[TSM2AMMac]

Thanks All, So this will be the last time I try it.

So here's another question concernig Rigging

 

How do all you guys rig? Do you use the 2001 rig or the TSM2 or one bone at a time your own way? What would be easiest and or the best way to go?

[TSM2AMMac]

Hi Everyone

New question about Anzovin TSM plugin. Im using a Mac and AM ver. 15 (subscription) I downloaded and placed the files in the correct location and when i start AM I get the following error. Instructions say AM can only use 6 files in the HXT folder (but there are a lot more than 6 there)

Is anyone else able to use this plugin and if so how did you get it to work?

[Image Sequence Importing]

Hi heyvern

 

Just tested you idea and it did work with being able to see from all angles yet when I imported a model it disappeared again, only the model was visible. But will work on it more this evening, time to head to work. WORK sucks!!! Hate leaving this to go earn money, Been trying to get them to just send a check to me without working, they just don't get it, what's the matter with these people???????

[Image Sequence Importing]

Does the mention of the rotoscop actually disappear from teh PWS?

 

No, it is still there but in the chor. window (image3) the image disappears so I can't see what or where i am working. Right clicked and went to views and tried all views but the images stays gone. I am sure there is some option to turn on or off like 'Front Projection Target' or maybe create a 'new layer' ??

 

My thoughts are to have the video images as a background and have my char. models in front with the appearance of being in the video. But my thoughts and real application don't always work well together.

[Image Sequence Importing]

Hi Gang,

Been working on this mess myself and this is as far as I can get. I use a mac also and don't get the 'import option either' but if you select the first image as you all have said it will import the entire sequence. Image 1 (into Images) Image 2: then I drag it into the 'shortcut to camera 1' and bingo there it is and it plays if you try it in the timeline.

Now my problem is when you intentionally or accidently change the view it is gone and I am unable to get it back so I can work with it.

If memory serves (my old self) right 'robcat' did a blue screen thing with video and placed animation in the background, HOW DID YOU DO THAT COOL STUFF?????' Any way that's my lil'bit on the subject, still working on trying to figure it out.

[Image Sequence Importing]

Hi Gang,

Been working on this mess myself and this is as far as I can get. I use a mac also and don't get the 'import option either' but if you select the first image as you all have said it will import the entire sequence. Image 1 (into Images) Image 2: then I drag it into the 'shortcut to camera 1' and bingo there it is and it plays if you try it in the timeline.

Now my problem is when you intentionally or accidently change the view it is gone and I am unable to get it back so I can work with it.

If memory serves (my old self) right 'robcat' did a blue screen thing with video and placed animation in the background, HOW DID YOU DO THAT COOL STUFF?????' Any way that's my lil'bit on the subject, still working on trying to figure it out.

[Repair message]

Thanks for the fast answer Rodney, I tried to copy/paste and that just made more of a mess, half of the CPs did not show up , splines missing.

so then I just deleted half of the dress and did the COPY/FLIP/ATTACH again and that worked. So in a way it did help.

 

Over the years I have learned that I tend to over complicate a problem when the simplest solution is usually the right one, (or fix)

Thanks

[Repair message]

Greetings all,

 

Well I have a new situation and not sure how to fix it (if it can be) without having to start all over again.

I had modeled 1/2 of my ladies dress and then was going to COPY/FLIP/ATTACH but (not paying attention of course) I hit SNAP TO MIRRORED POINTS which at some point later looked right. So now my main seem down the middle won't move, when I HIDE her to just see the dress you see what i get. Close the model and reopen I get this Repair message and haven't got a clue.

 

Any ideas folks????

[They that do Not know, wish to!]

Thanks robcat2075

You always seem to come through in a pinch, I appreciate all the help you have given.

[They that do Not know, wish to!]

Hi All,

My first flick. So tell me what you think and lots of advice, please.

1st.....................It is to fast, don't know how to slow it down???

2nd....................The red strobe light stays on through the whole thing, needs to be off until frame 22, ON thru 27 then off again ( it is a bone and I can't figure out how to Aim At the holomap ) ???

3rd....................The 3 colored lights inside should be flashing through the whole animation???

4th....................I created a action for a spinning decal in the front circle but don't know how to get it in and working???

 

I know this is a lot to ask but would love to hear all your opinions and advice.

Thanks

Wally

flyingP.mov

flyingP.prj

[locking a light on a model?]

Thanks guys, you've pulled me out of the pit once again!

[locking a light on a model?]

Hi Guys, I've been studying this light business in hope to figure how to place 3 small flashing lights into a space ship. 'heyvern' mentioned a tutorial? Which one would I need to see, I think I have been through them all but don't remember anything about this subject.

Just one more thing to ask. My ship has a lid that opens, I would like a light to turn on when it opens, project an image into the air like a hologram then turn off when the lid closes. Any ideas on how to do this. Would I need to make a small transparent grid with a decal of the image than aim the light at it at a certain keyframe of the animation?

[I flipped my rig!]

Thanks again and I look forward to your new tutorials.

[I flipped my rig!]

Me again,

Well I downloaded the plugin for MirrorBone and MirrorConstraint then dragged them into my HXT folder, restarted and all I see is 'mirror constraints' no mirror bones. I had read some where here that AM can only work with 6 files in the HXT folder, is this true? Secondly when I used ' mirror constraints ' it replace the left with right but still didn't get the left, my limited mind thinks I need left and right.

I opened both models located my Relationships and dragged them (right) into the other models Relationships and it turned all left to right, I don't get left and right.

Am I doing something wrong again?

[I flipped my rig!]

Hi itsjustme, thanks I will give it a try.

By the way I have a few of your tutorials that I have watched and they have helped me a lot so again Thank you.

Wally

[I flipped my rig!]

Greetings all,

I have been rigging my character with Barry Zundel's tutorials, I am using version 15e on a iMac. I opened the model with a text program, replaced all left with right; somewhere with combining the 2 models together the relationships (left) did not come in. So when I flipped my left side rig and created my right side the way he said all my relationships became all 'right' none of the left came into the new model. Now my question is there a way to bring in all my left side relationships from the old model into the new model relationships? Copy/paste.....Drag-n-drop... ???

Any suggestions would be great so I don't have to go through that process again.

[What are fan bones?]

Hi mtpeak2 and Bandla

I was looking for the same thing this morning, I have been using the training by Barry Z. and know that I see your lil movie I see that Barry calls them 'cosmetic constraints'.

Thanks for answering my question.

[CP Weights Question]

Hi

Do any of you know where there might be some tutorials on this CP weighting process? I have been rigging with Barry Z's videos and seems like a lot of extra bones. My understanding of CP weighting is that it will do the same thing as cosmetic constraints or am I just misunderstanding it?

[My latest short done in AM]

Way to cool, loved it!!!!

[clothing]

Hi All,

I have a few new models I have done and I am at the point of clothing them, so what is the best way? Should I model the clothes over my model or as part of the model? I saw some by JTalbotski and it appears they were applied as part of the model, if so will they move as the model moves? I have seen some info about SimCloth or something like that but haven't check it out much yet. thought I would try you pros first!

Wally

[real video as vback ground]

Hi All, Same problems here. I have been able to get my video into a chor. window, but to be able to work on it I get lost. As soon as you change camera angle the image is gone and am unable to get it back into view. So my question is. In the tut. of the boy walking across the street, models were made of the tree and car! how do you do that and get them placed so the models and video can be animated. hoe do you change you view without loosing the images in the window? Example. (same process I think) Victor Navone and his Alien were placed together into a photo (very cool by the way) done with layers (still cant figure out because of the same problem, when moved you lose the images and cant figure out how to get them back where I can visually work on them.

What am I missing? Settings? Layers? Rotoscope?

Bet it's a simple thing.

[Flipping]

I did the SHIFT-P to select, F to flip...... Then tried to right click and Flip Normals. didnt work.

I will check the CPs like you suggested, bet thats the problem.

Thanks for the quick reply.

 

 

 

Bingo, that worked.

went to wireframe, selected each CP then flipped.

 

Thanks for the help.

Have a great day

[Flipping]

Greetings everyone, Merry Christmas to all.

Have a question, I was checking my normals to make sure they were all facing correctly when I ran up on at least 2 that wont flip. Any ideas on how to get these guys to flip around?

Wally

[Animation Diagnosis Exercise 2]

Personally, I thought it looked pretty darn good.

[picoPower]

From a rookie that plans to do such things someday, JUST TO FREEKIN' AWSOME!!!!!!!

Loved it