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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.
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-Ask questions about the software.
-Assist other users... everyone was new at this once.
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User Led Forum Considerations
Firstly and foremostly, please remember this is Martin Hash's forum and that it is every A:M User's primary resource for information about A:M. In order to remain relevant we need everyone's continuing support and interest.
Secondly, understand there is a distinction between A:M (the program) and the A:M forum. There are some topics and issues that are outside the scope of this forum and most can be deduced by reading through the forum guidelines. These include such things as Hash Inc internal policies, business practices, trade secrets, and specific plans for the future not yet publicly released. Each of these would be fascinating topics of their own but are better reserved for private communications with a representative of Hash Inc.
Related to the second, is purchasing, customer service and other areas outside the purview of the common user who may have no interest in such things; subjects relating to money exchanging hands are beyond the scope of the A:M Forum and often can lead to conflicts of interest between users and/or Hash Inc. (If Hash Inc cuts you a deal on volume purchasing it's really no one else's business). Likewise, individual complaints about a product or service are best remedied by going direct with Hash Inc representatives empowered to make decisions. Please allow them them the time necessary to resolve your specific issue and consider the cost of customized solutions.
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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Ok I have an action (works great!) I have tweaked all settings I can find but I need the action to start at frame 15021 and all I can seem to get to work is it starting at frame 00000 Thanks! Gene
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I made the mistake of deleting a model that is used as an action object in a pose for another model. I though that the model contained the action object. I was wrong and hours of work were lost. Is there a way to embed action objects? So that you have everything contained in one model?
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Hi Folks I have some action objects that I am trying to put translate and orient like constraints on but its not working. Any ideas.
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Got a 2nd machine which is not on the net, do I download Am installer to a USB and install on it or is it more complicated than that? Any help appreciated.
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How do we render the background as one color besides black? We want to edit our cat into a film so it is dancing with a live person. Our teacher can't figure it out when he is supposed to help us!
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Hello all, I'm trying to put an AM character into a video. I'm trying to import a video file (quicktime) but nothing works. I have quicktime pro so I can export the video into different formats. However none of them seem 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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I assume from absence of any real information in guides that it is not possible to use any form of scan software (eg on clay models) to develop character in Hash... characters must be created by the stitching method described I think. Any advice welcome. also about importing characters from other programmes outside Hash... I understand that inanimate objects can be imported. Are there any tools for converting an inanimate object from say 3dstudio max into an object that can be animated in hash? Many thanks. Look forward to responses! Sorry, I am an AM newby and just learning the ropes here... and clearly this is much the best character animation software on the m…
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How do I add a null to a bone i am trying to do this tutorial http://www.hash.com/users/weevil/part1.html Does anyone know how to add a null.
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Methinks it was mentioned that you can resume a netrender fail and it would remember where to resume? Not sure how to do that, do you need to have the Job save out first?
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I am ready to render a scene from my project and it will probably take several days. I thought I would use another computer in my house to do the render so I could keep working on other parts of the project. The two computers are connected by a wireless network. But what is the most efficient way to transfer the project to another computer to render? I tried consolidating the project onto the 2d computer, and all the relevant folders containing the project, images, models, etc. were created, but when I tried to open the project in the 2d computer, it still tried to find the images and models in exactly the same paths as they are stored on the 1st computer. Since cons…
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Hi there party peoples! I have been having a problem with Sweeper - actually, plugins in general. I have tried to download sweeper from Moscafilms.com, into my AM V12 software. I believe I followed all of the instructions: I unzipped the file, looked under the Tools>Options>Folders tab, and typed in the correct path to the Sweeper.hxt file. I rebooted the software, applied two groups (profile and path), selected the path, and... no plugins. None! I can't even open the plugins built into the software like grid. yet when I take out the "Sweeper" part of the file path under the folders tab, the preset plugins become available. Have I downloaded the wrong file for my so…
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Hi everyone, I'd like to know if there's any list, tut or something wich explain the difference between some materials like wood, metal, crystal, etc... in A:M terms like refraction, reflection, transparency, etc... My first steps in differencing materials have been applying decals, but, of course, wood does not reflect light the same as a metal does and a generic comparison list would help a lot. Thanks for helping me.
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Hi Everyone, I have short chor project that I would like to render in a Letterbox Format. I believe I am looking for 720 x 480 resolution or similar. Is there a way to set this, or hopefully is there a letterbox option or button? Thanks again, Bob
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ok im making a gun with a extendable barrel in the top down view the barrel is facing north , i now that there is some sort or constrant usable but i dont know which to try
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I'm going back to work on the old Eggs, Potatoes, and Bacon animation I had submitted to MMC ... what, 5? 6? Anyways, as far as suggestions, one person had mentioned that one of the characters seemed to freeze sometimes. I thought a neat way of making him continue to move was to implement a breathe pose. I can just have it go up and down periodically; it could go up just before he begins a phrase, and go down as he completes it. I created the pose, did some muscle (control point) changes to make his chest expand, and then did some skeletal changes to make his Back2, Head, and Neck move. I then went to the existing chor, created a new chor action, and had the …
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Hi - I am having an issue w/ hair on my model, so I created a new hair material and didn't change any of the settings and applied it to a half circle from the library. I applied the exact same hair material to a part of my model and the hair is coming out odd... very large on the model - does this look familiar to anyone? Not sure why it is doing this. The first image is the hair material on part of my model - the second is on the half circle. They are around the same size to 6" Thanks, Eric
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After some weeks I wanted to restart my exercise on "Taking A Walk" and I saw to my surprise I couldn't add frames to my Act folder? The numbers just run on, but as I changes the bones structure, the arrow doe'sn't appear. After that, when I go back to the first frame, the whole animation freezes in the last frame. I don't know what happened, the last act folders have nothing wrong and show the good framenumber. But for some strange reason I can't edit new frames. I reïnstalled the programm, but the problem isn't solved. Could it be new software I have installed recently?
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OK this should be a interesting effect to pull of if its is actually possible , i currently have a tank like unit going up against a big walker , this walker has a gun that fires a green beam that is in essence a disintegration ray , what i need is a way to have the model disintegrate on one side till its all gone , to make an example take a block and shoot a beam at it only the part being directly hit would start breaking up first or a ship breaking up from the front till the back side finaly breaks up or in dragon ball z when i guy gets hit with a energy blast
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ello again this is more of a question than a how do i i was trying to recreate the building effect used in a old game known as "total annihilation" the effect is simplistic but looks cool as it works 1 a builder bot walks to the location it wants to build something 2 a green wire frame of the to be built object appears , to keep it simple for this test i made it a diamond 3 the bot sprays the wire frame with nanobots , as this is done a fully surfaces version of the diamond slowly grows up , 4 after the diamond is fully green the actual surface follows in the same way , once that is done the build is complete my current pro…
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Greetings Gentlemens, I have a Quick question : how can i double side a surface ?
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hopefully simple question , i import a roto scope into AM but for some reason it makes the line that are in front of the image t-4 times thicker . is there any way to turn this off?
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www.creationengine.com has a great deal for A:M! 10 copies for $100 a copy. Problem is they are out of stock. Now, could my school contact hash and get the same deal? Or do I have to wait for creationengine to restock?
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Hi Again - I have an object grouped and gave it a name and colored it red. I wanted to change a color of the portion of it to black, so I grouped that portion and gave it a seperate name - I tried to change the color of that to black - it is showing as black in the properties box but the model is still red- can't figure out what I am doing wrong. Thanks.
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What exactly are the capabilities for this. Can also do and movements and stuff or only mouth.
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I buried this question in another question so I thought I would bring it to the fore-front. So how do I recover from an Auto Save? I don't think it is the Revert command because the auto saved file names are different. Do I just navigate to the Backup folder and select the last file?
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I got the lights to 'go on' by assigning a high specularity to the patches that make up the lens. I also gave it a large specularity-are value. Then I enabled 'Glow'. In the Modeling Room, they look right. But in the final rendering, they do not. How do I make the Rendering lights shine also? [attachmentid=18212]
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Is it possible to change a topic description once the topic has been posted? The reason I ask, is that it would be nice to update the topic description when I have updated a WIP. For instance, in my AT-AT WIP, when I posted an animation of the walk cycle, I could have changed the topic description to something like "2006/10/21 - Created first basic walk cycle". At the Anim8or forum, you could do it be editing the first original post, and then change the description there, but haven't seen anything like that here. Thanks... Al
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I'm going through the animation exercises, and one of the biggest things that would be helpful to me is if there was a way to visualize which bones are keyed when. Something like, if a bone has any sort of key during the current frame, it changes color. You might even have the color depend on what kinds of keys exist during the current frame (translation, rotation, etc). It would make it so much easier to find and delete keys, and to figure out which bones are keyed in the current frame. Does anybody know if such a feature exists? Thanks for any help! Edit: After doing some searching, I found some instructions on how to set this up in V14, but they don't seem applica…
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is there a method that i could use for selecting empty groups in the project work space?
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Im currently trying to create a model from some pictures of a character, does any one have a tutorial on how to make a good model fom picture? note that most of the pics arnt a direct 90 degrees onto the face
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OK well can someone explain to me what every constraint does and an example of how it would be used thank you.
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ok i have made a model for a tank with a bottom and top and have attached the bones only problem is that its not rotating right when on an angle, i know that there is a way to make it only rotate 360 degrees on only one axis but i for the life of me cant find out how. also the needed setting to do this would be nice
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Is it just me or does AO NOT effect Hair? It seam no matter what I do the hair I create looks bright and catoonish as if I am rendering with "toon" on Any ideas on how to make it look more solid?
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Hi, I'm new to A.M. I have modeled several objects, one inside the other, how do I animate the transparency of the outer object to reveal the inner one over time? Can I animate a property? I cant find a tutorial on this. Thanks Phil
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I thought when viewing some tutorials that when I go to the skeletal mode, the bones should all be in different colors. When I load the door stuck tutorial on my machine, they are all the same color...gray??? I don't know if this this is a graphics card issue or a normal process...can someone please help me clear it up? Thanks.
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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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Hi - I created a Dope Sheet for a character and going through and spacing it appropriately, but for some reason between a couple of the words - her mouth opens. Am I supposed to key a frame or something? Not sure what I am doing wrong. Thanks- Eric
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I am working on an animated short, doing scenes in order of my own ability to complete them. I'm learning as I go along. Now I have a scene coming up which will present a challenge. Basically it will have my character in bed, under a blanket and she is supposed to grab the blanketand "fold it" away from herself as she is getting out of bed. I'm thinking about trying Cloth for this (for the first time), but does that seem like the right approach to you? Maybe I could just model a blanket and put bones in it that will allow me to animate it from a more or less straight state to a folded state. Do you think that would be better in this case?
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Hello everyone. I'm looking for a t-rex model. All the one's I've seen are 3DS or some other program. I don't want to pay $60 bucks for a model that won't import into AM. I don't mind buying a good model. I'm not good enough to make one...yet. Anyone know of any AM T-Rex's out there? Thanks
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Greetings, Animators! I'm not yet a newbie but will likely be in short order. I just discovered AM last night, and I'm about to part with some cash! It looks like the tool I've been searching for! But I have a few questions first... I'm using a recent Intel Mac and I'm wondering about AM's render speed being how it doesn't (yet?) the dual processors on recent Macs. Any Mac users out there care to share your experience with rendering? Any other Mac-specific info you care to share would also be appreciated! Oh yeah, on more thing... Any Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5) issues encountered with AM? Thanks for the help! -Steve
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Hello all, I recently found my old A.M. 8.5 CD and manual and after much hesitation because I remember A.M. as being somewhat addictive, decided the give it a final whirl in the computer before making a donation to a Salvation Army charity sale. Mistake and here I am again but it struck me that AM might be used to create visual works combining traditional art and CG. About me includes that I am a 'middle-aged white male', I live down-under in Australia in the hills west of Sydney, I earn a living painting murals and have a degree in communications recently obtained having nothing much to do these past few years. Look forward to sharing my born-again experience wit…
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how do i make a red satin material, any suggestions ? thx
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Hi - I am getting an odd shadow as if the shadow of mesh in wireframe - you can see it on the upper right of the mouth's shadow. Anyone ever had this happen? Thanks, Eric
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For a week I thought my eyes where going bad or my computer. Since all my models where showing in an odd shade of color. Until I made this model with out adding color groups. Then I noticed the odd spot light on the model. “This is in model mode” in 15i vers. So I opened it in 15d vers. How do I turn it off?
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Just wanted to think who ever put the Siggraph videos on AMFilms. I enjoyed all of them but, That human modeling one was just what I needed.
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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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When I render a scene and I add a bloom post effect, after rendering I get two windows...... One with the basic image and other with the bloom effect added..... now when I try to save the image with the bloom effect within A:M it saves it as a COMPOSITE.cmp file..... but I can't access it.....can't save it as a JPG..... I want the image with my bloom effect... any help would be great.......
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...Hi! Well, at least I always have found it a little "weird" and I'm not sure if this is resolved in that way for some reason or even if it could be a bug (although I don't think so cause we were talking about be a very old bug...) The case is that it seem to happens in any case, Action, Relationship, etc... but let's say you are modeling, ok? You add CP's, and you can see how it appears listed in the "Project Workspace Window" inside the Splines folder, thats right, but then, if I want to select one of they, and I select it in the PWS window it's not selected in the main preview window so there is no way to know which poit I have selected... And the only real metho…
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ok if youve seam avp youll know what im taking about though still invisable you can still see an out line of what ever it is.
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