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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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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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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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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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is there anyway to translate the objects pivot point in the Chor? Am I missing something?
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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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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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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 am working on an animation for the Mini-Movie Contest. I have a single choreography. It's length was about 01:18:00 (almost 80 seconds) for the longest time. Then I added another 15 or so seconds, so it's length is 01:34:00 (94 seconds). Now when I go to render the choreography, I enter 01:34:00 for the end of the range, then click render. Immediately I notice that the start and end frames add up to 2400. Divide by 30 for frames/second, and I get only 80 seconds. I am unable to figure out how to render the last 14 seconds into the movie. I've switched it between QuickTime and AVI, with no improvement. Is this something I'm doing wrong, or something that…
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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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Hi my name is shane richards, i am a newbie in this forum, its good to see all of you guys around.
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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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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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Hi, Here is my It's a Pitch movie. I am perplexed on how I lost my blue sky and would like to know how to get it back. Look forward to your feedback. Lori Hiatt It__s_a_pitchSide.mov
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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 …
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when you are applying decals to a plane, how do you control what parts of the decal are transparent? arent you supposed to color part of it black???
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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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Yes, i am having trouble applying decals the decals go on fine, and the model looks relatively great (considering my skill level) but when i try to open the model file again, the decals do not seem to be properly applied, its like there out of place or something i think it has something to do with layering different decals ontop of each other or something my problem basically is, the decals just dont seem to want to stay the same
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This is a specific file for someone to show how a single 4 point patch is created [attachmentid=20384] TickTack.zip
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Hi All, I have a project to do and need some jump start help. What I was wondering is if anyone works on this type of stuff ad hock. I have 6 days to complete a animated box, with explosions and moving flaps. Can anyone help? Thanks
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when i go to render project 1 "posing keykat, it wants to render multiple frames?" M i doing somthing wrong? please let me know what i em doing or should i just let it finish?
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I tried searching the ARM for one but it seems to be down, and I was wondering if anyone had a good dynamics tutorial for a beginner the one in the A:M guide boox really does not cover or explain anything it just shows you how to do that one poject which is good and can be used for diferent things but isn't there more that dynamics can be used for?
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This may have been answered, but I can't find any information about it.... Is there a way to get a model created in A:M into Maya? Any help would be appreciated.
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OK I will include screenshots and my project file. Basically this is what happens I wanted to test a simple animation to practice my skills with and it uses all the default stuff that comes wit A:M and what I was trying to do was have the knight model walk along a path using the walk(exausted) action and then at the end of the path yawn using the yawn action at the end of the path but it keeps puting the yawn ino the cnstrain to path and I dont know why. Meaning the last part o him moving along the path he is yawning... here is the screenshots and project file so you can understand more. Just open the project file and play the animation then seek all the wa…
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I am really making headway with this program. After many months of frustration, I am finally making this program work for me. I still have a couple issues with my animations. I know this must be such an easy fix, and is something that is very basic, but I am having alot of troube with it. I want a 5 second walk cycle. I can only get my actor to walk for 1 second. Isn't there a way to make the cycle loop? I can get other models to do it, but for some reason this one does not. I have checked the manual and can't seem to find an answer for the problem. Is there a certain place on the timeline in which I drop the walk cycle? Is there a setting I need to change? Proble…
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I was reading some tutorials about normal mapping, and all I could find is that normal maps were a quicker approximation of bump maps for use in realtime (game) rendering. So, in image/animation projects like those created in A:M, what is the difference between the two? Why use one over the other, and if one is outstandingly preferable, why have both?
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I had a student ask me how to move the camera around in the choreography window and after showing him a truly awful way of doing it I realized I had no clue. =) Is there an equivalent to turning and moving like the modelling view that can be used to manipulate the camera views in choreography? Much obliged, Chris =)
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I'm having trouble removing a decal I don't like. How do I remove it?
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I have the 2004 pro series training videos. Once I have clicked on the index file the video plays. There are no controls to stop, pause, play etc... I'm sure I'm doing something wierd can anyone help me find the controls. I have right clicked and went throught the quick time settings and could not find anything. HELP! Thanks to those who respond. Shannon
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ok i got two questions one, how do you get those particle systems, (like the blob, or sprite, or whatever) to finish emitting whatever i can figure out how to setup where they start emitting im just having trouble figuring out how to setup where they stop emitting --- second question about the treeZ plugin thingy i got it to work pretty well, its actually pretty easy when you know how im just having trouble with the foliage, how do you produce the foliage for the trees? do you use some sort of particle system for that? im having trouble getting that to come out well for me
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Starting with the basic three light setup, I began adding lights to my chor. At first, the additional lights did what they were supposed to do, but after about five or six additional lights, my keylight seemed to turn off with the other lights doing all the work. Turning off the last added light, turned the keylight back on. I figured the last light was somehow defective, so I deleted it and created a new one. The same thing happened, the keylight, although the chor said it was on, was actually not doing anything to light the scene. Another test confirmed this. Instead of deleting the last added light, I just turned it off in the chor and the keylight immediate…
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I'm trying to chage the 'Dump Truck' that comes with A:M, but everytime I try to Save or Close Out, I get an error message that says the model is either being used by someone else [there's nobody else in the house] or that it's a Read-Only file. Is there a way around this?
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i just got the latest version of Animation Master from a convention and i saw them showing off some of the new features in the program there was some sort of dress cloth simulator, and there was some sort of gree thingy just wondering if someone could point me in the direction of one of these tutorials
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I had originally built a Star Wars AT-AT in Anim8or and would like to bring it into Animation Master. I have tried exporting it to a .3ds model and them importing it, but it did not translate very well. The other option I have is to re-create it in A:M. Since the majority of the AT-AT is made up of straight lines, is it possible to have A:M default to Peak instead of Smooth when drawing the splines? Here are some pictures of the model created in Anim8or. [attachmentid=20224] [attachmentid=20223] Thanks in advance... Al
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Hey guys, how much does it cost to upgrade from version 11 to 13? The $299? I've been out of the loop for awhile.
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I'm working on a scene right now and am trying to get a dark fog sort of thing at the bottom of the scene, however when I use the mist volumentric I seem to only be able to make fog thats bright... There is no light hitting the fog, but it renders as a bright splotch. I put the brightness down in the mist settings and then the fog just disappears. Maybe I'm missing something, but I can't get a dark fog.... it either is bright or isn't there at all. Any help would be great, thanks, --Ross
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how do i post and image for the contest?
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hello all. hope everyone is doing well. i was wondering while im learning how to model, does someone who knows how to model, also have to also be good at animating? or vice-versa? like, say if youre the type of person who is "so-so" at modeling, but if someone gave you a pre-built rigged model, you know you could animate the heck out of it? or if you know you suck at or dont have the patience to animate, but would love to be down with a project just to build and model a character? is this acceptible that although a person is assigned a job doing either/or, knowing the other is not a requirement, i.e., and artist that gets paid to model doesnt need to know how to anim…
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Hello.. This isn't a complaint about anything, but rather a "how do you deal with this" sort of thing. I'm working through the AoAM book and am still on the "It's a Pitch" project. It's taking me some time thanks to rl issues and, most pertinently, because I'm finding myself having trouble working on it. Basically, I'm finding it very difficult to work with the armature. It seems that I can't get the right angle to move/rotate things and it's causing me alot of headaches. For example, I'm working in left-side view and everything looks fine.. until I look at it head on or from any other angle, then I realize that everything is out-of-whack looking. Then it's…
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Hello. I am very new to Animation Master and have just installed version 12.0n on my Windows 2000 PC. I have a P4 2.4GHz PC with an ATI 9000 Pro Video Card, 512 MByte RAM, several large hard drives (as I do some video work on the side). When I try to load some of the models, I get a "Parameter Is Incorrect" message. The same thing happens when I right click on the short cuts in the Libraries window. I can load SCHLITZY, but when I try to load Sir Nigel or any of the other Realistic Actors models, I get the error. I have tried downloading the latest version of A:M 12 from the Hash FTP site, but when that was installed, I ended up with duplicate entrie…
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hello. i was wondering could anyone point to a tute which addresses how i can model or animate an actor who has to either put on or take off clothing? for example, if i were to do a Superman model and i wanted him to do his famous "rip open shirt to expose the "S" shield", how is this done? or how about if he was fighting a villain who had on a helmet and was taking it off? thanks.
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does anyone know how to make the camera view look underwater? thx
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I was animating today and I hit something and lost all my control points. I don't know how to get them back. The model is fine and I can see all the splines it just all the control points are hidden. Anyone know how to unhide them?
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ok its a white box again........ but when i render the final pic its fine and i can see the picture wh does this mean and y can my graphics card show the pic in the final render but it doesnt show up when its not rendered?
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(Pinning this in the New Users Forum to keep it in view of those who might not otherwise see it) Interested in participating in a feature length movie? Now 'Tin Woodman of Oz' opens the door on that opportunity to everyone. Given one of three basic Loon characters you'll be able to tailor, tweak and ultimately create a brand new Loon to call your own. There will be three distinct phases in this project. You are welcome to participate in one, some or all of them. Modeling. The easy part has already been accomplished. Three basic Loon types have been modeled. Now all you need to do is modify, resize and reshape your Loon. Decaling. Loo…
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Hi, I imported Dennis' sig frog from my desktop and only 1/2 of him shows. Only what is above the y axis shows. I can rotate him to supine and sure enough just the top half of him shows but only in shaded mode. I can see the whole wire figure. Renders above the y axis only. I can stand him on his head and see only his feet! I wonder if it is because I don't know how to add him to my library and I am just importing him. Other A:M characters are working OK Dennis says it is working fine for him. I'm on a G5 iMac Lori Hiatt Sig_frog_test.mov
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Well I am still very new to A:M but I have finished the workbook and practiced a little bit on my own but am still very new. Anyways...I am running the newest version which is version 13 point something, Well what my question is, Is how would I go about making a mirro or reflective surfae? Like say a typical mirror in a room or a mirrored reflection off of a car or sunglasses? Do I have to manually "Paste the mirrored image" over the surface? Oris there a way to get the computer to "know" that it is a mirrored surface that reflects? That way it will be better and more accurate with movements than if I did it manually. Because I really waana use this effect and make a char…
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Man, I feel so incompetant on this software. I bought it because of all the help I could get on the forum, though! At any rate, I'm having trouble accessing my libraries. I click on the libraries tabs and they all come up empty. I saw a post from a ways back for copying the data from the cd to the hardrive, but I didn't understand what to do once I got it copied. Help, anyone? Thanks Sruli
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Ok guys, How would I go about creating a Disc Brake like this one? [attachmentid=19942] Any help is much appreciated! Kel
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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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Hey Hashers, I added Volumetric Dust for Exercise 6 but it's rendering with very noticable banding. The Help file says to increase the Quality setting for the Volumetric effect to get rid of the banding, but unless my eyes fail me, I can't seem to see it. Can anyone verify this? I'm not sure if this is a bug or I'm just looking in the wrong place. Here's a picture of what I see for my Volumetric Dust properties. I'm running V13 f. thanks! -Jim
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