Wildsided

And a very Happy Christmas and New Year to you too, good sir.

If you don't "mind" migrating to windows 10 you could use the upgrade path and select keep programs and files. I think that was a thing when I did it on my old laptop. Then at least all your stuff will still be installed. Most software from the past decade can be run in compatibility mode as well I think.

No problem at all, John. Sorry I didn't reply sooner. I just sat down to try and figure out why it wasn't working and saw that you had sorted it. Glad it worked out in the end. Good luck with the rest of the tree.

Looking at that model, John. I'd say you'll run into just as many resource intensity issues by having so many CP's (Extrapolating an entire tree from that one stem) that you would have by using hair. I had a little stab at making a transparency map for the image you posted at the start of the thread. If you apply the first one as a decal and set it to colour, then add the second image to the same decal (Right click on the images folder in the decal and select add image) and set that to transparency it should cut out the white area and leave just the coloured portion.

If my mum mentions something to me when we're talking. Facebook gives her an ad about it. Yet they swear blind the phones aren't listening to us.

Made a little Christmas animation for the Youtuber I did the Yoshi on a Rocket animation for.

There's some lovely body roll on the go there Roger.

Looking good so far, Robert. Very nice and light head mesh.

Well lets be honest with ourselves. It was never a matter of 'if' I would disappoint the forum and always a matter of 'when'.

Aaaaargh the pressure!....I got nothin'

Cheers Steve. I don't know how efficient it is, but I have 1 group called 'needles' made up of key points along each branch. I'd had it where each branch had a needles group of its own but it felt like over kill so I consolidated them all into 1 group.

Here's a wireframe of the bottom, top and branch

I tried treez and although I'm sure you could make something similiar with it I kept making trees that looked more like branches. So I made a trunk and a 'branch' and then manually assembled a tree branch by branch. But the more branches I added the more A:M or my system or both struggled to cope with it. To the point it became totally unworkable. So I spent a couple of hours removing 50% of the CP's in the 'branch' and started over. Even that didn't manage to get me a full tree. So in the end I chopped the top off the trunk and made the top of the tree in a separate model.

Thanks David. It had to be made in 2 parts and assembled afterward because my PC couldn't cope with the whole thing being 1 model.

I done made a tree.

If it's a good picture isn't centered properly?

Heck yeah! thanks for the tip off. $25 US for around a $1000 worth of software? Don't mind if I do.

I saw that the prehistoric contest had been extended so I started working on a bit of something. This is the start of Tiny the baby Mammoth. He's a floof.

Oooh crystal Thom

That's pretty awesome. I love when people make cool things using something totally not intended to be used for what they've done.

Have you tried clicking on Help and then reset setting. Then close and relaunch A:M

I finally got around to making a base male body. I've had a female one for a while and had been using a pretty crappy male for way too long. This new one can be manipulated a lot better than my old one.

Thanks Jason, I appreciate your hard work. Also had a wisdom tooth removed last October and that was no fun so two must suck royally.

Speaking of the store, are we ever likely to see things like A:M paint back on there? I asked (in a direct message not on the main forum) a little while ago and you (Jason) said you'd look into it but it hasn't reappeared so I just assumed that it wasn't. Just thought I'd ask.

Looking good Paul. I love a bit of animatronic goodness. (also Tailspin Baloo stumbling upon the body of Mr. Incredible in the background gave me a giggle.)