to get my canyon model built. Now i am having trouble getting a model to load up into A:M that i got from another A:M user. It will load but say there are a bunch of compnents missing so i worked on it saved the project and when i loaded it back up the model i was putting bones in that i got from the other user wouldnt load up. Please help. Thanks Geoff
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Is this a bug or something I'm not doing right? I am trying to make the distortion toolbar visible. I went to Tools-Customize and picked the Toolbars tab. I clicked the check box for "Distort." The distort toolbar appeared. I clicked "OK" and the distort toolbar vanished. I tried it several times and even re-installed the software. No joy. Why won't it stay? Running version 13.0s on an Intel Macintosh.
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I'm working on rigging a character and noted that most models have a folder called "relationships" that define bone/null constraints. In an Anzovin tutorial I went through, I made a new action to define bone constraints but it was all outside the model in the end. What is a good resource to learn about constructing a model's constraints internally with relationships? Almost there! Chris =)
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]HEY I RECENTLY BROUGHT THE LATEST VERSION OF A:M BUT I'M HAVING TROUBLE WITH ROTOSCOPING. I'M TRYING TO MODEL OVER FACES I FOUND ON THE INTERNET, AND ALSO ON CHARACTERS I DREW AND SCANNED INTO A:M BUT THE PICTURES DON'T SHOW UP IN THE PROGRAM FOR ME TO MODEL OVER. NO MATTER WHAT I DO I CAN'T GET THE PICTURES TO APPEAR ON THE GRID TO BEGIN TO MESH THE SPLINES OVER LIKE THEY DO IN THE DEMOS AND TUTORIALS. PLLLLLEEEEAAAASSSSEEEEE HELP!!! [THANX
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hi, can some1 tell me the diference between add mode and add lock mode and when i need to use add lock mode and add mode... i find they are the same exept for the 2 points only in lock...
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Hi, i have a problem using the distortion mode, when i distort something and then i go back to modeling mode i can only select control points by clicking one by one, but then i cant un select them, why is that?
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Ok...apologies for this "simple" task I'm sure, but I'm having trouble understanding this. I've read the other posts and probably need it explained in "dummy" fashion. I have a character that moves his left leg. Then, later in the animation, he moves his right leg. However, when playing back, the left leg moves AND the right leg slowly moves at the same time. What am I missing here? It has to do with the keyframes right? Or am I thinking of something else? I want the leg or body part to move first, THEN the other to move after that, not during. Thanks for any assistance. Steven
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Hello, I'm trying to change the ground for a rendering, and I also wanted to change the sky color...any ideas? I must be missing this in the manual. Thanks, Andy
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Hi all, I just wondered that in A:M there was a way to add titles and credits to my films as i am using Microsoft movie maker for them at the moment. Elliot
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So maybe I'm blind. But could someone show me were the image contest are held? Thanks Shane
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is there a method that i could use for selecting empty groups in the project work space?
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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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need help in setting the piviot point at x=0
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is there some sort of Animation Master back up file thing that saves the last file that you have been working on every 10 minutes or so
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Hi Folks ... I added some audio to Keekat and everything appears OK in preview (choreography). When rendered, the audio appears to have shifted over time, and finishes befor the character. After the first render I noticed the problem. My initial thoughts were based on frame count (FPS) as I've seen similar converting NTSC to PAL videos. Also, I remembered that I'd originally created the project at 24 FPS (in v11.1) and then loaded it into 2007 defaulted at 30 FPS. So I checked everything and I reset 2007 to 24 FPS in Options and in the render setup of the .mov But ... the file sizes were the same and I still have the audio finishing early. …
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i just installed A:M last night and i'm already having problems whenever i try to shade render a charecter, it doesn't work right. the parts that shouldn't show show, like the toung or teeth, and ther's no hair on the charecter with the entire model looking transparent instead of solidly shaded. also in order to even start A:M i have to have the disk in the computer. i'm wondering if this is normal. and finaly i have no idea how to get anything from the extras dvd. please help
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For now I'm stuck with the 2002 version of this software, and I need to make some text. It would be tedious to model each letter from scratch, not to mention challenging, so I hoped there was a text option somewhere. There isn't. I've heard about some Wizard Font plug-in that provides text, so I looked it up on Google, hoping it was freeware I could download....no luck. Can somebody help me out?
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Hi, i bought animation master v 10 and installed in my pc wich has windows xp, the question is that im going to buy a mac next month, and dont know if i can use the same disc to install on windows and mac....can someone help?
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HELLO! Well, at first I thought that in A:M there must be some feature that let you have a proyected surface over other surface subordinating the last one to the first one, or something like that... ehm, well, I really don't know if I can explain it in english... but sure you know how NURBS works, isn't? You can have a curve subordinate to another surface so you can deforme that surface and the proyected curve automatically follows it and is deformed consequently... And well, as Spline systems are a little "similar" to NURBS in a certain way... I wondered if I was missing something and that feature can be done or even be emulated in some easy way with A:M, really it'd be …
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Hello, I've been off this forum for quite a while and it hasn't half changed! I'm going to consider myself a "newbie" as I'm reminding myself of AM v11 and its features. I wanted to ask a couple of questions but firstly couldn't work out where to post! OK, question 1 - modelling in v11 (orangutang) I created some 5 point patches on a face model I'm working on and then added Porcelain - some of the patches turned black. I can't remember if I have to delete the material shortcut and re-apply or re-create the patch. (I have checked the direction of normals) Question 2 - are there any good tutorials on relationships and creating sliders for poses / constraints in …
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An AMV combining different artisits work and swicthing between scene. We would pick a song, then each do a little animation for it... still need to get my copy of AM back from my teacher though...
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I am trying to make an animated electrocardiogram with a darkish green background with the 'blip' animating a normal sinus rhythm. I want the blip to glow and leave a trail that fades as the blip travels along the "path" just like you see in the movies. I have tried sprites constrained to a path placed in a tube shaped like a normal sinus rhythm, but even with collision detection on I cannot keep them in the tube. I was thinking of applying a material that would travel along the length of the tube, but am at a loss as to what or how. I remember John had something of this effect when he rendered a box as lines with something tracing the box lines and glowing. Could …
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I'm sorry if there's already a helpful link or something that I've missed, but I've been studying eye anatomy to make realistic looking eyes, and I've noticed other 3d projects with usually simple irises but they're illuminated.....light fades around the edges. An example would be the character Tak. I just want to know how other people are doing it, maybe it'll save me a missed shortcut. I like the look of those eyes.
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I'm trying to do exercise 5, except I'm customizing the animation some. Since I have many keyframes, I'm looking for a convenient way to quickly mirror a range of time without having to cut/paste-mirror each frame, so I can quickly and easily preview the animation after making minor tweaks to it. Does anybody know how to do this? The closest I've come, is that I've figured out how to copy/paste a range of control-points in the timeline window. Thanks for any help!
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I've had this idea for awhile, and it used to be for authers. But why not have a website were artists, writers, and storyboarders (did I get that last one right?) can come together and share ideas. People could collaborate on projects and make shorts for the world to see, and maybe have a show case were companies could view peoples work and perhaps offer jobs.
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Have a 3d high quality gun that I could use, When I start out, I plan to use premade objects to learn, then move on to modeling. Preferebly a berreta/DE/.45
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i wanted to try using decals on my character but i guess im not too good at making character decals they call it skins or something right? how do you set up the skins on the decal before its applied to the model? how do you compensate for this stretching effect that im getting when the build reachs the edge of the skin thingy? help?
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I was wondering if anyone knows how to creat a star environment, like for space shots with ships and etc. A long time ago I saw that there was a way to do it but have no idea how to and cant find his instruction
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I'm going through the animation exercises, and one of the biggest things that would be helpful to me is if there was a way to visualize which bones are keyed when. Something like, if a bone has any sort of key during the current frame, it changes color. You might even have the color depend on what kinds of keys exist during the current frame (translation, rotation, etc). It would make it so much easier to find and delete keys, and to figure out which bones are keyed in the current frame. Does anybody know if such a feature exists? Thanks for any help! Edit: After doing some searching, I found some instructions on how to set this up in V14, but they don't seem applica…
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Hey everyone I'm sure I missed something but How do you make charecters solid, meaning that if one charecters cross pathes with something they wond go through it. Also if a charecter goes to pick something up that it attaches to them when they pick it up and detaches when they set it down.
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I am very new to the program i got it for Christmas and am just getting around to getting really involved in the program. I am trying to make a terrain for a movie im trying to do but i am really confused i have done some tutorials but i cant ever get anything to extrude the way i want. If it helps in answearing my question i am trying to make a canyon. Please help and thank you. Geoff
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Hello, I'm still working out of the David Rodgers book. I set up a choreography, put in some model buildings, etc. Saved it, embedded the files. When I go to open it up.....nothing. The computer keeps asking me to find stuff. Do I have to put(or copy) all the models, decals, etc, into one project file when I make something? Thanks, Andy
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