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This may be obvious beyond belief, but...to make 'paste mirrored' work, need I be in Mirror Mode?
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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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Hello, I'm treating to render in Toon mode and I think I have put all the correct setting in the Rendering Options, Camera, and Model Surface Properties, so Lines are showed in renders but I have some Scale Compensation problem or something like that, cause when the camera moves near or far of the model, it seems like if the Toon line always maintain his... same width??? So when the camera is near, the lines show very "thin" and when the camera is far the line is very "thick", and... How can be possible??? Well, as I say I must be missing something cause it's simply not possible get a decent/coherent line all the time in this way, so... HELP! And 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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In the project I'm working on, I want to set up a follow spot for the figure as it leaps about. I tried to set up an aim at constraint on the spotlight body but it didn't seem to follow the target, even though that was selected under properties. Could someone kindly explain how to achieve this? Working in the latest iteration on an I mac. Thank you in advance. simon
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Running Yeti, downloaded and installed 12 (v+). I can't remember if I ran the installation from the CD. At any rate, I hit the help button and got a message that the help file couldn't be found. I dragged it over from the CD and now all is well, but it occurs to me that the help file I am using is probably a bit out of date. Does the FTP site normally keep updates to the help file? -Andy
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i am back from boston and again working diligently with version 13 of am. i am ready to attach the 2001 rig to a model. is it possible to attach the rig to an unfinished model? when trying to attach the rig some of the bones don't show up. i've look in the project work space where the bones are listed and cannot find the fore arms etc. what is the trick? richie ps i'm starting to understand splines a little better.
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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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How do I change the rulers to Ft. & In. from the metric? Man... what an idiot!
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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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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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First test And second test that i've done whiles half asleep (not a good idea as you will see the thing that went wrong) Holding test: found the timeline to make it all work this time. lighting test and camera control test, again half asleep. Camera control, edit, one sound, pause and movement test.(before i went to bed) The one second front n rear punch in the dark.
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I have AM 9.5, I like animating for fun once in a while but have not been able to devote the time to seriously try to learn AM. I do have some questions about some of the AM books. Regarding the new AM v11 Technical Manual. Does it only apply if you have the latest version of AM, or does the tutorial work with any version of AM. Secondly, on the same subject, the link to purchase the book does not go anywhere. I know a few months back that it did, but now it just goes to Cafepress' website without any information. Thanks Griffin
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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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i know there is default lights in the model window, but i wanted to change the lighting. how do i add lights to a model? or can it only be done in a choreography?
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Been away from AM so long, just got the new subscription happening ! Ok, how do I add a skeleton rig to the library to re-use it for other models ? Not using the Hash supplied rig - I learned how to use AM a little bit by myself with some help of Momentum Animations ( Now Called Perry Animations ) - so I have adopted the momentum style rig - which is soooo much more less ?? complicated then the Hash one - hmmm . . . south paw style. Any way I'll tinker away at it trying to figure it out hopefully when I check back someone has answered this question ! Thank you all !
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Is there anyway to recreate a plasma ball in Animation Master? Like electric bolts of various colors contained in a glass sphere?
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Hello - I've created a full model which I'm now trying to split in half at the center spline so that I can copy/flip/attach to rig properly. After deleting the left half, centering the middle spline at 0 along the x axis, at the copy/flip/attach stage a strange occurance happens. The model attaches at the feet. The foot is placed along the 0 y axis, but if I move the model down below the y axis, some of the control points end up at the bottom of the model (see attached jpeg). I've trid to backtrack my work to find the control points that are causing the problem, but when I try to delete them to replace them, they won't delete. Anyone know what's happening here? …
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Please help...Just starting w/ AM switching over from Poser and found Animation Master to be wonderful but I need help...I have done all the tutorials that come in the book but I am looking to create still images of comic characters and would like to know how to apply clothing to a model like "Dex" that is already in the library. Ex. is a picture attached that I would like to make w/ Animation Master but I cant find any useful tutorial to help me out with this...Any links? Any Help Please How do i make the cape, Helmet, Most importantly the Suit...?///Please help
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what are patches? and how do you find the amount there is in a model?
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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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Hey guys, So, I've been trying to figure out how to stop hair from passing through my characters face. I've read a post that said, turn on object collisions in dynamics. I did this, but it only keeps the hair from passing through the scalp. I changed the collision radius, but the higher number I go, the hair becomes a crazy mess. It looks like my character is under water. Thanks. Justin
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Hi, I got A:M 2002 back in...well, 2002 and I haven't used it much and kind of forgot about it. I have recently been re-inspired to learn it and I have some questions regarding the latest version and the bajillion updates inbetween. Considering how I never really made anything to speak of on A:M 2002, I'm kind of reluctant to buy the latest version without conquering the old one. So here's the questions: 1) Will the models I make in 2002 be able to transfer over to the latest version? 2) If I get the latest version will I have to relearn everything or is it the same as 2002 but with more features? 3) I've always had a problem with A:M 2002 shutting down on …
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i have the non-shift particle hair on my character's head and every time i move them in the relationship/pose area, the hair doesn't move with them. i tried moving the hair with the groom brush and it worked, but it lost its original shape. is this the only way to move particle hair or is there another way? (is there a way to assign bones?)
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What is the official "CREATE" button after making a new pose? I'm making sliders for different facial expression elements (eyebrows raised, etc.) but after carefully putting all the teeth in place for a "mouth agape" pose, I closed the window, and when I started working on another pose, the last new pose slider no longer had any effect! Is there an official "save" function for a pose you're working on? I'm trying out renaming right now. I remember the TAO:AM tutorials always left renaming the pose for the last action. Hopefully that's significant.
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Hey, I want to do a room with an even lighting, almost like fluorescent lights, what would the best method be?
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all of my models use the same body and unfortunately they are all the same height. when i change the size of the model in the model window and pose her later, she poses incorrectly. i'm guessing it's becuase while splines change, the skeleton stays the same size. how do i change the model size and resize the skeleton at the same time?
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here's my effort at the sedan, I had a lot of trouble getting the coluor on the wheels for some reason. sedan2.mov
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Does any body knows where can i find Fullbod_girl.rpj file to try to animated with Animation Master?
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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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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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Hi... just wanted to ask a newbee-question... When I use hair on a group, the hair gets often the surface-attribute "transparency" of the group underneath it... If I set the group for the hair 100% transparency, the hair gets that too... even when I set the hair-property for it to 0%. I couldnt find how to overwrite that... Any ideas? *Fuchur*
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Hi - I created a hair system for a model. I want the hair to a shade of grey and brown so I created a new attribute (cell turb) as part of this hair system and made it grey and brown. When I apply the hair system material to the model the hair is showing as white. Can anyone let me know what I am doing wrong? Thanks - Eric
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I have alot of plugins "hxt" in my hxt folder. why cant I use them. Trying treez but wont show in wizards
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Let`s say you have applied a decal to some patches and lateron you have changed the patches and added some cps. Do you have to apply the decals a new always in any case or is there a possibility to include the cps into the existing stamp afterwards so that the whole decal is showing up again?
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is Dictionary.dic a .txt file with the extension changed? or what I'm really asking is if i edit Dictionary.dic how can I save it?
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when i make modals and i try to make a modal or a group reflecive it wont be come reflective want do i do to help this?
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Hello all, sorry if this might have been asked before, I searched for a while, and couldn't find an answer. What I am trying to do is model objects that I want to render into single frame animations. I need the backgrounds to be transparent, or at least one solid color. The goal is to say model a tree or rock outcropping that I could render into a 2d image and paste it as a "billboard" on a plain in DarkBasic Pro. What I have done so far is to eliminate the ground in the chor and eliminate all unnecessary lighting. However, I can't seem to get the background color to a uniform color. If anyone has used AM for gaming apps, any ideas or methods would be greatly appreciat…
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Rooky Animator here! I was wondering if anybody could give me tips on how to animate an old looking space ship. If anybody does, help the 14 year old! Thanks!
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i have a complexe model thats set to a grid of 5X5 and have a circle with 8 points , the whole lathe thing , but i need it to be connected to a specifing point as to not and seams , is there a way to select say the bottom point and snap it to point A with the others folowing but the circle not being destorted
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Okay guys new problem!! I need to model a heart for my girlfriend but idk how! Ithought it would be cool if I gave her a taste of my work but I NEED A HEART!! HELP!
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So when I import something into a choreography or model they look like this. It just cuts off the screen. Any help would be nice.
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I made an couple of action using my software in one computer, how can i export it so that i can use thesame action in the chr of another computer.
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In choreography and action whenever I move a bodypart and then pause and move another body part and press play the body parts move simoltaneously. Does anyone know how to fix this?
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Hey guys. I am making a sort of hilly / desert terrain. I want to use a displacement map for it. Can someone coach and refresh my memory about this. Thanks, Justin
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ok i have a short segment in which a jet is hit by a missle with some type of cerosive compond in it that eats away the outer armor exposing the insides, direct model manipulation didnt look very good so im asking for ideas on how to do this
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Hi - for some reason I thought I was able to import an .ai file into AM awhile back - but now I am not seeing how I would bring it in. Can anyone tell me if it is possible? Thanks for your help - Eric
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Ok heres my deal, i use a program to extract a model from a game , the program saves it into a format usable by a program called 3d studio max, when it loads into max the models akin to perfect , ie surfaces are nice , colors are accurate, and hey there are even textures , now when i save the model in a format usable by AM ".3ds" it loads in about 1 min and as said above looks like it went through a blender , the main form is still there but thats about all that there is , also i will try and upload a pic soon as due to a system change i currently cant access AM
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Hi All, I just wanted to see if anyone has any info on making toys with AM. I remember talking to Victor Navone about making Blitz model / statues like ages ago and he sent me some links to toy makers which I have lost, like ages ago. I do know that the models are created on Rapid Prototype Machines and you need to send them to the Toy makers in STL ( Stereolithography) file format for the machines to output, but not how to convert AM models. Animation Master is such a powerful organic modelling application, it is such a waste to not be able to this sort of work with it. If anyone has used AM to create toys or models, I would like to hear about the…
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Hello, While working on a very basic choreography my front, side, back etc... windows are all black and do not display any geomerty. I've tried shift-z to centre the scene but still nothing. The camera and light views are fine. What gives? is it a camera clipping plane issue or what? Thanks in advance Mcutler
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