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I've got the model nearly completed ... however, I cannot figure out how to put a small working light inside the Volume Meter. If I put it in the model, the entire model lights up ... any help would be appreciated. Thanks ... GW
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Yes lord, I just ordered the new D. Rogers Book ... should be here tomorrow. After reading his A:M 2002, I had to have this one ...
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Yep, it's time to update my OSx version ... been cutting my teeth off 10.5/11.0 ... what exactly do I need to do, who do I need to contact? My USB dongle will need to be updated also. Any and all help appreciated. TIA!
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I found photos of the exact desert I want represented in my animation, and I feel humbled by the number of subtle shrubs, hills, bluffs, and so on that make the desert what it is. Especially since it is only going to be in the background and does not move, I don't see the sense in modeling all of this from scratch. So now I'm toying with the logistics of animating my A:M components to be most compatible with my photoshopped and then 3-D composited (probably in After Effects) sort of environment. I understand there's a way to render animations with an alpha channel, although I don't know how. I guess that's question number one. Another question is "how to …
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Hello, I'm currently working on a school project about the properties of skin, but i'll go into that in another thread. Right now I'm having some difficultues wity A:M. I tried using a tearrain plug-in, but then a pop up came up saying "insufficent storage space" and my computer crashed. Now when I open A:M and click ANYTHING a pop up shows up saying "Realtime Rendering Difficulties". I don't know what Raltime Rendering is, but from speculation it can't be good. But the worst is my deadline! I'm sitting at my desk ready to pull my hair out, Masna
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Hiya am a beginnner to this so please bear with me, i want to use a live video as a background, could you give me some advice to this using version 13 as it seems difficult to ad it and when using a rotoscope or layer it doesent seem to work. pete
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Could anybody tell me how to make an object look like it's moving realistically. U know like those blue suits and they add the CG character to those actions? HELP
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how do you make a texture look bumpy, or rough, in a 3d fashion way? i've seen it before, i just don't know how to make it. how do i do it?
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is there a tutorial that explains how to make a model, verry realistik looking? thx.
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As I was smartskinning my model the other night, everything was looking good with the shoulders and I decided to move on to the legs. In an action, I then discovered something very odd and very frustrating. If I move the left leg up a lot, the geometry on the character’s chest and right arm gets distorted. Basically, several select CPs move slightly as though they were connected to the leg bones. However, this is not at all the case! I see no logical reason why some CPs in the arm would move around when I lift up a leg, since no CPs in the arm are assigned to anything but arm bones! Tonight I am going back through my 250 saved files to see how far back in my project …
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Hi - Awhile back I posted asking if anyone knew a really good artist that could create a rotoscope drawing for a character - a couple people nicely responded and had some pretty good drawings they had done. I live out in California in the valley and happen to be up at Universal Studios and noticed they have an area set up with caricature artists, so I decided to have him do one and see how it came out. He is a very talented guy and it came out great. I am using it now to create a character, and it is working pretty well - I probably should have had him do a profile drawing as well. Anyway, I thought I would post his email and website portfolio if anyone is in ne…
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Hello, I continue to explore AM with the tutorial on youtube: https://youtu.be/1CFLb0w4X4A I have some questions : - Realtime rendering looks weird !? Do you know what this is due to ? Did I make a bad handling or a bad adjustment? - Some of my model's normals are in the wrong direction. How do I unify the normals? Thank you in advance and have a nice day teo
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Before I suggest adding these features, I better poll the forum to see if A:M already has them. There are so many I haven't stumbled across yet... 1. One of those "other" programs (maybe more than one) has what would, in A:M, be two-sided splines, with different colors, so in wireframe you can tell which side you're viewing a spline from. Makes it easier to figure out what you're doing. 2. Is there a way to set shaded wireframe so the patches are translucent? One can adjust the surface properties, but a preset for convenience in modelling would be handy. 3. Along the same lines: 2-color patches. Again, I know this can be done, but as a preset for conve…
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Hi all, This is my fifth or sixth object I made with Animation:Master, it could also have been the second or third... This is my way of telling, I like splining very much. Niels. [NOTICE] It's in A:M v13alpha8 format. (I made it with A:M v12, then altered it (decals) with v13.) NielsWShoe.ZIP
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Does anyone know were i can download Rebump X? I saw it in one of my animation master books and it looks cool but i cant find it anywear on the internet. If someone could post it for me to download that would be great. Or if you could email it to me my email is daniel.x16@gmail.com thanks
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ok iv made a modle and colored the whole thing grey but im trying to make a few patches red but when set its still grey am i doing something wrong
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A few months ago I read about a new title for A:M, I would swear that I once held it in my hands at the local book emporium. However, I can't find it by searching and it's not on the Hash site. Does anyone have any idea which book I am talking about?
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Hello everyone, I've just ordered A:M and I would like to get a new PC to run it on. Does anyone have any recommendations on the following: 1) Processor - AMD or Intel? What processor would give best results in A:M, best speed etc? 2) 32 bit or 64 bit - is it worth getting an AMD64 processor? 3) How much memory? - I will probably get 1Gb Ram, is it worth getting more? 4) Graphics card - Nvidia, ATi - in the past I have stuck with Nvidia - better the devil you know? Any other recommendations would be gratefully accepted
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How do you guys convert your animations to NTSC video without getting interlaced fields or desynced audio?
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Hi, everybody. been a while. I recently upgraded to win 8 and need to recover my version 16. how do I go about this? thank you
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I've experienced a system crash, and AM needs my serial number to re-activate, which I can't seem to find. Help. John Bailey
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I buried this question in another question so I thought I would bring it to the fore-front. So how do I recover from an Auto Save? I don't think it is the Revert command because the auto saved file names are different. Do I just navigate to the Backup folder and select the last file?
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I was working on one of my models and AM experienced a problem. I hit save and it messed up my file. And the last back up I have is just the head. Can someone see if they can recover a model file. If you think you can give it a shot “post”, I will be grateful I will not be posting the file since to many people will try and download this file and crash there programs. I get Exception #039, trouble saving patches.
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Apologies if I've asked this before but what's with this red border on the windows, some kind of error?
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Is there a quick way to redirect the flow of two splines at an intersection? For example, to go from the left state to the right (and vice versa) in the screenshot below: I haven't been able to find a solution that doesn't involve detaching and breaking stuff.
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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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I am new to Animation Master and I am trying to close KeeKat's eyes. However, his pupils still appear when his eyelids are closed. However, I reinstall version 12 from my CD and the eyes seem just fine. Am I installing the v13 installer wrong? Also, I copy the dictionary file over to version 13. THanks See attached thumbnail to see what it is doing.
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I have some experience with 3d modeling packages and recently got Animation Master. The program is pretty tight!! My question is: Is there a way to have multiple viewports at one time?? I couldn't find anything about that. I work ALOT easier with multiple viewports. THanks!!!!!!
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Is there a way to set part of the camera view to render(only an area of the image). Thanks in advance for any assistance.
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I bought AM at Wondercon last year and haven't looked at it since I installed it. Today I decided to learn a little about it. It asks me for registration info every time I start up, then gives me this error message: Unable to load plug-in [/Applications/Animation Master 16.0/Textures/Simbiont2.atx],-err- Then it opens and I can play with everything. I went through the first video tutorial but I couldn't save anything. This makes me think I'm not really registered. I have the disc with the activation code, but I thought I put that in when I installed the program. Thanks for any help you can offer.
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Hey, I had to uninstall Animation Master on my Windows 7 64 bit PC. I went through the normal windows uninstaller and then downloaded the 64 bit web subscription version of AM to reinstall. I went through the re-install with no problems but when I went to register using my same registration # I got the following error. "Bad return data from webserver (no status) (-134) "No such file or directory (error:2)" Can anyone lead me in the right direction to what this means and what I can do to get my version registered ? I know my Registration # is valid as it worked for my initial install on the same PC. Sorry if this is in the wrong forum section …
Last reply by Pinballwzd, -
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I down loaded the web version, and I have to enter my name and organization every time I start this thing. I'm on a Mac, did I miss something in the install?
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This is odd. I have version 13. I haven't tried the new download system yet. However today, every time I start the program I have to enter my registration. This hasn't happen to be before. Anyone had this experience?
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Hello, I don't know where to post this so sorry it's here, I cant seem to be able to access the support forum. I want to reinstall my operating system so that means I will need to reinstall Animation:Master, Anyone know how I would do this because I used my subscription key when installing ti the first time - can I unregister my copy of A:M on my pc and reinstall it once I have rebuilt it? Thanks Tony
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Hi everybody. I just installed A:M to one of my PC's at home and now I realize that was not the best place to install it. How do I transfer the program to another PC? Do I uninstall on the old and just install on the new with the existing password? Of do I have to get Hash to deactivate the old password and get a new one? Thanks for your help. Cheers! Calvin
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Hello, I'm practicing rigging and posing in A:M 12.0 on a Powermac G4. I need help in understanding how to maintain the relationship between bones while I'm building a pose. Here's my situation: Let's say I have Two (2) bones: Bone 1 and Bone 2. I'd like a pose where they move in relation to each other in a Percentage Pose. I right-click on the object name in the workspace and choose [New][Pose]. This opens a pose slider which is set to 100%. I then set up relationships between bones using "Orient Like" [bone 2 is set to "Orient Like" Bone 1,] When I move Bone 1 with Bone 2 related, it works fine and the bones moves as they should with the re…
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So I've been away from A:M for a few years and I have the itch to get back into it. So I dug out my A:M 10.5 CD and installed it (I don't have the money to upgrade). It's coming back quickly to me. I am trying to model my coffee table right now, but I'm stuck. Plus I don't think the way I did it was the best way. Here is a pic of my coffee table (please forgive the mess). As you might be able to see, it has rounded edges and corners and there is an indentation with a gold band that goes all the way around. The way I did it was I drew the outline of the profile of the table (Table1.jpg). I then extruded that and stretched it to make a square (Table2.jpg). I then copi…
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This is probably staring me right in the face, but can some one please tell me how to remove a pose slider from the Pose window? I have been unable to find any way of doing this, other than manually editting the project (.prj) file. Thanks in advance... Al
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I'm having trouble removing a decal I don't like. How do I remove it?
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I've posted a similar question before, and seen others post it, as well, but I am wanting to now how to delete and/or reorder the pose SLIDERS in Choreographies. I know how to delete the actual poses--that's easy enough--but what I want is to delete 1 and 2 to get them out of the way of remaining poses 3 and 5. Thanks!
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Is there any way to delete a pose from the pose slider box? I delete it but it still remains, and I want to reduce clutter. This is really wierd, but I went as far as to delete the whole relationships folder for one of my characters, however, the "deleted" poses are still listed in the pose slider box!
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I need to actually remove poses from a project and start over however when I delete the relation ships, I go to set up new poses yet in the pose sliuder box I see that the old ones still remain. AND worst of all it effects the new poses I make. Say I do a pose where the character smiles , the cps hardly move like they demonstrated when in mucle mode setting up the pose. Ive done this many many times but never ran into it before. here is the screen shot. note that in the Relation ships below you see the pose labled PK Blink, PK Happy and etc but yet in the top pose slider box you see the same ones PLUS blink smile and etc? Tried everything I knew, how do you get rid …
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i need to ask something but i can't make an image to illustrate... i can't render in the model mode, in the model window. trying a jpeg, tried particles ON if that was an issue; wireframe; i need an image that shows normals, my actual question is about those. help please?
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Is this correct. I select Render Animation Preview button in the choreography window and it does it thing for 30 frames (and I can see the camera view in the right-hand pane) then nothing (black pane) Then, when I do a Save As... I get this. renderanimationpreview.mov This can't be right.
Last reply by Rodney, -
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Hi all, I was asked to do the opener animation for the local film fest here and had a blast animating the fesival's logo rocking out. However, 'm getting unwanted artifacts in my renders that I aren't visible when rendering a Quick Render (file below, "quick_render.jpg). When rendering the same frames to any format (AVI, BMP, TGA), they always come up with these unwanted artifacts, most visible in the light circle on the floor and the character's shaded side but if you look closely you see it's all over the character (test_render.jpg. I tried adjusting different render settings, changinging to Multi-pass (16x), etc., but no real change. My render settings are: …
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ok whn making a jet craft of sort i have made the splines alone the wings to look like the seams on real aircraft, only problem is that if i turn on render as lines the surface goes away , is there a way to have it render as both
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trying to get a computery scene going with glowing frame work. the render as lines options seams to work to make all the line show as needed, only problem is that it still renders surfaces is there any way to fix this so that only lines show
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hello m new in A:M i have intel original 845 board with 1.7GHz 1gb of ram and 60mb of Gf mine render very slow i plan to buy new pc intel i7 with 3gb ram and 1gb Gf (video card) it increase mine render speed ?????????????????????
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I have searched on "render farm" in this forum, but could not find any postings on this topic. I assume many users would be interested in this - perhaps there is already a posting on this network rendering, if so, how can I find it here? Here's what I wanted to know.. 1) Is there a built in network rendering capability so that I could assign the rendering to other machines in my network? 2) What external render tools exist that are compatible with A:M? 3) What platform(s) are supported in network rendering? 4) What Mac specific hardware requirements are there for network rendering. 5) How many seat are included - assuming there is a network renderer…
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Does anyone have a tutorial or any other kind of help for rendering (to file)? Granted, I have only been using A:M for 1 day but I can't seem to get any of my rendering to work. It seems pretty straight-forward but for some reason if I render a tga file, it just comes out completely white with nothing on it. If I render a movie (i.e. Quicktime), it is just pure black. There must be something I'm not doing right. Thanks.
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