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Working on the Smoke, wind and fire tutorial....I'm on page 181 of the handbook, and my timeline does not look like the example in the text. Nor can I see a color representation of the shift in color from brown to yellow. Does version 15 have a weird thing going at this point?

Thanks guys! That worked very nicely.

I have tried the "Eat My Dust" tutorial several times, and I can't seem to make it work. I use the constraint picker to select the bone for the left foot just as the manual says, but the dust sphere will not move to the edge of the foot. It stubbornly floats near the thigh. I was able to drag the dust sphere once but now I can't figure out how I got that to work. I watched the video tutorial and the dust sphere naturally snaps right onto the bone when the user clicks on it. But mine wont do that. Has anyone else experienced this issue? I'm using V15.0.

I have a student in my class that is trying to create a simple action. Everything looks correct except that none of her movements are being recorded as key frames. In 10 years I haven't had this issue come up. Usually when my students animate an action, it's a pretty user friendly process...change the cell number, move the bone..ta da...but for her, something just isn't working. I'll attempt to attached the files here. logo.prj

I am an Animation teacher that has been using Animation Master in my classroom for 10 years. Recently my tech support department helped me to upgrade from Animation Master 98 to the 2008 version 15.5. It's a tremendous leap, that has left virtually all of my old classroom assignments and tutorials (with step by step instruction) completely obsolete. I too have found that I completely lack the understanding of the software to properly teach my students anything beyond basic model building. My problem has always been simple, our network configuration using a HASP driver has never allowed me or my students to access the basic libraries and help menus. I would love to guide my students through the tutorials that you guys have posted, but we can't do any of them without the library resources. Please help! For ten years, we've used AM to build candle sticks and robots, but we've never had the proper resources to do anything more fun. We were sold the upgrade earlier last year, and we were never given a CD for installation, it was all done on-line. Could something have been missed?