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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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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 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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Dose anyone know if there is a plug-in to purge out un-used stuff. like groups, material and more.
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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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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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hello rigomortisfx studios here finally getting into 3d modeling useing Animation:Master and opening the box that version is 2004 ......i know i am late i make horror masks and props and have been doing that going on 8 years and video editing and have used some other 3d software and other fxs software , so many things have delayed me from getting into useing Animation:Master my son was born and is now 8 years old Animation:Master i am here and have one long hill to take on and have the time to do that now . just dont want to make horror masks anymore other hobbies i use to do was drawing mosty horror and sci-fi stuff thank you for …
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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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I know this has been covered before, I just can't find the post. I want to make a brick wall, which I know I can use a decal. However I want to add a bump map or material to make the wall look more textured. Wasn't there a post about this? So what will give the best result.... just a decal, a bump map, or just a material. Thanks!
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Would it be better to wait until the new year (and presumably a new version) or purchase my subscription now? Thanks, Bubba
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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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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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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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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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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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ok iv finished a few models but theres currently a little grey, know i have found quite a few mat files that have some cool effects though it seams to take 3-5 mns just to render a singal frame , my question is is there any way to speed this up so that say 5 mins of film dose not take 3 years to render
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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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Can anyone help me? I am trying to rig a face but all i can get is the jaws to rotate. I am trying to make an action where someone is talking since my phenomes and dope sheets aren't working. plz respond ASAP
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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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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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every time i try and use creat your own toural my it shuts down i am so stuck i have no idea how to use this thing i payed all this money and i can't use it please help me someone.
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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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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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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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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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Made sure the Dynamic option is OFF but still getting this happening when I turn/move this head in a relationship/action. The grooming tool was used on this if that is helpful. Any help appreciated.
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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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i am teaching animation master for the first time and my students have asked about grouping objects (character to car, weapon to hand). i cannot seem to locate anything regarding this. can anyone help me? thanks
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if i wanted to get my particle emitter to start emitting at a certain point in time id just modify the time in "Preroll" under properties for the particle material but if i wanted to get that same emitter to stop emitting at a certain point in time, how would i do that?
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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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im trying to make a mech of sorts and as you know they usualy are not very curvy. how do i make a sharp edge on a model with out it turning into a black brick this is the best i can get but there are still distortions in the back , alos the have been black blob things as well any help would be most apreceated ow the only way i managed to do this is to set inmagnitude and outmagnitude to 2%
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I think I remember Robert showing off a shader that gave a great aluminum can or record surface look. Does anyone remember the settings?
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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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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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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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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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[1] How much influence does the dpi of a texture have on the speed of a render? On the one hand, a common-sense answer would be 'a lot', but often in these matters, the intuitive answer is not how it really is. I'm staggering along with a mere half-Gig of RAM. More is in the works, but I need some 300dpi textures for walls where a camera is going to be close. [2] Sometimes, in complicated areas where there are a lot of CP's [or I'm not zoomed in close enough] I move 95% of an object and the rest stays. I do a CRTL_Z, and all is well, but when I look at the model in wireframe, the CP's that didn't move are bright blue instead of red. They'll turn green when s…
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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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attached is a short animation test. the chor is 3:01, the action (walk exhausted) is 4:00 long. I'm trying to figure out how to make the action slower. I can't. I must be getting "slower" with age. How can I make him walk more exhaustedly (slower)? test.mov
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I'm trying to render a camera view with a solid white background and for some reason it's not working. All I can render is a black background no matter what I set the camera background to. I've also changed the codec to none to check if the problem is compression. It still renders black. I'm thinking there's another setting that I need to set. Can anyone tell me how to make this work? Thanks, George
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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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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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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 as many of you know i import models from 3dmax (game 3d designer) to work with them in AM , this however has a effect similar to a blender as 3D uses polygons while AM uses splines , and during the conversion process AM assigns splines based on the polygons points and while the outcome resembles the original models it does have the aforementioned blendered effect. one thing that might help clean it up would be the ability to select several current CPs and then make a line between them automatically possible removing the previous line segments. is there a hot key command or something of the such that will do this or will i need to use the old fashioned manual method?
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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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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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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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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 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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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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