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How did you guys make all those cool icons on the new website under the "Features" section?!? Can you write up some tutorials, please? Thanks! -- Glenn
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Hi out there, I'm wondering whether there are AM lip sync dictionaries available in other languages. I am sepecially interested in a German distionary file. Is there any? A bit deeper goes my question on how I could create one myself .... (1) What phonems can be used in this sort of file and (2) how are they mapped to lip poses? Thanks for your support
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I know dragging and dropping from the libraries to the CHOR window, but how do I add my own sounds? How do I create my own libraries? I know yas gots some links! thanks
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I'm gonna have a meeting with the bigwigs of my school monday. Very excitied. I think i've got AM sold, alot of the kids are very excitied also (they saw Noah's BC animation) The one concern they have is how to keep kids from modeling inapropriat stuff. I guess the teachers will just have to pay attention. anyways, i'm syked. I can't wait, cause AM looks so awsome. Hell, I think they may go for 15 copies instead of 10. And the great part is so i can lead the course in the summer they gonna give me the boxed copy! Huzza!
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I am hoping someone here can lend me a hand. I am using v.12 and trying to animate streak emitter properties. According to the info I have, you need to create an Action, and then just drag the Emitter Properties into the action. Well, that doesnt work. As soon as you drag the Emitter properties onto the action window, my cursor turns into that circle with a slash through it. Can someone please help me out and let me know how this is done??? THANKS
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Im most likley going to be getting A:M at the end of next week!
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Hello. I'm trying to locate a very realistic model of an F16 aircraft for Animation Master. I can't find anyone online who has one for this program. Can anyone help? Thanks.
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hello, hope all are well. i was wondering is there a software license cost for using AM2007 in a 3 person studio environment? or would i need to buy 3 separate copies to be used on multiple computers? thanks.
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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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I've had this idea for awhile, and it used to be for authers. But why not have a website were artists, writers, and storyboarders (did I get that last one right?) can come together and share ideas. People could collaborate on projects and make shorts for the world to see, and maybe have a show case were companies could view peoples work and perhaps offer jobs.
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need help in setting the piviot point at x=0
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is there some sort of Animation Master back up file thing that saves the last file that you have been working on every 10 minutes or so
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So maybe I'm blind. But could someone show me were the image contest are held? Thanks Shane
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Hey guys, Im back with another question thanks for the help with the las question i asked i was able to get my canyon model built. Now i am having trouble getting a model to load up into A:M that i got from another A:M user. It will load but say there are a bunch of compnents missing so i worked on it saved the project and when i loaded it back up the model i was putting bones in that i got from the other user wouldnt load up. Please help. Thanks Geoff
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OK, now im getting ashamed of asking a lot os q´s , i bought the book "Complete guide to animation master" and on some point it says that to make a perfect sphere i have to use the porcelain material, but i cant find it, does any1 knows where it is?
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Is there an auto save feature on animation master?
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Dear Animation Masters, I am using Zbrush to make models and texture them as low rez poly cages, creating displacement maps to add detail and would like to import them into AM and use the displacement maps. Are there any plugins around that are recommended for this process? Also, I have spline models in IGES format, would they import as spline objects in AM using a plugin? Thanks for any suggestions, Sincerely, Michael Angelo
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i have a prob, im working of flower power and when it says open the attributes of the stem the little arrow isent there any ideas?
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I have some problems and therefore question with the use of multiple chor actions: 1) Multiple chor actions are used for better structuring a scene, correct? 2) When I create a new choreo action, the first key frames are always automatically drawn at the beginning of the whole choreo (starting that way long before the action's chor range; see attachment). Can't I have the action really only start at the exact frame the action is meant to begin? 3) Do I have to start every chor action with a full keyframe on all bones to get my desired action? An unkeyed bone - due to the effect from my previous question - gets his "history" from the first choreo frame! …
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HELLO! Somebody knows how can I choose which Choreographic Actions must be affected by SimCloth simulations and which not? I mean, if I run "SimCloth Simulate" it affects and modify all my actions and sometimes it overwrite those actions where I've make some manual CP animation, plus it take more time generating unnecessry simulations and bring other disadvantages trying to work with this "layered" animation" technique... Well, any clue about this? (I'd be very grateful ) THANKS!
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Hi, Here are some good site's for blueprints and rotoscopes. http://www.the-blueprints.com - Very good site for everything e.g Planes, Weapons, Cars http://www.militaryfactory.com/blueprints/..._blueprints.asp - Useful for planes and helicopters (basic blueprints). http://www.frazmtn.com/~punstr/blueprint/ - Less detail but good for Star Wars Blue prints If you have any more please add them below, and I will add them to my list. If you can't find a rotoscope or a blueprint that you want please reply with the name of it and I will try to find it Enjoy Elliot
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Hello amigos, is there any way (easier) to put sky lights?
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hi, i made a path then assigned my character a running action but it's running too fast then i want i to.. where do i go to change the speed.. plz helpp
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I am trying to make a pose slider - I go to "new" - "pose" - "percentage" - that works fine it pulls up the model in the main screen, but none of the control points are active on the model - to create the pose. Not sure what I am doing wrong, and suggestions? Thanks - Eric
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Hi guys I'm sure this is a really easy fix, but I'm not sure what's going on. I've rendered a simple line that glows and then fades out. (I've rendered it with an alpha channel) The glow shows up in the .mov file and everything is fine, however when I put it into after effects to be composited, it loses the outside glow completely. I've attached a picture of it with the glow, and then how it looks in after effects when it's supposed to be glowing- but of course nothing is really happening. The glow doesn't show up in other editing programs either. I can always add my own glow in after effects, but I wanted to know if anybody can tell me if I'm doing something wrong. Is it…
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Hi - I am playing around w/ one of the characters "Eddie" to see how the skeletal structure is set up and I am not seeing the bones for his eyes, I am guessing they are turned off - where is the setting to see all the bones of a character? Thanks - Eric
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When you create an "object" (character) and you create a chor and drop the character in it gives you a "shortcut to object" under the chor section. When I click on the "+" to expand the sub options of the character in the chor section all I am getting is "model bone" and "user properties". I am looking for everything else (the groups of splines that make up the character". Is there a setting that I need to set to allow me to see these - or is it just something I am not getting? Thanks - Eric
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All of a sudden, paste keyframe mirrored doesn't work. I can paste keyframes the regular way, but when I try to do it mirrored, nothing happens. (No, it's not greyed out.) I'm using V12 (my upgrade hasn't arrived yet.) What am I doing wrong? While I'm at it - when I'm working on an action, the "play" button is greyed out. I have to click on "shortcut to...", then on a render button, then esc to get out of render. That makes the play button available. I've tried reloading the program, taking the CD out and putting it back, and everything else I can think of. Please do take pity on po' little me.
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ive been having some trouble adding control points to a line lately sometimes it works just fine, but sometimes i just cant select it, or add to it why is this?
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Just wondering, do any retail stores sell Animation Master? Is it exclusive to the Hash website and I saw a few posts about buying at expos and trade shows. Don't get me wrong I want Hash to get credited for the sale, just want to go right to store and buy when I can, if possible. Thanks.
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I'm trying to put Kee Kat into a chair but his feet stay or at least his legs extend with his feet pointing toward the original location. How do I stop that? I tried deleting the foot target but that didn't work.
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I completed the CanCan exercise and in the render to file option I changed the range to be 3 seconds (300). After the CanCan was rendered they danced only for 2 seconds with the last second they just stood -- it didn't animate the last second. Am I doing something wrong? BTW I'm using version 9.5b. Could use your help!!!
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I just upgraded my Animation Master program. I hope It's easier to use this program. I have been practicing on my jety v13, I did all the exerscies that came in the book; But I would like to learn faster. Does anybody know about taking a course on line? The video tutorials are ok. But I need something more explainatory.
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Ok after getting a new computer I Installed AM but never ended up using it until now. Now I'm confused where do i save things so that i can pull them up in the libraries?
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question: when im in the choreography making a avi i have alot of ditortion. what can be makeing this?? take a look: mmm for some reason the web sight wont let me upload the avi so heres the pic insted it looks fine when it is rendering but when its done it looks something like this :s
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this training series is suppose to be Quicktime Movies, but really isn't. I have training videos from other vendors and they don't act at all like this. everything should be on the CD, don't see the reason to bother with the website (open index.html in your browser??). why bother with a CD? also, the window is difficult to re-size once launched. disappointed that I can't view these. can Hash revamp all training into a format may user friendly? (like DVD's other than for PC only). just looking for tutorials that can be viewed on other than a PC. thanks.
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Everytime I try to load stage, it says "parameter incorrect". I am trying to follow online manual, any help appreciated...
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Hi - I created a hair material and applied it to two seperate groups - one above the eye on the eyelid and one below on the lower eyelid. I created a pose slider "eyes closed" - when I moved the eyelids down in the closed motion the eyelid hair stayed where it was and kinda stretched it down - even though the group it was attached to "eyelid" moved down. Can I not do what I am trying to do, or am I doing something wrong. - Thanks E
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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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Hi - I did something wrong when rigging this character (newbie rigger) - I used the 2001 Skeleton from ex 13 in the manual. Below are two images - one of the skeleton, and one of the char brought into an action - she if offset to the left as you can see - can anyone tell me what I did wrong. Thank you - Eric
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how can i mix 2 shaders as phong and anistropic with a decal? thanks )
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What is it and what does it do? My computer is being fixed right now so I can't test it.
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Hi! I have a question and dont know if it is possible to do that. I animated something. Now I realized, that I should use several Chereographie-Actions for my Character which will hold several different bones in them to easily blend between reuseable actions etc. So I want to transfer one "bone" (for example the Animation-Channels of the Model Bone) to another Chereo. How can I do that? I tried to drag and drop the bone to the next chereo, but that doesnt work. I would prefer not to copy pase every keyframe to the new action, so is there a different way? Thanks in advance. *Fuchur*
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I just loaded AM that I bought a few months ago and cannot seem to be able to sign in. I tried the s/w registration panels many times and it simply took all the info and that was it. I could not sign in to s/w. Then I registered on the AM site, got confirmation, and s/w still shows no name exists and I cannot use it. Please help.
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Just got AM at SIGGRAPH 2007. It happened to be here in San Diego near where I live. I must admit I'm finding it both a challenge and a thrill. Is there any one in the north county of San Diego who is learning AM and would like to get together? My work computer is not hooked up to the internet so I can't post my work direct.
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I am trying to find tutorial on how to texture clothing. Not just simple textures but fine details and patterns.No luck so far.
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hi i'm having a little problem with the hair it seems to be going through the circle in some spots does anyone have any suggestions on how to avoid this. hairtest.mov
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Whats the easiest way to make hair on an object.
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what was the shortcut for turning off particles again was it something with the number 8 and while im asking, might as well ask about the shortcut that shows which way the normals are facing
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i was trying to experiment with some facial expressions i thought i could copy and paste the pose set on one side of the characters face to the other side of the face in the second pose but i couldnt get it to work properly
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