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The A:M Forum is for technical support and the sharing of tips and ideas between users/prospective users of Hash software. It is moderated constantly by technical support representatives.
DO'S!
-Ask questions about the software.
-Assist other users... everyone was new at this once.
-Inform people of your version/platform when asking for help.
-Share resources; tutorials, models, textures, tips and techniques (link to useful websites).
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-No very general questions like: "how do I make a good 3D model" make your questions as complete and concise as possible.
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User Led Forum Considerations
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This last area is likely the source of much confusion because many see the A:M Forum as the official outlet for Hash Inc... and it is. But the forum is not designed for conducting business and private matters best resolved by going to Hash Inc directly. Similarly, bug reports are best resolved by entering them directly into the A:M Reporting system.
Many problems can be easily addressed at the user level just by asking fellow users in the forum. If someone at Hash Inc suggests the forum as a source, it is very likely a problem can be easily resolved. For tougher issues there is even more reason to take the issue directly to the source... you don't want the issue discussed... you want it resolved quickly.
Finally, remember that we want to pass this forum on to future moderators and generations of A:M Users in the absolute best condition possible. A:M is just that good a program and is worthy of our consideration.
Thanks for making the A:M Forum a great community.
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I see HA:MR quite a bit on the forum and I am not sure what it is...anyone care to explain? Thanks.
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dope sheet
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I want to make my character talk, but ive been having some odd problems with it someone on the forum suggested that i post in the new users section and add pictures or somehting for reference so here i am well, here's my beutiful project, yes i know, im so perfect and great i have to show off (im just kidding) i want to scale these dope thingies in my dope sheet, so ill select about five of them at once and scale by selecting the nob on the left or right corner (right corner in this case) what the??? why is only the top dope scaling???? maybe i can move them ... what??? its moving in the opposite direction (this only…
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those questions may seems stupid but please for answers -that what friends are for right? QUESTIONS ABOUT Animation Master: 1. Is it possible to take any picture jpeg,bmp,gif which consist a character on it and animate in animation master? Does this character must stand on this picture straight? 2.It is possible to use plugins like zbrush,maxon body paint with animation master? 3.Where can i find dictionary (website) with 3d terminolgy like what relending mean etc? 4.it is possible in animation master to make a game? or walk in animation like in first person prospective like in shooting game? 5.I own old animation stuff on Vhs tapes but the qual…
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Here are the steps I follow: 1) New Chor 2) put a model down 3) Drag Frame Burn on to Shortcut to Camera 1 4) In Camera Properties Apply Camera Post Effect is ON 4a) Make sure I'm the Camera1 view. 5) Render to a .tga file I don't see any post effects. Am I doing something wrong?
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hello all. hope youre well. i was just wondering what exactly is the "deform tool" for, and in what type of scenario is it used in? thanks.
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Can anyone point me toward a good plug-in [or tutorial] for trees and other vegetation?
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anybody got a medium-difficulty tutorial that focuses on making a model? i want something thats fun to make and easy to animate. thanks!
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How do you zoom out? For example, the FW-190 Fighter tutorial says to: "Then zoom the Window out and size the rotoscope so that the wingspan is 34 feet in length." When I start a new model, the center on the screen is 0'. I cannot figure out how to zoom out. Now which icon represents embarassed? Thanks
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I am haveing such trouble on 6. what am I doing wrong? I cannot make one foot move up toward the door while the other stays on the ground and then have the other foot follow 10 frames later. if there are any pros out there please help me.
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Can anyone direct me to a tutorial that shows much of the functionality within the same tutorial? I have gone through many of the online tutorials and have a lot of AM videos and books (that I bought off the forum). The problem is, they only take you through certain sections of things. No one really guides you from start o finish and all the steps in between. I am still struggling to get AM into a workable situation for me. It doesn't have to be complicated...say maybe a football. If there was a tutorial from start to finish of a football with the texture, material, decals (I think that this the right terminology to put like an NFL logo on it), it would be so he…
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Wow. I am amazed at how many resources are available for this program. I am ashamed that I am posting because I am sure the answers are right in front of me. However, I have taken time to work through the online video tutorials, I have dipped into the manual, and have searched the help menu and this forum, and can't turn up what I am looking for. Perhaps I am searching with the wrong terms. At any rate, here is what I am trying to accomplish. I need to animate a model to walk along a mountain ridge. I have been able to create a path and have the model follow that path pretty well. However during the models "trek" I need it to stop for a short time to look as though i…
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Can anyone point me to info on this forum / help me choose appropriate processor and graphics cards for a new system? I am buying a new computer, and want it capable to run AM for my son. Am considering core duo 6700 and either one or two (sli) ATI X1900XTX. Is this overkill and waste of money? Thanks for any ideas.
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hello all. now ive been researching on my own for the past couple of days since i first noticed ive had this problem, and ive tried all the solutions but im still having no luck. im trying to import a new .jpeg rotoscope, but all i get is a blank square in the modeling screen. i tried one suggestion to switch from "OpenGL" to "Direct 3D", then the whole thing disappears, but i still get a selection box( i even resorted to following one guys suggestion to switch from one to the other, then back again quickly, but that didnt work( no, i didnt try to do the chant yet ). i cant update the video card driver as im doing this on my day-job computer( to clarify, ive been pla…
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im making a speaker and i want to make the little holes in the front...do i have to model each little hole in or is there an easier way...if i use bump mapping isnt it always random? i want them to be in little rows
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Hello again, Working through the examples from Animation Master: A Complete Guide (2006 edition) on page 253 it talks about duplicating a bone structure (pelvis-thigh-calf-ankle-toe) by ALT-dragging the pelvis (bone presumably) and dropping it ontp the pelvis (again, bone presumably). Each bone is a child of the bone beofre it in the heirarchy, but ALT-dragging the pelvis seems to do nothing other than move it around. Am I missing something or is the text incorrect? How do I duplicate the entire bone heirarchy without having to recreate it? TIA, -- kammer
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Hello all, I'm fairly new to AM and am trying to work through the examples from Animation Master A Complete Guide (2006 edition). In chapter six starting around page 250/251 it starts taking about character rigging and goes through an example referencing the Captain character. Looking on the CD I have found several model files which could be of the captain, but none of them seem to load, I get an error that reads: [/i]Invalid Model File D:/pathToModel/Captain_v19.mdl So I am obviously having trouble with the example since I can't put bones in a model I can't load. Hs anyone else had this problem? Was using AM v 12.0n+ on Windows XP. Tia, -- kammer
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Well, hello, I am interested in buying animation master 2006. But there are a few things I wanted to know about it before I get it if anyone can help me... Well, the things are... 1: Can AM 2006 import 3d files? Such as: .mdl, .3ds, .psd, .an8, .3cn, .3th, .bsp, or .spr files? Just wondering. 2: What kind of sound files can you import? .wav, .mp3, or .midi files? 3: Would it run fine on my computer? 4: Can you adjust the frames per second and if you can('t), what is it (What settings are there)? 5: And finally, are there any good websites for finding random models and props and such for your movies? Thanks for your help, that first one is the…
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i put a decal on a model and then i was going to put a different decal on the other side but now whenever i try to make a new decal, when i postion it it is just a white square! i tried changing the key color and useing different pictures...how do i fix this?
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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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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
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Okay, I noticed that when you go to render the animation, you can choose from different resolutions... I wanted a kind of 'list' I guess from worst (as in, lowest quality) to best (as in, highest quality) resolutions. If there is one already here, could someone please give me a link? If it's not already here, could someone write it down? I'd appreciate it.
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is there any way to make hair floww smoothly with the head (maby a constraint?) , instead of it all being stiff during the entire action without having to brush it every keyframe?
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My computer is a P4 2.6 GHz with 512 MByte RAM, ATI 9000 Pro video card with 128 MByte RAM, Windows 2000 Pro with all the latest service packs and patches. All drivers are up to date. I am working on a WIP project using Schlitzy. What I am finding is that A:M seems to be getting slower and slower as more objects are added to the project. I am now at the point where I would like to start animating Schlitzy in a chor. The response time between mouse click and something happening on the screen is better than a second. I have tried creating a new project with only Schlitzy and the main objects of the scene, but response time is still pretty slow. Does anyone ha…
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ive got nothing to do so how about someone posts a picture of a couple sides of something that isnt too complicated and ill do my best to model it and show you how it comes out. not something that will be really hard, but nothing too easy either....i think this will be fun
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Hi everyone, I need to do an easy animation in A:M (I'm using v12) using a 3ds model of a car that has been given to me. The model has been modelled with not too much polygons (in max I guess) and A:M can import it by using the wizard for importing 3ds models. My problem is that the result after importing the model is not the desired because some "ugly things" appear all over the mesh of the model as if the bias of every spline had been changed. Is there any other way of importing 3ds models without the appearing of those extrange artifacts? or, are there any tricks for avoiding this problems? I don't need to animate the model itself but using it as a static ob…
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hello all. i just wanted to show picts of a face i did by lathing a sphere and extruding where i felt was needed first, then i added the mouth and eye sockets later. i know this isnt common practice, but i just wanted to see if it could be done, i also have a wireframe if anyone is interested. any and all critiques and feedback is appreciated. thanks.
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I'm curious, what file types is A:M capable of importing and exporting? OBJ, 3DS, DXF. etc? I've been modelling and texturing in Hexagon 2 and was wondering if I could import my models with their textures from there to be animated in A:M. I've looked in the online A:M reference, but could find no answer. Thanks.
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this is probably the last post for no-pay models, but i wuz wondering, are there any young people models (semi realistic and no nudity or slight nakedness) that someone has already made and is willing to share? just being curious
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Ran into a problem right away trying to bounce the ball. When I right click in the transform Y scale box, as discussed in the tutorial, X and Z disappear so I can't copy it into the formula. If I type 1/Z I get a syntax error.
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I am working on Exercise 5-take a walk and I'm so proud, all looks perfect 0-15. see picture. Then I do the edit copy keyframe. edit paste mirrored to 20 and I get rabbit's foot going through the floor starting on keyframe #11. I don't want to fix all of this manually. What am I doing wrong? Here's a picture of #15 after pasting #20. Thanks in advance. Lori Hiatt
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This may seem obvious but I want to post my screen shots so I can communicate the problem I am having. How do I do this? Lori Hiatt
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I vaguely remember reading somewhere that modelling can be done in A:M's choreography window. Is this really possible? I've tried but all my CPs always end up disappearing. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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No really, answered my own question. Mods, feel free to delete this.
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Umm my dad bought animation master for me bout a week ago and it seems really cool. I would like to start making backgrounds and got some of the basic understanding to modeling but i am having problems with maching to the rotoscope the lines like keep going hexagonal or somthing like it when i want it straight. This is a very annoying feature so any ways to turn that off or go around that would be greatly apretiated.Thanks in advance for the help.
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is there anyway to translate the objects pivot point in the Chor? Am I missing something?
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Can any one give me a pointer in the right direction to do 3D Text? My Boss wants me to take the Company name and make a 3D Image out of it. But I am not realy sure were to Start.
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I just download the AMExtrasCDVol.1 and I need help importing this into my Hash Directory. Can somebody tell me how to do this?
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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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How do I render a file so that the whole size of the window is only 1.5in high and 2.5in wide? This is for like a signature.
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Is there a way to create shortcuts to images, materials, models, and actions in bulk. This one at a time is ageing me real quickly. I even tried going into the files and placing all models in the model folder, images in images, and material in material but they still do not show unless I right click > creat shortcut > one at a time.
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I just got AM V11.1 a couple of days ago. When I try to load a Model or Project from the program I get alot of error messages saying that plugins and texures are not found. What can I do to fix this?
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Hi, I open the 32 patch or 8 patch sphere in the model window and select shaded wire frame but they both look like they have sharp points all over the place. When I render them they look round is there a way to make them look round in the shaded mode? Thanks Grant
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i want my camera to swing around an object while facing it the whole time, but when i tried, every frame turns the camera further away. i tried going to the last frame and pointing the camera to it but it didnt work...how can i do it?
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i want my camera to swing around an object while facing it the whole time, but when i tried, every frame turns the camera further away. i tried going to the last frame and pointing the camera to it but it didnt work...how can i do it?
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Hello, I downloaded the free models pack offered on this site. While most of the model/projects opened fine a lot of them didn't (mostly characters or other models with 'map' files) I just get a windows error and the program shuts down. I have AM 2002. Any reason why this is happening?
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Hi my name is shane richards, i am a newbie in this forum, its good to see all of you guys around.
Last reply by PF_Mark, -
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Hey! I'm an new old user (worked a bit with AM in '99). I'm trying to remeber everything fast and catch up, but I really need a model of a needle. Anyone have any ideas? I need to create a "through the eye of a needle" animation 2night. Thanks!
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ive had animation master since....the christmas before last and i dont think im good at all....i took most of the tutes from the manual and i cant make anything of quality. ive seen some posts from new guys who are already ahead of me. is there some secret super-tute that teaches you everything that i dont know about?? i want to get better at this. any suggestions?
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I just completed the "Giraffe" chapter of the book, accidentally got rid of the project (Model) window -- and now I can't find it! Yes, this project was saved -- I've restarted -- I even went back to 'reset controls', but to no luck. I can open up any other project and I get its corresponding window (in this case, the "Model" window), but just not the one I spend the last five hours working on. Another interesting thing...when I choose to open another project A:M asks if I want to save my job, "Giraffe" -- so I know it's there, just no window. So what stupid, silly thing am I not doing? I swear I've pushed every button more than once now trying to get …
Last reply by robcat2075, -
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Help Please... With the Kat model you can start new model and add a action then apply a wav file to the model and then new dope sheet and view time line and move the word to match the sound and the kats mouth will move with the word "Hello" If I try this with a model from the zip file at the hash web site with the george model or bill model ect it does not work and I have to move the mouth with pose sliders and key frame ect why is this and can I set it up to sink eith the bill model the way it does with the Kat model. Thanks
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