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Been using AM for more than just a few yrs. and still having trouble understanding action blending. Does the blending function mean how it blends with previous or next actions? I understand the transition to next action when you have a gap from one to another but doesn't have anything to do with the blending directly, right? Been trying to match the end of a saved action with a chor. action (just one lousy arm) and thought that just entering the rotation numbers from the position in the chor. into the last keyframe of the saved action would work but just whacked everything out. Been trying to duplicate the problem in a smaller chor. file but can't even get that to work. Hope this jibberish is making sense to someone. Is anyone gonna be at the Live answer time tomorrow?

Thanks as always robcat I'll try this out tonight and let you the results I'm sure it'll work. Thanks so much (don't know why I didn't think of it!)

ok what do you want me to send you? An AVI or the model?

Sorry robcat my mind is overrun with acronyms lately, PM?

Yes and it's much worse when viewing it in motion.

Never have to wait very long for something new to pop up. Animated decal on leg. Have tried AVI, JPG & TGA with and without alpha channel. No change. Granted the skin is flexing but have run out of ideas for fixing it myself. Any help greatly appreciated. Results are the same when rendered with Netrender.

Thanks for the help robcat I'll give that a try, much appreciated.

Does Netrender get angry when you have it running and minimize it or switch the monitor to watch cable? It was running fine on the desktop and I switched the monitor to cable and when I came back all the nodes were offline and the messengers disconnected. After much vulgarities I found there was AM running in the Task Manager, even after I had shut Netrender off and once I ended the task I was able to use Netrender again. So, that's my question-can you NOT minimize Netrender or switch your monitor to something else whilst it's running er whut????

Yes I've read about the light list in the manual but havent tried it yet. I'm a terrible lighting technician. Thanks.

HAHAAAAA GOT IT!!!!!! Found the little imp!!! Twas a light casting a shadow! (altho kinda liked the shadows but oh well) Thanks robcat, dave for responding. Very much appreciated. Please let me know if there's anything I could do for youse!

No, it doesn't happen in a new chor. Great. So I guess the search is on for what's causing this in the current chor. I'm open to any suggestions of course.

Additional note; also removed any materials from the geometry so it's only the decal that's coloring the shoes.

Bogus Boot Biz Back Again! Ok went thru and deleted the old maps, deleted the decals, made a new map image, checked the normals and it's STILL THERE!!!! This model is also saved to disk and used in 2 other chors but after checking they are the correct new decals. Renders fine in model view. Have run out of ideas to pursue. Wouldn't care if his feet were under the table or far away. Just want to finish my opus here, anyone else ever run into this?

Also thanks for responding as well David. I got it figured out.

Yes and yes my friend. I had given the boots a material and then applied decals at 80% opacity. Why? Don't know as I built these models 10 yrs. ago and then to make matters worse I had changed the size/shape of the boots so no wonder it got funky. Although AM is real forgiving when you move the CPs around after decaling. So I re-applied the decals and all is well, thanks for responding Robcat!

Everything checks out but yet this decal is rendering chopped off like this in the chor. Any help appreciated.

Robcat my AM ninja rescuer! Yes I hit the spacebar of all things and it popped back and yes I had copied the entire folder to back it up and move it so I must've left some crumb behind. Thank you so much for responding my friend, I very much appreciate it.

Anyone run into this besides me? Lots of work lost if there isn't a fix. Any help appreciated.

Yes checked the Task mgr. None of those were running. I had deleted the shortcut on the desktop awhile ago cuz I never used it but didn't touch anything in the Hash folder in the Programs dir.

Haven't been able to reproduce the CP wrinkle reliably. Even now it isn't doing it where it was before but have been trying to replicate it with the same model in a test chor. but no luck. So far it's still random. I'll bring it to the next Live Time I guess. The Netrender issue - I'm clueless. If that error message I posted doesn't make any sense to you then I surely don't know. Thanks for all your effort.

Also, if you have any suggestions regarding ways to speed up my machine I'm wide open to any and all advice! thanks

Machine's been like that for years, wish I knew how to speed it up. I use Avast virus stuff. The emails I get from the forum must happen because I turn on the "follow topic" toggle at the bottom. And since my new forum identity is linked to my gmail address that's where they go as my sbcglobal.net email can no longer get emails from the forum. Why? Don't know but whatever you did at least fixed my forum ID and enabled me to get notices at my gmail. Am constantly getting annoying ads from Avast that my performance is crappy because of all this shit that's running that I can't turn off but for more money they could fix it. So I don't gots more money so it don't gets fixed I guess. Anyways back to the Net render issue that I can't seem to get to work, why? Don't know. That last error message that I just posted was whut I got when I tried to run it.

Ok, now I can't respond to the forum from my gmail. Gee I wonder what will go south next??? Anyways the relic is back up.

Ok that didn't work out. Shit does anything ever just WORK????? Apparently this isn't for idiots to try at home. Don't suppose you could walk me thru this?

Ok I'll give that a shot. Never used Net render before so I'll have to crack open the manual.