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Howdy all, been looking all over for answers here: AM keeps locking up (after working seemlessly for 6 months) and goes into an ultra, ultra slow motion mode (one click in any direction or 1 degree of zoom takes like 15 - 30 seconds) I watch the CPU use and it zooms to 100 % with any little command, so somethings wrong Make a long story short, I un-installed, re-installed twice now. I try to open the program and i instantly get a "missing KSPI32.DLL" pop up (with the big Windows "doink" sound) I've seen a couple posts about install / reinstall about using the "regedit" function -- I have no clue what that is. And I'm a little …
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I am wanting to create a crowd running by. I rewatch the flocking video for TAOA:M but no matter what I do crowd wont work. is it a setting or something? I am betting it is some simple reason. Thanks. Gene
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Hi I dl this http://www.jpatch.com/ that has the same modelling features of AM. I have to evaluate if I can modelling something with the patches or not. If I can and it is easy than the box modelling , then I'll buy Am. Is there a basic character tutorial? I mean , a tutorial for modelling an figure, for scratch. I am a newbie, I create only low low low poly models using milkshape . I tryed to do something with jpatch but I need a startup..
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hi again. back on the A:M larning again after soom time. picking up on the last tutarials i done. i have come across a problem with my A:M on my computer. when i follow the project pathease on my machine. as i go to set the pathease to 100% for the first action, it delets the action. i draw the path. i drag and drop the knight. i constrane him to the path. i drag and drop on him the walk action i drag and drop on him the wave action i drag the walk action on the time line to last to 3 second i drag the wave action to start at the 3 second point i go to frame 3:00 (3 seconds) in the time (frame) box i open up the path propertys and set the …
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Can anyone tell me what has happened to the links to the A.R.M? I have used that site as a resource for more A:M solutions than I can count and hope it's up and running soon. Thanks.
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Here is the link to my latest tutorial: As always, your input to make better tutorials is always welcome. Thanks Eric Camden 3DDink Tutorials
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Here is Jason Hampton's tutorial on Cloth Attach Groups: Cloth_attached_group_animation.mp4
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I was recommending to a buddy of mine that he should add motion blur to an animation he had done. It's really easy to do in A:M, but more work in the funky setup he uses. He wanted to understand the benefit, so I did this short demonstration video, which you can see at the link below. Enjoy! High Def Motion Blur Demonstration Video -Vance
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3D_printing_from_AM_tutorial_.mov Video of the final printed product. Suplimental_Video.mov 2013_08_04_10.56.06.mp4
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All, This is something of a 'pardon our dust' post. We are about to enter Phase II in the effort to bring more documentation on Animation:Master to users everywhere. First, many thanks to all those that have contributed tutorials already! Some great information is being presented and it is most appreciated. I know I've learned a lot. As soon as the Extra CD project gets finished I hope to focus on putting together some basic tutorials on the functions and features in A:M. These would be of the variety of answering those "How do I...?" questions that everyone runs into sooner or later; "How do I Embed All?", "How do I model ?", "How do I render with an tra…
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I'm sorry for posting what is probably a completely DENSE question. But where can I find the JPG's for the "Make a Face" tutorial? I can't find it on the main disc or the the "Extras" disc. Again, my apologies.
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After trying out other GC software I became aware it was possible to get very realistic and smooth motion by using the motion modifiers provided. When I went back to AM I found AM had similar types of plugin or constraints that aid with Animation. Without these aids the example gif animation I made in AM would have been impossible to make. After looking @ the thorn Sim_prj by Steffen Gross I realized it was possible to cut down Render time significantly using this plugging. The problem with most new people to animation including myself is we tend to do things the hard way for a long time and find it hard to change. Most people fear the maths that is sometimes involved or …
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If you get crashes then this simple to use plugin is for you. Enjoy! Autosave Video Tutoial Auto_save_plugin_JH_VID_TUT_V1.mov Auto Save Plugin for AM can be found here http://sgross.com/plugins/index.html
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I used john13d pdf tut on how to blow stuff up to make this i needed it Thanks john ! j explode_stuff_tut.mov.zip blow_stuff_up_tut_.mov
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Hello: I am rusty with texturing. I remember seeing a magnifying effect where I can make a magnifying glass handle AND circular lense and use something that when rendered will act as a magnifying lense effect. Anyone know of one?
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Needs Critiquing, please advise me, give opinion I have been recording these into small chunks. I feel this will target the audience better and keep people from getting board to easily. There is a sense of accomplishment when working your way threw each tut, so the shorter and more targeted the better. Tell me whats missing, or how it should be said better. Or you can even create the tut yourself it will not hurt my feelings. I think multiple combined tutorials from 2 different perspectives might be helpful and give a well rounded view of the features. No worries though, right now we are roughing this out. I can always add a uniform splash screen later as R…
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Does anyone have a link to a Photoshop Tut for making wrinkled Cloth Decals/Maps?
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Most A:M users will never need to do something like this, but it is possible to investigate and make useful changes to an A:M file with a text editor. You'll need your close-up glasses for most of this. AMTextEditing.mov Things I have done with text editing -fixing the "dragged bone in a chor" problem (shown in this video) -changing the name of an item throughout a PRJ -changing a bone to a null -finding and fixing name spelling capitalization mistakes. ("Left" instead of "left" -fixing a corrupted file or saving some portion of it. -finding and deleting an external link to something that is not really needed in a PRJ yet is not easily findab…
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Hi there folks, since Neymax script established a pipeline between A:M and Blender, you can now do your UVing much more comfortable in Blender and bring the model then with the UV layout as decal stamp back in A:M. The attached picture, which is taken in A:M, shows the kind of UVing you can do in Blender. At the first glance the process is quite complicated, but it is in fact not as difficult as it seems. This is a short tutorial which shows the very basics of the process. If you have questions, just ask. xhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oRehwuOSqI&feature=youtu.be
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I was looking for a sweater material and I came across the kci:dnd BitMapPlus plugin in the material change type to menu. I have some video and other materials to show but I do not know how to post them. Is there somewhere I can get instructions?
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Here is a link to a tutorial I did for my website on calm open ocean water. http://vimeo.com/2329813 Here is the final image: and the project file: Water_Project.prj.zip Hope its useful! Photoman
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We've had several discussion of video sharing lately so I want to make sure everyone is aware of this resource as well. Jing works with PCs and Macs and provides some storage space for you to share. If anyone is able and willing to test out the possibilities of Jing I'm interested. For those that need more service options/smaller file sizes than the basic Jing service provides Jing Pro is just under $15 a year. http://www.jingproject.com/features/default.asp Techsmith also has a 30 day trial of their Camtasia software. If you need to capture video plan ahead and use every bit of that trial period. Its a bit expensive for the hobbyist but I used t…
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Hi Folks Hope this video helps. For people interested in the 3Dconnexion, 3D mouse. Enjoy Part 1 3D_MOUSE_JH_VID_TUT_P1_V1_.mov Part 2 3D_MOUSE_JH_VID_TUT_PT2_V1.mov
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Here is the link to the tutorial on YouTube:
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Hi, I just did a small video tutorial about how to use A:M to create a STL-file for Makerware, the software to print with the Replicator 2 (or 2x) from Makerbot. Hope someone finds it useful: A:M to Makerware See you *Fuchur*
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Hi I wan to make simple face with 2 eyes 2 ears eyebrows nose a mouth hole which i really can't make i made full body with neck but i only need is face i tried many tuts for understanding but when i start working its getting wierd & then i stop work delete the whole file & when i back to hash websites see these am still the i try again but can't make it please someone help i dont want to rig my face i want to know how to make face with spline or primitives please help help help! ..... & im using one prop with this character so please tell me this too that how to make this hole in cube box ......................... THANKs.
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Please check out JohnL3D's latest tutorial. Its a great introduction to working with materials. Turning a Cartoon Horse into a Zebra - A Materials Tutorial by JohnL3D They'll be texturing models soon for 'Tin Woodsman of Oz'. If you have information on Materials and Texturing (or want to learn more) please visit the Materials Forum. It's forum 46 on your A:M dial. |
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I have been looking for tutorials on how to make various star wars things. There is one good sight at theforce.net but many of the links do not work. I was wondering if annyone knows anny other good sites. Thanks!
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I have a quick list of tuts that I have made but not indexed on my site. If anyone has the time to look please click on one of the letter links and watch the tut and let me know if you think its worth saving. Some are from much older versions of AM. I was thinking of cleaning up and updating my site so this will help Thanks for any comments http://johnl.inform.net/pages/aaa.htm
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To cut down on the loading time I have imported my avi files into a Flash project. I am having problems keeping good quality to most files. Is there a way to keep the quality of the avi files after converting them?
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Hi all A while back I watched a video tutorial of a motor race with three vehicles from the AM library, it had to do with motion paths and setting the time for the vehicles so that one could win the race. for the life of me I cant remember where I saw it. (It was very good, and I need it now!!) If there is someone that can help me to remember where it was that I saw it I would be extremely greatful. I have gone through all my tutorials and on the Siggraph 2005 training video. am I missing some braincells or what? thanx Leo
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is there a tut for it? I seen alot of examples and I was asked to make a 30 second intro for a friends video and the falling brick wall would go really good in it. any chance of getting some help?
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Continued from elsewhere in the forum.
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Duration: 12:02 Suggested viewing size: 480p Shows how to do cylindrical mapping using the tire treads of a school bus as an example. NOTES: 1. See rodger_r's suggestion for another way of doing this. I have not yet tried it. http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showt...dpost&p=... The method I used is probably a little better in cases like mine where you have multiple object (e.g. tires) to map at once. 2. Around , I said the first approach was to drag the image on top of the tires. Specifically, it was dragged on top of the "Tire Treads" group. 3. The URL for the tire tread texture is: http://www.coroflot.com/micjwelch/textures/5 …
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In the course of looking at one user's splining efforts, the video in this post takes a moment to explain "spline continuity" and how that can affect connecting spines.
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Animation:Master has very robust support for creating stereo images like Anaglyph, Free Viewing and Interlaced Stereo renderings. In this tutorial we will see another way of rendering to give a 2D image the feeling of depth. Download zip 2.6 Mb I hope you find this useful. JM
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Hello, I'm searching for an other 'Grass with Hair' Tut. This Grass Tut I already found but there was an other one, but I can not find it ... Maszie
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I ran across this Tutorial on Irfanview that also happens to expertly show the capabilities of Wink tutorials combined with HTML coding. Irfanview Tutorial Now this is exactly what I envision us being able to do in the future. Scroll down a list of topics... view information. As nice as this is... there is even more where this comes from. For those not sure whether they want to click the link will take you to a menu based tutorial that expertly discusses some of the function of the utility Irfanview. Irfanview is a PC only utility that converts, displays and provides other functions too numerous to mention here. There is a lot not mentioned in the…
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Is it hard and how would i go about making a model or live person turn to dust and blow away? i also need to model the ground cracking. Thanks, Stewie
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A really nice and usefull resource, from a good friend of mine. Here you have her own presentation: http://www.artnatomia.net ARTNATOMY The work has been chosen as a finalist (in Educational Category) for the 15th Flashforward Film Festival (an online competition and live awards ceremony showcasing and celebrating the best work on the Web). Winners in all categories plus the "People's Choice" award will be announced at the awards ceremony on March 1 during the Flashforward2006 Seattle Conference at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center. Application overview. This resource has been designed and constructed to exploit digital technology in the …
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Hi, I'm going through the tutorials and it seems there is more to A:M than what is in the book. Is there a manual online or on the CD that I am missing? Lori Hiatt
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I've searched the forums briefly, but wondered if I could save some time by getting a quick answer here? Thank you.
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Bump maps creates the illusion of surface shape details but only in a simple shading manner. They don't change the surface shape. AO and Fake AO depends on actual surface shape to create its shading effect in the recesses and crevices of a model. Here's a surface with a bump map applied. The shading in the recesses represents the direct light only and not the environment illumination By processing the bump map we can make another map that shades the recesses approximately the way the ambient light would. Here's that map added as a Diffuse Map to the surface. Here's the original test image... Now blurred with Gaussian Blur.…
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Siggraph demo from 2006. 2 hours of video on decaling, using the UV editor, and 3D Painter: https://youtu.be/czaYXaf_9D8
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Here is a tutorial showing some uses for the "Clone CP Weights" plugin. Included in the ZIP file is the video tutorial and the assets used in the tutorial. The latest Squetch Rig can be found using the link in my signature at the bottom of this post. Clone_CP_Weights_tutorial.zip
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Back in 2004 A:M Justin Barrett created a video tutorial set on facial animation in A:M. He has now re-released it on Youtube for free! Check it out! Thanks, Justin! Animate a Face
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Here it is, the complete CG animation workflow in just four small bites... and one Puppy Dog Tail! Part 1 Modeling Part 2 Bones Part 3 Animation Part 4 Rendering
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A couple of the tuts that I've downloaded only play a couple of frames then stop,anyone got a heads up on what I'm doing wrong downloaded the latest flash player????? Have A Great Day Mulls
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Why not use A:M to make 2D cartoons? Here you can find two short examples: http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=14906 2dcartoon.zip
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The A.R.M.
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The Animation:Master Resource Matrix If you can't find the tutorial you are looking for you probably haven't checked the A.R.M. The Software Tutorials Forum is designed to integrate fully with the A.R.M. in an effort to provide the most useful and timely information available. If you aren't sure whether something should be listed in the A.R.M. post it here in the Software Tutorials Forum. Once others have had a chance to check it for accuracy and give you feedback to make it the absolute best it can be, we can link it in the A.R.M. where everyone can easily find it. Thanks to Vernon Zehr for creating and maintaining the Animation:Master Resource Matrix. …
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