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Great candle, Matt!

Well, now you've got me curious! Are you really going to leave us hanging without expanding upon that? Oh to be a fly on David Simmons wall (with a nice zoom lens video camera pointed directly over his shoulder at the monitor of course). It was just attempts at simplifying some of my anatomical modeling...it works fine, but I lost some definition. I'm not great with anatomy, so I'm trying to get better. There are some landmarks that I thought I could get to look more realistic when they move...it's time consuming testing with a lot of trial and error. I've learned a few minor lessons, so it wasn't for nothing entirely. I've figured out some better bone placement and additions in a few places, which have turned into possible additions to the Squetch Rig. I'm in the middle of at least five possible updates, some will be easier to figure out than others.

Another "stay alive" post, unfortunately. I took a side trip on my modeling explorations for a week and found out that it was a dead-end...at least for what I was looking to do. I've been dinking with the Squetch Rig updates since then...a few dead-ends, but I think it's getting better. I'm hoping to have something worth showing next week...if things go well.

Great stuff, Ludo!

Great stuff, Willi!

I will repeat: And that's the last time I will hammer this, since it doesn't appear to have any traction. I just think that a printed manual has nothing on a well maintained Wiki...which is an easy way to keep things current, searchable, easily maintained and free. Okay, now that's four cents...done.

It looks like I didn't completely understand what you were after, but I'm glad my stumbling did some good...I've forgotten a lot about materials (it's been a while).

The new AMA feature has the ability to link to the web also so there' no reason the wiki (where is it?) coulnd't be a part of that. However AFAIK, one problem with AMA is that it only works on actual property parameters, other interface elements like buttons are not in its scope.. The Community tab can open the Wiki as far as I know (when it's online)...I don't think it has to be tied to a button other than that.

You could try using the ToonNation "Xray" material. Something like this? I ended up using three materials. Hope that helps. ------------------ EDIT ------------------ Oh, I forgot about the displacement...I'll try that real quick. ------------------ EDIT ------------------ You can add roughness in a matching material, that worked. Or you could use a decal for a more involved displacement. Although, after reading the rest of the thread, I'm probably misunderstanding what you're after...Nancy appears to have a better handle on it, so I'll extricate myself. Maybe something in there will be helpful. Outline_update.prj

He did that. See Capt'nRex uploaded project above (post #13). Missed that, skimming doesn't always work, unfortunately. Sorry about that.

So, the Wiki won't work (it appears to be offline at the moment)? I think that fully utilizing the A:M Wiki would satisfy everyone...searchable, easily maintained, etc. If you couple that with video tutorials in A:M Films and the information in this forum, I don't see how any gap couldn't be filled. Just my 2 cents.

So I'm gathering you are happy with this? (and yes transparency doesn't work with gradient materials, that also have displacement turned on in the material - you would have to find a workaround) I'm probably misunderstanding something, but, how about separating it out into two materials?

Great stuff, Will!

I think it looks great! Definitely not too much for me.

Very cool, John!

A couple of other resources that I like are: Jim Butcher's (author of "The Dresden Files") blog....here. Start at the beginning with the "Thoughts On Writing" post. Wordplayer.com...which is screenwriter/producers Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio's site (screenwriters for Aladdin, The Mask of Zorro, Shrek, Pirates of the Caribbean:Curse of the Black Pearl, etc) Hope those are helpful.

Here's an update on the generic character. I remodeled the head and neck in an attempt to improve a few things. There are still a few areas that will need tweaking, but I think it's a step up from what I had before.

no clue what that is. TSM2 is here...a rig built by Raf Anzovin with installer. You can also consider the LiteRig.

For the 2008 Rig? I don't think we're talking about the same thing...where are you reading that in the instructions? There's more to it than just moving the bones into place. i guess so. thats one thing i was never ever good at was rigging and this one is just confusing me. i been working on this for like 2 days and cant figure it out at all. i about ready to pay someone to do it for me. The instructions are very detailed (Mark did a great job). Most of the installation is positioning the bones, but, you also have to mirror the positioned bones, export the model and then turn on the Poses that would have caused problems while installing. Where are you running into problems? ------------------ EDIT ------------------ Something I should have added (it was in my mind, but it didn't transfer to my typing fingers), the bones you position when installing the 2008 Rig aren't all of the bones involved...Mark has set up constraints that position the bones you don't see based on the positioning of the installation bones. Also, there is the matter of all of the Poses required to make the rig easy to animate. So, there's a lot more involved than I think you are aware of.

For the 2008 Rig? I don't think we're talking about the same thing...where are you reading that in the instructions? There's more to it than just moving the bones into place...your method would leave you without the Poses necessary to have an easily controlled rig.

Instructions should be included in the ZIP file...the 2008 Rig is here.

Unfortunately, time has crept up on me and I still don't have anything new to show yet. Getting a new laptop and doing the usual transferring and resetting up of everything has been one of the culprits...I still have more RAM to add to that. I've done more work on the generic character, lighting of the Break Room and some fixing of the Squetch Rig installations (Mark Skodacek pointed me at a few issues...the current installations are broken, but I should have the next version done in a little while). I'm still moving forward, but it's not apparent by my posts.

Not directly, as far as I know. Although you can save as something like .OBJ and then use some other program to convert to .FBX. Hope that helps.

Great stuff, Mark!

Great stuff, Jirard!