[Modelling Help please]

WOw your good John, that was the exact problem. thanks a lot for the help.

 

[Making A hammer]

Hello, everyone whos looking at this. i made a hammer and it looks great i think. i added wood and steel materials to it, but the place where the materials touch together that doesnt look realistic at all and i needed some help to make it look more realistic. Also the head of each side of the hammer has this black thing on it and i dont know what it is.

 

 

 

if any of you can itd be great if you could help me out and give me tips.

[Modelling Help please]

OK whenever i am modeling sometimes i use the lathe key. but then maybe i wont like what is lathed so i select it and delete it. but when i try to make more splines they wont show up. its pretty much like deleting a lathed item makes any other splins that i try to create invisible.

[Exercise 1: You're the Director]

OK heres the photo, hopefully itll show, if not, then dangit.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

wohooo, i preveiwed it and its showing, yahoo.

 

also the big orange galaxying, heres a photo of it.

 

[Exercise 1: You're the Director]

Ook i did the excercise, but i did a little testing too. i moved around this big orange looking thing with a bunch of circles kind of like a galaxy kind of thig, and this what happened, u think you could explain.

 

excersise_one0.bmp

 

Also how u show photo, if you could explain to me. i used a bmp format this time but i dont know how to show the picture like you did, rodney, in your fourth post.

[exercise 11.5 make a face]

ok im still stuck on the face, but any of you guys know how to make stuff like a leg or a torso. do you just use the lathe tool and make a curcular kind of thing? beause this is what im stuck on now.

[animation]

Thanks, but hey i have a problem, i cant upload my picture. i took a picture of myself and uploaded it onto the computer. but it wouldnt upload the picture. ill try again though. but it did say notify some kind of person. so for now ill stick with mouse and cheese.

 

sadly though the photo is not showing up

 

 

ok i got my avatar up. i tried using th picture of myself for my avatar but it said it was too big, any possible way for me to size it down?

[animation]

the camera moves around i bit to much i suppose and i kinda might have figured out why there s no sound. al the compression ive been doing multiply has maybe someohw muted the sound or something. i think i can find a file still with sound and send it to you.

 

the camera im not quite sure why it moved so much it might have been contrainted. seems so on the waving because it moved back and forth. but the first part when it moved out was the kinda show the guy getting shot.

 

but im still learning with the camera.

 

 

Also ill be getting a picture into my profile. so you can see what i look like.

 

I might seem a bit young ( im in middle school) but im almost 13

[model]

ok thanks but when will we start going through the exercises in the manual together. ive been doing a few of the video manual ones.

 

also the lid lifts up too. i guess i shoudve put a photo of that in there. ill try to get one in later.

[animation]

thanks. the only lighting i did though was put lights onto 2 sreet lamps. and did a fianl render. about taking almost 48 hours! i was thinking it might be the many trees but im no sure.

[animation]

That's a good start - I didn't understand what was happening, because the camera movement was a bit hectic. Was that a gun the second Shaggy was holding?

 

I didn't get sound either.

 

 

ummm ya shaggy was holding a gun. its a bit easier to understand with sound, but i dont know what happen to the sound. not really sure

[model]

Ive learned a lot from Rodney and others that have helped me with things. especially modeling. so now ive learned how to make a cude easily. super easily. in less than a minute i guess. but using a cube ive made i made a pretty good looking garbage can. my first ever completed model that involves inorganic city street models

 

 

garbage_can.bmp

 

garbage_can1.bmp

 

 

Also how do you make the pictures just visible on the post like ive seen before, because i could only do this. where you download it.

[animation]

i finally got this animations file size lowered so it should be able to be uploaded

 

 

here it is, i uploaded it finally!!!!!!

 

ians_birthday_party3.mov

 

if the sound happens to work for you then great because its not working on my computer or is it the file. i dont know, im not really sure

[exercise 11.5 make a face]

so what your saying is that i should start animating simpler models like 3d shapes and like maybe a ladder and other simple things.

 

Not quite but that is close.

I'd suggest working your way through TaoA:M right here in the forum, posting your results as you go.

It may see boring at times, too easy, or not important but by the time you finish you will be really ready to dig in and move on to even more complicated projects.

 

I'm not suggesting you -only- do the TaoA:M exercises. No!

Keep experimenting. Push buttons, Right Click on everything. Experiment. Learn.

 

But too much experiment without a specific goal won't get you the help you need.

For that you need a structured approach to learning the tools at your disposal.

What better way to learn those than to follow the outline those who created the program wrote.

 

TaoA:M is designed to set you up with a foundation from which to build not just Faces but entire worlds.

You won't do it all in TaoA:M but you'll discover the tools and the means to do it.

 

I plan to work through TaoA:M myself and document the journey.

Want to start out on the journey with me?

 

 

 

do you mean like follow you and youll help me with parts of animation master and the buttons?

 

because yes i would love ot have help.

or just follow you. whatever you mean.

[uploading animations.]

hey i cant upload my animation into a post and i dont know why is the file to big? i did change it to a .mov format, but when i changed to to a .mov format the file size also got like 5x bigger. so then i tried to upload the file and it never uploads. i tried to upload it and let it sit for like 10 minutes but it never uploads it just sits there saying uploading. the circle thing that shows its uploading is moving too.

[Changing the format of sound files and .avi files]

oh ok so its already there. thanks for the info ill be able to do this now!

[TWO Wallpaper]

Howd you get all these images from the movie TWO. But i love em anyway! especially tat moonlight one! its pure awsome material!

[animation finish]

ok i found out that i have a lot of models.. about 6 trees 4 sidewalks 2 shaggys 2 street lights a fire hydrant a telephone booth and a truck. also the animation is 222 frames long with 24 fps. im doing a final render too with alpha buffer, final, shadows and reflections, levels 2

 

 

Would this happen to cause a long render????

[Stairway scene.]

i like that stairs scene a lot! just wondering did you use AM paint? im new to A:M and i dont know too much about this stuff.

[Changing the format of sound files and .avi files]

Kyle,

 

This is a graphic version of what John typed in his post:

 

http://www.hash.com/am2003/RAM%20Player/index.htm

 

Until I can track down another example perhaps this will do?

 

Instead of importing a sequence of files you are importing your AVI movie.

- Then from the File Menu

- Make sure you have your Project Workspace open (VIEW/Project Workspace on the Menu)

- RIGHT CLICK on the shortcut to your AVI file

- Select 'Save As Animation'

- Locate the File type and compression you want (I suggest .MOV with Sorensen 3 compression)

- Done.

 

what is sorensen 3 compression? is it automatically on the save as window thats opened up when u click save as or do i have to download it?

[exercise 11.5 make a face]

so what your saying is that i should start animating simpler models like 3d shapes and like maybe a ladder and other simple things.

 

Also i have the David Rogers a complete guide to A:M would this be a good book for me to use for all the things im having trouble with?

 

 

I also try to get a screenshot of what im doing so far, but ill have to wait because a kinda big file is rendering out right now.

[Animating]

ok i cant see the video, at all its just blank white. it says im missing something for quicktime but it doesnt give me something to download the thing im missing.

[Changing the format of sound files and .avi files]

ok i understand the audacity thing now how to change format but i have no clue still how to change format for a .avi file that was rendered out. can anyone else help out?

[exercise 11.5 make a face]

I need soo much help on exersise 11.5 make a face i do not understand at all wat to do to make the face. As far as i can get is i make the two photos of the front and side veiw of coopers head. but then when your supposes to move and extrude to make the nose i dont understand at all how to do this!?!?!?!? i need a lot of help. if someone could possibly record a video of doing that part of make a face then that would be soo much help! thanks

 

AmKyle

[Missing Library Models]

then i downloaded v14 and there were no models in the library. any help.

 

Did you copy the Data file from your CD over to your harddrive?

If you did then A:M should automatically show your Library content after restarting A:M.

 

 

Also if ive already bought 13, how do i get v15?

 

v15 can be ordered via Hash Inc's online store:

$49 for the websubscription (full version for 12 months)

$299 for the CDsubscription (full version for eternity w/ 12 months of updates)

 

http://www.hash.com/store/

oh ok i thought if you already had bought a version of AM you got updates. i sent this register card by mail into HAsh inc that came in the box. i also got a manual and extra dvd, but if i already bought it. i thought i got updates for free.