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My aunt was from Germany, and she gave me an Advent calendar from Germany each Christmas for a while. I loved them! It never occurred to me that they would be digital or that there could be anything behind the door but a little cartoon character or scene. I really like the example you included. That's a very clever adaptation of the format.

Thanks, Rodney. I appreciate the time you spent with me and the tips you shared on how to develop story ideas. I also want to thank you, Robcat, and Fuchur for help in dealing with concerns I had about how strangely some of the models appeared on my computer as I worked with them and about problems resulting from my ignorance of the better way to develop graphic details. I learned a lot about other ways of doing things and more about the limitation of my computer's ability to handle graphics. Thanks also to the many other contributors to the Forum for their ideas on how I could work in Animation:Master more effectively.

Most of the characters depicted above are extras on the street or in small groupings to populate the city. Ten of the characters are Peruvians who will accompany the main character Bob Trapper, IV into the Andes and help him build his base camp. There may only be one of those ten who has a line to say. Really, there are about 4 main human characters. They are Bob Trapper, IV who is the man with the gun; Tony, the owner of the deli who sells Bob his first pastrami sandwich (He is the bald fellow with the mustache in the red shirt.); Jasmine, Bob's travel agent (She is the lady in the purplish dress behind the keyboard player.); and Vargas the owner of the company in Peru who supplies Bob with personnel and burros to help him get his equipment to his base camp (He is standing behind the trombone player). The bird will play a part in introducing the story, and small animals like the one to the right of Bob and larger animals like the one on the mountain top will have important roles. If you want to read the basic story which I have elaborated for this presentation, you can find it at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByP4k82JQ7IOTHdDWWlPR3BFR0k/view?usp=sharing

These are the main characters and extras of my coming feature "The Great Pastrami Safari". Copyright March 15, 2017. If you want to see a larger copy, click here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByP4k82JQ7ION0JScTdoaFpZSmM/view?usp=sharing

I have asked a large number of questions as I have been learning how to operate Animation:Master. I used to save URLs so that I could revisit the many helpful answers that I received. Unfortunately, my computer got a virus last summer and had to be cleaned of all contents. I no longer have my own index of former questions, and I tried to use the search engine here for topics that I am sure I asked about before. I also tried to search under my name. The search engine is finding no entries, regardless of where I search. Is the search engine not operating, or is there something extra I need to do?

I guess I did not see the entry directly above this one, because I did not see page 2 of the responses. I've deleted what I wrote earlier in answer to the question about a bug report.

Sounds good. You can call me or I can call you. If I haven't heard from you by 7:05, I'll call you.

Sorry for Roger. I hope we can figure this out. When's a good time for you?

Yes. John Canady, Jr. How about 7:00 p.m.? of any tme before? or until 10:00 p.m. tonight?

We're retired. Almost anytime is OK. Let me know, and I'll respond.

I have Skype. You can look me up as John Canady, Jr. I have not used the article yet. Somehow, I overlooked the link. I have it now and have looked at the article. I won't use it yet. Thanks.

If you are asking whether I have disabled the Intel card, I have. A:M would not come up correctly. There were frames but no information or buttons. When I enabled the Intel card and disabled the NVIDEA card, there was no difference in normal operation as it is now. Hope the screenshot below helps. Thanks for your help.

When I disabled the Intel card, A:M would not come up properly. There were frames, but nothing filled in. There were no buttons and no information. If NVIDEA was supposed to takeover, it did not. When you say "control panel" that means to me the window that presents options in a Windows program. I am not sure what you are referring to. If you tell me where it is, I'll bring it up and do a screen shot.

I have a Lenovo Ideapad Y570 with Intel Core i7, 8 GB RAM, Windows 10, graphics cards NVIDEA GeForce 555M and Intel® HD Graphics 3000. If you need any further information, let me know. As I mentioned above, the computer came with Windows 7 originally. The views all worked with Windows 7. Thanks.

I appreciate the suggestions, but I really don't have the background to know how to disable the Intel card in the CMOS or anything about the consequence of doing that. One thing I really want to avoid is disabling something that ends up with my monitor being dark and my not being able to reverse what I've done in case something turns out to be a wrong guess. I am not very sophisticated in these matters. I usually just monkey around trying things that I know I can reverse until I blindly stumble on the answer. I hope when you suggest an action, you will let me know how to do the action and undo it. Thanks.

You guys know much more about this than I do. I don't even know what openg1 and openg13 would be. My basic computer training is trial and error for about 30 years. I replaced a hard drive or two myself and plugged in a card or two when someone gave me directions, but that's about it. I've been to many one and two hour workshops on various applications, and I have read about doing various kinds of applications, but I know very little about computer science per se. I've learned about different input devices by starting with IBM cards and going through various disc drives, etc. I might know a little more than I am listing here, but I can't think of what it might be right now. I really appreciate your interest in the problem and suggestions on how I might solve it. Sorry I don't know more than I do and can't help more.

I disabled the Intel graphics card, and A:M would not come up. It came on the monitor without any guts. It only had the frames but no information, and I could not load any model. It kept saying "Not Responding". I then enabled it and disabled the NVIDEA card, and I could not see any difference in performance at all. Thanks for the suggestions.

I have a laptop. I'm not sure to which my monitor is attached.

In August, my computer had a virus (although I do have an Internet Security program). I took my computer to the Geek Squad. They agreed to get the data from my computer and take out everything else, and reinstall Windows 7 which I was using at the time, and then reinstall the data. The person who checked in my computer specifically noticed that my product key for Windows 7 was on the bottom of my computer. I told them that I needed my computer back as soon as possible. They kept my computer for about 8 days, and when I got it back, they had installed Windows 10. I noticed also that they had not saved a huge portion of my data. I took it back and told them that I wanted Windows 7. They tried to tell me they could not install Windows 7 because there was no product key. I reminded them that the person who checked the computer in specifically noticed that it was on the back of my computer. It had been removed. They agreed to install Windows 7 and kept my computer another 4 or 5 days. They then told me that they were unable to download the updates for Windows 7 from Microsoft and that without them, my computer would never function correctly. They said they could only install Windows 10. I told them to install Windows 10, because I wanted my computer back in working order. I took detailed notes during every step of the repair process with the Geek Squad. I prepared a long letter to the CEO of Best Buy in the USA and sent it to him. A person from his Group Executive responded and sent a copy of my letter to the Regional Manager, the District Manager, and the Store Manager. When I got my computer back, Windows 10 was not working properly. It also did not have most if not all of the default programs needed to open files. Programs on the taskbar would disappear. Programs in the Start Menu would disappear. Files for my data were listed, but none would open, and I got error messages telling me the files were corrupted. Luckily I had most of the files backed up.I spent two or three days identifying problems and going on the Internet to determine how to repair them. I installed the third party programs that I normally use on my computer. I had to purchase an upgrade for one program because it was not compatible with Windows 10. One program needed an activation code, but it was impossible to get a new one, because the process they had required certain steps that were logically inconsistent and impossible. (It was a bad day when Pinnacle Studio was purchased by Corel!) By then, I had resolved never to let the Geek Squad touch my computer again. I took my computer to Office Depot to have them make an image that I could use if my computer ever needed it again. By the time I heard back from the Group Executive person from Best Buy, my main concern was to get a product key for Windows 7 because it annoyed me that it had "disappeared" during the repair process. I was angry about many things that happened during the repair process, but I was determined not to have my product key "ripped off" even though I now had Windows 10 whether I wanted it or not and since I had installed my third party programs, I would not reinstall Windows 7. Best Buy provided me with a free replacement copy of Windows 7 on disc, and I have not bought anything from Best Buy again. That is what happened between the time when Animation:Master worked properly and now when it doesn't. I really could not say for sure whether it is even the same graphics card that was there before I sent my computer there for repair. I would like to think that there is a control in the program somewhere that I accidentally pushed, but that is looking less and less likely. I have been working on animation project with this display difficulty for several months, because I was reluctant to bring the problem to the Forum and because I hoped to solve it myself. Finally, I had had enough and decided to see if someone would recognize the problem. I really appreciate the help that all of you have given. I don't know that the Geek Squad did anything to cause the problem either, but since you asked what was different, I answered. I checked on drivers for NVIDEA GeForce 555M and Intel® HD Graphics 3000. I hope these are the right ones. Again, I want to thank everyone who has tried to help with this problem.

I installed the latest version of A:M (to p from o) and checked my device drivers (which were up-to-date). Everything still looks the same as it did above. Thanks for the suggestions.

Terrific!

I am using v. 18. I think I have 18O. I didn't know there was a version P yet. I didn't know about updating my graphics card driver. I'll have to find out what kind of graphics card I have and where to update its driver. Thanks for the suggestions.

Thanks, Fuchur! I tried it, but unfortunately, no luck. We'll find it one of these times!

I have checked all normals. I have flipped normals. They all point out. The model still looks like the picture above. Thanks. I'm wondering if this is a Windows 10 problem or graphics card problem. I will be happy if there is some control in the program that I can change.

Here is a screen capture that shows all. I have tried flipping normals.