Douglas Ferrin

Yep, and there it is. Thanks Rob and Gerald.

Hi Gerald, Yeah, I'm using v19; I know to look in the render dialog, and that's where I'm not finding it. ideas? Doug

Rob and David - thanks much for all the info. I'm not sure if mu-hair should be built in to mu AM, but it isn't; I somewhat combed through the links you two sent, but didn't see a download for the actual shader. Do either of you have a link? By the way, great Al Capone head Rob! Here's an update of the head I'm working on if you're curious. Incidentally, did anyone ever make just a face rig, and an installer? Thanks much. Doug

Rob, If you see this, could you please tell me about the mu hair specular shader that you mentioned. A few searches on the forum brought up nothing. Thanks very much! Doug

Rob, OK, bringing the model into a new project worked. Hooray. I need to tweak the settings - I'll have a look at the tutorial you sent - but anyway it's working. Thank you so much again for your help! All my best, Doug

Whoops. Here's the screenshot.

Hey Rob, What would AM do without you? Thanks so much for the advice and the compliment! As you can see, still not working on the guy, but rendered fine on my hairball. I'm thinking maybe there's a bug in my project file? I'm going to load the model into a new project and see how that goes. Hope it's not a bug in the model. One way or another, I'll show you how it goes. Doug

Greetings all! I've never used the hair material before and don't understand why I'm not getting any specular effects. I’ve tried everything I can think of, but I have a feeling I’m missing something basic. Anyone? Thanks much. Doug F

ROB - Thanks so much for the reply! Key was in fact not sent, email links do not work and I can't access the appropriate page from my account. Jason just wrote me, and I hope we can get it sorted out. I have no idea what the problem might be on their part, nor on mine for that matter - frustrating, this being day 3 now. Thanks again, and normally I think your post would have been a life-saver.

Hi everyone! Just re-purchased and can't find my serial keys, have clicked the right links, written 3 or 4 times, haven't heard a word in reply and for the first time in 20 years I can't get anyone on the phone (I'm told it's not in service). And I've got a job I need to do pronto. Is there a new tick or has my memory gone to hell? Didn't do anything weird and my computer's bug free. Where are you Randy and Steve? Anyone? Thanks much all! Doug

For the life of me I can't remember how to move a bone in real time, letting each frame be a keyframe. I feel like my memory is going to wrack and ruin. Could someone give me a nudge. I'd very much appreciate it. Thanks. Doug

Greetings, I just wiped my hard drive and have re-installed AM. When I apply a photo to a model, it appears in full resolution and slows modeling down enormously. I've never had this happen before: a decal showing in high-res in default mode. I've fiddled with the real-time render settings but that doesn't change anything. If someone knows a way to get the default resolution of decals down (pre-render or quick render), I'd very much appreciate the info. Thanks, Doug Since I wrote the above several hours ago, I loaded v16, and things happen at the speed they should. It seems to be a problem with v17, at least the way it loaded on my computer.

Thanks again - worked like a charm. Douglas

Thanks Rob. I will do it. Douglas

It's been a while since I've done this - I have a string of tga files (0000 - 0600) and want to apply them as a moving decal. As I recall, I only have to apply the first in the series, and the rest will follow automatically. It doesn't seem to be working - the image stays frozen on the first frame. I've put a few of them in the decal folder, thinking perhaps they need to be there and not just in the images folder, but that is not working either. I made an action, wherein the object the decal is applied to moves slightly, but still no luck. I've looked for the subject in the techref manuel but can't find it. Perhaps also someone could let me know where it is in the manuel. Also, is it possible to use an avi or other movie format as a moving decal these days? In any case, if someone could let me know what I'm doing wrong, or how to get it to move, I would very much appreciate it. Thanks, Douglas

Thanks Rob - still not sure if the tsm2 is a new rig; is the 2008 a new rig? I have v17 and can use either 32 vor 64 bit. Any recommendations? Thanks again. Doug Thanks Rob - I can do 64 bit and I'm up to v17 - just really wondering if there are any signifigant differences between the (what appear to be) new rigs and the 2001. I've more or less combed the forum, but haven't stumbled into any clear answers. Thanks, Doug

Greetings, It's been a few years since I rigged anything - I'm wondering what the difference between the 2001 rig - last one I used - and the 2008 as well as the tsm2 rigs are. Also, are there new instructions for the various rigs? I thought I saw an illustrated rigging walk-through (using thom?) the other day but can't find it again. Any points in the right direction(s) would be much appreciated. Thanks, Douglas

Thanks futur. I'll have a look at it.

It looks like a good program. Thanks again.

Yes, looks good; thanks very much for the movie. Indeed my units were set differently. By the way, what program did you use to make the movie - that is, what program allows you to capture what's happening on the screen? Thanks again. Doug

Hi It'sjustme, I'm still getting the same thing - what version of 15 are you using? Maybe that will make a difference. Also, the only part that isn't identical is the "body"; I flipped the arms/hands and feet/legs and positioned them as closely as I could to the same positions. Any thoughts. Thanks Much. A few minutes later: Actually, using oj I got better results; good enough that I can patch it together now. Thanks again for your help. Doug

I'm rigging a new model. The same thing happens in v15 however, it'sjustme. Any other ideas? With my model, I open it in modeling, bones mode. I click on mirrorbone in bones; right click, go to mirrorbone wizard; set it as it is in the pdf. Thanks.

Thanks. That did the trick.

Hi. I need to use V 15 for something and can't remember how to transfer license to it, then back to 16. Could someone please tell me how. Thanks Much

Could you please tell me how to get 15 running again - I get the expired license notice. I've been out of the game for a while and don't remember how it is done. Thanks.