Master chief

yes i mean the led looking things

hello again I'm trying to recreate effect iv seen in on of may games it is best shown in this vid if this link fails search you tube for armored core 4 intro if using this link at around 2:19 in the optics of the bot shifts from one side over . this is what I'm trying to recreate theres allso one where hes going ya im so good at 2:35 ish

as one of the fellow new people to this wonderful program i welcome you first thing i would check with this is lighting and where its coming from if you have made a complete dome over your field you may have cut the default light source off . I'm assuming here that the buy "it turns completely black" that that means the whole render and not just the dome if thats not the case try removing the decal and rendering again to see if the dome turns black , if it doesn't it may be your decal and or the settings on it. if not Rob or John with pull there mystic manual out of there hats and show you exactly what to do

ok this is more of a has this happened to you vs a how do i do this qustion. iv noted that most if not all movies uploaded to the forums are in .mov format ( or quicktime usable) but when ever i try and save as .mov or render as .mov the file never finishes being built , the computer will have a link to it but its a missing file and when trying to save again it keeps giving a file file window and loses the render compleatly forcing me to rerender the whoel lenght of the movie, .avi still works i have quicktime installed so its very anoying

Update- found that you can play with the rate of emition vs simple turning it off and tat works for that aspect

ok did that and managed to find a way to compleatly turn it of or on but with some side effects , its for the whole animation ,ie i have it start on and at 5 mins set to off , but it sets it off for the entire lenght. what i need is a way to say have the object move , spray for a few seconds , move again spray etc. ow and Rob thanks for your continued help , you do seam to knwo what to do for just about every thing in this stuff

ok iv managed to create a decent looking spray using the streaks material but had run into a problem which more or less is how to control when it sprays as they all start at frame zero how can i set when they start and stop , and preferably more than once

while i did manage to download in load the demo you gave john i aperantly didnt have 4 or more tga files that where supposed to go with it are those standard or something you created, please remember that im using a from online copy and im pretty sure it doesnt come with any extras when installed

like the title says i tryed to make a streaks material but when every i turn on the show particals it gives that error and its getting really anoying

i was playing a very old game by the name of "Total Annihilation" and i tough i would try to recreate the way things build in the game. in which a energy grid is sprayed with a nanite cloud and it forms a full structure. and so i came down with 2 problems. 1 i could not find very much info on making smoke though it seamed it had to be using sprites 2 what i could find has an object moving leaving smoke, i need the smoke to move from an object preferable in a controled maner towards another model

In the PWS, in the chor, to the right of your model name, click on the first icon with the red X on it much appreciated

this may sound said but how does one do that i searched thorugh a lot of the properties and could not find the option

hello again unfortunatly due to a Hard drive failure i lost my working copy of AM as well as most of my files ( sigh ) but good news is i still have you guys as i have been trying to rebuild my files i have been working on making shield effects and while i have had good success with making mats that look good i cant seam to remember how to move them along a surface as ever time i try and translate them it moves the solid not the mat . any one remember how to do this???

OK so in on of my many attempts to be creative i tired to make a fluffy white cloud ................ and in turn make a runny Grey blob. what is the best ways to make cloud or items of the such and how do i make them take the shapes i want. such as flowing through a valley

OK here my problem i have created a image to be used with AM's terrain maker and it will successfully load in and build the terrain but when i try and view surfaces AM crashes. i have uploaded the picture listed below my ultimate goal is to have a map that a army or two of robots Can fly , drive.... what ever , so it has to be pretty big but i was sure that my computer should be able to handle that since the cp count shouldn't have been that big land.bmp

the terrian wizzard causes am to crash out right and the AM teraform program crashes before fully loading so i guess im out of luck ..........sigh

quick question , i have been working on trying to build decent looking landscapes and im making some that look ok , but there's one part that i cant seam to make work , and that's the edge of the terrain , is there any way to make it look like a horizon or the such , im generally working with a square at the moment if looking down upon the ground

ok iv been stumped , if tryed to install the am teraform application but have be getting an error saying that its a invalide win32 application ,any one used this or ever goten this error , im using vista 64 bit btw

ok my iner nub may be showing out but when i when to the fourm section to the make a face it was just one a guy hade done that was appearntly elf like , any one know the ink to an actual tutorial? i know there used to be videos but they dont seam to be on the hash home page, or like i said just total nub today

it allmost looks like thats where the ground intersecs the light from the cameras point of view , does it do that as the same spot if u move the camera ???

well im back and this time im trying some organic stuff , i allready know that there are tutorials for makeing a human face from scratch, but are they any good ones for making a face from picture , iv uploaded an example of what im taking about , seeing as this is all ready an animation i though it would be easyer to start on , but after a few hours i had nothing of any real value.

quick question , where do i find the setting to turn gravity off

ok i think i got it , i had to turn it on in the main options part and the stream is now showing up

sequence of events 1 downloaded file 2 oped file 3 looked over how it was setup 4 tryed to change the color of the jets to red 5 started the renderer 6 selected i frame bout 5 seconds in and made sure draw particals / hair was on 7 rendered for 30 seconds 8 result was just the cone , no effect noting that trying this again showed the draw particals / hair was turned off again , could this mean AM is broken and not able to render these particular items

ok run into a little problem , i was tweeking the file that rob uploaded to see what effects i could get and as far as i know i set the render setting to render sprites . but when i try and render nothing happens , im noting that i have to set render sprites on every time and its not sticking so that may be it but was wondering if this might be caused by anything else