[Save Model file]

thanks that was easy

 

Gary Weaver

[Save Model file]

I am working on a Game and can export AM Models to 3ds and it works but

Is it possible to create an action and the in each frame of the action

be able to export each of the frames out to 3ds individually

 

Thanks

Gary Weaver

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[quick water]

you have to go the bones transistion - Z (i think)

 

I thought it would have been Y but I think it was Z

 

May depend on how the action is set up.

[quick water]

again I am not very good at this - it is just something that came to me and I think someone else can do something with this.

 

I made a quick web page of what I did and some other ideas to improve it.

 

 

the url is

 

My Webpage

 

hope this helps others

[quick water]

I don't know if anyone is interested or not but I just spent some time trying to find an easier way to make a lake/ocean look for waves

 

create a grid

create 2 bones that point straight up and are placed just below the water (does not matter where) in the middle is ok - one bone will rise while the other falls

 

now group small groups for each bone - dont use all the points and try to make the shapes irregular and leave one point between groups

 

now create an action and use the expressions to move bone1 up and down

 

Sin(GetTime())*1.5

 

on bone2 use

 

Cos(GetTime())*1.5

 

and bingo instant waves - I added some roughness to the surface 5% and scaled the roughness to 1500%

 

I know someone else can do more with this

 

Hope someone can use it.

[Importing Video]

I seem to have to remove the sound from the mov or avi files before they show up.

[Live Action]

Just found another way to do it. Set up the first light to give you the shadow you want. Then if you add other lights into the choreography that you want - this will usally mess up the projected object because of the added light. Now drag these new lights to the model you want illuminated by them and add them to the objects light list and now it works.

[Live Action]

I'm not the best person to answer this question but what i have done is render once with the object you are adding to the live action with flat shaded on and the shadows only option set. You will not see any shadow if you do the quick render but if you render out to a file - the object or character will not be there but the shadow will.

 

You will then have to render again with only the character and then join the 2 together in your editing software.

 

Hope this helps.

[Material Effector]

yep that's what I was looking for

 

 

Thanks

[Material Effector]

the tutorial at this location

 

http://www.digitalproducer.com/pages/mater...n_animation.htm

 

says we need to "Override Base Attribute"

 

I don't see it in version 11 was it taken out

 

Thanks

[Use parts of a Different model]

Yes It does work now - I had to close the project and then reopen it with both

models in the project file

 

Thanks

[Use parts of a Different model]

doesn't work - I have both models open - go to old model grab hands - copy

 

switch to new model and do paste - nothing

[Use parts of a Different model]

I have a model that I Created and would like to use the hands on this model for a new model I am working on - I know it was on this list before but I can't find it

 

help please!

[What is the URL for the johnl glass break]

What is the URL for the

johnl

website with the cloth - glass break tutorial

 

Thanks

[RotoScope Colors]

statics look good - and the avi plays fine in Video Vegas and Windows media player

[RotoScope Colors]

I tried to import an AVI file and my orange shirt was green in AM.

 

I can work around it but just wondered if anyone else has ever experienced this.

 

Thanks

 

 

Gary

 

I LOVE AM - left maya to come back to it