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For but a moment my heart soared robcat-thought you'd found it but alas, upon trying again the rotate view tool had no effect with mine. Here's my layout as I'm working on it and I've tried with the model embedded or saved out, the timeline on/off and workbook mode on/off - no effect. I would leave the window on the left alone as it's a camera view and I would rotate the one on the right to view placements and such. Both windows are wrinkling. Although it seems to be only on CPs that are attached to fan bones. Quitting AM and reopening it fixes it for about a minute then the wrinkles return. I've made a Prj. file with the same model but can't get it to wrinkle but if I succeed I'll post it. I tried rendering out short sequences and the wrinkles are there in final rendering mode. This makes me really sad.

Ok but now I can't access the FTP site. What the hell is going on??????? Just a blank google page comes up telling me that google chrome isn't my default browser??????

Yes, looks the same in your sample above. I've even put the model in a Prj. file by itself to replicate the wrinkle but It won't frickin' wrinkle! ARRRR. Was hoping to replicate it and upload it here but apparently that's not going to happen, yet it's stil wrinkling in my Prj. where it started. I'll keep trying and post an update if I succeed. Thanks.

Crap I forgot that was today. anyway no cp weighting at all. Have never even messed with that yet. Just fan bones constrained to percentages of target bones which normally works really well until the wrinkling happened. Also this character is doing a lot of twisting and turning (it's what exotic robot dancers do) The models are saved out but have tried embedding and made no difference. I'm working on making a sample Prj that I can upload but so far haven't been able to replicate the problem but if I do I'll upload right away. Ya think AM doesn't LIKE me?????

CPs still wrinkling! Trying to return to the original problem before all of this password snafu. Seems to be happening only on CPs that are being constrained to move a percentage of a target joint & happens in Chor. & Action. Haven't seen it in model mode.(yet) Selecting CPs in muscle mode snaps them back to normal until frame is advanced then they wrinkle again and shows up in final render. Have tried all tricks listed in this thread and so far nothing has worked. The only thing that works is restarting AM but then wrinkling returns immediately upon frame advance/tweaking. As always ANY help appreciated.

This does show up in final render but haven't tried rendering out a whole sequence. This model is being saved to disk and the spacebar has no effect. This happens only in Action or Chor (haven't seen it in model mode) and seems to happen only after scrubbing/tweaking skeletal movement a lot. Seems ok after AM restart but will re-surface randomly.

Apologies for the butt shot. Anyone else run into this??? Cps wrinkle in objects when twisting/turning and whatever it is is truly happening to The CP and shows up when rendered. Only happens in action or Chor. As soon as you click on the Cp it straightens out but then goes right back to being twisted when you advance a frame. This seems to show up randomly.See Pic This is shutting down my 5 yr. project unless I can fix it. As always ANY help appreciated. These CPs are in their natural state - no bias tweaking at all.

THIS JUST IN! I AM AN EEEDIOT!! The chor was being saved to disk and I wasn't replacing that file just the prj so when I copied only the prj files and not the saved chor file the prj just called in that saved chor (which was not updated) and it appeared to not update. Mystery solved.

Have tried all those things that you just mentioned. No effect. It's as though it's accessing some ghost prj or chor file and refusing to update. The only thing that works is when I completely erase the database from the thumb drive and re-copy everything over again but just saving out the chor or prj doesn't work. (even with different names) thanks again for responding tho robcat.

Boy these quirks just KEEP finding me. When copying a Prj from Computer 1 (System 7) to Computer 2 (System 10) the Prj files refuse to update. Have tried re-naming the Prj files-no effect, tried closing AM down before transfer-no effect. This involves 3 Material effector objects. When the transferred Prj file is opened on machine 2 the objects are in the Object list but will NOT show up in the Chor and with none of the animation that was saved. Have tried to replicate this with smaller sample Prj files without success. Also had this problem with Lights and Models not showing up when transferred. Anybody else run into this? Have run out of ideas to try. Any help appreciated.

Thank you again robcat you have saved me from more searching, frustration and harsh language. Much appreciated.

I've searched, poked and clicked and can't figure out how to adjust sound volume when compositing in AM. What am I missing this time???? Any help appreciated.

YES when I typed in my email that last Serial part opened up a box where I apparently messed everything up. Ok ran the installer again. Same result. License already used. Looked in the Hash/19.0 folder. NO master0.lic file anywhere. Ran the uninstaller/installer several times-no change. Really I'm NOT making this shit up. It's enough to drive a man to use harsh language.

When you run the installer a window comes up where it asks for your name, co. name etc. and at the bottom it asks for the serial number. Which I should have used my old serial number but mistakenly typed in the activation code and now no matter how many times I uninstall/install it won't let me change that and then when I try to run AM it keeps asking for the activation code and then says it's "being used" Ok I'll try deleting the master0.lic file and let you know what happens.

Ok I still managed to screw it up. Downloaded and ran the installer but typed in the activation code in the beginning when it asked for the serial number and now it won't let me change that. Tried running AM and now it won't accept the activation code. Tried uninstalling several times - no luck. Any ideas?

Ok got a new email from AM with the activation code but realized that what I bought was a sub renewal (which is due in May) so what do I have to buy to install on my new machine? Can I do a fresh install on the new machine with my subscription code er whut? Been so long since I installed it on my old one that I forgot how to do it. I believe those Paypal requests for my ID were a scam so I didn't login thru that email but logged in normally and all seemed ok with the transaction. Thanks Robcat

Thanks but I'm still dead in the water. My email receipt said "order is being processed" and got 3 emails from Paypal (supposedly) asking for my ID but it has a gooble-de-gook email address and I think its a scam. When I log into Paypal the transaction shows complete with no errors yet I have NO email with the activation number. Sent an email to Paypal but no response yet. I'll let you know if anything happens. Unfrickinbelievable.

Go thru this every year when I renew (Got a new Computer and trying to get AM on it.) but run into this every year, I buy it-money is charged from my card- and ??????? no serial number, no download and no instructions- just a receipt in my email with no serial or download instructiions. Is it just ME? What am I doing wrong? Any help appreciated. Admin update: Jason has fixed this license mishap and Edward is back in operation!

Found a windows ninja who managed to install 10 on the machine so I should be good. Thanks.

Got a new mini pc but it came with OS11. Anyone know of any compatability issues?

Tricky indeed. Thanks again robcat. PS - am enjoying the book many thanks.

Have a walking character (driven by walking action) with stride length on & constrained to a path. Fine so far but now I need to tweak the walking so that the characters stance comes to stand straight up at the end of the path but can't alter any skeletal motion with a chor action on any frame where the stride length is active. So does stride length "lockout" anytweaking???? Any help appreciated.

Thanks again Robcat, really appreciate your help. Hope you have a great holiday(s)!

Thought I had done this before but now can't bring up the curves for the CP's moving in a Pose. I have a Pose of an eyelid blinking from 0 to 100% and a keyframe at 50% but can't find a way to see the keyframes/curves in a timeline. I'm getting radical splining happening at the keyframe. Any help appreciated.

Wow. You are a frickin' AM Ninja! I could see the pieces of the stamps but didn't know about the zooming in trick. Thanks again robcat.