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Hi - I am having a rigging issue again, I rigged the character using the 2001 skeleton from the library. I would use the new squetch rig, but haven't had enough time to play w/ it to be comfortable - and I need to get this project done. Anyway when I pull the model into an action if you look at the legs they are off center. If anyone knows what I have done wrong, or haven't done with the rigging please let me know. Thanks - Eric
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Hello, I have been having a little problem getting AM to let me import Quicktime Movies into the Action part of the program. I want to be able to sync animation with the Quicktime movie, but I get a message that says either that it is not supported, or it does not like 16 bit Quicktime. I saw the other thread about saving it as a TGA, is there another way as well? Is there a way to use Quicktime files from other programs like Final Cut? I have been able to use Quicktime movies that I have created in AM, but not successful with movies I saved from Final Cut into a Quicktime movie. If someone could shed some light on this that would be great. Thank you very muc…
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ok i need to put together some buildings that are more than just blocks of sorts and was wondering if any one had any hint/tips to make them easyer to work with or construct
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OK heres basically my problem , i need a material that will cover an object to show that an object needs to go here. and as specific as that was ill elaborate. i have a models that has multiple peaces that i will be using in a build your own sword kinda thing , what i would like is before they select a color they can see the blades type ie long and skinny or big and bulky. so i need a material that looks good some what transparent and looks like your building something
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sometime ago i saw a tut on how to move various action to the chr, bit i cant find it ANY more can any one help me out.
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okay so iv'e seen this before but im not getting it. i have 5 cameras. i want camera 6 to be the master or render master. i tried translate to and orient like camera 6 to other cameras but it does not really snap to those views. am i forgeting something? ive done this before so i know it works great...any ideas?
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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 found photos of the exact desert I want represented in my animation, and I feel humbled by the number of subtle shrubs, hills, bluffs, and so on that make the desert what it is. Especially since it is only going to be in the background and does not move, I don't see the sense in modeling all of this from scratch. So now I'm toying with the logistics of animating my A:M components to be most compatible with my photoshopped and then 3-D composited (probably in After Effects) sort of environment. I understand there's a way to render animations with an alpha channel, although I don't know how. I guess that's question number one. Another question is "how to …
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I am a newbie here, and i would like to put video on a surface, and "attatch" it to it....what i have been doing is making my video a layer, then frame by frame moving that layer so that it sits right on my 3d surface. I know there has got to be a better way. Plz let me know any and all suggestions. thanx jay
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is there any way to add a cp weight to a bone, like adding a point?
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I've been lurking for awhile, trying to decide whether to buy A:M or not, and I'm almost persuaded, but have one question (actually two) in mind before committing? 1. Can you "Frankenstein" together models? In other words, if I have a perfectly good head, can I say copy/paste it into another model and still preserve all the relevant bones, poses. smartskin, and muscle movements. 2. Further, if I have a head that I mostly like, but need to modify it, can I cut it in half vertically, then make all the changes I want including bones, poses, smartsking, and muscle movements - then copy/attach it all back into a whole head again? Of course, I know that when pa…
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I would REALLY like to know how to animate a simple Color change on my Model!
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I am total begginer in AM so my question maybe sound silly butt, how to look my objects and characters from profile. I can use move up/down tool. I san zoom in/out and I can spin it arround but how to look it from profile ?
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I know I asked this before, but I can't find my old post. I have the "Fat Guy" model, and he flips over any time I apply an action. I know I can remake actions, but is it easier to just put in a new rig? if so, what folders do I delete on the old rig? Thanks for any help! Andy
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sometimes when i remove stamps from a decal its like all i can see are the splines and control points its as if the base color is missing, or turned off or something how would i remedy this
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Does A.M. run on 64bit OS? Thanks.
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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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So I've been using layers in a toon render for quite some time, and I've been very happy with it. viola! [attachmentid=21446] However, when I do a line only render, I do not get my layer any more. For example: [attachmentid=21445] Is this by plan? Design? If so, how do I make my layer come across fully and have my model be lines only. Inqjiring minds want to know!
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I was wondering if anyone knows of a place that has a complete tutorial/production journal with all the steps of creating an animated short. That's all EDIT *sigh* another thing... copy keyframe and paste mirrorred is jsut not working for me.... everytime I do it, it only affects the toe bones on my character.... I've tried in chor and action, tried everything it seems like. thanks!
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Hi! I am trying to export Eddie with the *.x-export by Obsidian Games to Quest3d. So far so good... everything seems to work very well. So I tried to add a simple eye-lid (just half of a sphere which is bigger than the eye itself. I gave it a bone at the center of the eye and attached it to the head-bone (children of the headbone). Now I made an animation (action). It is looking good in Animation:Master. Then I exported it. That works well too, but somehow the animation on the eye-lid isnt in the right place. The eye isnt covered by the eyelid. It seems like the eye-lid is rotating around some mystic center I didnt specify... it is not the position of t…
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OK working through my material making iv come across 2 different color setting on called diffuse and one called ambiance , whats the difference and what are they best for ?
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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'm planning on modeling a robed character based on the atatched scan (if it works....), I could use anyone's advice on how to model and rig this guy--- i'm thinking about actually making the ends of the arms and the end of the bottom of the robe into cloth....but i'm wondering if that might look weird. anyways, any help at all would be great, i'm a noob and havn't started modeling yet. thanks!
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Several of the tutorials I've found on-line as well as some from the A:M training videos show a color picker on Windows that's much more usable than the one I get when I try to pick colors. How do I turn it on? Is it a plug-in I can download from somewhere? Thanks
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My upgrade arrived today and it's the version with the Yeti on the CD. I already have A:M 2000 (Dennis, but updated to 8.5) on my machine. Do I need to uninstall 8.5 before installing this new version? I have all my old models and related files in a separate work directory away from the program, but I'm assuming there may be some problems pulling files created six years ago into what may be a new file format. Will I need to pull in each old model I want to use, tweak them and resave before doing anything else with them? Will there be anything I should especially look out for, like missing patches?
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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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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 using glow for a bit and it only has an on or off. my model tends to glow too bright. is there some way to control this?
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I have a light in a pose shining at an model. The Pose is turned on The light is set to active it has plenty of intensity. But it does not work? Did the bulb blow out? If I do the same thing in an action it works fine. What is the deal? I should note that I can see the effects of the light in the relationship aka Pose but not when the model is in the chore. And please dont say just do it in an action. That will not work for this.
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I've installed a simple 'One bone in the body-two bones in each wing' and assigned CP's to each bone. When I try to flap the wings, the bird swings around and parts fly off. What am I missing here? [attachmentid=16190]
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Hello, I downloaded the free models pack offered on this site. While most of the model/projects opened fine a lot of them didn't (mostly characters or other models with 'map' files) I just get a windows error and the program shuts down. I have AM 2002. Any reason why this is happening?
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Sorry if this has already been asked, but I can't see the smoke on the hash cd. I also can't see anything when I make a "streak emitter". Do i have something turned off or has anybody heard of this problem? I am using v13.0s.
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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.
Last reply by Rodney, -
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Could anyone tell me how i could animate text?
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Im having a heck of a time with this one. Im working on a planet shot of SATURN and the globe itself is fine but doing the rings is killing me. Found some MAPs for transperancy as well as a separate one's for color. Nothing I cant duplicate my self but the problem is that it is just a cross section of the disk. Basically when you look at it, its just bands of various color or lines contained in a rectangular framed picture ( if you can figure out that discription). I have no idea on how to get the one stamp to repeat itself around a selected axis so that when it renders you get bands of transperancy around the disk. Does that make any sense? I have been beating my …
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> first you have a great render.>>> i was wondering if there is an add on i can use to make the mideling more > clay like.>>> i see other people have made dragons and i do not want to steal there's > instead makeing my own.>>> i am having a hard time with the eyes and the mouth.>>> wvwrytime i try to open the face for eyes the lathed object fails i have > tried 8-16 spins still no good.>>> i want to add bumps after the spin which it very hard to do.
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I just got AM2004 off of ebay and Im trying to get myself familiar with it. But I think I got a pirated version as it did not come with anything but the cd. I will be purchasing a new copy from hash when I get the money. But since I have the program I figured Ill try and learn what I can til I have the cash. I have been trying to do a basic fly through some 3D text and it is really wiggin me out. Are there any tutorial for this? Or should I just start with all the has tutorials and I should be able to figure it out? Any help would be greatly appreciated Blah
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I have the 2007 version of A:M. Using 13.0s. On the extras disc, there is a Penguin.mdl. When I bring that into my choreography, 1/2 his body is in the ground. Do I need to "pull" him up or is there a setting to make the "floor" non penetrable?
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I want my characters eyes to move together with a target but i dont know how to do this. I think it has something to do with Nulls but im not sure. If someone can help me out that would be great. My ant is uploaded if anyone wants to look at it. Ant.mdl
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Ok....I'm heading out of town wed, and will be bringing my laptop to work on this program on the plane. My question is, if I create an action for a character (say the penguin mdl), can I then MOVE that action file I created to my desktop and apply the action to the same model, and it will work? In other words, create it on my laptop, then transfer it to my desktop when I get back. Steven
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i uploaded a video to the A:M FILMS area, and it has been 2 to 3 weeks since i did and it still isn't up there...... i filled out the parts that were required to be filled out, where did i go wrong?
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Hi folks, I am having some difficulty in using an .mov-file as rotoscope or layer. I can see it working as a sequence in the imagefolder but cant set the range in the chor somehow. Whenever I write some bigger values in there it jumps back to a one frame range. What can I be possibly missing here? Thanks for your help.
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i feel dumd asking this but i just downloaded the new am and i also got the data zip file so how do i go about adding this to my am libraries. thanks mike
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simple question is there a way to add a CP to a curved live with out it changing the lines shape?
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OK i better explain myself first, i need to be able to make a part of my model glow but not have the glows fading light at the edge of the model , i don't have a pic to show u of what i need , but maybe think lines of power running along a wall they glow but just enough to light up the whatever there power is flowing through
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Not sure where I should put this. There used to be a tut on Dynamic Constraints (I think it may have been a tech talk) that had several examples. I know it contained THE HUNTRESS as part of the examples with her ear rings and such. I can't locate it any more on the forum. Does anyone know where to find this and the other tech talk downloads please. Thanks, EDIT: As usual, look for a half hour and can't find it. Make a post and find it two minutes later. Thansk anyway.
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ok working on a project that has a lot going on and a lot of item i need lined up , only problem is that said items are not lining up well in the choreograph , is there any way to snap to grid in the choreo window?
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i have seen allot of people in the wip and TWO sections do a white render on there work but when ever i try to do the render it doesn't look like the whit renders i have seen on the forum i'm guessing that the renders are a radiosity setting or some kind of A.O. but can one of you tell me the settings to use?
Last reply by Rodney, -
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I have always had issues with the library when I install A:M. After I downloaded v.15, I installed it. everything seemed to be fine. I didn't notice any duplicate library stuff. I then downloaded the 'big' data file. I erased the original data folder from my A:M 15 folder and moved the new 'big' folder into it's place. Now, in most of the library folders, everything shows up twice. How do I get rid of the duplicates?
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Hi all, I want to show all my controls for my character on the dopesheet (keyframe sheet) because I need to key them all for each pose. So I am using the 'tack' function but everytime I go to another control, the others disappear on the dopesheet. How can I prevent this from happening? Also, other than moving (jiggling) the other bones that are not being moved, is there a way to set them automatically when you set one of the other controllers? Thanks
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