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I'm in the midst of upgrading from AM:99 to AM2007 and have a question. I can't seem to get one camera to see another camera's front projection. Is that by design? I want to project an image on a sphere with one camera and record it with another. I know it sounds a little strange, but I'm doing this to composite a few different live shots together in 3D. Can anyone shed some light on this? Thanks, Eric.
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I created a landscape using the terrain wizard and wanted to populate it with flowers. I decided to use the crowd flock and tested it with 16patch spheres 1st from the primitives library. I did a quick test render and sure enough there were the spheres floating just above my landscape. I then used the "flock to surface constraint" to constrain the spheres to the landscape surface. Sure enough, after scrolling through the frames a bit, the spheres moved onto the surface in my choreography window. When I did a test render, much to my confusion, some horrible great big black shadow things had appeared on the landscape, as though some massive thing was casting a shadow. I…
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What I'd like is a toggle switch for simple, repetitive actions - like a spinning doodad on a prop or a character breathing. I've been playing around with stuff, digging through the manual and searching the forums... either I'm missing something obvious or this isn't something that you can do. Thanks!
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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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This is driving me nuts. I set up a new choreography, added elements, lights, characters, etc. Did the animation, now I want to make changes and nothing will let me select it. Nothing is locked, I can't change anything. Does this mean the file went bad?
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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 - 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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Have tried all the free video players I could find online and still can't find one that plays in "real time", but then used AMs ablility to read in sequences of numbered images and when you open the loaded image/sequence and hit the play button it plays great the first time but then will only play in hyper speed but it's still better than the results of all those players I tried before. I've had terrible luck trying to get all those free video players to read in image sequences as a single clip (even with a toggle button "read in as single clip" is activated) I know that the speed of your computer is most important but then why do all the Youtube videos play smo…
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Hi - I did something wrong when rigging this character (newbie rigger) - I used the 2001 Skeleton from ex 13 in the manual. Below are two images - one of the skeleton, and one of the char brought into an action - she if offset to the left as you can see - can anyone tell me what I did wrong. Thank you - Eric
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So I'm working through the different tutorials and right now I'm designing the flower. The problem I'm running into is my stem/bud won't move with the bones, but it seems everything else does. I've attached a picture of moved bones and the stationary stem/bud. Any ideas? flower.bmp
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i made an animation in the action window, when i played it in the chro it played to a certain frame and stop there what can i do to make it play the entire frame range of frames.
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OK iv done a lot of fooling around with making materials but know i need a material that has a metal effect to it any suggestions on how to get that
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Hi Everyone, I need to add a New Model (mdl) and a New Sound (wav) into the library on my hard drive. I tied to copy and paste the files into the appropriate directories, but they Do Not show up as a thumbnail. Each time I open the progam, I can never see them in the libraries window even though they are physically in that directory. Has anyone else run into this before? Thanks, Bob
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hi guys! block 02 is now available! REGARDS!
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ok i have a model ripped from a game and unfortunatly its in poly mode and as most of you have told me just rebuold it from scratch , so this s what im going to do , one thing i would like is to be able to take the polygon model and lock it in place so i can see it but cant click on it or select it , any one know how to do this as im sure its going to bea real easy but i cant find out how to do it right know
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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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Hi all After using AM for modeling for over two years I'm embarrased to say this is my first attempt at actual rigging. Since I've primarily been using AM for background shots for a comic strip. This has been working great except that I hadn't been able to certain focal shots because the walls kept getting in the way. I finally decided to try and solve this problem by rigging the set so i could swing the walls out of the way of the camera whenever the need arose. (see attachment) It mostly worked except at that the walls appear to be attached to the floor and distort it every time I move them. Other than making the floor a separate model, is there an…
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This is probably staring me right in the face, but can some one please tell me how to remove a pose slider from the Pose window? I have been unable to find any way of doing this, other than manually editting the project (.prj) file. Thanks in advance... Al
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Hello all, I have a character that I want to have them write on a board, or wall. Does Animation Master have tools to animate that? or do I have to use Adobe After effects? Any ideas? Thanks!
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I've created an action from a BVH motion capture file and tailored it to work well with the Gala female model from the A:M library. The animation looks fine in the action window and also looks right if I apply it to the Gala model in the Choreography on frame 0. If however I move the action to start on frame 100 in the choreography it no longer works correctly. The model slides all over the place and all of the translations and rotations seem wrong. The further the action is away from frame 0 in the choreography the worse the effect is. I want to be able to apply more than 1 Mocap derived action to the model within the choreograpy, the 1st action will work fine on fr…
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im using the tool know as a rotoscope to help we draw some items but for the life of me i cant get the rotoscope to show more that what seams like 25% transparancey is there a way to change this to 100% as i am using a pict with may dark colors and they are not usable when its dimed
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How do you create text in animation master v13 I need really cool text.
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Got a general question about walk cycles. I have fought these things from the beginning so I want to make friends with them. Say I'm making a short with a very charismatic preacher on stage pacing back and forth. Each of his walk paths are of varying lengths and sometimes it's a stroll; sometimes he's walking a little faster. Can I use the same walk cycle for each of these? If I set the starting and ending frame for each time he walks, will it adjust his walk speed and keep his feet from slipping? The last time I tried to do this he would take one step and then slide along the walk path. I hope am able to figure out why that was too.
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Ok I have an action (works great!) I have tweaked all settings I can find but I need the action to start at frame 15021 and all I can seem to get to work is it starting at frame 00000 Thanks! Gene
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First off WELCOME! I came here to this program and these forums around one year ago. Biggest lesson I learned was to listen to the advice you find here. An enormous wealth of knowledge just flows here. And the ease at which these folks here give out solutions or advice is amazing as well. My point basically is........................ This forum is as valuable to you as that A:M cd. Maybe more so. Again.........WELCOME! Gene Spleengene Animations (A NONprofit Studio LOL)
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Ok, I know this can be done but I can't remember how.....I have several lights and cameras set up. How do I turn off the direction lines or what ever they are called, so my work space is not so cluttered. I don't mean turn off the camera, but the lines that show where it is pointed.
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it the actual animation mode how do you change a path , i put one down in top view but need it to go up a hill but cant get it to do so
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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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I first bought AM in 1999. Upgaded in 2002 (v9 ?). Ran on various PCs. Took a break for a few years but ready to start again. Bought subscription for v15 and installed on a Vaio VGC-RA830G. running great and getting reaquainted. Now for a few questions: 1. I have a Mac notebook. I tried to install v9 using my CD but it won't install. Since I originally installed it on a PC is that license only good on PC's? 2. Assuming I need to buy another subscription, how will the performance be. It is a MacBook (not pro) 2.2 ghz Intel Core 2 duo processor. 2GB memory with 4 MB L2 cache. Is this adequate or is performance going to be agonizing? Thanx, looking for…
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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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Anyone else having this problem? I'm running on a MacBook Pro if that helps with the diagnosis. The clip just shows up black. image sequences seem just fine though.
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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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is there some sort of Animation Master back up file thing that saves the last file that you have been working on every 10 minutes or so
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all right my first real movie has hit a bit of a problem , i have one part where for lack of a better word a motor cycle jumps off a hill and lands in some sand causing a track and a bit of a indent , only problem is the sand itself is a pretty basic flat plane with the texture on it , is there a way that an object in the way of the indent i would want could push the surface into the shape i want with out remodeling the ground ?
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Been using AM for more than just a few yrs. and still having trouble understanding action blending. Does the blending function mean how it blends with previous or next actions? I understand the transition to next action when you have a gap from one to another but doesn't have anything to do with the blending directly, right? Been trying to match the end of a saved action with a chor. action (just one lousy arm) and thought that just entering the rotation numbers from the position in the chor. into the last keyframe of the saved action would work but just whacked everything out. Been trying to duplicate the problem in a smaller chor. file but can't even get that …
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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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Hi - I am trying to animate a character doing a 360 degree turn, and I noticed the root bone is not in the center of the char. How do I move the root bone independly w/o moving all the other bones? Thanks - Eric
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I am trying to find tutorial on how to texture clothing. Not just simple textures but fine details and patterns.No luck so far.
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OK I was foolish and somehow I lost my models toolbar. All the other toolbars show up as they should. Checking or unchecking the model toolbar box in the toolbar portion of the view menu has no effect. Do I have to reinstall? I'm running v14 on an win XP setup. I suppose this could be the program's way of making me remember all the keyboard shortcuts. Thanks, Alan
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I am making a scene with fog and clouds with some particle animation in mind... basically a wind storm. Someone point me there. - Justin
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I'm making a palm tree....one of the tutorials on my DVD, anyway, I got the cookie cut to work, but there is a faint outline of the square tar. file. Also, after making the tar with the alpha channel in photoshop, the color is gone. I know I must be missing something here.
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Hi - I created a small round hair ball creature with eyes for a scene that I brushed and lengthened some of the hairs, and when rendered from the model view it is fine, but when I drop the character in the chor - all the hairs are not brushed or modified - what did I do wrong? Thank you.
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Somebody 'splain this to me.
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i want my camera to swing around an object while facing it the whole time, but when i tried, every frame turns the camera further away. i tried going to the last frame and pointing the camera to it but it didnt work...how can i do it?
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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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I would REALLY like to know how to animate a simple Color change on my Model!
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ok heres the deal 1 have one tank modle comprised of a base bone the turret and the gun barrel i have it sit still from time 0 to 5 seconds from 5 to 10 seconds the turet moves left 45 degrees then right 90 then back left 45 from 10 to 15 seconds the barrel does the same thing only up and down and from 15 to 20 seconds the tank moves forware out of frame as far as a know this was simpal but when moving through the animation using the preview bar starting from frame 0 it starts moving forward and the 2 seperate turret movments are combined as well , what am i doing wrong
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I'm going thru the tutorials (Tutorial 7/Lip Sync), and when I CTRL+Click (using Mac version 15.0b) to find New->Dope Sheet, there isn't a Dope Sheet in the menu...everything else, but no Dope Sheet. Is it still there?! Thanks!
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Here's a good one. I'm building a model of a house that has a corrugated iron roof. Part of the roof is orientated say north/south and the other east/west. I applied to the entire roof decals that mimic corrugated iron sheets and in 'shaded' mode all the stamps (approx 50 in number) are visible. I then open a choreography and import the model, set the camera, lighting, etc and do a quick render (Q + click in the window) and find the stamps on the east/west section have disappeared. The only difference between the two main sections of roof is that the east/west section being made of three adjoining surfaces angled differently, I had to hide two while applying decals so as …
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like the title says i tryed to make a streaks material but when every i turn on the show particals it gives that error and its getting really anoying
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