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hopefully should Be simple , i have a convoy rolling down a road when they get blow up as the survivors look to wards a hill with a road on it this mega tank slowly rolls over the top through a red Haze created by all the fire. only problem is i don't know how to make a haze
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I was looking around for different sites for Motion capture data in the BVH format. This is a good site: http://www.bvhfiles.com/ If anyone else can find a good site than post it in this thread. Cheers!
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im trying to render a video of the starship enterprise . it rotates from a black hole towards the camra, when the key frame or counter gets to 12 it freezez. it suppose to goto 14 frames, i did set the counter to stop at 14 frames. some times it stops at 11 or 11:20 or higher some times lower but it wont hit 14. i have a 2 gig.60 prossesor pc. i "had" only 512 ram, so i bought a gig ram, and it still didnt wowk please dont tell me i need a nother gig of ram :s any ideas? thx
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I have 10 chapters i am planning to upload (look at This Thread for more info) in the future one at a time and will be each chapter will be posted ASAP after it's completion. I was wondering whats the filesize and usual limit is allowed to upload the chapters on hash.com? I'm planning 10 minute chapters or so. Two part chapters only stress confustion and mess.
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Hello, I know this have been covered before, but I'm not getting it. I followed the tutorial several times, but it does not work for me. I made a simple model. I followed the steps for bounding the bones. But when I apply an action to it, it freaks out! Does v14 resolve any of this? I know I must be missing something, but I have no idea what. Any help would be great! **The biggest problem is the legs, the knees bend backwards. I didn't rotate any bones, so I don't know how that could happen.
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I'm still new at all this, but to all you that have helped me and all you that probably will in the future (haha), a big heartfelt thanks to all the information you guys have given me. Hope all your holidays are great! Steven
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ok i set a 6 point crystal to render as lines but fo some reasion its still rendering the surface as well s the lines is there a way to turn this off.
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how can i correct errors like this correcz.mov
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hi all what are the diferences, advantages and disadvantages of rendering as targa and open EXR.
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Hey Hashers, I added Volumetric Dust for Exercise 6 but it's rendering with very noticable banding. The Help file says to increase the Quality setting for the Volumetric effect to get rid of the banding, but unless my eyes fail me, I can't seem to see it. Can anyone verify this? I'm not sure if this is a bug or I'm just looking in the wrong place. Here's a picture of what I see for my Volumetric Dust properties. I'm running V13 f. thanks! -Jim
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Hi All, New-user here with a first-time post. I'm having a problem with rendering in AM. It used to work fine, but then I lost some of the presets (I only have multipass, sterophonic, and real time left). Then it started locking up the whole program with a blank window when I hit render. Now, it renders in under a second and without the same quality despite being set on "final". Is there a way to reset the render presets, or do I need to reinstall the whole program. Or, any other ideas? Thanks, Pete
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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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I need help attaching this mouth to the body in a way that it will be animateable (not sure if thats a word but it is now). I have been using the Cooper face tutorial which helped a lot with the eyes but I cant really use it for this.
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i need to make some writing and i though it would be ueasyer to use a bollean cuter but aperantly it needs a bone to use , can it be done with out it
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Hello - for some reason I bring the "smoke" in from the library and it isn't emitting anything, I have done it several times before, is there a setting I forgot about that turns it on? Thank you, Eric
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OK i have a project for school in which i need to take a realistic earth model and then zoom into ground level , like the spy satellites in the movies , once it gets to around 200 Feet the ground will change to blue print style rendering . my problem currently is 1 how do i make a realistic earth model , using real map topology, ie Africa and Canada are not joined at the hip 2 how do i zoom in in a realistic manner any help would be appreciated
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I'm having trouble removing a decal I don't like. How do I remove it?
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trying to create a new model, do you make a stright line when adding control points, hit the add key and hold down the shift key while draging the mouse the lines come out with a curve, need help
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I need a really indepth tutorial on sprites and stuff i have looked at others and none seem to help does anyone have one or know one or if you can just help me by telling me stuf that would be great too
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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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is there a way to duplicate a simple shape randomly across a surface?
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When I try to work with sound, AM 10.5 crashes every time. I have made a sound file (wav) and have put this file in the sound library. When I, according exercice 7 "Can you say that", select the dope sheet, type the sound text in the box and klick OK, the dictionary does his work properly and all boxes are grey. As soon as I drag the frame marker in the timeline window, AM crashes directly or after some dragging. WHAT MAY BE THE CAUSE ?
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I am looking for someone to beable to assit me in learning how to use the SynthEyes software
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Ok should be simple im drawing a top down view of a building and using a grid. only problem is that the lines seam to hid behid the grid so in the tod down view you only see parts of the cps and no lines what so ever , is there any way to set the grid to be behind the lines?
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Ok hopefully simple i have a small modle im trying ro render and it has 2 materials attached to it , one is a mud like texture, the other is a green thing i just made up. however due to some factor it takes like 15 minutes to render this small thing. is there any way to reduce the complexity of a material or could i have a setting turned up to high
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Hey has anyone had to deal with this.....I changed a color on a model, and one of the groups was changed that I didn't want to be changed. So I selected it, but it won't change color. Is there a way to reset a color on a group? I thought I could just change the setting and it would change the color.
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Hi again, I'm gradually working my way through the tutorial book that came with the A:M package, I'm on the part where I model a FW-120, but half way through, the pictures I've used for rotoscoping have gone blank, I've tried upping the transparency as it was on 0, but still nothing, help? r4z2
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How can I reduce the inflience of the hip target on the feet target? I'd like to move the feet without so much hip influence.
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Hi, I am new to A:M and I just installed it on my: Vista Home Premium 64bit Service Pack 2 on a HP Pavilion Entertainment Laptop with 4 GB memory and over 120 GB free on the hard drive. The program starts up fine but: 1) When I try to login to the community section of the program using my user name the program locks up and I have to use task manager (says program is not responding) to kill the process. 2) When I try to open a project the program locks up and I have to use task manager (says program is not responding) to kill the process. 3) When I try to load “cloudyskylow.jpg” to a project the program locks up and I have to use task manager (says program is n…
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I try to put two actions one after the other. This is just a two different simple walk cycles. why is that when it jumps to the second action the shoulders turn backwards?
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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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i was wondering if there was a way to set a object to rotate as long as its pose is turned on , i have a mega laser cannon with some rotatin parts and they spin quite fast so rotating this every 2 frams would be quite anoying .
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there is one bone in an action that i want to change by copying and pasting the action to the single bone, but instead, it pastes the entire action to all of the other bones, is there any way to make it so that it only pastes the action to the single bone? thx
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i wanna make some decals, but not know where to begin. guess i suck at that ;; all this time ive been trying to use photoshop to build the stuff, but ive been wondering wondering if theres a program i could use to paint the materials right on the model, that would be awsome
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Hello - I am taking a stab at photorealistic modeling of a person. My question is when it comes to the skin of the face and body what is the best thing to do? Let's say you don't have an actual pic good enough to use the actual photo as a decal. Would us use a material combining 2 "skin" colors - and then use seperate decals possibly for eyebrows? Any help, suggestion or techniques that anyone uses would be much appreciated. Thanks - Eric
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While in tutorial 7: "Can you say that?" I have a recurring problem involving the "S"-type phonemes. I should note that when I first selected "create new dope sheet", it told me there was some problem I didn't understand, a file missing, maybe a dictionary? But it said it would build anyway so I proceeded. Everything seems to be working fine, except when I get to where an S should be in a word, I don't see it: And when I scroll all the way to the left, I finally find the missing phoneme, but I can't click it: Any tips on how to work with this? I've also found I can accidentally create phonemes like this at times by pressing Command-Z (w…
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i was wondering if there is a way to make a material have fire come from it , i know that this is most likely the way its done but i can find out how to do it ,
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I did the AI lip pose perfect! Now I want to move on to the rest... When I do objects lip pose percentage again it opens a new window... I want to work off of the AI pose (and window) and manipulate it into the other poses... All help is appreciated! PLEASE AND THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
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Hi All, I have had Animation Master for a while now but I haven't really done anything with it so I am still just a newbie. What I would like to do is import some objects from DAZ 3D, Poser and AC3D and a few others. What I need to know is, is this possible? If so, how do I do it? And finally, what control will I have over them? Ideally, I would like to scale them and move them within 3D space. For example, take a imported box and have it fly across a room and bounce off a wall. Any help with this will be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Hiroshi01
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when you apply smart skin should i use multiple applications? in other words one smart skin for when the arm is down and another for arm up and yet another for arm forward.....or should i try to do all positions with one smart skin? mike
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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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OK hopefully simple ( though often not) is there a way that i can take a line comprised of 2 CP and ad 3 more at 25, 50, 75 % along the line , i know that you could do something like this on a line thats up and down or sideways but I'm talking like at various angels
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When I scale down the person model down to size to match everything else for my animation animation master either crashes or the bones don't stick to the model then a bunch of errors pop up when I try to fix it (in the choreograph window) Pirate_Animation.prj ERROR_PAGE.doc
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Hey guys. So I have created a live webcam chat room. If you have a webcam and mic you can grab a cam slot and chat, otherwise it doubles as a text chat room. It can be found at http://www.stickam.com/profile/animation It should be up most all the time, note you have to register (free) with stickam.com to use the cam slots. See you there! Oh, and it is called Animation Station.
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Hi everyone! I just got this Animation Master (V 11.1) and I love it!!! I am upto exercise 8: Customized car. When I click on the Sedan.mdl , file (on the AM disk)to open, the A.M. program shuts down. So I copied the file to my desktop to try to open it from the desktop to Animation Master but still the program shuts down. Any suggestions to open these files in A.M.? Thank you.
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Hi, OK I've got my AVI and import issue taken care of, at least for now. Something I don't expect is happening when I add a character and motion to my scene. Basically, I'm just doing the walk and wave exercise from the tutorials with a little different twist. I define a path on my screen, from left to right, and contrain my character to the path. I would like the character to walk down the path to the end and stop. So I add the walk action to the character and set the constrain ease to 100% as it says in the tutorial. Making sure my character has enough walk action to get to the end of the path. When I play the scene everything looks fine. So I set a key…
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this is really funny but could somebody tell me how i can delete a pose i made from the pose slider window
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I'm working on rigging a character and noted that most models have a folder called "relationships" that define bone/null constraints. In an Anzovin tutorial I went through, I made a new action to define bone constraints but it was all outside the model in the end. What is a good resource to learn about constructing a model's constraints internally with relationships? Almost there! Chris =)
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Light Type
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Hello everyone, I am going nuts over this: I put some lights in, and I want to switch what type of light it is. There is no option in the properties menu to change the light type. There is Animate Mode, and Width. The Type is just not there. I am using a Mac, and I'm running 10.4, with Animation Master 2006, with the latest update. Any ideas would help!
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