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Give it a little time, but he is back home again now . See you *Fuchur*

As far as I know, there is no complete documentation about the formats, but there are example-plugins available, which should give you a good starting point in the SDK (I think geometry only there) and here you can get the source code for the directX-exporter (including bone-animation data): DirectX-Export-Plugin with SourceCode Same is available for Torque: Torque-Export-Plugin with SourceCode Steffen has written an MDD-Plugin too, which could be quite interesting, but I am not sure if the code for that is freely available. I'll ask him about that... That should at least give you a good starting point. Are you trying to write an FBX- or Collada-Exporter? See you *Fuchur*

Have noticed that too... I told Steffen about it. In the meanwhile, you need to create a full spline (containing 3 CPs) and join the CP in the middle with the end you want it to stop. See you *Fuchur*

Did you assign a hair material to a model and did you switch to Grooming-Mode (next to modelingmode etc.)? Otherwise this mode is not available.

Or... it's possible the problem would be solved without side effects. AMD makes fine cards that are widely used by many people. I think it's unlikely that AMD would be a general problem with other software. I think it is more likely this is a specific NVidia-with-A:M problem that you are having. If you ever do break down and try it, make a snapshot of your system before you put the AMD card in, just so it is simple to revert back to your Nvidia state. Denmark is right next to Germany... maybe if you dropped by Steffen's place one day he'd be able to diagnose the situation. Say you just happened to be in the neighborhood hunting butterflies. Steffen is a little far from him, if you ask me But all I can say is: AMD cards are great. If you are not using Linux (which you are not since you are using A:M) it should work very well... I have exclusivly used AMD cards for many years now, bought different GPUs and APUs from AMD and never had any problems. My last nvidia card (a geforce 4 ti) was okay too, but I never regraded using my newer cards like my HD4850 I am using now. Anyway: If you want to, it may be an option to use something like teamviewer to see which problems are happening there... but this is something Steffen needs to talk to you about... See you *Fuchur* PS: If you want to use an AMD card, you need to remove the Nvidia drivers before installing it (the same the other way round...) that is essentially and not only done by uninstalling it simply... there are eraser programms for both manufactures, which will help there...

Hi Robby, welcome aboard . Let us know how you proceed and if you have any questions: Don't hesitate and ask . See you *Fuchur*

where can it be watched? see u *fuchur*

steffen reworked the obj import at v18a or something like that. maybe this is what he did? sounds very cool for me . see you *fuchur*

The biggest Pros currently are: Windows Software available for it and Wacom-Pen included. I do not know if it really is as well as the Cintiq-Series from Wacom, but if they are, they are much much cheaper than those. (13" Wacom Cintiq costs close to 1900 Euros here...) It may have advantages to have that one (at least compared to other tablet systems). I am not a big fan of tablet devices itself, since I do not like touch as input device (I just need a mouse and a keyboard, because they are that much more precise compared to my fingers... having a hit radius of 25 pixels (and up) is just so much worse than with a mouse (hit radius around 1-3 pixels). A pen is better, since it is closer to a mouse but still for anything but painting this is not an option for me neighter... I will not start on the keyboard thing... no physical responce, not suited for fast writting without looking at the keyboard and while I may not need to carry a keyboard around, I now need to carry a cleaning-solution bottle with me, since otherwise I would get crasy with those finger prints on it... for smartphones they are okay (the mobile thing is more important here), but for anything bigger than that and meant to work with in any reasonable way, they are just crappy... In general I recommend to get a good ultrabook / ultrathin laptop or just get a normal laptop (which may be a small amount thicker (like 2 mm if you get the right laptop) and maybe a little heavier (again, maybe 100g for the right laptop) but are much cheaper, you do not have to worry about breaking it in the middle that much and (in some cases) give you very exciting things like optical drives (I mean, hello? Devices without that would be kicked out the window a few years ago... yes CD / DVD / BluRay-drives are not that important anymore but still very common... for 2mm it is just not worse it to leave them out)... All in all: I think tablets are a bad developement, since they slow down the developement of real computer hardware itself, teach you to only consume and pay for the media instead to creating it and just are not suited to do much with them... a personal computer is as cool as it is because it has wide possibilities... you can use it to do MANY things... video editing, play games (the good kind), create 3d graphics, animate, write books, do audio work, programm software, create games, calculate important stuff, work with it on scientific levels and man things more... and of course you can consume stuff more freely, often with better displays, combine it with microphones, cameras, different input devices and so on... and now I buy a tablet with which I can do much less for the same amout of money (IPads and Co are expensive) to only consume stuff and anything else just does not work or is limited that much that I can not do it or I can only do it because the company selling the tablet does not want me to do it? If I put a SSD into a good laptop you get better and more flexible software and hardware... They are just cool because Steve said they are, but there are very, very small reasons to buy those if you ask me... See you *Fuchur*

3 just has been released to the public... See you *Fuchur*

I stumbled about it too, but it is logically. If you leave the state to "On" and you want the parts to be active for that state, you would have to hit the value twice. The first time to create the Channel to hold the data in (since On is the default state there is no channel at the beginning). But that would put the value "off" into the keyframe. You would need to hit it again to set the keyframe to "On". By putting the pose to "Off" you just need to hit the value once, since it is the right value which will be set to the keyframe. If you ask me, this tutorial was very well planned before he started it... . See you *Fuchur*

Happy birthday . See you *Fuchur*

Very cool and interesting method. I used the Active-Buttons alone before, but this has the big advantage that you can use one model (import it easily, etc. into other projects, etc.) I'll check that technique out . See you and thank you very much for the tutorial! *Fuchur*

Interesting find... On my PC with Safari, Firefox, InternetExplorer and Chrome the website loads just fine... But you are both on Macs, right? Very likely you do not allow session-cookies there by default... The reload of the website is done to test, wheather the browsers supports JavaScript but I think I will just assume, that it does and leave that test behind from now on... I will change that behaviour once I get home... See you *Fuchur*

i think with opengl3 the need of basic displaysetting is no longer given. opengl3 should be able to run it. but i would recommend using basic in any case... it just takes less system resources... see u *fuchur*

it just does not do what it should yet. i have already told steffen that but he is not available at the moment. See you *Fuchur*

please do a simple test u try currentvalue() + 0.1. does it work?

Sadly this does not work for all channels till now. If you find one where it doesnt please let Steffen know, since he has to implement it there too then... See you *Fuchur*

Happy Birthday . See you *Fuchur*

what I would do 1) in an action window (model/groups are already flattened by whatever means), click on snapshot button. 2) Import image (SnapShot_XXXXX.tga from wherever it was just saved (in win7: my documents/Animation Master/snapshot/?, don't know how to change location) 2) while still in action window, right click on the Objects/Model in PWS, choose NEW/decal/snapshot_XXXXX 3) (Still in action) window double click to apply the decal and get a stamp on the model, (or right click in action window while snapshot image is still superimposed on model, and choose "apply") I am not sure why, but you can change the path where the stamp is saved at "Tools > Options > Backup". See you *Fuchur*

point and click = point you mouse and click somewhere and the character interacts with it. many great games with that kind of control were created. you may know some of these: day of the tentacle, monkey island, sam and max, run away, full trottle, etc. not all of them are strictly point and click but they are close. let us know about your progress please. i love those... see you *Fuchur*

Chrome is a bit further in some aspects, but Firefox is in others. It is really hard to say which one is "better". Chrome is considered to be faster while Firefox has better plugins (which is one of the most important reasons why it is less fast). In the end: Anything that is programmed to only work with one of these two browsers is poorly programmed, since these two are the leaders and are both working very similar since both are oriented towards the W3C standards and include very similar features. Firefox seemed to have some memory issues in earlier versions but all in all it really does not make a big difference if you are not working with 100 tabs open. And the simple fact that you are giving all your personal information out for free to Google should be an issue for you too. Consider what you are working with: - Google Searchengine > Searchengine - Google Docs, Google Drive, etc. > Popular datastorage with full office system - Google Chrome > Internet Browser - Google Chrome Books > Operationsystem for laptops / computers - Google Android > Operationsystem for Smartphones and Wearables ("intelligent cloth") - Google Maps > Google knows where you go. - Google Plus > Googles Facebook clone which is becoming more important every day. - Google YouTube > Video-Upload-Leader - Google Mail > Very popular E-Mail-Provider - Google Hangouts > Popular Skype replacement - Google Playstore > Buy software, music, magazines, etc. (in the end every information source there is which is not covered by another service from Google) - Google Chromecast > Bring Google Content to you TV set... - Google Adwords > intelligent, databased advertising done with the data received from all the other services - Google Analytics > visitortracking on websites all over the world, which communicates the data to Google Servers - and many more ... (some they left behind like book mark services, etc. because they are no longer used by a large amount of people) And that is not all that is going on. Google is heavily working on robotic driving (being a leader there), roboters, Smarthomes, and lets not forget Google Fiber, where google is the Internet Service Provider already... additional to that they offer own transport protocols like Google Spdy to transport website data from the server to your computer... these are just the things I can think of right now, but there are more... Think about what that means... there is literally no part of the digital life not heavily influenced by Google. It is not a bad idea to split that power from time to time by using some other service or software especially if there is something similar from someone else. You are concerned about what the NSA does digitally? Google does most of that too in a larger scale, is better in it, has more experience and is a commercial company earning heavily money from it / your data... Your choice what you do, but it might be a good idea to at least try to not use everything from them. See you *Fuchur*

It's a very sad statement to say but IE remains largely unuseable. A couple years ago you couldn't get me to NOT use IE. Now I can't use it. It's too painful. It was even more painful to see Microsoft systematically take apart what use to be the best browser in the world. I've standardized on Chrome for the past few years but have Firefox readily available if I ever need to extend the browser via plugins. I try to keep Chrome plugin free to maintain a fast and smooth online workflow. I use firefox for many reasons. it is a fast good browser. it is very well suited for developement due to its great dev plugins. it is developed by an non comercial organisation which does not dominate my digital life... google is too powerful in my taste. see you *fuchur*

more than likely it is me - but just in case - I signed in as nancygormezano (should have been NancyGormezano?) - and I can not see my content (topics, posts) when I go to my profile page. Could be Explorer? I usually use Firefox (haven't downloaded yet) Don't worry about it, unless it's something obvious...when I get to be more fluent on this computer, then I can help shake it down EDIT: I can see my topics and posts when I click on the pull down menu under my posts in a thread, I just don't see them when I go to my profile page get firefox and you antivirus software running. then go surfing on websites see you *fuchur*

Have a look at this: Video Codec Output in A:M v18 I am quite sure it is true for Input too. (But I never tried it...) See you *Fuchur*