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I am a newbie but I have been doing pretty good with the tutorials. I have been trying them first out of the book and then watching them online to pick up some extra tips, etc. However I can't seem to find an online version of Exercise 11, Giraffe. Does anyone know where I can find one? I am having some trouble following the book and could really use a visual tutorial. Thanks, Robbin
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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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reminds me of the 60s with the flower power and all that. had fun making it though. flower_power.prj.zip
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don't know if this is the right place to post this but for my war of the worlds short i need some sound effects what i need at the moment is a good sounding heat ray sound effect i wont one that sounds like a real one i don't want any of the old sounding ones from like the 80s or like the 1953 war of the worlds (hope i'm not asking to much on that one) and a foot stomping sound that sounds like a gigantic metallic object is stomping on the ground thats about it hope i'm not asking for to much there
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here's my effort at the sedan, I had a lot of trouble getting the coluor on the wheels for some reason. sedan2.mov
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I purchased Animation Master a long time ago but I'm trying to get back into it. I purchased David Roger's Animation Master 2002 Handbook to learn the features of Animation Master but I noticed he is publishing a new edition in May. I was wondering if anyone knows how this edition will be different than the previous edition. I was very impressed with the previous edition and wish to add this book to my collection. Thank you.
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I'm very sorry if this issue was discussed. I have the edition of Animation Master with the Gorilla on the CD. How is this edition different than the new Yeti edition. I plan to upgrade but I just want to know the new features and changes to the program. Thank you.
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Well this is my version of "can you say that", I think the first part, the eyes moving from side to side, is a bit to fast, but I don't know if there is any way of adding frames to the begining of the animation so that I can move the key frames to slow it down a little. a_secret_2.zip
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When I click on add mode to draw my outline when ever i want to place a certain point it wont do it unless its on a corner of the grid. I want to be able to place it any where on the grid not just the corners. I figure its just a setting and I cant seem to find where to turn it off.
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I hope this post is in the right place, I'm a new user and am not sure how to post. I've completed a few of the tutorials and would appreciate some feedback to see how I'm doing. Iv'e tried posting before so if I've put anything up wrong I am sorry. I've just realised this is put up as exersice7 and should be exercise6, sorry about that.[attachmentid=16028] through_the_door.mov
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Yep, it's time to update my OSx version ... been cutting my teeth off 10.5/11.0 ... what exactly do I need to do, who do I need to contact? My USB dongle will need to be updated also. Any and all help appreciated. TIA!
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Hello again, I have extracted some models and textures out of one of my favorite video games. They were in .tri format. I converted them to .3ds, .lwa or .obj. The textures to them when theyre converted dont stick as they are supposed to (my fault on programming). So they end up as .dds (direct draw image) All the UV map coordinates are in that dds file and should just lay right on but some how they dont in 3ds max. Now for .obj When i attach textures to the model then convert it to .obj, it leaves a .mtl file with it. It contains all the texture information and material stuff and jazz like that. Now for my question, is .dds or .obj supported in A:M. If …
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i made this funny animation for a movie site me and some of my friends are starting http://youtube.com/watch?v=tiBLwYkgr2Q i let me know what you think if this is the wrong place to put it then show me were the right place to put it is
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Hello, Any time there are four points that are comprised of two splines, a face is created. Some of these faces I don't want. Now, I know that I can get rid of them by adding a fifth vertex, but this creates a good deal of complication as the fifth vertex breaks the adjacent face (which I want to keep), which I have to deal with by adding more vertices, and creating more polys than I wanted to. so, to make a long story short, is there any way to make a face go away? For example, select it with the face selection tool, and then _do something_ to disable it ? Thanks!
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While working through this exercise I have found that when the animation is played the door starts slowly opening from frame one until the end of the sequence even though I have not animated it until the middle of the sequence. How would I make it so that the door does not move until the middle of the sequence? Thank you for your help.
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Completed exercise1 I hope there is no time restrictions on completing exercises for certificate as I am only home at weekends as work gets in the way
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What's going on? There's no libraries. When I open the library file from the disk I get the message that there is an "invalid library file". I've only had AM for a week. What do I do?
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Ive put a walk cycle onto a path, but I wanted to adjust the speed. I tried increasing the 'chor length' and 'cycle length'. I think thats what they are called. Anyway, that was great for slowing it down, but when I tried to speed it up again, this time by reducing those parameters I lost part of the cycle. ie, part was truncated.. then my character slides the remainder of the path, where once, he walked.. Do I really have to be so linear in my work-flow? Im sure theres a way to change the speed without this problem.
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John Bailey Exercise 2 4/11/06 http://media.putfile.com/Exercise2 How can I make them dance longer? If I extend the time range, they dance slower, and if I add key frames they stop at 2 seconds and just stand there like dummies for the rest of the time.
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I want a clutch of these motorcycles to run through a scene with their headlights [and red tail lights] on. So far, as I look through manuals, A:M can make a halo-type glow around the object, but I see nothing on how to simulate an object that is emitting light. I did a fair approximation by creating a cube, coloring it yellow-orange, installing a light inside it and setting the cube's Translucency to 50%. Is there a better way? [attachmentid=16039]
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John Bailey Exercise 3 4/12/06 [attachmentid=16043] Have I found the right place to post? I think I've also figured out how to get a jpg. My first one was a screen print.
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I did it. [attachmentid=16032]
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Is there anyway to recreate a plasma ball in Animation Master? Like electric bolts of various colors contained in a glass sphere?
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Hi, My name is Jennifer. I have been wanting to learn as much as I can on animation master, so my dad said that I should try doing TAoA:M. My dad is a childrens' educational software writer, and he is using animation master to write his science program.
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I did exercise one "you're the director" Here's all that i've got, I guess that's all there was to that!!! [attachmentid=15973]
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any one have a good tutorial on how to use the booline cutter? oh yea sorry if i spelled it wrong typed this in a hurry
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What is the best way to add beveled edges to a model after it has been created? Thanks Steve
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John Bailey Exercise 1 4/10/06 Here's my first submission. Hope everything works. I wasn't quite sure what the assignment was exactly, so the I just formed the pose by using only the Pose sliders. I did cheat a little to get both of Keekat's feet aligned on the ground (the rig slider leaves his right foot slanted and that bothered me). I didn't animate him. http://media.putfile.com/Exercise-1-44
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Any thoughts on how to achieve SSS and ambient occlusion effects on skin? Are there any recommended skin material settings or techniques that have become most useful in AM? All the best to AMasters, Michael Angelo
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I have been using V. 12 for while with no problems. All of sudden today, the program loads, but immediately crashes almost like it is timed to stop working. I have V. 11.1 and that works fine. I have the Yeti disk. I uninstalled V. 12 completely and then reinstalled -- same thing. As an aside, I tried to install V. 13 about two months ago, but could not get it to work -- it did the exact same thing. Does anyone have any idea what the problem may be? If I hold down shift so nothing loads with the program, it stays up for slightly longer, but will crash if I try to do anything. I'm in the middle of a project that I need to get done, so any help would be grea…
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I was wondering where I might find tutorials on version 13's newest features, especially simcloth, the compositor and hdri lighting. Thanks for any links or instructions. Sincerely, Michael p.s. I asked last week but could not find my posting to see if there was a response.
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I've looked all over the forum and can't find anything that addresses this problem - Rabbit's legs wont Paste Mirrored. After frame 15, his ears, arms, feet and toes all swing along nicely (the feet sort of look like they're flailing about) but the legs stay in the same position they were in at frame 15. Jason told me that I have to move the leg bone to set a key frame for it. I went through all of my key frames moving the feet up and down and rotating them. Then I rotated the pelvis which moved the legs around a bit. I even rotated the knees with the arrow keys. I rebuilt the exercise from frame 1 along with the video tutorial, step by step. The instructor's Ra…
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I am a new user, and while trying to model a character, I have encountered many problems. In a nutshell, the whole thing is very overwhellming. I would appreciate any advice any experianced modelers here have to offer. Also, if anyone has a cool model they want to donate, that would be awsome! Many thanks.
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I'm having a bit of trouble getting this to work. I want to delete this patch in here, but it won't work! If you look in the little square you'll see the selected patch... VVVVVVVVVVVV
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I'm thinking about buying A:M for a dinosaur movie I have in the works. Is this software good for that, and how hard would it be exactly. PS: Dont show me the t-rex chasing a car video, ive seen it!
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In all the versions of help I've found, the Java table of contents crashes. Java doesn't crash on anything else. It looks like it's looking for privleges and not giving me a chance to grant them. Why I don't know. Is there any version of the TOC that doesn't rely on Java? I'm using... Version 1.4.2_04 (build 1.4.2_04-b05) Copyright 2003 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. Use is subject to license terms. (Also, any advice on where to get help on the 101 little problems I seem to be running into with learning the program? For example, attaching two parts of a model changing the colors assigned to patches, what all the different frobs mean in the…
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HOW DO U MAKE THOSE SUN RAYS UNDER WATER? anyone know?
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when ever i'm in shaded and wire frame mode the CPs are black and they don't change color when i select them and when i'm in a coragraphy or action the bones are black and they blend in to well with eachother and its hard for me to tell wich bone i have selected what do i do?
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I have looked and looked and can find no information on how to control the box that lets items come in front of and go behind other objects. I can fool around and eventually get the item I want in front where I want it, but I can not seem to find the key that does this with any consistancy. Where would I look for this information? Thanks, Lucine
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Hi to all from Italy. I hope someone can help me. I often model half a face and then I Copy/Flip/Attach. If the point of the central spline are not exactly in 0 (in X axis when I am in the front view) Copy/flip/attach sometimes doesn't work. So my question is: how can I have all the points of a selected splines at exactly 0 in x axis? I discovered that if all the points are in, for istance, 1cm and I select the spline and write 0 all the points move to 0. But if the points are not all in the same position in x axis (1 point at 1,01cm, 1 point at 1,04 etc...) it doesnt work. Another question: I need to export my models in polygons to work in other softwares. I…
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I have a model that's getting too complex, so I'm hiding huge chunks of it while I work. this means that sometimes there are CPs visible but the spline running through them is not. When drawing a new spline, is there any way I can force a new CP to attach to one of these CPs? As an example of the problem: lathe a four-point circle and extrude it twice to make a cylinder. Select the middle spline circle and hide the rest. Break the spline twice and delete the two remaining splines. Try to attach a CP from a new spline.
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What shapes work best, to get the type of emitting you need. I've tried many shapes, each get a different emitting. egg, flat bull's eye, ball, cone, cube, etc. also is there a way to controll which part of the emitter shape does the emitting? Thanks, Chip
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I've got a few shorts I'd love to upload, but the hash upload page hasn't been right for me as long as I've tried. For example, here's a copy-and-paste of the upload page: humbnail: Byg to allow A:M Films viewerso save it, copy it, or s your own, and that yogement or copyrig Animation Info - Step 2 "yogement?" "copyrig?" Is this me? My attempts to upload have failed. Any suggestions?
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I want to preface my question with the comment that when you think you've found a bug in something very basic, usually it means you have a flawed understanding. In a choreography, numerous times I've needed to copy and paste a block of keyframes and I've been unable to get them to paste exactly where I want it to go. For example: [attachmentid=15565] After selecting some keyframes that I want to paste elsewhere, I've tried setting the frame number to where I want the keyframes to go and then do a paste: [attachmentid=15566] Now, when I captured these images, it was my intention to show my problem. That is, the keyframes only approximated going t…
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I just spent alot for upgraded hardware and the rendering time is mush slower. My old system of a 1.7g CPU and 1gbite of ram will render a section of my model in 2 sec. The new computer which supports a 2.9 ghz CPU and 2 Gbite of ram takes 2 minutes for the same selection. The old computer is using a GForce 5500 AGP board and the new computer has a ATI 600 board. WHAT did I do wrong?
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Hello Sorry if this has been covered, Ive searched the forum but been unable to find a solution. Im simply trying to mirror smartskins, but after I perform the `mirror all smartskins` operation, all I get is a new -but empty- smartskin folder. On the original side I can find a folder containing all of the modified splines, but on the mirrored side, the smartskin folder is just empty. Ive also tried deleting smartskins on other models, on one side only, then using `mirror all smartskins` to get them back, but I get the same problem. I dont know what Im doing wrong, as its worked for me in the past (some how). Any ideas? Thanks
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how do i make .MOVs loop so they keeps replaying?
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I have made the models and the actions and now in the chroeography I am putting together my movie. But when I want to add a new model in the middle of my action, say at about the 5 sec spot, the item I add then flys in off the side and moves around during the first part of the movie where I don't want it. How do I add something later in the footage without it being in the first part. Thanks for any help. Lucine
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I am using AM2006, the yeti CD. I downloaded the AM2000 & AM2001 files from the Hash FTP. I created a library file for AM2000 and gave all the models thumbnails. Then I was doing the same for AM2001. After spending a long time doing this, I noticed the "Vehicles\Land" folder was missing. Then, right before my eyes, the "Vehicles\Sea" folder disappeared as well. I went back and checked the AM2000 library and the same thing had happened there too! I panicked and closed AM quickly. When I reopened it and browsed my libraries, I found those folders as well as a couple of others had mysteriously relocated themselves into my "props\weapons\blade" library folder. …
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In my country ( netherlands ) there is a legal am 2006 for sale, because it's to complex for the person. License is three weeks old. Can somebody tell me if the license can be transferred to a new user ?, and what is used as a protection for am 2006. If people are user off the am 2006 version will he be able to get a free copy off ver 13 if it is coming out this year ? Thanks in advance Greets from the netherlands.
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