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Same crap every YEAR. I buy a subscription renewal for one of my two machines and - NO download, no activation code-nothing. When I go to the download page it tells me that I haven't bought anything. Is there something I'm doing wrong EVERY year same thing happens. Any help appreciated.
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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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so when i first learned to use animation master in high school my teacher taught me how to generate trees unfortunately its been 15 years since then and i dont remember how to do it and im hoping someone can lead me in the right direction on where to look for how to do it in the latest version ive been scouring the forums for about two hours now however im not seeing the information im looking for
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When I am setting up the relationship for this head and turn it to see if constraints on the neck are working it won't return to zero (looking straight ahead) when I type in zero in the y rotation. I've set up other heads the same way and they work but this one won't. Must be missing something. What am I doing wrong??? Brow2.tga EyeBallPupil2.tga HedNek.prj Wilbur2.mdl
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Hey all. Been using A:M mainly for creating 3D printable models over the past few years, but looking for ward to getting back into rendering and animating. Looking forward to bothering all you Maestros again. Thanks, Rich
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Every frickin' year same thing. I pay for an update, got the activation code and cannot download the install exe. What am I doing wrong? Any help appreciated.
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Patchwork3d.de is down
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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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In past models I have seen in a model's User Properties various Folders that contain Pose Sliders. Such as: Face. Or Hands, or Rig etc. How do I do that, and how do I put various Pose sliders into it's respective folder?
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Oh BOY! A new mystery. Trying to use the Mirror function with the attached model - no luck. What am I doing wrong? I've used it with other models/projects before but can't get it to work at all anymore. Any help appreciated. MirrorTest.mdl
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Hello there, I have recently started diving into 3D animation using Hash Animation, and I am looking to optimize my workflow to make the most out of the software. As a newcomer to the 3D animation world; I am excited to learn from those with more experience and refine my approach to ensure efficiency and creativity. Currently; I am working on a short animation project that involves character modeling; rigging; and scene composition. I find rigging quite complex; and sometimes my rigs don't behave as expected during animation. What are some best practices for creating stable and flexible rigs? Are there specific tutorials or resources that you recommend for …
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I have a video "Happy Birthday" Card save as a PNG sequence. I would like to add various names as the occasion calls for. I can make animated names. How do I add them to the generic birthday video? Thanks
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I have this issue every year, I buy the sub and then it shoots me a link and that link only takes me here to the forum. What can't Hash make a dedicated download link in the store and once I have my serial I can just activate it? Does anyone have the link to the software? Thanks
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Hi all I am new here and I hope to look forward on what I am doing with Animation master And to meet you all for talking about 3D as well I am learning from now and I hope to bright some of my work too. Thank you to Team and all to artist for keeping this wonderful 3d software. See you soon.
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I don't understand how lock mode (Shift+A) works, it creates two CP's at one point. Please explain.
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Apologies if I've asked this before but what's with this red border on the windows, some kind of error?
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Occasionally things just cannot be explained. Even then though... there are clues... While troubleshooting some hooks and 5 point patches earlier today I noticed really strange behavior from A:M. A:M wouldn't save, locked up (kinda sorta) and the display... well it wouldn't display things as expected. Restart A:M. Nothin' Restart A:M Again. Little improvement. Change models/projects. More improvement. Spline stuff. Crash and Burn. What the heck... Maybe it was one of those updates I recently installed!!! Enter very distracting kids who remove my attention from my #1 hobby for awhile. Return with fresh perspective to see same odd …
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We can always learn a lot from those that have tried and tested Animation:Master over the years. 'Tis the stuff of legend. In 2002, Darrin Mossor put a few tutorials and resources together. They are still great resources today. http://www.mossor.org/Desktop/ Here you'll find the following tutorials: - Displacement Map Footsteps - Writing with Sprites - Playing with Layers - Duplicator Wizard - Action Reuse/Centipede Along a Path - Displacement Mapping on a Garbage Can While there have been some changes to A:M's interface and functionality since these tutorials were written they are still a good read. As a minimum they still serve as …
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The Art of Animation:Master (Online) Please add your exerices to this topic and others will join in. The Art of Animation:Master is being completed on a continual basis in the New Users Forum. Meeting deadlines can be an important skill to master early on but this course is self paced to allow each person the flexibility they need to learn the basics of Animation:Master. The course can be completed in as little time as necessary or as much as is needed by each participant. Note: You may want to download the videos first. All available Video Tutorials related to TAOA:M can be found on one page: The Art of Animation Master Video Tutorials The Art o…
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I saw this in the contest...what does it mean to be "The Art of A:M" Alum? Edit: Wow, i must have selective sight...i was looking at the stickies but somehow i missed the one that completely explains this. very sorry.
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Hello New user here. I was wondering the fastest way to handle making a scene where to characters talk to each other back and forth. Do you have to make a seperate action and dope sheet each time a character speaks. or can I make one really long dope sheet for everything each character says and then space it out in the chor. I hope this makes sense
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Hi there, I want to toonrender a model of mine with blackoutline only upon white. I made all the according changes in the renderoptions, modelproperties and cameraoptions and it works fine in the previewrender, but when I do a final render in the chor, I get only a total black picture. Any help anybody please? What am I possibly doing wrong? AM12 q WinXP Thank you ;>/ Jake
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Hi, I'm following the "Flower Power" exercise in the "Art of..." book. I'm unable to correctly place control points near the y-axis because the points are snapping to the points on the grid. How do I toggle the 'snap to grid' feature in the modeling window? Cheers!
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I'm trying to make some grass and i'm following along on http://www.hash.com/am2004/Modeling/Hair/index.htm but when i change the color of the blades from green to yellow on the diffuse color timeline, the color changes in blocks--that is it begins with a green, then abruptly changes to a lighter green, and then to a yellow. there seems to be no gradient.
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how can i group a couple of models or props in a chor and have them be linked togeather? I would like to move my scene around by a group....I looked around and could't find a what other than contraints... is there another way? thanks
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Hello. I am having problems playing my sound files. I Opened in Sounds "My Library" which contains some empty folders like Cartoons and Animals. I don’t know where A:M has written those folders to, because I can’t find them nowhere on my hard disc. Anyhow, I clicked and dragged a wav sound file from my hard drive folder into this "My Library" window and I double clicked the icon that it created within this My Library window. The message says “Invalid sound file….Unsupported file type”. Now the sound file is a wav file I have edited in Adobe Audition. When I right click on the sound icon in My Library and pick play, the sound file plays and can not be stopped unless I…
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Help, I have a simple model that I paid to have created a few years ago... in HASH Animation Master. Now, I am finally ready to do something with it... but am using Cinema 4D. The C4D gurus suggest that if the file were exported as a Polygon File to OBJ, I can probably work with it. Is there anybody reading this that could help me out with that? Thanks! Taylor Collins taylor@soaringstuff.com
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Hello:) I am using and learning AM for 6 years now (started with AM99). I have done the taoAM , I have a small movie on AM films http://amfilms.hash.com/search/Entry.php?entry=801 AND I have a second place in the last xmas image contest. Does that make me a hash fellow now ? Until death Comments on the little movie are welcome. Greetings Marc
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Why does the Objects lines kink between the controlsin the v12? In v11.1 2005 the lines had a nice curve to them. With the new ones,will we have to put more control points. Maybe there is a setting in the options I hav'nt found. Here is a shot to show what I mean. Can any body explain? Thanks[attachmentid=13811]
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Hello to all, I just purchased AM this week and started looking around the interface and exploring a little for the first time last night. I created sign in name in the Community panel but when I click the sign in button, a panel comes us saying (Sign in name does not exist). What am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance! T MAC
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Hello everyone! I'm really excited to be finally getting a taste of what Animation Master can do. After learning all the industry standard programs at school and bemoaning that I could not afford to legally own any of them, I'm finding a promising home here to continue my passion for animation with far fewer obstructions and more intuition than say, Maya. That said, I have actually hit a bump that you might be able to help me with. I am doing the A:M tutorials, naturally, and thought it would be logical to preface "The Door is Stuck" (exercise 6) with a walk cycle like I did in the previous exercise. Cool. Shaggy walks up to the door, nonchalantly to set the…
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Thank you. Niels Krook This still, from my first animation, took 49 seconds, it has field of depth, lights, etc.
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Is there a shortcut or something that will allow me to move a group under another group, like a directory tree? I've got a pupil, eyewhite, iris, and cornea, and then an eye group that selects everything, but it would be a bit cleaner if I could just put the group elements under the eye group. Can AM do this?
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I have problemw with my grid display. I have set everything to the defaults and yet the grid still seems like the point/thickness is set at 5, but I have it set at 1. I am attaching a print screen of the problem, anyone else encounter this? I am running version 12.0n, an upgrade from version 11. Thanks in advance.
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I've tried this tutorial twice. Both times when I get to where I've "copied keyframe" say, from frame 0, I advance to frame 20, go to paste mirrored, but it doesn't take. The contents of frame 15 remain. What have I been doing wrong? Carl
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I'm not sure if this is an issue anyone else has posted about but: I was trying use a dope sheet with KeeKat (like in Excercise 7), but no matter what words I type in I get the same pop-up saying "Dictionary modified or Index file missing. Recreating Index File." I hit ok, and then another pop-up comes up saying "/Applications/Animation Master 12.0/index.i was not found." It has a bunch of pop-ups all about the same basic thing, at one point giving me a chance to find the index.i thing, before it finally gives up. I'm not sure how I'm supposed to fix this. My guess is it just messed up while installing, but I thought I'd check to see if theres something else I c…
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I am looking for a tutorial on ice, but I was not able to find anything. Would it be the same thing as glass? If so, would you point toward some good resources: tutorials and available materials. Also, on a different topic. How do you constrain a bone so that it rotates in only one direction? Such as the knee bone on the Hash model "Eddie". Thanks.
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Hello Luckbat, Thank you for giving the correct answer in your second reply. Niels. ps. If others are wondering, look here ps2. There are unfortunatly alot of people who read one or more sentence's with their own anger, beware don't let this happen to you.
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Cap wizard
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The link to cap wizard from Brian Levine seem to be dead. Is there a new link??
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I have a piece that I am working on. I'd like to post a short movie of where I'm at, to get some pointers. How do I do that? Are there size guidelines for attachments? Carl
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OK, this may be a stupid question. Project; exercise 6 the door's stuck. Stage:door,city park,tree. Scene 1:Model-Shaggy w/Beachball Scene 2 thru 4:Model-Shaggy,Beachball. Scene 1;Time 00:15:00...Shaggy bouncing beachball walks onto scene from left behind tree, down the path to the door. Scene 2; Time ?... Shaggy tries to open the door,dropping the beachball he uses both hands and feet. His hands slip from the door knob,he falls back onto the beachball.The beachball acts like a trampoline and throws him over the door to the other side. Scene 3; Time ?...Shaggy in a state of rage opens the door and grabs the beach ball.He slams the door shut. It loosen…
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seem to have lost entire content of library wondering if i could pick up a few primitives to play around with cheers demt
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I am putting together a choreography in which a character climbs up a steep wall. The trouble that I am having is when I go to move a foot higher the body and more specifically the arms do not stay in place. Is there a way of locking down the hands and the right foot while I move the left? Thanks, Redwings
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Hello, I got my A:M software about a week ago, I've been fooling around with different things. But now I'm ready to get serious on learning how to use A:M. I'm trying to create some gun shot blood splatters for head & chest hit's for my film. (www.revelation2222.com) I found A:M at an FX show in Orlando and was hooked on the spot! I could post some clips for examples from Land & Dawn of the Dead, But I'm not sure if that would O.K. there only about 19 frames long. Thanks! This is were I'm at so far.[attachmentid=14729] Blood_Test_1.mov
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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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This is a really newby-ish question, but is there a way in A:M to attatch two splines together withought having to make complicated stuff? Say I want to make a rocket. How do I take a four column 3-D shape and "connect" it to say an 8 collumn 3-D model. Sorry if you're having complications understanding what I'm saying, I don't know the vocab too well lol.
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I have a character that is lifting a box. The character bends down to pick up the box, then I constrain (translate to) the box to his hand. He then picks up the box and places it on a table. This all works nicely until I place the box on the table and turn the enforcement of the contraint to zero. At that point the box jumps back on the floor. Is there an option I can click somewhere that forces the box to stay in the place it was last translated to when the constraint was turned off?
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I have AM 9.5, I like animating for fun once in a while but have not been able to devote the time to seriously try to learn AM. I do have some questions about some of the AM books. Regarding the new AM v11 Technical Manual. Does it only apply if you have the latest version of AM, or does the tutorial work with any version of AM. Secondly, on the same subject, the link to purchase the book does not go anywhere. I know a few months back that it did, but now it just goes to Cafepress' website without any information. Thanks Griffin
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For Expedency and Symetry Can anyone tell me if I made several copys of a group and want to fix a flaw in the original does AM have a option that will pass the change to all the copies?
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I just purchased AM over the weekend and I am trying to get through the first tutorials. My problem is that when I select a character and click on its gizmo to move, rotate, or resize it the box disapears and it looks like all the verticies on the character are selected. I have found that I can use the gizmo if I hold down the shift button while clicking on it but that causes more problems after the first move. I am having a similar problem if I show the bones I cannot click on them unless I hold down the shift key. I hope this isnt the way its supposed to work. Sorry for being so long winded. Thanks in advance for any help! Ctimbs
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