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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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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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Is there a way to turn the X/Z axis into a shaded texture map? I'm also making a road, but I'll probably make it finite.
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When I went through TAO:AM, I know there were some moments that I was asked to do things that just didn't seem to be in my software. Easing is a great example, and since I finally have a reason I want to ease, I'm going to ask about it. So I locate the ease in the PW. I double-click it. Isn't it supposed to expand? For me, the "ease" looks like a bone's keyframe line or anything else's, but I can't find anywhere to edit it. In the Properties window, it lists only the title, "Ease*" and a single button which changes whether the waveform is curvey, sharply angled, or another one. I can't figure out how to edit ease functions on my computer, although I can…
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Help! I was approved for the 14 day free trial. I had to go out of town the next day so I waited til I got back 6 days later to download the 64 bit version (Windows 10). I clicked on the temp license file and… nothing. I searched my entire hard drive, and cannot find it anywhere under any of the possible names Hash suggests in the approval letter. I clicked on the file link again but it tells me I’ve already downloaded it or are not approved. I tried opening the shortcut on the desktop on the off-chance that the file is somewhere within the program and hidden, and it says I’m missing a “mfc140.dll” file. Ack!!! I’ve emailed Hash, but no response. I plan to buy the…
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I want to try a Matrix effect I want the sound they use when the characters go into ths slow mode fighting stuff. Please attach her or Email it to me Please. THis is for MMC#3 and I have a deadline
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Hi, I'm having a bit of trouble when i render a Rotoscope (a picture). It seems to become really light when i render it. Why is this?
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The choreography and everythinf in the library folder doesn't show up when I open up A:M.....HELP!
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Hi Everyone, In TWO, I have noticed that each of the animators needed to properly locate their character in the scene before animating so that the character did not jump in location from animator to animator. Does anyone know how they did that? Thanks, Bob
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I was going to rotate a bone on the x-axis when i realized my bone was off axis. How do I fix this?
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Hi all Perhaps this is just another example of why I should stick with the baby steps instead of jumping into the deep end head first but my first attempt at using decals has been frustrating to say the least. For a little bit of background I was playing around with creating scenes from a space opera i've been dabbling with and I was playing with from space shots of the principle setting. For this I assumed that the best approach for creating this planet would be to make a large decal made from one of my maps of the setting (attachment 1) on top of of a 32patch sphere unfortunately the end result of this leads us to attachment 2. I've played with the size of t…
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Hi, Set up a project with all 13 actors, a new action for each of them and then dropped a shot audio to each. Then made up a dope sheet seperately for each one adn noticed that only a few generated 'user properties' to move the lips. Surprisingly two that didn't generate teh lipsync were Sir Nigel and teh Skeleton (and I haev used both of these previously with lip-sync). I guess the first question is whether or not the basic set of actors that come with AM can be used with LipSync/DopeSheets - should I haev been able to get lip movement from all the 13 actors within their respective actions? Is there any way of examining an actor's properties (either in t…
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Hi guys, im currently making a model but i dont quite know whats happening. To explain it whats happening is in the modelling stage i can see all my splines and cp's but when i switch to shaded mode i have patches missing. Now when i render the mode all the missing patches show up as if they are there. its frustrating while trying to model and patches are missing but really they are actually present. any ideas? Thanks for your time..
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Hi, at the intro video of Animation Master you have Homer Simpson and a T-rex being animated! I wonder if someone has this model? I didn't find at the extras CD that people mentioned in other posts. Also, Homer, the fat guy, is no longer avaiable at the FTP. I saw at other posts that it was in the Data folder of the FTP, which doesn't exist anymore. I really wanted to make some animation using the T-Rex. I found a free model, but couldn't import to A:M. I can import it as a prop but it is useless as it has no bones! Using the plugin import function, A:M begin importing but stops at 20%. I tried some other 3ds models and all hung at 20%. Is it a bug of A:M 2005 or the…
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Someone please help explain this to me. WHat options besides Fog: ON have to be accounted for when using Fog. I have it ON, I set the Start and End to where I want them, however, I never am able to get any fog to show up when I render my image. What am I missing?? Any help would be greatly appriciated!! Thanks!
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i finally got to see the new doctor who and now i'm a fan of the show i'm doing some test with a dalek modal i found but i'm not sure how to make a acurate dalek voice can any one point me to some software that would help or with the software i have not (i have adobe auditions right now)
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How do you do limit what frames to do the rigid body simulation. I've got some 8000 frames of choreography with a bit where I need some marbles to pile in a reasonable fashion, and then tip over some 6000 frames later. How do I limit the simulation (which is slow) to just the frame range where change occurs?
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I am going to buy a subscription for my laptop and desktop, so can I order both downloads at same time. Do I have to order the update on the computer I am updating?
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I just installed AM, and the library shows files, but they all have question marks in them. What can I do?
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So I have this guy So is their a tutorial on how to add bone cause I need an easy one.
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Hi I was just wondering the difference between Frames animation and time based - for instance what is the relationship between the two or how do I do timing, say for instance if I create a animation which is : • animated over 30 frames • with keyframes at every 10 frames How will this be translated to time code ? Meaning if the time code is 30fps then the sequence would yield only 1 second of animation in SMTP So how do we convert or animate with frames keeping in time with actual errr. . . real time ? What do we have to keep in mind for actual time / timing when animating with frames then outputting to SMTP ? Say I wanted the frame an…
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Hi everyone, I discovered A:M in its v7 and there, I founded a render property called oversample wich rendered the frames ad double of more size for scaling them down later in order to remove aliased borders and other artifacts from decals and etc... Now, in v12 I've lost this oversampling option. Is it hidden in another place of the program or it has simply be removed in favour of multipass? I've been trying to use multipass but more the passes are, more the general blur in the image and it doesn't involve neccesarily a better look of my render... more of this aliased borders still appear, but softened. Thanks everyone for your support
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Hello amigos, is there any way (easier) to put sky lights?
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Hello all, I recently got A:M and started through the manual. I'm looking forward to learning all of A:M and what I can with it. As I get more exp. with it. I love animation and all the possibilities it holds for the imagination. Also looking forward to picking up some technique and advise from you veterans of A:M out there. Soulasith
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Lens flares
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Hi I am trying to make a star 'twinkle'. I am using a Kleig and have the intensity varying so that it goes from zero brightness to maximum brightness and back to zero over the sequence. I thought I would add lens flare beams to make it look a little more 'starry' using "Sun 1" type, but I can't see any beams after render. Lens flare is turned on. Any ideas where I may be going wrong? Thanks Hoggy
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OK short and simple i have a scene where a bot triggers a emp device , id like to have a explosion based on an expanding sphere comprised of lightning or something that resembles the such , I'm not expecting much but any idea are welcome
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Hi - I am a newbie to materials and how they work - I am looking through the tech ref and it is talking about Material Diplacement - they show 100% - 200% and it looks like actual bumps instead of just a flat surface. When I used Roughness and Roughness scale it doesn't give the bumpy look - just distorts the colors to make it look bumpy, but still has the flat look. I am not getting something here, can anyone clue me in. Here is a great example of a "real" look to everything I am looking to learn to do courtesy of Matt W Bradbury http://www.hash.com/users/amfeatu...pertiesRoom.jpg Thanks - Eric
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What I do is make the basic shape of the model so it looks 2D and than copy and past it and put the two next to each other and connect them. Is this a bad way to model.
Last reply by John Bigboote, -
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Hey all, I can't understand how and what is the IK. Like in a human skeleton having 3 bones on an arm for example and the same bones are copied above and below the arm for IK thats what i don't understand. Also what are the constraints used for IK? I read the reference but still things aren't clear enough for me. hope you can help me by a good guide or useful information. tnx in advance...
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When you do a "shaded" mode quality render rather than a "Final" quality render......The x,y,z indicator at the bottom left renders into the frame. Is there a way to render a "shaded" mode render without that appearing. Can you turn it off? Thanks, William
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I have been trying to install AM 2005 on my new mac that runs osx tiger. the software installs onto to computer but when i try to open the program it says "the program (AM) has quit unexpectedly" i tried to look at downloads off hash.com but there where no upgrades for 2005 just 2004 and 2006. does anyone have a clue as to what is going on? thanks
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In exercise 11 I have formed the head neck and legs but the book never explains how to make the loop at the top of the leg ( never even referred to but pictured in figure 2 and 3, pg 123) I formed the 6 point looped spline to extrude the legs and have done so. Common sense tells me to form another 6 point loop from left view now(not top view) and then attach to the leg....but not sure. Help Please! I am speaking of the loop that would make what I would call the hip at the top of the back leg and the shoulder at the top of the front leg. If I only extrude as the book says from left view I would not have the rotation to view the full circle. Any help would be greatly apprec…
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Is this going to take the place of the annual update from year to year?
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I'm making a walking animation, using the action window, I completed the action, however it only seems to play the first 10 frames, why is this. =/
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How do I slow an action to a halt?
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Hi digital people, I m trying to do the walking rabbit tutorial, at certain point i have to copy the first frame and to paste/mirror it somewhere and you know what ! it doesn t work. i ve tried to find but i m stuck. Help is welcome..ok Robcat where are you !! THX M. rabbit_anim.prj
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what is the significance of this? I have seen this in other projects
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here's my version of the plane. i had some trouble getting the decals on, but I think they look ok. I will have to animate the prop and make it fly sometime.[attachmentid=16187] plane2.mov
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Hey all, I just upgraded to v13 the other day. Now my old HDD crashed, luckily i was able to back up all my materials and other important stuff, so I loaded in v13, worked good. Finally decided that I should continue to work on my project i have going. I made all my materials before the models. I just finished a model and wanted to import the material in to A:M and apply it. I go to load the material, and it gives me a "Missing IO plug in" error. I didnt have any plug ins like that when i made them, so there couldnt be anything wrong with the materials themselves. Heres the kicker, After I say "fine I'll remake them", I close down the import window and now my ma…
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Can I import a gif file into the chorografy or action, if so , how?
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Hi, I just got a new computer(intel Mac) and the buttons (like zoom etc) are not visible when I open A:M. I upgraded to v14 and that did not help. Any ideas? I did try to change the toolbar settings but this did not work. Lori
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When applying my walk to character and playing animation... the character speed walks the path. Is my problem in the keyframing or could it be the stride length..again any help is greatly appreciated, Thanks.
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I've been trying to render this thing but it keeps looking a cartoon. No, I'm not rendering in Toon, and the Toon lines are off in the model. Any ideas anyone?
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Well i can import pictures but not video help
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Hi - I have smart skinned pretty much all the bones in my character although when I have my character walk - when he puts one leg forward his pant leg goes down into his shoe - also the back of his leg bunches up. What am I missing? Thanks - Eric
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I created the walk cycle and it looks great and no slipping when it is viewed from that action. When I attach the character to a path and have him walk using the created walk action there is a slight slipping of one foot - I have set the "has stride length" correctly and even adjusted that several times to try to fix the slip, but not having any luck. Is there something else I might not be setting correctly to get rid of the slip? Thanks again for all the help with this whole walking thing. ;-) Eric
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I have a character with a skirt and I have applied smartskin to it. However, somehow I put in a couple extra keys in where they shouldn't be. How to I remove them?
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i m abit lost i made a walk cycle, constrained both my character and walk action to a path. but my character seems to move too fast along the path please how can i adjust the speed with which it moves along the path.
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OK bad puns aside i do have a question . i have a model setup to unfold in about 5 different movements and though that i could get the pose option to preform this . i attached bones to all the models parts and tired to set up a pose to do it but its not working . there is an option on the bottom that looks like the time line for the choreography but it does not seam to work . am i using this correctly or is this not how the poses option work
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I was wondering.. how can i add model to a (real) video? like that T-Rex chasing a car.. is it possible?
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