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V19 fingers crossed, although I did end up finishing a super detailed model of a push bike today with a million crashes on mac, I was this " " close to setting up boot camp to install windows and install AM on windows again then I realised that it was too late, that I would have to email to get another serial key for windows as my mac subscription key wouldn't work and I had to finish the model by today / yesterday so I was like " i'm not going to let this crashing beat me " . . . and so the project was completed, oh and I have a lot of things to note which are doing all sorts of things on mac . . . more soon

yes have tried png too, not being a nit pick but this was all working perfectly back in AM 95 - 98 ! lol I was like yes ! Thats how I want to decal and trace ! on the first day I got AM given to me by Dylan with no prior knowledge I produced 2 x 30 TVC's with character animation ! but these little annoyances now in 2016 is ummm . . . really annoying, I though AM would mature and get better with age !

" would you believe that this is working better and more stable on my Mac ( even with the ma glitches ) than it is on a PC chief ?!

Yes using old school Targa does the same thing . . . On importing rotoscope it comes in like this . . . If I go into Tools/Option/ Global and toggle the realtime driver from Open GL to Open GL 3 and visa versa then . . . . . . it suddenly loads the image and works normal, sometimes the image breaks and becomes garbled after a restart or after a crash, then usually have to toggle the open GL settings again and fiddle around until it comes back again, textures behave similar to this as well sometimes - any clues ? On mac we can change from Nvidia to Native Mac drivers for the video card but this doesn't seem to matter to this problem using either driver - any clues ?

thanks guys, but still does it on twin monitor setup, even if I dock the pallets to where I want it to, every time I launch it again it shifts everything all over the place, have put what happens here : I set the windows and pallets up like this : But on restart ( even if it doesn't crash ) it resets my pallets workspace, I have tried to reset the settings but it still does this once it is restarted like this . . .

Speaking on 3D prints, one of our local 3D printing companies just had this large format printer installed here in Melbourne, Australia, I'm going to see them next week to get some prices ! check it out here : http://www.omus.com.au

opps sorry here you go : can read about it on my blog which I'm just starting up again . . . http://www.aldrichquaihoi.com/blog/ . . . stilt finish with some detailing more pics on the blog

Just finishing this bike model, all built on the Mac, it was crashing like a @!#$%^^ until I got the new 18j update, but still there is issues on mac when importing rotoscopes but we got there eventually ! Working on this fir Dylan from Momentum Animations Fame, now Perry Animations, looking forward to completing a short with him some time soon !

Hi Guys, just noticed that importing images seems not working, I have a FX4800 using the Nvidia drivers and after update to 18p its not importing images, I'll try the mac native driver now and let you know . . . anyone come across this ? Before when it was buggy I found that if I toggle the open GL settings in options it would kick in but now . . hmmm . . let me have another crack

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Every time I restart AM on mac, or after crash it throws all my pallets, project / properties etc all over the place, like a poltergeist and is driving me nuts, doesn't seem to do this on windows, I'm using a dual screen setup, anyone got any pointers ? Do I need to delete system prefs for AM to reset it again ?

Hey all long time no see, I just downloaded the 18p update, so far so good on early 2008 Mac Pro running El Capitan, well nothing unusual for AM, working on a few things with Dylan from the ole Momentum Animations still got that irritating redraw thing with rotoscopes coming becoming garbled and having to switch between Open GL / 3 etc.

Hey Guys, got back into AM because I needed to visualise this game pad case I have been developing to communicate with the mechanical / electronic engineers and AM was the tool I tuned to, why ? Because I love it and did not want to learn another app because AM is so good. I was reading about the polygon thread and some of that applied here, but from experience and from this example, I would like to point out that AM is very powerful and with the bonus of now outputting STL files it fills in a huge requirement I had back in the days. From working on this I found somethings which I would love to have implemented - mainly being able to control patches / splines much like you do in Adobe Illustrator and a point align tool much like Illustrator as well, I can over look the crashing, I think we are all used to it by now, but as a first and basic step to allow people to use AM like a cad / 3D for product tool the level of control for accurate modelling by mimicking illustrator like spline / point control and alignment would be a god send. It would cut design times to a quarter - also the boolean thing which I posted about earlier. Those three things would boost the tool set am already has for actual production level modelling - dont tell me to use catia / soildworks - normal people can't afford those apps unless we get them " dubiously " - yep not even rhino - I used all of them and I always come back to AM - " it just works " the way I want it to work despite its bugs. And its awesome to see the polygon preview - what would even be better would be the ability to fix / edit the polygons in that view so that you have a solid models for printing instead of fixing or welding up the holes left by 5 points / hooks etc - which I tent not to use when doing mechanical things anyway - you will se my liberal use of 3 point patches of " triangulated " " polygons " - but still in patch form this model is low detail yet high detail when in polygon view. Just an update of what I did the last couple of weeks, I'll get back into character stuff later, but just showing how else could improve AM and expand it from just character modelling and animation. This product is actually happening and I will do a kick starer campaign to fund its production, I have financed this all myself, everything is done we are just finalising the components, but AM can use these images and other renders I do for their folio to showcase it as " hey look at this guy, he designed this product in AM and you can buy it in a store, wow AM is pretty powerful " - and if it goes well, then I hopefully can lend some financing to add these features to AM AND for a NATIVE Mac version with some more developers to help out Stephan - sounds good ? Also been thinking about VR anybody doing any projects with oculus rift development and AM ?? Please share your experiences.

Isn't there already polygon preview built in - I just noticed this, really good for pre visualising for 3D printing

aHA ! I just figured it out, I somehow managed to " bake " the models texture ?? ! - Never knew about this - something new ?? It somehow put all the textures and decals into one texture - as soon as I deleted this from the project decals tree it went back to normal - what is baking ? Is that compressing textures / decals into one map ?? Cant see it in Art of Am manual

Reminds me of the old Poser some what . . . AM is better !

Tried to create a new material and apple it to selection - same deal

hmmm . .. when I add a diffuse colour to a selection it shows up on only some patches when I toggle the decal it shows it properly but then the decals disappear - when I render it shows it as above on only some of the patches is this a bug report or am I not doing something Im supposed to ??

Good idea Bobcat didn't think of that !

Bummer ! That would be awesome if it did, oh well we can only wish !

Thanks Fuchur I will try this !

Deleted the plist file in library - no good . . . any clues ??

Hey Guys, how do I reset the window positions on mac, for instance the library keeps on opening up an when I add tools to the menu bar on restarting AM or after a crash the old windows opens up and the tools which I activated in options I have reactivate them again, do I have to delete a preference file or something so the app windows go back to default - then how do I set my window workflow to keep on opening up the same all the time ?? Driving me nuts to reset up my windows and tools how I like everytime I use Am

Hey Guys just wanted to know if Boolean cutting is now working with geometry or we still doing it the old way with bones and showing only when its rendering ? What I mean by geometry is that can objects be subtracted with boolean cutter and the patches get cut by AM - so its a solid cut and not faux via render only - would be really good for STL and 3D printing . . .

Ummm . . . never mind SHIFT+A CLICK . . . my muscle memory remembered the training . . . he he he