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When I "Install Rig" the Hand Geometry Bone appears and points in what looks like the wrong direction. See attached files and image. Should I just ignore this and pretend it's all ok? priorinstallrig.mdl Zerohead_2008r_error.mdl

Technically what the optimizer does is it dumps unused cpu calls and fiddles with the time it stores used calls in the cache. I'm guessing it probably works better for server type work rather than 3d work where moving files around rather than number crunching is more of a priority. There is some utilities on Intel's site that they probably built it from. Guess we could pressure Yoda to make AM multithreaded and see if his head explodes with all the work he's been buried with hehe. I still wouldn't mind a separate application that could just be the renderer and even if I had to purchase it as an extra it would be cool. The built in render is nice but would be handy to have something I could toss on another machine that is multi threaded and just grunts out the finish product.

Was that modeled in AM or imported from a sub-d surface? I don't seen any hooks or 5 pointers. Looks good.

Might be a good time to make a restore point on your system hehe. I emailed one of the legitimate companies to see if it would help on render times, haven't heard back yet but probably will after the holidays.

I don't think those are legitimate copies of the Multicore Optimiser. They show up as torents or cracked versions. Most likely they are bootlegs from the one made by Excludus http://www.jrti.com/products/software/exludus_index.html Thanks anyways.

Thanks, when I googled for it, my AV warned me on most of the links, little bit scary. I'll check this out.

Very nice, I like how you laid out the patches in the face, very clean!

Cool do you have a link? Does it support the itanium chips? Oh yeah, does it actually work? Part of my slightly slower rendering is I have a 64bit system running in 32bit mode, even though AM is 32 bit the overall system isn't running at peak until I can muster up an extra grand or so to upgrade all my software and even then I will loose a couple of programs that have less than slow development and rely on 32 print drivers.

I definitely need to slow down the beginning and make it more like an everyday casual routine that the first character goes through. The drip does seem off too, thanks for the extra eyes on this.

I still need to smart skin Thom and maybe slow up his picking up of coffee cup. My audio is also kind of crappy. Other comments? allin1.mov

wow nice

For kicks you may want to make sure you have the latest video drivers for your system. Most of the time the base drivers that come with the video card usually have bugs or are poor performing by the time they hit the shelf.

Here is one site that many of my customers seem to like: http://dreamstime.com/ Another is stockbytes but they tend to be pretty pricey. You can also take the images and isolate eyebrows etc with alpha channels and use them as decals and/or apply them through AM Painter. Also check out some of the darktree shaders that are available, some of them are incredibly realistic and coupled with the bake texture feature you can add to them. http://www.darksim.com/index.html Hope these links can help.

I did another quick test and set AM's priority to real time from the task manager and knocked 3 sec off the render time. I saw that there are some utilities out there that do multi core optimization and clustering, wondering if one of those would speed up the render times since they change the update speed of prefetch data and dump unuseded computations opening the cpu usage for the task at hand. The utilities seem to be used for the real time visualization, workstation and servers but I can't seem to find any sales of where to purchase them. http://multicore-optimizer.com/exludusflash.html Same software used here http://www.jrti.com/products/software/exludus_index.html

9:34 on this system with 15.0i. I didn't test it compared to previous versions but gained 2 seconds after a clean reboot. xp pro 32 bit with sp3, quad xeon 2.66, 4gb interleaved memory. 34 processes running including AM.

Lettering can be done with a bump map or displacement. Make sure you make the letters white and background gray so that it raises and not indents. Used a decal for that will allow you to better blend the letters to the tire rather than just plopping letters as a model on top. Very nice looking model.

Ever consider making an am plugin for Ultimate Unwrap 3d? UU3d has pretty much all the uv mapping techniques available as well as edge matching, stitching and uv island management. BTW I believe the reason you have trouble with hooks is because in AM they allow an edge to end on a spline without a cp. This may not be exportable to something that converts cp's to vertecies.

That is really cool, seeing that you got the obj translation down somewhat how about using the lscm code in it's place. You will need to define pins that keep the axis and distance fixed then define edges that are like zippers and do the whole model in one shot I started trying to learn C++ and attempt making some plugs but my time gets eaten up it's just too tough to commit too. LSCM.txt

Thats strange, is it just a 14 issue? I have never seen it in 15 here and I started with 15 so I can't judge on it. As for file management I make a local folder and copy everything I need for that project in that folder. This makes it easier for me to archive files. Maybe it's extra work but something I got used to doing from my service bureau days before programs had features like collect for output. Wonder if doing something like that would prevent this from happening?

Awesome!

Subscription based software looks at the current system configuration. All software protection software that is authorized to a single seat works the same basic way and would have to be re-authorized if changes are made. Other companies that use similar systems have the same issues such as Corel and Adobe. Unfortunately the only other way to protect the software is either the CD which acts like a dongle or a physical dongle. Hash is really good if you make changes to your system and need to re-authorize your software. I had some issues with another company and heard of pure nightmares others have had with other companies.

Subscription is limited to one system but I think the way it works if you make changes to your system you would have to tell them so they can reauthorize it. Personally I like the cd, if I want I can plop it on another machine and run it. Of course that means I have to actually get out of my chair and go to another computer, but at least I have that option.

Adding tools and dragging the end one can sometimes cause the File menu to drop in the middle and the others below. I have noticed this but only had fiddled with it the one or 2 times I completely changed or reinstalled AM. Simply drag the file menu back to the top and then from left to right, drag the others back up below that and they all should fit. Make sure you have atleast one window open such as model, chor or action.

Did you uninstall h first before installing g? The installers won't overwrite newer files with older files so to step back a version you need to uninstall first. Menu's under g seem to work fine under XP here.