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Happy Birthday Fuchur ! It is our good luck to have you here on the forum.

Thanks everybody. Good eye Zaryin, the juncture between the head stock and the top of the neck fought me greatly and I've settled for now but will go back and tweak it when I get a second wind. Nancy, when I get a better handle on bump and displacement maps I intend to put in the string windings, but seeing as how this is a steel string guitar and not a classical or nylon string guitar I'll have to save the transparent and translucent attributes for another time. This has been my most ambitious project thus far in A:M. Because I intend to use this model in an animated guitar instruction DVD I'm being pretty "anal" about it. It's gonna get a lot of use. I've put bones in each fret and am putting bones in each string at the frets hoping to create actions for proper string movement for each note fretted. Which brings me to a question. Can you use multiple actions on a model at the same time? For example to "play a G chord I would need 6 different notes (one for each string) could I use 6 actions simultaniously or would I have to make a separate action to show the 6 strings vibrating at once? Thanks again for the positive reinforcement. I'll get it tuned as soon as I model an electronic tuner.

Imaginitively conceived and Artfully executed!

I got it finished tonight. All I added were the strings and bridge pins but it really made a difference. Here's a couple of photo's and the final turn around movie. Final_Guitar_Turnaround.mov

Got the bridge, the saddles (my Alvarez Yari has six individual saddles) and tuners. all that's left is the strings. It's really starting to look like a guitar. Here's a turnaround. Sorry about the file size. I EDIT: I put the QT Movie in the post three posts down.

What is the best (or preferred if you prefer) codec to use for QT and for AVI? Also, I accidentally rendered to a JPG sequence, how do I make them into a movie? thanks in advance.

Good work, Gene! I like the squirrel and the tree and his friends look really good. I think I might agree with Gerry, though, I think you could lighten the brown of the bark a little and his features would stand out a bit better. Great squirrel jump! You keep improving in all areas.

I'll take some Dorito's, please. Lookin' great !

I've restarted this in the WIP section, because I intend to make this ongoing project a working model. After spending time experimenting with displacement maps, and flirting with bump maps, I decided to go ahead and just model in the frets and the Nut. I've completed the and attached the neck. Next the bridge and the saddle. that should be easier, followed by the tuning machines and finally the strings. Necked0.mov

But, what do the question marks mean?

Nice looking tree, Gene!

Darned Work ! Lookin good! Great Splinage

Hi banson, Welcome to A:M Forums. Get to know the Project Workspace (PWS). In the PWS, click on the + sign next to the Choreography bar, and expand it. then click on the"shortcut to . . " for what ever model you're trying to activate. then click on the Translate button (N) or 'N' on the keyboard, you can then drag the model with the mouse or use the direction keys on you keyboard to move the model. Depending which view you are using at any given time the arrow keys will move the model right, left, up, or down. Read every part of your ToaA:M manual, it usually has the answers you are looking for concerning these exercises. Or, as you've already done, ask for help. Once again, Welcome.

He's en-light-end !

I found my Rosetta Stone! I downloaded a trial version of Photoshop CS2. I'll be comparing for the next 30 days so I can hopefully translate terminology between the two. thanks Rodney

Rodney, Back in the days of PM’s you once offered to help translate Photo-Shop-speak to Corel-speak. I’m working through Holm’s wonderful tute on converting normal maps( I’m still not exactly sure what those are) to bump and displacement maps. I got Aaver’s wonderful plugin installed and made my normal maps w/ Alpha as per the instructions. But I’m having a little trouble figuring out how to do this in Corel X3: Could you possibly translate this for me. (I decided to post this rather than send an email, thinking that others might benefit, too.) Thanks P.S. If anyone else has the Rosetta Stone, I'm not choosy concerning the source of enlightenment.

That looks really great, Paul ! I only wish I could look that studly on stage.

A few months ago, someone posted a thread on making bump or texture maps using a photoshop type program and layers, using a rock wall image. I remember thinking, "Someday, I'm gonna wanna see this again, when I'm ready to absorb this information." Well, today's the day, but for the life of me, I can't seem to find it again. I've done searches, but to no avail. Does anyone remember the thread I'm referring to and do you know where to find it? Thank You

The image is not looping, but I would assume that it's because it is stunned into paralysis by the characters incredible good looks! Rock on!

Delightful image, Nancy! However I'm certain that that's not my liver. My liver is not nearly in that good of shape. And by the way, I might tease you mercilessly, but I would never make fun of you.

Thanks, Largento. Valuable information, well presented. Does this mean we'll see some more of these again in the future? I hope so, I have the whole collection so far.

Robcat, I volunteered to do some music, but then I got side tracked with a few other things, (like animating, working on my CD, etc.) and I never got off the ground with it. I like the music in the movie, but perhaps it could use a little Strauss somewhere in the middle there just for contrast. I wonder where it could go? But I don't know how much trouble it would be for Matt to re-edit.

Great Job Matt!! All the way a- "round"! Nice Clips Everybody!

Google Chrome is my normal browser and it didn't work. Firefox did. Got the Zips. Thanks

Jason, thanks for your thoughtfulness, however when I click on the link I get a webpage not available message.