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This last area is likely the source of much confusion because many see the A:M Forum as the official outlet for Hash Inc... and it is. But the forum is not designed for conducting business and private matters best resolved by going to Hash Inc directly. Similarly, bug reports are best resolved by entering them directly into the A:M Reporting system.
Many problems can be easily addressed at the user level just by asking fellow users in the forum. If someone at Hash Inc suggests the forum as a source, it is very likely a problem can be easily resolved. For tougher issues there is even more reason to take the issue directly to the source... you don't want the issue discussed... you want it resolved quickly.
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Thanks for making the A:M Forum a great community.
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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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A couple of times now, I've tried to use copy/flip/attach and it does what it implies but it does it on the y axis instead of the x axis. Is there a way of controlling which axis the CFA follows ?
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Can some one kindly point me in the direction or provide a link to a rainbow material? Or color wheel material? something like that will do.
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Every time I install a new update, and start my program AM says password invaild? Also when I click on help in the program is says it,s not installed. 1st where can I find and install the help file 2nd how can I have the program remember my Name and password for the community thing.
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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 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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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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How do I actually get a video for rotoscoping purposes to play inside AM? Yes I have converted to .mov file. Thanks for any 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'm working on a project and need to get a 3d model of a pith helmet - anyone know where I can find one?
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ok i have an action that im tring to make where a fan blade turns 90 degrees , its a 4 bladed fan and its going pretty fast , i need to know if there is some way to make sure that it dose not monentaraly stop when repeting
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if any one has played halo 2 you know what i mean with when you go into a flood infested area i has a brown hase any one kno whow to make this
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This is odd... I have been using the "copy keyframe" and "paste mirrored" creating a walk cycle for a chacter and it has been working fine - then for some reason it will not "paste mirrored". It doesn't paste anything. I have shut down AM and restarted it, and also rebooted the computer and still have the problem. Has anyone ever had this problem?
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Hi - I created a blobbies material/emitter with one attribute w/ a diffuse color of white - for some reason I am getting small black specs that I don't want in there. It is supposed to be teeth shaving from a dental drill. I want them to be white/lite grey. I also have a 90% transparency set. First time I have played around w/ blobbies, so I don't really know what I am doing... but that really isn't anything new. Thanks Eric
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On occasions, the Shaded, and Shaded Wireframe, image in the Modeling Window appears to have a high intensity light illuminating it, and it's difficult to see what's going on. Other times, not. What causes this? [attachmentid=16750]
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after getting the upgrade i am missing models most noticable the gia girl model where can i get these back
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Alright, so anyways, im still working on the fighter modeling tutorial, and im coming across a really anooying problem. I cant see the scaling box, i did before a second ago, when i decaled the left side, but then i made the decal again and i cant scale it at all. any help please? this is a photo of the decal thats showing, if i put my mouse on it, yes i can move it, but i cant scale it. Edit: alright i was messing around a bit and it seems i can see the scaling box, on the left view (numpad 4) but not on the right side (numpad 6). also on numpad 4 i cant exactly see the little control points on the scaling box, and the only was i can s…
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I just uninstalled my old version 13 and installed version 15 and now when I select help all I get is the pop-up dialog box that says "failed to launch help". Anyone know what is going on and how to fix??
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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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is it possible to move a group of bones together? at the moment it seems i can only resize a grp working from the parent bone.
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Hi, I am working on a project and need to create animation using Washington DC as my background. I am new to AM and can't seem to get AM to talk to windows movie maker. I made a flag and need to place it with my pictures into movie maker. Can it be done? Need answer ASAP. Thanks.
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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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I rendered out a shaded wireframe AVI of my chroegraphy - a landspeeder driving round a crater. Everything looked OK so I set it to work on a final, multipass version as a series of TGAs (for the alpha - the crater is "live action") and went to bed. Just before the halfway mark, for three frames, there is a big jitter in the placement of the vehicle and its transparency. I think that it's something to do with the rotation around Y passing the 360 degree mark, and over the four passes it's coming out as a different position. I don't know why it should flash about the frame so wildly, though. There are no keyframes at that point. I've attached a render of four sec…
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Hi - the other day I posted asking if you can export a model as a .3ds and I was told yes. My new question is - can you export a fully rigged model and have someone pull it into 3Ds and animate it using the AM rig? Thanks, Eric
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I have a couple minutes of animation, by my estimate, about a week's worth of rendering, and I'm going away for the weekend. Is there a way I can set my computer up to just "go!" while I'm away?
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I just installed A:M and it won't let me use any any of the projects that came with the program. It shows the file with a picture of a question mark and when I click on it it says file not found. What do I do?
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Every frickin' year same thing. I pay for an update, got the activation code and cannot download the install exe. What am I doing wrong? Any help appreciated.
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Can anyone link me too any good materials tutorials? - I am trying to figure out the basics of creating them. Here is a link to a really good one, but a little advanced for me at this point. http://www.colins-loft.net/free/mats/Demon_Skin_Material.htm Thankyou - Eric
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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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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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ok i know how to use the pose option to move a model into a pre defined postion , during a few of the much appreceated help topics iv put up plp have said to use a action to get something to do something , i dont know how to set one up or even how to get started , any help would be most appreceated
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This is a specific file for someone to show how a single 4 point patch is created [attachmentid=20384] TickTack.zip
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Greetings; I hope someone here can give me some advice. I am considering purchasing animation master. I am a professional clown and magician, so it would be fun for me to learn a new skill that will help me express my creative side, but I am primarilly considering buying it for my teenage kids. My son is deep into comics, not much of an artist but has lots of ideas he has trouble getting on to paper because he can't draw. My daughter just learned how to use a graphics program and loves creating new pages and posters. Both kids are comfortable with computers and drag and drop graphic software and with acid, the software I use to create music. Is animation master som…
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hi, i made a character and i m animation it. how will i isolate all the bone and constrain the character to 2 diffrent null bones . 1 bone for verticle rotation asnd the other 1 for horizontal rotation. help needed. thanks.
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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 i made a try with making hair and have wound up with what looks like a decent head made out of tubes with points at the end , my question is what would be the best way to texture the modle to look like hair , preferably a red head deal
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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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I'm looking for a page turn type of thing again... I think I asked this before a long while back. I'd like to be looking down at stack of pieces of paper, and have the top page curl from the right lower corner to the upper left, revealing the next page. Would it be better/easier to do this as a cloth, or with a series of bones from upper left to lower right? In my ideal world, the first page would flip, exposing the rear of that page as it passes the camera, then showing the next page in the stack. "I'll hang up and listen" = I'm doing a search again while waiting for a reply.
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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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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'm having a bit of a problem with a model I'm working on. Some of the CPs & splines are pale blue, not the usual red/white combo. I can't select the CPs (even with {Ctrl-A}). The attached image shows the problem areas, surrounded by red splodges. I think what I'm doing wrong is something very basic, but I can't begin to think what it is. Any of the experts care to shed some light...?
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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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To all the community, im asking a favor, please hear this file because this is a test of a translation we are making of our spanish speaking tutorials, we aremaking our best effort to release it in this languaje,and we want to know if our english is understandable. REGARDS PD This file is JUST a test 01.mp3
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Hi again - When you have 2 sentences for example the KeeKat tutorial: "I have a secret. Can you keep a secret" Between the two sentences there is a pause, but my characters mouth is slowing starting to open during the pause. How do I keep his mouth completely shut until the second sentence starts "Can you keep a secret"?
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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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its a bit strange but i cant seem to add more splines in ver 14 after i draw a basic trace on a rotoscope i want to add more points but they dont seem to want to attach...any one having this same issue?
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Hi - I'm working on a gorilla model and posted in the work in progress forum and David Simmons mentions a few things including the hair- "I'm not sure about the hair or the chest scars in these renders. In these renders, it looks like the hair could be thickened at its' base and the scar could use a bump or displacement map" How do you thicken the hair at the base? I am looking in the Technical Reference - and it mentions "the thickness can vary along it's length" - I am in AM in the "properties" of the hair system - and it just has a "Thickness" with a percentage, but nothing about the thickness over the length (thicker at the base) Any help to clear this…
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Hi - looking to create the effect of light shining back and forth through some text or around text maybe - just curious if someone had an example that they could show of something they have done to give me a visual for ideas. Thank - E
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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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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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