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You will need a material effector for something like that. You can than create two materials and assign one of them to the material effector. If you now bring the material-effector near a surface, the cut area will get the new material while the rest will have the old material. *Fuchur*

You although may have a look at Steffens "Resurface"-Plugin. It can help, if the mesh is setted in the right way, too. The second way is a boolean, but it will not actually deform the surfaces but cut them away. *Fuchur*

Not really... most of us doesnt use the bvh-file for anything... give it a day... maybe someone can help you here. *Fuchur*

Ponytails can be created with the "shift-hair" in a very easy way... When you create the hair-emitter press "Shift" while you click on Hair. Now create a spline in a model-window. Assign the material to the spline (go to the "Spline"-Folder and drag it on the spline not on a group!) *Fuchur*

v13 was only delievered with the CD-version... so it cant be the websubscription. You would have to speak to Hash about that... but I highly doubt you would get another CD. They can't be sure that you lost the CD / DVD and so they would have to risk that someone gets two versions for the price of one. AND what is although very likly is, that they will not do it because you dont have the current versionn (version 15 is out for quite a while now). So it is a pitty, but it looks as if you have to buy the websubscription (or a new CD-version) to run A:M again if you dont find your v13 CD. *Fuchur*

What do you want to do? There are different particle-types for different possibilities. Sprites are the most flexibile once. You can define an image which will be used as particle. See you *Fuchur*

I think he doesnt have to, if it is a game like earth of empire, etc. Than the images will be enough. *Fuchur*

At this point it got 4900 patches Till now, eh? Will you model it in one peace or do you split it? *Fuchur*

Looks like you got fun there michel Nice test... *Fuchur*

I am talking about the straight lines. Have a look at the grey-material inside the sphere. They are not supposed to be there. It is hard to see in the low-resolution-image in the red-part in the upper left corner but I cropped the area out. Have a look at this area. *Fuchur*

I've got a problem with a rendering... hopfully someone knows the artifacts and can tell me why they are happening. I am rendering a image of a christmas tree ball. So I took another road: Now it uses a lighteningtechnique quite similar to yves skylight-rig (so many lights placed in a sphere around my object. I am although using a reflectionmap (using a material) and more important a boolean cutter. As you can see, in the sphere, there are the artifacts (and if you look very precisly although at the left top of the ball itself. Any ideas how to get them away? Thanks in advance *Fuchur*

Textures give you the abillity to create very realistic models if oyu know how to handle them. But they are the possibility which is most troublesome. If you are after a manga-style you dont need too many of them so. Well place materials with surfaceproperties will do the job as well *Fuchur*

There are (I think) four positions along a spline where the hooks can take place... It will jump to the nearest to your mousepointer when you create it. Other than that, there is no possiblity to make place the hook more precisly. But in general you dont have to think much about it. If it changes a lot where the hook is connected to on the spline, a hook is very likley not suited... You should best use it on even surfaces or at least on surfaces where it will not have to bend too much. *Fuchur*

You will have to do it by hand... I have a German keyboard (so z and y are changed) but I think this is something that isn't too bad. It's much worth that for example the slash isnt available that fast, etc. But in the end it is a change of 6 shortcuts or something like that... so there is no real need for a special threatment here. So I would suggested: Take the time (it cant be longer than 10 minutes) and change whatever you want. *Fuchur*

Did you move the mainbone in any way? Seems very odd to me. You can try to save your action out, reimport it and delete the old one. Maybe it is fixed then? *Fuchur*

It has been changed in v13 (it got a better export-algorithm at this time), but Arthur already rebuilt his plugin for v13 and up. Go to: Arthur Walasek's Webpage Be sure you get the right plugins for your version (v13 and up should use v13-plugins) It is working well for me. And yes: It should even be included in A:M as a standard, if I am not wrong. But if it didnt transfert to your installation (why ever) get the plugins from his webpage. See you *Fuchur*

I hate those guys who just take a photo and then claim to did it by a 3d-pr... damn, there is a wireframe? Holy... just a wonderful, very very photorealistic work. *Fuchur*

That wont work... you need a quad-poly-model at least to be able to use it. The only thing I can imagine is, that it could work as prop OR you could try to use the toon-renderer. But everything else is to much work to do. *Fuchur*

Could you provide one of the models? I'd like to have a look on one of them. *Fuchur*

A painting, eh? Are you sure the sitting cat in exactly that position is possible? So can properly scaled bones do it that way? The easiest way is to deform the cat in the way you need it (for example in a pose) and while standing up bringing it in the right shape to animate it properly again. I dont know much about the TSM-rig, but are you sure you cant archieve the pose? Switching between FK / IK could help much. The more complex way is: Rig it yourself so you get the accuracy you need. You are after a logo-animation or something right? Maybe you could although get to the sittingposition in a 2d-blend? *Fuchur*

On a floor you can easily just use a decal with a repeat-value for the image. BitMap Plus can do the job too, but I would suggest to use it for uneven-surfaces where a decal would be very hard to apply correct. BitMapPlus is less controlable than a decal and cant be viewed in realtime. So, just get a texture of a ceramic flag (should be tileable) and use it as decal. At the decal, go to the image-folder in the PWS. You will find a "repeat"-property. Set it as high as you want and apply the decal. Done. (You can even manipulate the repeat-value after applying the decal. *Fuchur*

"Both candidates could run this country without a hitch. I am sure of that. My concern is HOW they will do it. What will happen in the long term? One has a status quo philosophy. The other wants to try a new approach. Neither idea will destroy America. We're to strong for that. A single president couldn't destroy America, although Bush has made a good start. We need some CHANGE. And that word is not some "catch phrase" made up by advertising consultants... it means what it says... CHANGE. We need a new different direction." Hitler made from one of the most freeminded and liberal democracies a dictatorship within a few years. Before Nazis, the Weimar Republik was a very liberal democracy. He used this liberaly against itself and in the end killed millions of peoples. So dont be too confident that one couldnt get the US down... it only needs many people with an attitude like "We are unbeatable and nothing bad can happen to us..." and an evil minded, clever person. Just leave your eyes open and learn from other peoples failure. Many people here use the term sozialism like it was the same as comunism - as it would be the most evil thing on earth or something. Germany for example has penson-system, basic healthcare for everyone, helps people to get a new jobs and while they are trying that they get a small monthly pay for a certain while. I dont think that that is evil but it is social. Some people abuse the system, but most are really trying to take the chance and if you abuse it, you will be loosing the help and have to pay everything back with a penaltiy. It is not about getting the money away from the big guys... it is about helping people who are willing to get a job and work hard who just had misfortune. See it like that: If you would for example buy with very much of your money shares from some oil-company and tomorrow the cold fusion would be invented or you disable a person WITHOUT ANY PURPOSE by accident with your car... wouldnt you be happy to get a small restartup-help? It means that the (really) rich people get a thousand dollars less, but it although means that people wont have to die or be starving because of misfortune and that the rich people if they ever have a problem wont end on the streets neighter. It is a second chance. If you can do great things or you got a great idea or you are working harder than others, you will gain more money than others. That is the way it should be. But it is although nice to know, that you wont loose everything if you cant do that whyever. Think of this: Your child becomes ill. The threatment costs too much. You cant get that much money but your child will die even so it is unfair that your little girl has to. What would you say... "bad luck... more luck the next time?" In Germany, if it is absolutly necessary you would get the threatment for free or at least very cheap, if it really needs to be done. I think a state is there too support his citizens... I dont know enough about the american-healthcaresystem so. I only know what comes from the movies. There was one with denzel washington about that topic, where he had to take hostages in a hospital because he couldnt get enough money but his child needed a very expensive medical threatmeant (I think it was a heart-transplantation or something like that... if it is really like that in the US... I only can shake my head about that. For me, a life is more worthy than money. "Financial support to come back on your feet." - This is especially useful in a country where a hot coffee on someones trousers can cost millions... (in Germany nobody would get millions for such a thing... I consider that as totally mad and here many people make fun of the incredible high penalties for not that important things in the US, but maybe you consider it as totally mad that you dont get that much money for such thing...) And so on... Our social system is not perfect and there are some black sheeps here and there, but overall I think it is not a bad system. It means that every person has a last "save all" if it is really necessary. *Fuchur*

Okay... so we just have two very different points of views here. You are seeing enemys behind each single tree, I dont see them. And it is NOT easier to catch up with poverty or health care or other problems of a country... military is much easier. You just have to capture other peoples devices to get informations about it. It is hard to research military technology, but it is much harder to solve society problems. Ever tried to capture a social problem? Countries all over the world try to eleminate those factors and none really got these things solved. Because there is no simple answer to it and the problems differ from country to country, city to city, village to village, minute to minute. Hundreds and thousands of factors which are all interacting with eachother in a society are competing against each other and you have to find a way to combine all of them to solve these issues. Many different lobbies want to be adressed, many different people think different things and every single one of them think s/he would have a slightly better plan than all of the others. And lets face it: There is no other country on the whole planet which is spending so much money for military research! Why is the cold war over? Because no other country could spend that much money for the weapons anymore. So there are two possibilities: Out there are very, VERY intelligent none-us-people who can develope better weapons than the US military with 1/100 or less of the eta of the US military (very, very, very unlikely...) or we are talking about paranoia here. It is not about military, it is about civil technology if you are talking about other countries which develope better things than the US. Asia is coming and they will kick the western countries ases if we can't produce better high-tec products like they do. 10 years ago, we were far ahead technologywise, but today the US is not (with the exception of military equipment) better than them today. They can produce much cheaper and in 5 years their products will be better. Have a look at the car-sector. Germany was always very popular for its great cars. Today Toyotas, Nissans and such manufactors are leading in Emergency Road Service statistics. We are still slightly better in some areas like comfort and new inventions, but that can change in a minute. Mobilephones are created by Sony and Nokia, a few my Motorola today and Nokia and Motorola are losing ground. And so on. So what will you do if the only thing you can do better than others are weapons? Will you go and be a pirate? Because another job isnt available anymore? So it is very wise to invest more money in civil research and try to save your jobs by being a small step ahead ALL the time. Oh and just to mention it: You need to kill every other person other than you to get totally rid of the possibility to get attacked... and that wont be a nice christmas eve if only one person is lightening the candles... *Fuchur*

I dont say to stop it, but do you really have to spend THAT much money on it? I mean, the military eta is one of the largest or the largest in the US. Poverty, no real healthcare-system, high illegal imigration, many different other problems but what gets addressed most? The thing that is already the most advanced and could easily be supported with a bit less without loosing any advantages... For what? The US wont be attack by any country directly anyway. It would be suicide without any possible success and there is no country which will try that. The only thing that is possible to happen is, that the US is doing a agression war or that terrorists will come and try to attack a city in america. Where do you need a new tank for, if the real danger is a guy with a bomb in his suitcase in New York or a airplane? The new tank is just useless in such situations... It is about being able to defend your country, but even more important is to have something that is worth defending, dont you think? *Fuchur*

No it doesnt, but they may be dangerous, but they are not stupid. They although know, that nuclear weapons will effect them too and that this will be a reason to fight them. I cant say what is going on exactly, only future will tell us, but dont believe everything that is told to you on the TV. Republicanic governments are often ruling the country by rising the fear in the people. Second thing: You are talking about the terroristic cells, not a state. If the state would have been acting like a real terrorist, it would long be in war with the NATO. You cant set any state on the world at the same level as Al Qaida, ETA or the Hamas. They may have other opinions but you cant say that a state who has another opinion is automaticly evil. And the common number is 42 virigins, not 24. And this is more like a joke by the western countries. What really motivates the terrorists to do what they do is, that their families will gain some sort of a rent from the terror-organisation. It is more or less about money and to help their families out. Yes they may have the motivation to get something in heaven, but it is not the only motivation for them. But again: Mc Cain is not the only person who can fight a war. Obama can although do that, if it is necessary. The US has the largest military eta of ALL the countries in the world since many many years. The US already got such a high level there, that no other country can stand up with the US there. And you have to see it in another way: Every dollar which is given to the army is always a dollar less for the rest. That means: Education will suffer, infrastructure will suffer, economics will suffer and so on. So even while the US has more weapons especially more advanced weapons than any other nations, the us is still spending SO much money on it. *Fuchur*