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I was reading some tutorials about normal mapping, and all I could find is that normal maps were a quicker approximation of bump maps for use in realtime (game) rendering. So, in image/animation projects like those created in A:M, what is the difference between the two? Why use one over the other, and if one is outstandingly preferable, why have both?
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I started to understand pathanimation a bit better by using a very simplistic project. I can slow the object down now by prolonging the chor-action. Also I can alter the speed of the object along the path with the ease-percenntages. But I find this rather indirectly, like an try-and-error-principle. There must be away to get an object to acellerate on a path from start to end at a mathematically exact constant pace I guess? And to steer it lets say go to a certain point on the path accelerating , then continue steadily to the next point and then slow down again till the end? Would you do that with expressions maybe or overlaying actions or mul…
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Im having trouble with bones. The bones worked fine in choreography until suddenly i pressed the bone button but all I can do is adjust the bone size. Can anyone help me? Did i press a wrong button or something? Please help me if you can.
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I have put together a long scene and I'm having issues rendering it. The clip is 57 seconds long. When I render 10 second clips of it, it turns out okay. But, when I render the whole thing, using final render settings, the image becomes a negative and the top and bottom are swapped (kind of like the old TVs with the "rolling" picture, only locked into a half roll). The preview screen as it renders is okay, as I check it periodically throughout the day. I am rendering uncompressed. Is there a specific setting combination known to render this kind of result?
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Hi, I was donig a little bit of research and i came across this web page. They claim to have the latest technology in Animation for Films and games. For what it looks like it seems that they are doing a prertty good job. Ah! What do you guys thinK? Check the link bellow. http://www.image-metrics.com/
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I am making a pond and I thought I could fill it with fluid and the stop filling it a the first frame. How can I go about doing this. do I manipulate the material directly? I tried setting keys for the emission rate and it just completely deleted all the fluid.
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The hairless wookie file is in the tutorial folder of the library, but not in the tutorial workbook. How and where do i find a copy of the tutorial if there is one? Thanks for the help
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In earlier versions of AM ( V8) it was possible to specify Black and White as the output of the render then that began to change with V9 and V10, when it became necessary to treat it as a post render treatment. I am using V15 to redo an old project for a competition but I can't find where the BW option is, could anyone kindly explain where it is and how to use it? regards simom
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Hello Here is the refined smurf using 5 points patch. I have now new questions. How can I set the eyes images on the eye group? When the model will be correct, can I reuse a skeleton of another model, like the rabbit and apply it to the smurf? Smurf_07.prj
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Okay, you know in the intro video on the hash site, well, I was wondering how do I do that layering thing of a still image? Like when Mr. Navone has a picture of him with the alien's hand on his shoulder. How can I accomplish that, except with different models and pictures?
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Way back when I was in Viscom Class, and 1st learning about AM. the class went over to Lightwave 3D, and I fell in love with that app at that time. Since then I've com to realize that out of all the 3D Apps, (Bryce, XSI, TrueSpace, 3DSMax, Cinema4D, Houdini, flamingo, Anim8or, Z-Brush, Xara 3D etc..) that LW, and AM are the best, user friendly, short learning curve one out there. and I want to reteach myself about AM, since I really haven't messed with it in years now, I'm a newbie again. Hence I lent my copy of my CD with Animation Master on it to another classmate, (as classmates will do.) that (a few months later) dropped out, and we lost touch over the years. …
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Hi, Here are some good site's for blueprints and rotoscopes. http://www.the-blueprints.com - Very good site for everything e.g Planes, Weapons, Cars http://www.militaryfactory.com/blueprints/..._blueprints.asp - Useful for planes and helicopters (basic blueprints). http://www.frazmtn.com/~punstr/blueprint/ - Less detail but good for Star Wars Blue prints If you have any more please add them below, and I will add them to my list. If you can't find a rotoscope or a blueprint that you want please reply with the name of it and I will try to find it Enjoy Elliot
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I'm working on a choreography, and I made a lot of mistakes moving the model around. Now the character is far away from the model bone, and I need to animate a long straight ahead walk (no walk cycles). I'm finding it difficult to get the character to walk smoothly. I'd like to replace the model with a new instance at the exact same point in the chor. I guess it would be like a stunt double. My current approach is to move the model bone of the original character out of the range of my camera with a hold interpolation, so the original model instantly dissapears, and replace it with the new model at the same location in the same pose with a hold interpolation. I'm…
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What exactly does "Subscription" do? I see it for sale but what does it provide? It really does not explain anything.
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Seems like I recall there was a way to tile decals, and you could choose whether you'd want to flip them horizontally and/or vertically, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to do it. I made a small decal for a road surface, and I want it to repeat for the length of the road. Is there a way to do that without having to place a million different stamps? thanks, Tommy
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is there a way to lock the camera so it can’t be moved by accident? I seem to be always moving the camera inadvertently in the choreography window. I can’t seem to see a way to prevent accidental movement when( I move around the camera window as I would in a front or side view, the camera as well. very annoying.
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I'm very sorry if this issue was discussed. I have the edition of Animation Master with the Gorilla on the CD. How is this edition different than the new Yeti edition. I plan to upgrade but I just want to know the new features and changes to the program. Thank you.
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When resting over a button, it looks like a description of the button pops up for a fraction of a second in the status bar area (bottom left of the screen) and is then replaced with "For Help, Press F1". Does anyone know how to make the description stay there so we can see what the button does? Thanks.
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I been two years now that i had this program and figured out that.....I have no modeling skills what-so-ever ( I should have known sooner when I couldn't model the basic flour sack ) So i decided to work with what skills (I thats what you would call them ) in animating. The project I Am working on is going steady right now but I am having some trouble. Itrying to have one character walk to a certain point at a certain time but can't seem to get it right. How do I do this P.S. working with Am 2002
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This is really a non-important question, but does anyone know why they changed the interface from version 11 to version 12+? I really liked the collapsable panels and the cool Office 2003 look.
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Hey everyone, I'm getting tired of using the rotate mode, and having it turn every which way but the axis I want to turn. I know I can enter in a number for each axis, but can I use my mouse to turn just one axis? Is there a key that will just allow for that?
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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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Hey guys, I've been trying to import a quicktime movie as a rotoscope for sometime without success. The only real info I've found says to rightclick on the camera and select new rotoscope. It also says to change the file type to what ever I'm importing, but I never see that option. The video shows up in my choreography as black video, which I think means it doesn't read the codec. I have a MacPro, running OSX tiger, with quicktime pro. So I would think that my computer has the proper codec for Quicktime movies. I've tried many different compressors on the quicktime movie, Animation, Sorenson, and even None. Neither work. What I really want to do, is insert a model in…
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Hello everyone, this is my first post since I have only been using the program for a few hours. I'm understanding everything so far from the tutorials (no problem). My question is, How can I make my personal videos (from video camera) as the backround to my animations? I just bought this program this week at a convention, and the demonstrator showed us an example that you can do it with this program. Thanks for the help...
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Hi guys, How do I fade music in and out? Thanks
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Ok so I redid my model of my penguin because for some reason it became corrupt but no matter i like this model better.... I'm having trouble though getting his skeletal structure right though. Cause every time he is in the action tab everything is just screwed up.... any suggestions?? As of right now im using the skeletal rig that came with Version 13 but should I just make one of my own? here is what he looks like
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what would be the best way to go about making a pine tree?
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I have set-up a material Library for texturing the objects in "Tin Woodsman of Oz". If you would like to help get all of these objects for the movie textured, I could really use your help! All you have to do is drag and drop materials from a library onto groups in models, and then tweak the parameters on the material shortcut. It is just a matter of choosing an appropriate material and tweaking the color, basically. This is a good opportunity to learn and to contribute to making the things ready to render. If you are interested, send me an email and I will point you to where to get started. Thanks,
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What shapes work best, to get the type of emitting you need. I've tried many shapes, each get a different emitting. egg, flat bull's eye, ball, cone, cube, etc. also is there a way to controll which part of the emitter shape does the emitting? Thanks, Chip
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you know the last post i made, "feet?", it had questions about the legs following the feet and stuff. this time, i imported the "2001 Skeleton", and stuff, after a while, adding all the flesh and stuff to the bone, it worked fine. just now it has seemed to have forgotten the constraints to the bones, and it wont move with the targets. can you tell me what constraints go to which target/bone?
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Hello, there is a way to activate or deactivate certain materials to render it or not in the same way you can activate or deactivate any object visibility clicking in his Proyect Workspace's eye or something similar? I have some time consuming materials that I'd like deactivate until the last final render but I can't find the way, althought I think it must be there (I hope) ...THANK YOU!
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i know you all must know this stuff like the back of your hand but i cant for the life of me figure out or find a tut on making a target bone / null to control the eyes / pupils. can someone direct me to the instructions on this? thanks ps: i looked through the book maybe im missing something....
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Hi, I would like to take my A:M with me for an overseas visit and continue with my learning there, using another (my Dad's) PC. Will A;M allow me to install it and re register on another computer? Thanks
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OK on the side of my main projects i have a project designated for stuff i just come up with bout 12 models in various stages of compilation. when i was trying to come up with a set of materials that would look like a cool shield when AM crashed , now ever time i try and load said project AM auto-crashes , i know theres not much of a chance getting it back but i hope theres a shot.
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I will be needing to make some neon signs. I have figured out how to make one using render as line and adding glow to it in notepad but if you save the file it deletes the glow entre. I wanted to see what other options there are to make them?
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In anothr project I have a model of a van that I wanted to animate with a constraint to a path. ( I am using V13, although I have V14) I apply the translate constraint and target it t the path but, how do I animate its position over time in a choreography. Or... Am I going about it the wrong way ( not unlikely ) regards simon
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I've animated a bottle being thrown through the air and to animate it spinning end-over-end, I changed the rotation to Euler. that wasn't working so I went to change it back, but my options are only to change it to vector or quaternion, and neither of those options appear to create keyframes. How do I change the rotation back to default so I can keyframe the rotation?
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I used to use A:M way back when, I think it was around 98 or so. In fact, in Dallas, I started a user group that met at my house from time to time. (Any of you guys still around? Larry? Ken? Jerry?) Since then, I've gotten out of experimenting and mucking around with 3D, but have lately been re-interested in it. Currently I'm waiting for my new A:M 2006 to arrive, and while waiting, I've been looking through the tutorials, reading the forums like crazy, all the while my anticipation building and building. I was curious about something, and I hope this doesn't come across as too stupid a question. But say I have a model, I've rigged it, created some actions/po…
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Ok, I am having a hard time with this one. I'm trying to make a cut out of a person and decal them on a plane. 1. I cut the image out in photoshop.(not sure what is the best for saving) 2. I want to put the person on a cutout that is the exact shape of the decal. (I'm using it as a prop) 3. Do I have to model the shape, which is taking forever, or can I put the decal on a plane, and get rid of the white background?
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I just loaded AM that I bought a few months ago and cannot seem to be able to sign in. I tried the s/w registration panels many times and it simply took all the info and that was it. I could not sign in to s/w. Then I registered on the AM site, got confirmation, and s/w still shows no name exists and I cannot use it. Please help.
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Hi - has anyone done the Baggage Patch Water tutorial in verion 14? Link to Tutorial I am having trouble with the channels section - is that layed out differently in version 14? Thanks
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Hi - I did a search and didn't really see anything about this question. I had a client to put it nicely "didn't really work out" so the new guy uses Lightwave and I was able to export the model as an .obj and that worked great. I created a number of pose sliders as face expressions of the character - is there a way to export these so this poor new guy's life will be a little easier.
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Hi - I am working on another dental animation and need to have a metal piece move in and attach to the upper jaw bone - then have the mouth close and it stay in the exact place I put it in the chor. I tried using Translate to and Orient Like and also Kinematic... it moves a little bit when I close the mouth because the jaw bone is moving. I tried setting some different interpolation methods - but didn't seem to help. Is it possible to lock it in place like I am trying to do to remain in the exact place I constrain it? Thanks for any help. -Eric P.S. - Happy almost Thanksgiving!
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if i wanted to get a good hand model, where could i find one???
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How do you animate values like the rate of emission to start/stop a particle material from generating particles? I've figured out the way to animate things like opacity, size, and gravitational effect, but stopping and starting the effect using rate of emission eludes me. An example of where it's done is the Explosion Project in the Animation: master libraries. I'm sure most of you know what I'm talking about. Whoever can answer this for me absolutely rocks. Even if you don't answer, you probably rock anyway.
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please could somebody explain how i can use alpha channels to make a decal transperent in AM thz
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I downloaded the bevelled prims off Yve's site since for some of the work on my buoy I figured it would be simpler to take an existing primitive and work it over to get the structural members of the buoy that I need. I tried scaling the cube primitive to get a long, thin bar but I ended up with something that looks more like a dog bone. I don't think the bevels were reacting well to scaling. Is this something I would probably be better off modeling from scratch?
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Hi out there, I'm wondering whether there are AM lip sync dictionaries available in other languages. I am sepecially interested in a German distionary file. Is there any? A bit deeper goes my question on how I could create one myself .... (1) What phonems can be used in this sort of file and (2) how are they mapped to lip poses? Thanks for your support
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how do i make my finger fold using pose sliders, like folding the fist. Or how can i use pose sliders to control increase and decrease of an object. Need help please.
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The Sizes of Defaults Cornell Box 55x55x55 cm. If I enlarge sizes to 200x200x200 cm (and more), then in what progression should I increase quantity and parameters of light sources? Is there any definite pattern in such calculations? Is there any formula for such calculation? May be it’ll be optimal to reduce pro rata models themselves, which are settled in Cornell Box, rather than enlarge Cornell Box? And one more question. What function does the detail "luminaire" execute in Cornell-Demo-Defaults project? Thanks to everybody. Excuse me my imperfect English.
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