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So I find myself having fun with particles. I really like the explosion that comes with A:M, and I need it for a project. My only problem is that I need it to be eg 10 times bigger. How do I do that? I've tried to scale the material itself but it didn't help. Any tips?
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Does anybody know how to make rain? I tried doing it with blobbies, but it's not really what I'm looking for. The Rooky needs help!! Rooky Animator
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I am trying to make a pirates of the Caribbean model and i am using the Eugine skeleton model. And i was wondering how i add cloths to a already existing model that where ever the model goes the clothes go.
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Ok i was fooling around and all of a sudden i deleted my project gallery that had all my models in it. How do i get it back now??
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I need to make a collar bone line on my model. But as you can see it picks up other lines I don't need.. I have figured out how to remove the hooks line but I am at a lost on how to remove the other unwanted lines. Any suggestion?
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Does anyone know how to do or there any tutorial on anime eye or keekat eye rig? Thank you
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i know this sounds stupid but as many times as i've been to this website, i can't figure out how to make an image appear under my name in the forum post area. i have an image on my page but some people have an image under their name every time the they post a comment. i just wanted to know how you do that, i can't find a setting for it anywhere.
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it was working before, but for some reason I cannot save a action as a pose ! I am setting a default constraints of bones in an action window and then usually go -- > Action / Save as Pose but now it stopped doing it. It was working fine yesterday ??? Do I have to reset something ?? When I look in the project window - the relationship is empty ? Help !
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how do i make .MOVs loop so they keeps replaying?
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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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Hello hashers, After a long time in the wilderness I'm trying to get back in to A:M. I feel like a newbie all over again. I'm very familiar with A:M V8.5 p++, but it will not work on our new WIN XP CPU. I've installed my A:M V9 2002. My old A:M model work uses half traditional modeling and half use porcelain depending on the type of character. Is there a different way of making porcelain.mat to work in V9.5f? When I apply it to a model it doesn't work like i'm used to. It has no effect at all. Any one have any ideas what I'm doing wrong? I look forward to upgrading to V13 as money and time free up. Thanks, Glen Crowell long time A:M user.
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Hi, I'm following a pretty cool tutorial on how to make a double helix, but I hit a snag. I don't think I have the same version as the author and I don't know how to twist the helix as he says, I added the link and a pic as reference. Can anyone help me on how to find exactly what he's doing? Or an (simple) alternative I could do? Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you. http://www.digitalproducer.com/pages/creat...n_animation.htm (Under "DO THE TWIST") Pose.bmp Selecting "Percentage" opens up a link under "Relationships" which isn't what I'm looking for and On/Off just adds more link under action.
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Hello People! I just received my A:M in the SnailMail box today and I'm totally new to all this : ) 1. Do I always have to insert the CD when I'm launching the A:M program? It tells me to do that every time. 2 Is 13.0 the latest edition of the program? I thought I got the A:M 2007 but the program says A:M 2006. I'm so exited learning how to use it!! So far everything seems to work fine I've tried it for one hour now. : )
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The bone I'm trying to aim is is right there, but I can't get this other bone to select it with the eyedropper. I try to select the target from the list and the bone does not appear on the list. I can see the bone on screen, but clicking on it gets me "None." The bone I am trying to aim at is a child of the bone that I am aiming with. Don't know if that matters*. * It must matter. I just made it a sibling bone and, bam, it worked! Thanks for your help, um...me! I solved it myself within minutes of asking, lol. Is that one of the laws of rigging? that you can't aim at child bones?
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OK i still have yet to give up on my TA style building and am still trying to find a way to make it work but have run into a problem , i have made a diamond that should count as sold but when the Boolean hits it it cuts it off as if it where hollow . is there any way to make it cut as if it where solid
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ok some of my models have goten really complex so i was wondering if groups can be merged as i have like 200 on this one model and all there for is 5 differant colors
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are there any default character model templates i could download anywhere? id build them myself, but its so trouble some theres the tarzan and jane models, but they seem to be a bit complex i was hoping for something simpler, but not too simple, something rigged with AMs default character bone rig
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I noticed that since i've installed vers 15, my library is all but gone. Unlike previous versions, this didn't ask me if I wanted to "copy the CD data". So now all my actions, models, etc have to be "shortcut" back in. Is there an easier fix?
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Ok my models or more presisly my terrain in a movie im makeing has gotten to the point where i can no longer rely on color to show what i want to that end i have aquired a 500X500 pixel image of sand that i wish to use only problem is that only 1/10 of the ground area will be sean at any one time. to that end i need to know how to "tile" this image on my terrain model so that when close up it looks like sand. ( if youve play supream commander youll know what i mean)
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I am trying to learn this so i can do it with myself but I can't figure it out TAO A:M says " Click the extrude button on the modeling tool bar and repeat three times" well when I try to move the splines tho the right place it looks like butt so can anyone help me.
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so im have a devil of a time trying to get a dress on my character. i thought maybe i could use cloth to move around and or bounce off so when he walks or sits or bends over in will move as a real dress would but it just seems to wrap around like a diaper. are there any tuts on this ? heeeeeeeeeeeeelp. dress_test.prj test_dress.mov
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so in my rush to fix my shade wire issue i went and did a complete install of 15.0h....i wish i waited and saw your later replies about 15.0i. never the less i did the install and ive noticed that i cant modify and or add libraries. ill do the usual folders tab scroll to lib. and add new. click through to my extras dvd data / library. the path is all there and i restart AM and its gone as if i never added it. anyone else get this?
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Ok hopefulyl simple , I belive there is a way to make is so that if you render an object with no set back ground that that area will become clear in the picture i know it has probley been posted how to do this before but i cant remeber what its called and all my serches come up with ways to make glass effects.
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Hi, all. I'm trying to rig up a simple contraption, where I just need to move one hinged lever, and it has a knock on effect moving all the other attached bits (see WMV file for what I'm doing). I've got it working, but I can't believe it needs to be as complicated as it is. Do I really need so many bones? The JPEG shows the bones and their constraints. I just move Bone1 and everything else works from that. Bone3 has a kinematic chain to Bone2. Bone6 has a kinematic chain to Bone5. Any critique of my method most welcome... action.wmv
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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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Hi, I deleted my project that I was working on by mistake. Does anyone knows how can I get it back? that was my first model and I really wanted to save it. Help please...
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Hi there, my name is Giovanni and I write you from Italy. I am a new user in this forum but I have not at the moment AM. My english so no good so please excuse me for probable errors! I am a young filmaker that want make a short film where a little alien visit an uman bacause he want understand the humans! Is it a little short film that I want propose a several italian festival of shorts film. My first idea was create a puppet with foam and animate it with my hand. But I have considered that the final result can be very bad, so, I go around internet and I have discovered AM!! I am amazing for the quality of puppets that it can do, but my fear is that it…
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Hi - I have a light set as a klieg and I want it to be an obvious spotlight where you can see the light rays coming down and only the light - almost so the character would have to stick his hand in to see him in the surrounding darkness - is there a setting for that, I have been turning everything off and on in the lights setting, but no luck. If there isn't a setting - any ideas to get this effect would be great. Thanks - Eric
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...HELLO! As you can see from left to right, I have a simple Model inside I've created a simple (50% intensity, BTW...) light, then you can see how its represented in the realtime view and more or less that's how I'd like it appears, and finally what I get when I make a Render instead... And (as always ) I don't know if I'm missing something although I have played whit all the options I have found... Well, the case is that if I add a simple Bulb light inside a model, it seems like if this light be added to the "default" light that any model has, so in real time view I obtain that I wanted to get, but when I render I obtain a double? iluminated object... …
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is there any way I can change the alpha channel color from black to something else? I need solid black on the outside of this character thing I'm making, and I know most software can do it, so that's why I'm here. I just don't know how to probably. as always, any help is greatly appreciate. Thanx guys.
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another hair problem: i want to drive the color and the length of my hair system by 2 different decals, or one decal with 2 different images in it, seems to be no difference. driving the color is no problem, works fine. but when i add the second image for the length, it affects the color of the hair too!!!?? i´ve done it all like in talbots hair-tutorial-video, but it won´t work... first i thought it might be a windows-version problem (sometimes i´ve some problems with images there, won´t be displayed etc...), so i tried it in the osx-version too, but same thing. all i do is select "other" in the decal-images "type"-menue, then add a property and select l…
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I need a bed model where is one.
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Hi, This question feels like it should have been asked before but I cant't find anything about it... Anyways, is it possible to copy a pose from one bone chain to another? Say for instance I have the pose "Curl up left index finger". My preferred way to animate the other nine fingers would be to copy this pose, and then tweak each instance until it looks right. However, it would seem that the way A:M works means I have to animate all 10 fingers from scratch. Am I missing something or is this the way to do it? Regards, MC
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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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I have worked with AM about a year and a half now... Anyaways I'm having problems trying to make a gun fire. I've been trying to use a small sprite emitter, but for the life of me I can't get it to work right. I've been working with the flames.tga that comes with AM. What I am struggling with is that I need the sprite system to be below the camera in one frame and appear in front of the gun instantly to make it appear to shoot. However every time I do this a long fire trail follows it. Is there any way to force the images to stay attached to the emitter while the emmiter is moving? Please Help! I've had this problem for so long!
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Whats the easiest way to make hair on an object.
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Hi all The latest sticking point I've been having with a small project I've been working on. I just finished creating one of the first 3d set pieces I've been experimenting with In this case a stairway. (Yes I know It has a way to go but bear with me) Anyway what I want to do is animate a tracking shot going up the stairs. The problem I'm having Is I mostly have figured out how to manipulate the camera and I think some of my attempts are working. But so far I haven't even figured out how to look through camera 1 so even If I'm doing everything else right for the render I'm flying blind. All suggestions are welcome and with any luck this isn't too stupid a que…
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I added an action to my time line and it disappeared. I do have the path ease set so the model stops on at the end of the path, so the new action can take over. But it is not there for me to edit. Anyone with any ideas?
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What would possibly be the best and least rendertimeexpensive way to create a rocket engines jetstream matching the TOON WITH FALLOFF? style? (I am experimenting with some glowing transparent shapes at the moment.) Lensflare,streaks maybe? Has anybody by chance final working examples for this topic? Any FX matching with toonshading would be great...
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where can I get the keyboard shortcuts for AM v15
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In v8.0 I knew how to do a frame burn for the frame counter on my renders, but in v12.0 I don't know how. Has the function been discontinued?
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Working on the Smoke, wind and fire tutorial....I'm on page 181 of the handbook, and my timeline does not look like the example in the text. Nor can I see a color representation of the shift in color from brown to yellow. Does version 15 have a weird thing going at this point?
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...and the 2004 support files reference an 'Orangutan' on the CD. Will these files do for my ver 11? I believe ver b was the one that comes off the CD. Thanks, C.
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Just wondering what happened to the animation contest, and is there a new topic for the stills contest, i completly missed the christmas contest, and i was working on a good one anyway
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Hello, I am trying to use some of actions with animals model, but it dont work. sorry I am new to this software. is it possible to do that? Thank's Edo.
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how do you make it so that anywhere you look at an image, it always faces you?
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i just upgraded to v15, and now i have 2 problems: i was rigging a character, done that a 100 times before... when i switch on my ik-arms setup in the action the right arm of my character stands curiously out to the right (bild14), when i turn it off and on another time the arm is in the right position, but the elbow-bones are now placed at the shoulders (bild15 & 16)!!!??? something like that never happened before... has anyone an idea whats up there? my second problem is that when i use the skin-shader it affects the white of the eyes of the character, they go hyper-white, no shadows on it at all!
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I seem to have misplaced some free animation master models had believed they came with the extras cd volumn 1 but was unable to locate them anywhere they are the Office Props models, stored a small assortment of desks, chairs, and various other office models figured i might be able to use em for my animation considering they are not my primary focus
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I coudn't get the knight to work properly, his knees pointed backwards. I tried the link from the daily news topics to download the new knight, but the page would not display, so I used the rabbit instead. I hope this is acceptable. dust_2.mov
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I've done the first five tutorials and I'm now having fun doing bouncing balls routines with Shaggy. And I thought I'd like to add some music to them just to play around with that. I have a 54 sec. WAV file to use, but I'm not doing too well getting it into the choreography, timeline, etc. for synchronizing. I went into exercise seven "KeeKat, can you say that", to try and get a handle on adding sounds. I read the info on the HELP menu, but I'm still missing something. Is there more information out there on adding music that I can get to help me out on this? Thanks...
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