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Hi - Work mellowed out a bit, so I just started back up modeling a motorcycle from a few months back, and I am working on the tires and need some suggestions on how to put tread on a tire w/o the use of a decal. I did a seach, but didn't really come up w/ anything. I created a torus, but not sure where to go from there. Any suggestions would be appreciated, or even better if there happens to be a tutorial someone knows of. Thanks again - Eric.
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well the fun four days are over, here's the result. a whopping two seconds. on the bus stop theme though the set is not there. this would be the beginning so yes, he just missed the bus. only just animated the hands today, couldn't post without at least an inkling of follow through. arms were the hardest thing to do. the balance i've been at for the longest, have a hearty go! it was very interesting to move the hips in relation to the feet to experiment where he is the most tired, when the motion is the most cumbersome. what's here is not the only thing that worked, but the most "thom organic". a dead tired jogger does his best to not let the hips sink cause …
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Hello, I'm working in the new v.15 and the purple Title and Action-Safe lines that are traditionally visible are not showing. They are necessary, so I know where to place my objects, in regards to the screen. How can I turn those guides on in v.15? Thanks, Tim
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I've been taking another run at bump maps. I made a bump stencil and put blur on it in Corel. I put it on as a bump map on the model and did a render lock on the model and it looked fine, but when I did a render to file it barely showed as a shadow trace on the surface. Is it because I have a material on the Vase? Why would it render one way in render lock and another in render to file?
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Yearning to learn, I decided it was time to do the Volumetrics tutorial. Images 1 & 2 show my attempt to animate the Fall Off of the Dust per the tutorial. Before setting the fall off, (image 1), right-clicking the Fall Off property shows that the "Use Cache" is set. After changing the fall off to 0 for frame 1, another look at the Fall Off properties shows that the "Constant" is set. Also, under the Drivers/Action Objects/Dust Action Object property, a Fall Off property has been added showing a lock. That was the experience using AM 14.0a. When replicated using AM 13.0l, after setting the frame 1 fall off to 0, the Fall Off property shows "Time Based" …
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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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ok, so my post yesterday about having 10 splines join caused a ruckus and I finaly threw the modele out , how ever going trough some of the images iv seen is some of the help files iv nocoted that splines can terminat on another spline with out creating a CP , and i have tryed this , only problem is that it seams to attach the spline where ever it wants along the attached to spline , how can i get this to go where i want as if i can find this out i could reduce the number of splines in my model drasticaly
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I started building my house in AM so I could see what a wood floor would be like throughout my little place. A friend of mine saw the attached picture and asked if the cold air return was real or a decal. I told him I really modeled it. He suggested that a decal would be better because when rendering, the light will have to be calculated for each fin (There are 68 fins, and a decal or map would be better. (This is based on a 3D program he uses) Does that apply to AM? Am I really going to tank my render times for adding too much detail?
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I managed to detach the render bar from the rest of the toolbar and I can't get it to reattach. Is there something that is preventing putting it back in the toolbar?
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I just started using 15.0g about a week ago, and from time to time when I go from a model into an action - to, say, test out some rigging - and then close the action and go back to the model... the modeling toolbars won't come back. It just stays with the animation ones. Closing and reopening the model doesn't work, not even closing the entire project! Fiddling with toolbar settings doesn't work either - the modeling toolbar will show up when I'm in the customization menu but then go away as soon as I close it. I have to save and reboot A:M to get the toolbars back. Anyone else having this issue?
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In the customize window, all the selections (tool bars, etc) remain until changed except for the scheme. If I want to change it to something else (I quite like the Bordeaux) I have to do it every time I open a project. Is this the way it is designed?
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There seems to be some circumstance that makes tooltips not appear even though "Show Tooltips" is checked in the Customize window. Anyone know how to get them back? Besides a Reset? (This is not "Tip of the Day" that I am asking about)
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Hello all, I am not sure if I am messing up the applicatoin of my "toon" material or if it is an issue with AM 2005 (Version 12.0w). When a 5 point patch falls along an edge during a render, the toon line color is wrong. This picture shows the under arm area of my model. Notice how the area under the arm has a hazy orange outline. This material should render as a cyanish-blue with a black outline. Does anyone have any tips? Do I need to do something special when applying a material to a 5 point patch? Thanks.
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I'm having a problem with the toon shader which when I render it, I get these weird shadows and lines in the background of my walls. Here's a picture to show what I'm talking about. :)
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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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First of all, let me say that A:M is pretty amazing-- the very first thing I've tried to model (after being away from 3D art for over 5 years and never having used A:M before) is actually coming out way better than I expected. On the other hand-- it also has some major issues. So-- as the attached images show, I have some weird stuff going on with my topology, and when the model is rendered, it has nasty creases all over it. I'm looking for some pointers on how to manage topology in A:M, and, more importantly, how to go back and fix things after the fact. Can someone point me to some good tuts on this, or where I should look in the manual for guidane? Thanks! …
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Hey Guys, I'm Back I was wondering if anyone can tell me the total I would pay for a subscription? I know they are using paypal now and was not sure if it added anything to the $79.99. David
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Does anyone know how to create a Towel or Terrycloth material? Is this something that should be done with Hair? below is an example of the model just a test. but it has a burlap bag look to it instead of a towel. Any suggestions or donated materials much appreciated. I am not getting paid for this just helping out a friend and will donate all models and projects to the community when finished. Pocketowel_test.mov Pocketowel_test.mov
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ok if you have played the game homeworld you will know what im talking about , all small craft leave a line or sorts behind them that slowly disapears , i know this will proble be done with a partical engin but since i have yet to get one activly working properly i though id ask
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I need to transfer a project from my desktop to my laptop and visa versa and I am having no success. I am running v 12 on both. I transfer the A:M CD between systems. I have tried doing a search and get a zillion possibilities, and don't have time to search all of them and I am sure this is being done all the time. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks in advance.
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im trying to transfer units out of one of my fav games to make a animation but theres a problem with the transfer it starts by looking like this then turns out like this note im useing 3dmax 9 to remve it from the game , exporting a a max file , then importing it using same , no tmatter what range i give it it does not work , this image is also the best result that was done if any one knows about how to solve this it would really help
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Hello all. I work on a Macintosh, and I had started some models at home. I also use a Mac at work, same operating system. I saved some files on my USB drive and took the program to work, and the files won't open. I'm running the same, updated AM program at work. Am I missing a step in saving the program? Thanks!
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I just got AM 15 and I want to transfer my settings and prefs from AM 14. In the passed when I went from 13 to 14, tech support told me how to do it via reg edit, but I dont remember how to do it. Is there a better way now? Best regards Jason Hampton www.hdjibguy.com
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How to establish exact parameters for Translate Manipulator. While it is possible to move only it any way. I tried to insert values in Show Manipulator Propertits, but Manipulator to it does not react. It creates a problem at performance precisely symmetry commands "Flip". Thanks! Apologize for my bad English.
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I've made a pose slider with Translate to and Orient Like constraints. I want the enforcements of these constraints to have the same setting as the pose slider. I've set keyes for the enforcements at 0 and 100, but when I move the slider away from 100% the enforcement settings changes instanlty from 100% to 0%. How do I make the enforcements match the slider setting?
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Im trying to use the Translate to constraint to pick up a pencil and draw with it but whenever i try to use the constraint thing, it shifts before being constrained to the hand how do i fix this? ---- should i be using a different method where there are 2 pencil objects, one visible and one invisible and when the hand reaches to pick up pencil, the visibility flops from the stationary pencil to the one attatched to the hand?
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is there anyway to translate the objects pivot point in the Chor? Am I missing something?
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As per the title -- how do I switch between moving (rotating, etc.) the WHOLE character - vs. just moving a portion of the character? Thanks! - Ken
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Quick question... I am having trouble finding an answer to. I am saving an animation as an image sequence. Those images are .bmp's, although the same problem occurres with .png and .tga When I then import these images into A:M as a layer, they are like 90% transparent. What am doing wrong when I save as image sequence???
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I am working on a project of molecules and the figure is supposed to have a C in his forhead. I have made a decal with an alpha channel in photoshop and it looks fine with the progressive render but in final a lot of non desired spots comes up. What have I missed? Happy for any suggestions,
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Hey everyone, I've been doing a lot of playing around with decals but theres one reoccurring problem. I can't seem to apply a transparent decal (lets say I have a circle decal I want to apply to grid. I want the decaled circle to be white and the diffuse color of the grid to be green. I want the circle to be applied as a decal but still have the green on the grid evident.) I'm using photo shop elements so this question isn't completely related to A:M. Thanks for the help, Masna
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Hi I'm having trouble with transparent decals. I'm trying to map an image with a transparent background but the background turns white when I apply it to my model. I'm using photoshop elements and saving as a 32 bit targa. I have also tried saving it with corel photopaint. Can anyone help me? Thanks
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transparent Glass text look Can someone talented in Material create this look? You can do it easily with Pro animator but I of course want to use my favorite program. This look is very hot right now so I think it will come in handy for all of us. It has a high production value, in my opinion. Kind of reminds me of something apple would do. glass_text.mov
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Ok, so i photoshoped some gyroscopes i want to use but when i put them onto A:M they have a white background, even though i deleted it and made it transparent, i imported it as a .jpeg because A:M doesn't let me put in .psd im i doing something wrong? How do i make the white background go away and so it just the image i want? Thanks! -zam1137
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ok i got a picture of a basic tread and im trying to apply it to a flat surface for a test i was told i coul dget it to repeat and then phisicaly move but am haveing issues geting eather to work any help woul dbe nice
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ok i did a tread post a while ago and got a few helpfull suggestions but unforunatly due to the complexity of the movie im making it was going to be litteraly hours of work ( think 30Plus models fighting over a landscape) so i was wondering wourl there be a way to set a part of a model ie the tracks/tire to change the color of the ground it moves through ?
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Hi all, I want to create a simple action to place on a treadmill model so that the treads rotate around. Unfortunately, the treads are not perfectly round so using muscle mode and rotation isn't going to work. Any ideas for me? Thanks, Mike
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Ok i have a model of a tank and as we know they touch the ground ( usualy) i was wondering if there is any way to make tread marks appear or a easy way to deform the ground to show a tread mark ( allso applicable to walking bots)
Last reply by Caroline, -
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I have created an awesome old tree but have no idea how to start adding leaves to it to finish it. Is there an easy way to fill it out?
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Can anyone point me toward a good plug-in [or tutorial] for trees and other vegetation?
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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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Ello again i have finally be able to generate a good looking terrain for my project but have encountered a possible problem i decided to make the planet I'm on a green one with plants and such. but i digress how would be the best way to make a forest . the plants them selfs will range from small flowers to large trees and theres going to be a lot of them should they be part of the land terrain or separate entity's. any other ideas would be useful as well
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Thought I might try a bit of tree planting this weekend, using the TreeZ plug-in and HomeSlice's excellent PDF tut for reference. Also thought I would try for some hair leaves as well. However the plug-in seems to fail to generate the additional groups/levels in the model after running needed for the hair leaves. On starting, the plug-in tells you how many levels its going to make but once its run, it soon becomes evident that it never actually bothered to make them. So my question is; is this a new problem with TreeZ in AMv16a or a problem with TreeZ & Macs or a combination of the two maybe? Has anyone else noted this? I'm on a Mac running 10.6.8 with A…
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is the treez plugin usable in v 13.
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That AM should have a 7-14 day trial version. just a thought.
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Hi, I hope this is the right place to ask this. I've already received a trial license in the past, and want to upgrade to a full (yearly sub) license in the near future. What is the process for that? Will it simply "upgrade" the trial key to a full one? Or will a new license be provided? Tried finding an answer to this on the forums, but couldn't find anything specifically about that. Thank you.
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I requested a trial license on Monday, and never heard back about it. I also emailed support@hash.com a few days ago, with no response. I was wondering if there was a problem? Thanks Daniel
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I requested the trial a few days ago and have not heard anything back with the id number requested of me. Is there something else I need to do? Thank you.
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Ok so I redid my model of my penguin because for some reason it became corrupt but no matter i like this model better.... I'm having trouble though getting his skeletal structure right though. Cause every time he is in the action tab everything is just screwed up.... any suggestions?? As of right now im using the skeletal rig that came with Version 13 but should I just make one of my own? here is what he looks like
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Hi, I've been looking around the forums for answers to my problem with the "Trouble Loading HDR" error, when I try to import an HDR as an image in v15.g. I saw a post in which Yves Poissant said that it is not an "HDR file format" one imports, but a "High Dynamic Range Data" image. Can anyone elaborate on this? Essentially, I want to import High Dynamic Range pictures like the "Galileo" and "Uffizi Gallery" images from the "Debevic" site to work with creating lighting environments for my models. Any help would be appreciated. Tim R.
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