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Is the Community pane working in v18n? I have changed my name and p/w, tried to login/join, but it keeps saying bad password.
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See Attached image. Missing a dll file. Suggestions? iMac Windows 7
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Hey, Do I need to buy two licenses if I want to install AM on both my laptop and my desktop? Thanks, Jax
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Hello everyone Do I need to buy two licenses if I want to install AM on both my laptop and my desktop? Thanks for help.
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Hello, I just requested a trial of Animation Master and, while I wait to see if I'm approved or declined, I was wanting to look at some of what is being done with the software these days. Most of what I've found online seems to be older stuff from upwards of 10 years ago. I know the program has improved a lot since then from reading the info on the website, so I was curious to see some current work created with it? So, show off your stuff! Let's see what this can do! Thanks
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Anyone know how to cure the effect of an object spinning with increasing speed until it looks like its going in reverse? Like movies of propellers and wheels. Other than just slowing it down to a crawl. Had tried to come up with a way of making the chain advance along a path using expressions but just animated the chain & sprockets separately. Thanks in advance. Sprocket01.avi
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Over the transom... Each of those is a deep topic, but.... CP weighting allows you to apportion the influence of more than one bone to a CP, rather than having it rigidly attached to just one bone. This is useful for the stretches and shrinks that surfaces between bones do, such as at the elbow or knee. Fan bones are another way of creating that in-between behavior, but slightly different outcomes than CP weighting. At the Sept 26, 2020 Live Answer Time I showed several comparisons of fan-boning and CP weighting. We talked abut rigging and CP weighting quite a bit last year at LAT. Several of those might be worth watching. my tutorials…
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Hello All, I am new here. I just use Hash recently. Just to say Hi to all
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Right clicking on an action (Actions folder) shows a "shrink length" function but does nothing or i just don't know how to use it. Any help appreciated.
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So I wanted to use a bone connected to a simple model to cut a hole through the side of a vehicle that has a Darksim Material on it. 1. I went to the "Boolean" bone's properties and turned "Boolean Cutter" to "ON." 2. I did both final renders and progressive renders and the boolean doesn't seem to work. Did I forget a necessary step......or might some misfortune have happened to A:M's boolean function?? Detbear
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Adding Sound
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How do I add a sound clip to a video?
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Hi, I'm interested in getting into Animation Master, I have very little experience with modelling software (only Sketchup) but would like to use Animation Master for some top down game dev. I'm working on a top down game with pre rendered graphics, but so far I've only used pre made sprites, which I want to replace with my own. I'm working on a MacBook though and was wondering if this OS is still supported? And maybe there are some people who can give me some tips at the same time on how to start. That'd actually be great. So far what I've seen the software looks intuitive, which is actually what I'm looking for.
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I'm having trouble with my main star, she want's to be called Mony... And I think Vera in the Mirror... could be like 2? "Where she at?" I'm sorry the way you looked at me at the mall. I don't know how to look when it's going all. But Vera in The Mirror... I got to pimp her out you know... Go Pump and Blow and you know how to suck and why don't you go././/. Mony bringing food like the hub and you know you can do that.. The Middle sucks. This is going to the mall now! It's just insane! Vera's new song is "What's up, what's up". I'm just warning…
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Darrin Mossor has some really excellent tutorials on his website. There are several subject that I thought I would like to do a tutorial on but Darrin says it better than I ever could. Some of the information might seem a little outdated (most created in 2002) but they are must read tutorials. For instance: Layers Tutorial by Darrin Mossor Other tutorials can be found here: http://www.mossor.org/Desktop/index.html These tutorials include: - Writing with Sprites - The Duplicator Wizard -or- 5 minute instant DNA - Walking a Centipede Along a Path -or- Building Complex Animations from Simple Pieces - Footsteps in the Snow (using Animated Dis…
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It may have been mentioned but its worth repeating. The v12 Help Installer has been added to the Help Page. You can view the Help files online or... with the help of the installer from right inside Animation:Master The links and installers can be found here: http://www.hash.com/htmlHelp/
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Hi I just can't get through the manuals - it's not my best way of learning, and the software I have doesn't really match what's in the manual - and i want to do stuff not covered in the manual. The best way for me to learn is to spend time with an expert. If there's an Animation Master Master in the UK, ideally within the Thames Valley, that would be prepared to help with questions and take me through what i want to do and answer the questions I have, I'd really really really appreciate it. Please email me neil@fairbrother.net Thanks and best regards Neil
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Does anyone know how to fix this.... [attachmentid=12968] It seems that the bone edit tool bound box are not on center when I scale or edit bones. I have gone into tools>options... but I am unable to find anything that will fix this. I am really getting disappointed with this program and I want to like it but when this kind of stuff happens I can't work on the program. ****Update: I have talked with A:M support and it appears that the editing box around the bone is correct. It looks like it has been change since version 11 or in the middle of 12. Is anyone else getting the same editing box around a bone, please let me know. I thought that …
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Sorry... accidently posted this twice. Admin can DELETE this post. Sorry
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Hi, I wanted to stamp a decal on my character, but she had a light list already. Decal was nothing special, targa with alpha also tried without (it made no difference)... and suddenly.. she was in darkness. No light list. Anyone else have this problem? Using 12.0q for Mac 10.3.4. Seana
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I thought that AM did export BVH files ..but I am having a bit of trouble finding where or how that is done. Could anyone direct me to a link or tutorial ? Thanks. I own version 12.
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I'm building a house with a stone foundation. My texture map isn't long enough so I'm duping it and hiding the seam with a wooden beam. The top image is the Modeling Window. But in the Choreography, it jumps forward. Any ideas as to why?[attachmentid=13247]
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Can I use Booleans with Toon. I have attached a project, that should work. Can anybody please have a look and tell me whats wrong with it? Thank you Jake stadiumBoolTest.zip
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I'm attempting to do a sort of "shoot 'em up" type of animation, and the more I play with A:M the more I realize there's tons of stuff I still need to learn. Anyway, there are several things I'm having problems with. Firstly, I'm trying to do a muzzle flash when a gun is fired. I was reading on the the special effects page on the Killer Bean website, and he said he did muzzle flash by modeling a vaguely conical shape, making it glow, etc, then scaling it up and down in (I assume) the choreography. I thought it might be easier to just put the muzzle flash on the model of the gun, and make an action that scaled it up and caused the gun to recoil (because then one would…
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Hi, all. I'm trying to rig up a simple contraption, where I just need to move one hinged lever, and it has a knock on effect moving all the other attached bits (see WMV file for what I'm doing). I've got it working, but I can't believe it needs to be as complicated as it is. Do I really need so many bones? The JPEG shows the bones and their constraints. I just move Bone1 and everything else works from that. Bone3 has a kinematic chain to Bone2. Bone6 has a kinematic chain to Bone5. Any critique of my method most welcome... action.wmv
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Does anyone know if there will be an update with Animation Master V11.1, A friend of mine loaned me his Radeon X1900 XT so I can see if it is worth the expensive price for it and when running AM on the card it looks kinda funky. The Workspace looks like it is in 8 bit 16 color mode. No matter what I do it just looks weird. I've downloaded the latest catalyst drivers and the one it came with and still no change. Is this something that ATI needs to correct or Hash? Any information on this issue will be greatly appreciated.
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Is A:M able to use grahic tablets(pen devices) to any degree? If so, any recommendations in both the low end/intro to the high end/advanced?
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1 lousy fire, and when i try to render it it exits out of the whole A:M program! So whats wrong?
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Hi all, This is my fifth or sixth object I made with Animation:Master, it could also have been the second or third... This is my way of telling, I like splining very much. Niels. [NOTICE] It's in A:M v13alpha8 format. (I made it with A:M v12, then altered it (decals) with v13.) NielsWShoe.ZIP
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I want to try a Matrix effect I want the sound they use when the characters go into ths slow mode fighting stuff. Please attach her or Email it to me Please. THis is for MMC#3 and I have a deadline
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I have set-up a material Library for texturing the objects in "Tin Woodsman of Oz". If you would like to help get all of these objects for the movie textured, I could really use your help! All you have to do is drag and drop materials from a library onto groups in models, and then tweak the parameters on the material shortcut. It is just a matter of choosing an appropriate material and tweaking the color, basically. This is a good opportunity to learn and to contribute to making the things ready to render. If you are interested, send me an email and I will point you to where to get started. Thanks,
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[attachmentid=15158] This is simple fade to black I put a pose slider on the fader for control ..see the first chor on how to use it. You can save the model and inport it into your project [attachmentid=15159] This is another fade to black I put a pose slider on the fader for control ..see the second chor on how to use it. You can save the model and inport it into your project it needs the material which has a gradient controled by the pose slider.. do not scale this model in model window or gradient will not work correctly okay to scale in chor Project 12t [attachmentid=15157] camerafades.zip easyfade.mov gradientfade.mov
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I put the 2001 Skeleton rig in my model because I didn't want to start from scratch, but my model is a turtle. Everything would be wonderful if I had foot targets for what used to be the hands. How can I make the hands into feet that have foot targets. Does anyone know of a tutorial for a rig with four legs or can someone please tell me how to make the 2001 Skeleton work for four legs?
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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 attempted my first bird flock yesterday. Ten birds flew right to left for four seconds. All was well. After that, things went steadily down hill. I have a few questions: [1] The Area of Influence. I can shrink the yellow circle, but the birds stay where they originally appeared. [2] Is is possible to string the birds out in more of a line, instead of a sphere? [3] I re-opened the original doc. that performed well, and added birds [for a total of 30] and extended the time to 18 sec. The birds performed normally for the first four sec. and then flapped wildly like sparrows. [They are seagull types]. I struggled for the rest of the evening trying to find a sett…
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Oops. Wrong Spot
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Oops posted in the wrong area
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This is my effort at fire, I must say it's a complicated way to make a fire. smoke.mov
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I coudn't get the knight to work properly, his knees pointed backwards. I tried the link from the daily news topics to download the new knight, but the page would not display, so I used the rabbit instead. I hope this is acceptable. dust_2.mov
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at the end of the animation some of the pins go through the bottom of the lane. I tried to move them back but without any succes I'm afraid. Bowling_Project.mov
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I want crosshairs that have a zoom in component to my chor, or action/chor. How can I achieve this feat? specifically, the cross hairs are fine, it is the aiming ring I want to resize during the chor/action. It would be even slicker for the aiming ring to maintain its' width, while shrinking down in size, but I'm not that picky.
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i am back from boston and again working diligently with version 13 of am. i am ready to attach the 2001 rig to a model. is it possible to attach the rig to an unfinished model? when trying to attach the rig some of the bones don't show up. i've look in the project work space where the bones are listed and cannot find the fore arms etc. what is the trick? richie ps i'm starting to understand splines a little better.
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Hey all, I just upgraded to v13 the other day. Now my old HDD crashed, luckily i was able to back up all my materials and other important stuff, so I loaded in v13, worked good. Finally decided that I should continue to work on my project i have going. I made all my materials before the models. I just finished a model and wanted to import the material in to A:M and apply it. I go to load the material, and it gives me a "Missing IO plug in" error. I didnt have any plug ins like that when i made them, so there couldnt be anything wrong with the materials themselves. Heres the kicker, After I say "fine I'll remake them", I close down the import window and now my ma…
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Thanks, the box of goodies has been sold. As I told the buyer, they have many hours of material to keep them out of trouble. Thank you Robert A Love
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how do u use multiple actions in same coreography? i was playing with the walking tutorial thingy, when i tried to get the person to make a pose at the end of there walk but the pose action and the walking action started overriding each other. i could have swarn i saw a decent tutorial on how to accomidate for this any help would be ... helpful thanx - eptigo
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and when he comes into the choregraphy window he is standing on his tail
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In exercise 11 I have formed the head neck and legs but the book never explains how to make the loop at the top of the leg ( never even referred to but pictured in figure 2 and 3, pg 123) I formed the 6 point looped spline to extrude the legs and have done so. Common sense tells me to form another 6 point loop from left view now(not top view) and then attach to the leg....but not sure. Help Please! I am speaking of the loop that would make what I would call the hip at the top of the back leg and the shoulder at the top of the front leg. If I only extrude as the book says from left view I would not have the rotation to view the full circle. Any help would be greatly apprec…
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I am ready to render a scene from my project and it will probably take several days. I thought I would use another computer in my house to do the render so I could keep working on other parts of the project. The two computers are connected by a wireless network. But what is the most efficient way to transfer the project to another computer to render? I tried consolidating the project onto the 2d computer, and all the relevant folders containing the project, images, models, etc. were created, but when I tried to open the project in the 2d computer, it still tried to find the images and models in exactly the same paths as they are stored on the 1st computer. Since cons…
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exercise 10
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arg ok now im having another difficulty lol.....ok im doing the back wings and the copy flip thing doesnt seem to be working it keeps attaching on top of it instead of the side. Does anyone know wh im doing wrong? ty in advance
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... requires at least 4 passes in order to enable the softness setting?
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Edit: I guess i should have posteed this in the introductions page but o well.....also if you are using firefox or have a slow connection you may not be able to view my videos Hello...I thought Id just introduce myself or something. My name is Kevin and i'm 17yrs old, I got animation master on august 9th. I became interested in animation 2 years ago when i discovered a shareware program called Blender3D, I used it for a science project, but after that i didn't have time to learn about the software. But now I do have time and I decided to buy software. I have finished the requirements for the certificate thing. Instead of posting on every single topic I just put all m…
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