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Looks great, Stian!

Coming back with the smurf... Can you indicate me a nice tutorial explaining "fan" bones, "cogs" and so on? thank you Remy The COGS tutorial should be here...I can't get the page to load at the moment. I'm not sure if that tutorial is still available for sale or not though. Barry Zundel has some tutorials that you might find helpful...here. Matthew Krick has some tutorials here. Here is a quick explanation of fan bones. Holmes made two rigging tutorials recently...they are here and here. Hope that helps, Remy.

Great job, Josh!

I agree, great set, Mark!

Doing a little thinking, I might move the generator further from the main building and put the dumpster between them. It would open it up a little. I'll do some messing with it.

Here are a couple of updated renders. The additions are the electrical conduits, boxes and such on the generator building. In the closer image, you can see several of the padlocks that I posted in the Free Models thread (I'll add more models to that thread as I go along). The door may move a little more to the right when I put the chain-link fence in, it will be easier to tell when I get to that point. If you're keeping score, I'm at 60,046 patches. Still quite a bit to add.

Here is a rigged padlock. Again, you will have to texture this other than a few bump and diffuse maps that are already applied. This model uses the Porcelain material. If you don't have it, there is a ZIP of it in the first post of this thread. padlock_07_23_2010.zip

I think you're making things too complicated for this exercise, Gene. Follow Robert's advice: Start simple, then work your way up to the complex stuff.

Looks great so far, Mark!

Looks like it took a lot of work, Stian! Great job.

Great job, Holmes! I'm not sure if you mentioned to rig the left arm, but that is pretty obvious. Nice starter rig!

Looks great, Holmes!

Looks fantastic, Mark!

Those are very large nulls...I don't know what you're doing, so I can't comment on your problem beyond that. Post the Project and someone might be able to tell you, Andy.

Count me in for such exercises if it happens...I could really use it.

At this point, it's sitting at 41,045, Holmes. Quite a bit to go...I don't have any kind of "ballpark" for the end total.

Here is the model with the rig corrected...at least the duplicated bones. You'll have to do the left side weighting...but you won't be able to accurately mirror the weights since the model is not centered, so you'll have to manually weight it. Hope that helps, Gene. actionman_update.mdl

I did a quick look and saw that some bones are created that shouldn't be there, Gene. It looks like the rig wasn't centered when you mirrored the bones...and the character wasn't centered when modeling. That would be why there is a "leftBody" bone and it's children...which shouldn't be there. Hope that helps.

Here are a couple of renders showing the start on the generator building...they don't show the set from an angle that it will generally be viewed from though and don't zoom in to show some of the smaller details, but it's what I had time to render today. The opposite end of the building has an identical vent, so looking at one end is like seeing both. I still have to add the electrical boxes, conduits and chain-link fence for the generator and a few other odds and ends. I also enclosed the roof of each building...in case I want to shoot something on the roof or use a sky-crane/helicopter shot. Current patch count is 41,045 patches...I'll pick it up again tonight.

Looks great, Tore!

It shows up under "Wizards" as "Install Rig". What it does is re-parent bones according to the hierarchy in the name of the bones, deletes the "INSTALL" bones and unhides the "geom" bones...it is used in the installation of the 2008 Rig and the Squetch Rig. I made a tutorial that shows how to build an installation rig that was located here, but the links appear broken. I have a copy in my online storage that you can download...here. Hope that helps, Robert.

Make a new model, put one bone in it and try running the plugin...does it show up? If it does, it may be a problem with the model. If it doesn't, then we'll have to do some other exploring. What version of A:M are you using? If you are using v15, are you using prior to v15f or later than v15f? There are specific versions of the plugin for before and after v15f. If that doesn't fix the problem, the only recommendation I have is to try re-installing A:M. Hope that helps, Gene.

ok yes it is in my hxt folder So, it's in your HXT folder and you're still having the problem, Gene? Or is that what fixed the problem?

It never fails...after I post something, I find an error. I've posted an updated set of doors in this post...the lock plate needed some tweaking. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Do you have the MirrorBones plugin installed, Gene?