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I've been able to make IK kinematics, aim-at, and aim-at w/ scale to reach ON constraints work fine. Euler constraints dont seem to work, but that is not my problem. The problem is my fingers I'm using no constraints on them, and they are rigged in the 2001 skelleton manner with the rollhandle being used exclusively to flexing the fingers. In the bone view, the initial rolls of each of the fingers is set to 0. Now for some reason when I make an animation of the hand closing into a fist (for instance) the fingers will roll too far and consistently go into or through the palm in the exported version. Any tips would be greatly appreciated.
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I am a full time developer of a game that is using Animation Master for models, & actions exported to Direct X format via the AMTex Tool By Obsidian. I am one of three so far. (We all work for free) We have a Programmer, and a n00by apprentice whom I am teaching the ropes to. Our game is a MMORPG that uses a true virtual economy. If WoW gets an A+, we are aiming for a B- in game art and content. We are building the Demo right now, and do not need beta testers as of yet. We expect our demo to sell us up to the big boys when we are ready to push the ball over the hill and run to catch up behind it.
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I was curious if Animation Master's realtime renderer can render normal maps in realtime. Is there a setting that would turn such a feature on... perhaps. Or is it not possible. Any assistance a user who owns Version 13 could give would be greatly appreciated.
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Granted I dont YET have the full version of AMTEX, but I hear it is supposed to export texture maps. Does anyone here (who has the full version of AMTEX) know if it really does export USEABLE texture maps? I heard some rumor about there being gaps on the generated texture maps or something. (I really dont want to use a third party UV editor) On another note, does AMTEX export normal maps along with the color textures? ( I know that AMTEX will not export more than one color texture for a single poly due to the limitations of the .x file) However, I also know Direct x supports normal maps (as seen in the most recent SDK sample browser). Does AMTEX ignore normal m…
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I've just released a new version of AMXdtsPlus (Torque Model exporter), Beta-6, which is available for Animation:Master version 13 on Windows and OSX Tiger. This version of AMXdtsPlus introduces vertex/cp weight export, and is available to registered users only. I have also updated the AMXdtsPlus help file to add information on this, and other, features. Both the exporter and help file can be downloaded from the Obsidian Games website. As always, if there are any issues or questions with this new release, please let me know.
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I've just released a new version of AMXtex (DirectX Model exporter), version 3.0, which is available for Animation:Master version 13 on Windows. This version of AMXtex introduces vertex/cp weight export, and is available to registered users only. I have also updated the AMXtex help file to add information on this new feature. Both the exporter and help file can be downloaded from the Obsidian Games website. There is one limitation to this new feature to keep in mind. DirectX limits the number of bones that can control an individual vertex to 4. The export process will enforce this limit, so if a cp has more than 4 weights, the extra weights will be removed…
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Hi I am testing the AMXdts exporter in a:m version 13 on a pc with my herbie the frog model. At first I didnt have the directory set up right but I was getting just bones showing in show tool pro and they went through the animation. Then I set up the directory correctly exactly as shown in the manual and the character displayed but no animations are playing in show tool pro with my character now. I have the hierarchy right, I just don't know why the animations aren't working. Also, everytime I run the exporter, before it exports I get a error message that says "config file error: Unable to read config file for shape ".\herbie.dts"" I don't know if this has somet…
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I am and will be there on May 10, so if anyone wants to hook up for lunch...
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It is now officially released. You can download the final demo here .Super Slam Ball Demo Of course the full version containing 16 different balls, 5 levels, plus a hidden bonus level, and 3 modes of game play can be purchased at the main web site Super Slam Ball Web Site ALso here is the trailer, and screen shots
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I've started working on implementing the newly added CP weight export option to my exporters (AMXtex and AMXdtsPlus), and wanted to share what I've done so far. It's not available publicly yet, but I still thought it was worth sharing. I started with AMXtex, and have had some great results. The image below shows a two-boned cylinder (exported to the .X format using AMXtex) in various stages. The first image is the model itself, the second shows a bend action without cp weight export, and the third image shows the bend action with cp weight export. I still need to work on fully validating the cp weight additions, and make sure they comply with DirectX ru…
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I'm taking my first tentative steps into producing DTS files from A:M13 with Obsidian Games' new plugin beta, 'AMXdtsPlus'. Thankyou, Chris, for pointing out that I need to do a little bit of preparation work before running the exporter plugin. I have read through your notes and looked at the example projects but I am still a little puzzled. I wonder if you might clarify some of the fuzzier areas that I outline below? This is the way I am seeing it at the moment so please correct me where I am off course: I understand the scaling and rotations that are required to get a model from the A:M world into the Torque world and I think that I have that setup correctly. From …
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The AMXdtsPlus plugin is now on sale at the introductory price of $14.99 (regularly $19.99). You can purchase it by visiting the Obsidian Games Purchase Page. The plugin is still in beta (there is a new Beta-4 version with some minor fixes), and there are still some features (and documentation) to be added. However, for those people who want to start exporting their models to the Torque Engine with textures and full animations, and want to get in at a discounted price, this is your opportunity. I look forward to seeing what people can do with the plugin. As always, please email/pm me if you find any issues with the plugin or purchase process. Thanks!
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I have been working on a low-patch version of Tinman for testing with the Torque game engine and have just realised that Obsidian Games' exporter only works with A:M models up to version 12. My mistake for starting this in A:M 13!!! Now I am stuck with this model and no route back to A:M 11 or 12. Other people are bound to wind up in this same predicament so I wondered, if any of you code wizards are still looking for plugin ideas, would you like to try your hand at this? I know Jody, (MMZ Timelord), wrote some code to solve a similar problem but it sounded like a one-off special case that wouldn't work for any model. Any takers? Please!
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Hi All, I am sorry I have to ask this question again. I posted this earlier today and someone gave me some help but when I got home and checked my post it was missing I do not know why. So I have to ask this again. I have clicked, dragged and pasted Decals successfully on my AM models but in come cases my decals distort over complex shapes. How can I convert a AM model to an accurate UV map which I can paint or apply textures and reapply to my AM model without flaws? Is there a plug in for AM to make UV maps or is it already built in to the program? Technodandy
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I have been clicking and dragging Decals successfully, but I just noticed something I forgot about. For complex shapes I think I need to make UV maps. I have seen some of my textures stretch incorrect around some models. Can someone tell me what I need to do for this in AM?
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I'm working on a game and I'm using A:M's excellent modeller for some of my models that have insides to them, such as ships, space stations, etc. The only problem is that the engine requires the textures to be UV Mapped on. I don't want to have to transfer all my models over to wings for UV mapping eery time, as it's not exactly easy. I was wondering if A:A can UV or UVW map objects so that i could export it directly into the game?
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Hi I just finished my a:m games tutorial. It is really part advice and part tutorial. It is really about getting your model from a:m to gamestudio. The pictures in there are really just eye candy. I don't know if they help the tutorial any but they make it easier to look at. Here it is: http://www.3dfrog.com/wips/am2gamestudio.pdf Well, let me know what you think and if this is useful to anyone. It may help just to show that this can be done. Thanks
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Hi, I've been developping games but I used to make my models with milkshape 3d(a lot cheaper). My question is the following: How can the models made with AM be used in a game because, in games, the models used are made with triangles and not squares like AM does... Is AM converting squares to triangles? thanks tido
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Sorry I don't know to much about game development, but have heard (read) the .X file name tossed around some. I have some models that are in the .x format and was wondering if they were usable in AM? Thanks in advance for your comments. David
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I just released the initial beta version of AMXdtsPlus to the Obsidian Games website. It is available for A:M version 12 only (for now; there is an A:M bug preventing a V13 release), and is available for both Windows and Mac OSX Tiger. This plugin uses the same setup as AMXtex -- the unregistered version cannot export textures, and only exports the first 5 frames of animation. I mainly want to see how everything runs for everyone in the unregistered mode, and if there are any major problems. If all goes well, and there aren't too many kinks to work out, the next step should be to allow for purchases, which would mean texture and full animation export would be be a…
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Ive heard from some people that in order to export correctly, I need to use one texture image to texture the model with. I did that, tried diffrent image formats, still no luck. Can someone, please, tell me how to export the model step by step with its textures. How I must texture it, etc. Please please! Thanx cap
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A:M to FBX
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The new Milkshape has import and export of .FBX mesh and animation. 1. export .X from A:M using AMXtex 2. import into Fragmosoft 3. export to .ms3d (Milkshape) 4. import into Milkshape 5. export to .FBX Of course check your animation and model along the way. This may be of good use particularly to those who use the Unity Game engine on a Mac.
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Great article on a great game.
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I read somewhere in this thread about the problems of getting a publisher. I don't know how well it could work... but one of Cafépress products is a multimidia CD, which could be any software. It's printed 'on demand'. You can take a look at some titles here: http://www.cafepress.com/cp/browse/Ne-1160_N-1262_bt-1
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I wanted to let everyone know that I am resuming work on my A:M export plugins effective immediately. I've recieved the approvals that I needed, and am clear to work on them again. This doesn't mean that I will have everything available today or tomorrow. A lot has changed in the last few months, and now that I'm back, I have a number of things to do before I'll be fully up to speed: General * Purchase A:M 2006 Subscription * Install and look into the A:M V12 SDK * Install and look into the A:M V13 SDK * Look into the A:M SDK's ability to write plugins for OSX Tiger - Plugins written with current OSX SDK do not work with Tiger…
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wait HA:MR.. Anything doing it?
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This is luck, big time. For the first time in my life I come across a racing sim that gets me to driving after just three setup screens. Should I even mention that usually to get to actually driving I have to endure much more than that? I am happy, hurrah. Now, what century is this? Whos making these games? I'd be glad to be getting from startup to gameplay in just one screen when I'm old. Meaning the splash screen. Without touching anything else.
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Hi just wanted to post some screenies of the latest game made by me and my freinds at Romac Studios. It was made in 3 weeks using AM for all of the graphics, and A6 game studio for the other stuff. It is a new spin on an old school arcade game. You can win tickets to unlock 5 different back ground scemes, and 16 different balls. Buy balls with your tickets, with more speed, more accuracy even the ability to jump, to avoid obstacles on the ramp. A WORKING DEMO will be available by mid January for download, after the beta testing. The full version will be available about a month after that. I will post the link to the demo as soon as it is up and available.
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Hi Folks, I am hoping some of you can help me with something I would like to do... I would like to know how hard it would be to take my AM projects and put them into a format where the scenes can be viewed but also controlled by the user. I guess it would be similar to viewing with something like Arctic pigs. I would like to have the option of controlling the speed of the animation, play, stop, rewind, fast forward...etc. But also, I would like to be able to Zoom and Rotate and pan into any part of the scene. Perhaps even have some preset camera views like top, side, front, back..etc. I have tried doing some of this with the HAMR viewer, but it is l…
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hamapatches .x exporter compared to amxtex .x exporter?
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can hamapatch's .x export bones, textures and animations or is amxtex the only one? dont worry i will still support obsidian games .x file format , i just wanna know if there is another avenue to go through. cheers groper
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I've done some research into normal mapping before, and this stuff sounds terrific if it really works. Anyhow, I kind of gave up on the idea because how is it possible with AM? Or would it be in the hands of my game engine?
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It appears that polygons may not be the "only" thing you have to worry about in game development. I ran into the concept of "textures." I also crashed into the issue of the textures being 256X256. Quite frankly, as a rule of thumb, how many textures should you have on your game that won't kill it? Also why do some games slow down when the textures image size passes the 256X256 range?
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I need some advise and it was kind of hard to get any from the new user section. So I'm posting it here, in hope that is... 1. I asked Chris this, but I forgot to ask you guys too. I'm using a Riva tnt2 model 64, and it appears that anything more than 70,000 polygons puts it to its knees. I need some way to gauge how many polygons I have. Also some technique in "modeling" with less patches yet still producing subperb-looking models. Any advice or tricks? 2. Okay this is not 100% about video game development. Which is why I did not stick it in the "development section." My second tech. inquire is one that's been bugging me for some time now. Picture this: Y…
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Just thought I'd share the info, but for all you artists using AM to make games, I found a really nice texture site, that has a great selection of textures in powers of 2 which is perfect for game engines. http://www.tiledtextures.com/ the have a cheap yearly or quarterly subscription, and they add textures all the time. They have even made me custom textures at my request at no charge once i became a member. Definately worth checking into, if your serious about developing realtime content.
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Hi i'm learning to program with GLUT, so i'm making a small 3D engine using Open GL. Instead of importing 3DS files (which there are tutorials ALL OVER the net) i'd like to have it import MDL files. Is there any documentation online where Hash has given specifications on exactly how their format is structured? I kind of understand it looking it over, but i'm not 100% sure.
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Lately I've been making some 3D video game enviroments using a 3D engine, AM, & AMtrex altogether. Anyhow, when using AMtrex to do the ".X" exports for my models which come out find in the game if they're static... Anyhow, I can't seem to figure out how to export my models with animation. How is that done?
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ho folks, i've been approached by a trade show to provide a virtual performer that -- with the help of an off-stage voice talent and a 'puppeteer' -- will interact with a live audience. using an animation master character as a starting point, is there a workflow solution that doesn't require me to be a programmer? thanks! -jon
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Not too shabby either. Note how they go on about the quality of the graphics, all A:M made. http://www.ccgr.org/modules.php?name=MRevi...op=show&rid=635 Next week we'll also be on the local NBC station (don't know when yet). Greg
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Microsoft announced that you can now download Visual Studio 2005 (C++,C#, Basic, J#) Express for free (until november 2006). It's the complete non-crippled programming environment suitable for OpenGL and DirectX game programming. http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost....126606&SiteID=1 Don't miss this!
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I'm sort of taking the one-man-band approach to developing a product. As such, I have been searching around for a pipe-dream tool that will synthesize human speech so I don't have to hire voice actors / actresses - especially actresses as my female impersonation sounds a bit like a Monty Python character. Believe it or not I have found a couple and have been playing with them. You record a voice (wav) and then fiddle with some controls to change the gender, pitch and so on. My results so far, however, are comparable to the Chipmonks Christmas Album (ohhh Dave!!!!). Anyway, the two that I have been playing with (and I may just need to perfect my technique…
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Hello all, I am trying without luck to get an animation file out of AM and into another product (DSStudio). I am using AMTex and have tried just about every combination. The retained mode sort of works but the model is "jaggy" and the animation is very incomplete. Chris Roy of Obsidian Games has been great to work with by the way... What other formats support animation sequences that can be exported from AM? Any suggestion on tools to simply view the .x file with animation to help determine if it is exporting from AM correctly? Prefer something that does not require download of the MS SDK! Also, and this may be a crazy question, but ... I've no…
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Well I havent acctual bought AM yet but I'm pllaning on it as long as it will work for what I want it for, 3D Video Game Creation, Now I alredy know that AM can be used to make video games but what I need to know is if when your saving you modles in AM can you save them in .x formate because the programing program I use only accepts .x files when to comes to 3D objects. Can someone help me out.
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Was wondering if theres a plugin that will allow me to save my models as a .nif. The game engine I'm using doesnt support .mdl. So far the most I've been able to find on the net is about how a guy puts his files in .dxf then imports them to 3ds max and saves them as .nif. I don't have 3d's max and am not interested in paying $3000 for it (or however much it is) =/ Any thoughts?
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http://gamedeveloper.texterity.com/gamedev...r/sample/?pg=16 Frank Silas http://www.franksilas.com
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What do you guys think of the new "Universe" game engeneiring software.? http://otee.dk/ Besides that its only for Mac , I think it`s pretty neat! ;>) Jake
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Hey fellow game makers. Just wanted to let you know our fist video game using AM "Bibleman: A Fight for Faith" has officially shipped, and will be on store shelves (Christian book stores at first) after the 20th. It is also available for pre-ordering on the web at www.bibleman.com. Our initial order was 8,000 units, but we're expecting waaaaaaaay more than that in no time. We're trying to get into Wal-Mart (see the thread in the OT section), and offering basically a reward for anyone who can get us in front of one of the big wigs, a buyer, or a regional manager. So, I guess that's it. I thought things would slow down a bit, but we're in sales/marketing mod…
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For your games you can use TGF or MMF + the graphics of A:M... If you are intested in TGF, you can download the evaluation version on the website of the creators : http://www.clickteam.com !!! I have obtained 20 % reduction for the users of A:M !!! If you are interested you can mail me and I give you a code to send to the authors of TGF... (I don't earn any money !!! It's just a gift from the author because I told him users of A:M are wonderful guys who always help the others and a lot of them search game engines !!!) pcizaire@hotmail.com Information : MMF 2 is coming !!! I have tested a private demo version for the authors to find bugs... It's great…
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Here's the direct link: http://www.igda.org/casual/IGDA_CasualGame...epaper_2005.pdf Very good read.
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http://www.xbox.com/en-US/dev/developingforxbox360.htm dingo
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I am a Indie Game Developer and I was interested to know How would I go about creating level/progress screens for use in my game. Here is an example of what I am talking about in terms of style. I Really like the second example since it is more generic: http://tccons.com/PingoPango/level_progress_example.jpg http://tccons.com/PingoPango/level_progress_example2.jpg
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