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Hi, I'm new to this forum but have been using Animation master for 2 years. I recently lost my A:M cd while traveling. I have my serial number but can't start the program because, as you all know, you need to have the cd in the drive in order to start. My question is as follows: Is there any file or anything that I can download that will get AM to start even without the cd? Or is there any way to get the cd using my serial # ? Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you! Bruce
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Hi Everyone, I just recieved my software today. I installed it on my c:/ drive. The problem is that each time I start the program, it asks the disk to be loaded. I thought I saw this earlier, but I can't seem to find it when I searched. Thanks for your help... Regards, Bob
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Is it possible to get the particles of an emitter to follow a path?? I tried creating a tube and turning on object collision but many of the particles end up getting out of the tube.
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Hey people. I need help with a project in V 10.5 I got an idea of trying to make an animation that looks like a child's drawing with stick figures and such, and I was wondering how you guys think I should do the surfaces. The idea for the project is that I was going to start it with a zoom in of a simple drawing on a fridge door. The premise of the movie is a stick figure action blockbuster with a ton of stick figure fight scenes, car chases, and the like. I got the idea from an old Mtv short called Stick Figure Theatre on the show Liquid Television. So when the picture starts to move it's all in 3D. Most of the models that I've made The problem is…
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well, i updated my product with all of the v14 updates and now my thing wont render. it will only render up to the 58th frame, then either hose up or suddenly quit, no pop-ups or anything. the vid is set to render to 40 seconds, it is 30 frames per second. i hope u can help, thx
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i was trying to setup my character rig so that the eyes would look towards a target i rigged the eyes to a bone, then applied an aim at constraint to constrain the eyes at a target. it seems to work fine in this action window but i seem to be having trouble getting it to function in the coreography
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I am new to animation master and I was wondering if anyone knew how to make a sphere. NOT copying from a model. This is the best I could get a sphere to look
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Having initially had problems with sound files ( thankfully fixed due to forum users advice ) I have completed the animation first part of a little project I'm working on and want to fine tune it using the f curves ( ?). I'm not sure if that is the correct term for them ? What I mean is the way of changing the curve that flows through the timeline to affect the interpolation method of the keyframes set. To get a hold, constant speed or the normal spline. I have never done this before and wondered if anyone could point me to the relevant section in the Tech reference/ TAO/ forum archives to try and learn a bit more about it ? I am using V16. Thank y…
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so whats happened to the image contest? have hash pulled the plug on it. its like half the years gone by and no word.....
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Hey everyone, I've been doing a lot of playing around with decals but theres one reoccurring problem. I can't seem to apply a transparent decal (lets say I have a circle decal I want to apply to grid. I want the decaled circle to be white and the diffuse color of the grid to be green. I want the circle to be applied as a decal but still have the green on the grid evident.) I'm using photo shop elements so this question isn't completely related to A:M. Thanks for the help, Masna
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For Expedency and Symetry Can anyone tell me if I made several copys of a group and want to fix a flaw in the original does AM have a option that will pass the change to all the copies?
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Hi, Does AM contain a Brick texture to apply to a flat surface? Ive installed the libraries and they seem to be working. Thanks Don Rhodes Perpetual Newbie
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hey i have one big problem, i dont know how to change a .avi file taht i have for an animation to a .mov file. could someone show me how. also i got a sound recrding program called audacity that i found on these forums and i made some sound files from it but i dont know how to change the format of the sound to .wav. if anyone has any comments or suggestion that'd be great because i have no clue how to change the format.
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OK i made a tooned rendered out version of walking, and it looks great, but the walking could use some improvements i could say. ima post it righ down here, but if you have any helpful tips, hints stuff thatll help and tutorials i could find( besides the video tutorials here, watched almost all of em) and done em. Running_movie.mov for the info its my very first ever alone completed running (meanig i did not use anything but my head, no tutorials or posts on the forum. wohhooo!
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I just noticed this: When I open the Libraries of A:M v15 (web), I can't find any primitives-objects... am I just blind? In v8-v14 they where available, so they should be included here to. Even so it is only a small collection, this is missing in a 3d-programm. *Fuchur*
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I've had Brian Fisher working as an intern for the summer at HDStudios, where I do graphics. Brian has been playing with Hash now for only 3 weeks and has just posted an animation on YouTube that I think is quite good for an early 'go' with any 3D software! He used the Porsche model from my V14 CD, and modeled the roads and environment himself. Hopefully this will be found inspiring to other Newbies or folks considering A:M purchase.
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Hello - I am making a walk cycle for a new character I created and I am trying to "copy" and "paste mirrored" frames, but for some reason it isn't copying and pasting part of it - from the "hip bone" up - so Hips, head, back, and back 2. Any ideas on why? Thanks - Eric
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I'm back. Bought A:M at Siggraph in 2006 and started then. Now I am back giving it another shot and more time. I do have some selfish reasons for restarting my A:M education as I need to create some FX for a short I'm working on and the 2D aspect of AE is killing me. I'll be stiching together a 3D face of one of my actresses (like the girraffe tutorial) and using it as a base for some 3D sludge that comes out of her pores. Wish me luck. I was just rereading some of the posts and It still seems to be a friendly place. One quick question, Will I have better luck using the newer version or will the 2006 version serve my purposes untill I can upgrade? …
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Hi, is it possible to bake the occlusion as a map ? does exist a velvet shader ? THX ps: i can t experiemnt by myself as i still don' t have my new activation key...
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I know you can IMPORT into your current choreography, another choreography from the Project Workspace I know that a choreography can be exported as an .mdl file. I know that I should be able to import a .cho file into my project. I just don't know how to EXPORT a .cho file out of a choreography in a project so I can get it into a different project. Please help! Mahalo!
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Program suts down in Chor. mode when I import a model... gives me a dialog box that says "Unhandled Exception #001". What is this and how do I fix it? - Justin
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Hi, The manual seems to indicate that is possible to import an animated gif file and use it as a decal. Whenever I try to import such a gif file, either through "Import Image/Animation" or "Import Image/Sequence", and click the "Import as a sequence of images", I'm told that it is an "Invalid gif file." What I am trying to do is to import a 4-frame animated gif and apply it as a decal to a model (in this case, a playing card) and when rendered, have the animated gif play as the card moves. Is this possible? thanks...
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i m making a pose for the eye lid. in my character, the eye lid it not attached to the model as a continuos spline. but i just fixed it to the model and attached it witH the bone as a floating patch. After making the pose it worked as in the relationship window that is eye lid open and close, but it didnot work in the action window, what can i do to correct the malfunnction.
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If I'm feeling feisty and want to work on my next shot while rendering this one, can I open A:M a second time? Anyone know how I'd do this on a mac?
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OK heres the deal i have constructed a terrain in the form of a grid. there is a part that i want to flatten that contains around 25 cps . is there a easy way to make them rise/fall to the same selected level other than attaching a bone to each cp and modifying manually
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don't know if this is the right place to post this but for my war of the worlds short i need some sound effects what i need at the moment is a good sounding heat ray sound effect i wont one that sounds like a real one i don't want any of the old sounding ones from like the 80s or like the 1953 war of the worlds (hope i'm not asking to much on that one) and a foot stomping sound that sounds like a gigantic metallic object is stomping on the ground thats about it hope i'm not asking for to much there
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A lot more simple than that giraffe. marble.mov
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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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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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Hi - I made a military gorilla model and put together a quick animation of him shooting a gatlin gun, and to make it more realistic wanted to have a gun "fire" effect at the end of the 6 barrels (although a gorilla w/ a gatlin gun isn't the most realistic thing to begin with . Does anyone have a sample of one I can play around with or know of a tutorial for "gun fire"? I can probably run through the smoke and fire tutorial again and figure it out from there, but I was looking for something more specific. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks - Eric
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Long time user(since Playmation) just returned to A.M., upgraded, yada, yada. I cant seem to find my beloved Isometric rendering function... Has this option for rendering been removed? If it has, what was the last version it was in? If its still in there, where is it hiding? Sorry to ask such a nobbish question but the option isnt where I remember it being. Ty in advance for any help/hints, I have a client who wants flat shaded Iso type graphics and AM was my first choice.
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As an example, I will use the MirrorBones plugin available here: http://sgross.com/plugins/index.html 1. Download the mirrorbone.zip file. 2. Right click it and Extract All. This should give you a MirrorBone.hxt file. 2. Right click it and left click Copy 3. Click Start Menu > My Computer 4. Click the Folders Icon on your top toolbar to show a list of folders on the left hand side (If you don't have this, you will have to double click your way down to get to the hxt folder, instead of doing the next step). 5. You need to click the plus signs next to My Computer Local Disk (C:) Program Files Hash Inc V15.0 6…
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i am using v 13. i animated a charater using 3 and 4 frames between them, but i fond out that when i played the scene it was too fast what can i do to correct this to normal spped.
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hey guys I'm new to the program purchased about a week ago, I'm a 2d guy making the move from anime studio, so far I've been blown away by how easy its been for me to learn. However in most of my other programs to add points to a selection, I just hold shift with those old points selected, then select those points I want to add, and they are added to my selected group. I've noticed this doesnt work for me in AM, is there a way to do this? Sometimes lassoing doesnt work well, and as I'm building a face model I want to create groups like inner mouth etc and give those groups a diff color, but its hard to select the right points without this feature. Any tips?
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Ok so i subscribed to version 15 for 50 bucks, but then i got version 15, put the activation code in and tried to run animation master, but strangeley, a lot didnt show up, a lot of actions werent there, a lot of folders werent even there in the library under models, there was no props folder a lot others, ill get a pic
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Sometimes when I try to readopt the timelineview to the keyframes that exist, I find that a negative timeline shows up also. What is the use of that negative timeline?
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How do I edit a Path after I have made it and find I need to make some adjustments Also in the tech manual it mentions I can use a model spline for a path but I have not been able to get it to work.
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Ok, so I'm using paths a bit... And I constrained my model to this path. Now, how do I set the time that it starts on the path and when it ends? So far, I can only get it to work with the choreography time... Can you do this? Where? How? Thanks!
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hello, hope all are well. i was wondering is there a software license cost for using AM2007 in a 3 person studio environment? or would i need to buy 3 separate copies to be used on multiple computers? thanks.
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Hey, kids-- I'm slogging my way through the rigging tutorial in David Rogers' book. After you rig one leg, it says to copy the pelvis-down hierarchy, select those, enter scale mode, and scale them -100% in the x-axis to flip 'em. That's no problem with CPs, but all of the scale boxes for bones stay grayed out, and I can't figure out how to get them active. I can scale those bones using the scale manipulator in the modeling window, but obviously that is imprecise, and I can't flip them on the x-axis that way. What am I doing wrong? Thanksh--
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this is my first attempt at making a human head. feedback please -Oliver
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Here is a walk cycle i have been working on. Tell me it you notice something different about his walk.
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I am working on a scene and in this scene, my character talks; i ve already recorded what my character should be sayiny in my friends studio. MY question is how can i put the voice to my AM so that it appears as if the character is talking that is my characters lips should be moving. Help pliz
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A few months ago I found, and went through, a simple but excellent little tutorial on how to make a beveled cube. It was step by step, but I am not sure if it was a video tutorial or not, I'm thinking not. I am pretty sure I found it in the tutorials section somewhere, but after searching through there for an hour or so, it seems to have eluded me. In my (often faulty) memory it seems to have been one of several "mini" tutorials in the same 'place'. It was not the Qvids. For some reason I want to think they were done by Ken H. (But that may only be because of the fact that I hold him and his skills in such high regard. I wish to go through the tute again, but I…
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ok, i would like to upload a pict of my first freestyle head design for some feedback, but i dont know how to make picts of the models that i make. i see i can export to .targa, but how can i make this a .jpg without the use of other software? thanks.
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I tried to do some research on my own but found little to nothing call me blind or whatever but, guess i just didnt know where to look in the previous versions of AM a new set of particle systems were introduced and the cloth material as well so i was wondering, whats new in the latest version of AM?
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Hi, I'm trying to get the hang of modeling on the latest A:M from the subscription and I ran into an odd problem....I used the lathe to make a circle (10 CP's) but I can only select half of it. I'm trying to make a tube so I need to extrude this circle and all CPs have to be selected at once. Any ideas why I can't bound group the whole circle at once? Thanks for looking. -PM
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Dose anyone know if there is a plug-in to purge out un-used stuff. like groups, material and more.
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Hi, I have used the standard Eddie character, set up an action for him, added some voice and then added a dope sheet. Adjusted the widths to sync lips with voice, everything worked fine but the lip movement is far too large for what I want - in fact it looks totally unrealistic. I went in and adjusted the percentage for each phoneme at each change in the timeline, so that action looks OK, but it will be very cumbersome if I have to do this every time I do lip syncing and I am sure there must a cleaner way around this problem. Maybe I was dreaming, but I seem to remember a slider that could be used to change the range for an action - as I said maybe I was dream…
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