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I used the add image by right clicking on the Decal icon and selecting the bump map. Not sure where the patch thing is.

Damn SEAMS!!!! Can't get rid of them. Only "seams" to happen with bump mapping. Tried stretching, shrinking the seam in Action to compensate but to no avail. Bump is fine everywhere but the seam. It is an image applied after the color decal using the "add image" function. I expected to get some kind of seam from mapping front and back half of the model but wtf is this? Please see attached and thanks in advance for any help. I can't think of anything else to try.

Anyone know how to cure the effect of an object spinning with increasing speed until it looks like its going in reverse? Like movies of propellers and wheels. Other than just slowing it down to a crawl. Had tried to come up with a way of making the chain advance along a path using expressions but just animated the chain & sprockets separately. Thanks in advance. Sprocket01.avi

HA !!! That did the trick robcat Thanks!

They were indeed but still renders the same after reversing them. I will try that trick of swapping the image and let you know. Thanks

Trying to apply a decal as cookie cutter to a grid that will be curved slightly. Image has alpha and looks fine in Photoshop, alpha is clear w/black all around. See attached pics. Am I the only one who has constant problems with everything I try to do in AM????? Always loved AM but AM don't love me BACK. I'm sure its something stupidly obvious. Any help appreciated-sorry to be such a painus in the anus.

Think I got it from the website. Dated 2008? The fire tutorial page 174. I can send it to you but its 21 megs.

Thanks for your help today robcat. Was able to get color to work but not until I deleted that Action file. I found that once something gets "broken" in AM it must be deleted and started over or it will never work. I tried going into the material directly from the material folder after today's Live Talk and still couldn't get any color until that damn Action file was deleted and then boom there were all the colors. I've run into this many times with lots of items and here was another example. This also tells me that you can't do this type of thing in Action as the manual instructed but please tell me if that's wrong. This may help other people.

Thanks for the response. Here is a screen shot of the timeline in Action of the animated color & resulting render. Not sure if I can make it to the Live talk but I'll try. Have also tried making this from scratch with new object (sphere) from scratch several times with same results, so it's gotta be something I'm doing wrong.

Aha! I knew it!!!

v190j.1 Windows 7 Followed the manual to the word for setting up sprite emitters for fire, smoke etc. but can't get any color in the sprites in spite of setting up the rgb channels in Action as instructed. Can't find the "moron" mode switch. Been over the instructions a dozen times. (the one in the manual re fire, smoke and sparks) What am I missing? (I'm sure its something embarrassingly obvious. Any help appreciated greatly.

Apparently someone broke into my studio and turned down the light intensity to "2" and ran away laughing, knowing it would take me days to figure out what happened!

WAIT Nevermind, just forgot to turn off "MORON" mode. Working now.

Shadow options turned on for ALL objects, camera and lights but no shadows rendering from the camera in the chor. Any help appreciated.

THAT'S IT!!! So simple. Seems to me there was a setting in the options for that but cannot find it now, is it still there (or anywhere)?? Anyways thanks again robcat.

Windows 7, AM v19.oi Nvidia grafx card Shaded view once used to show decals but now they don't show up. Nothing updated, nothing changed. Had tried to update Nvidia driver but could find NO button or function in the Nvidia control panel to do so, So Nothing has changed yet - no decals without doing a render. any help appreciated

Is there any way to do this with AM? Where the eyes can be rotated, lids blink etc. and still be stretched in the Y axis?

BINGO! wasn't the drivers but had to reconfig the sound system to use the old stereo instead of the surround that WAS working but isn't now for some reason. So IT WORKS NOW!!! and thank you guys for all your help - very much appreciated!

yes here is my master.log file master.log

Ok, brought sound into AM opened up the mixer-AM shows up-turn volume to 100% - still no sound yet sound plays ok in media player.

Shelton, AM connection???? Where do you find that?

Do the sound files play for you on your AM?

Tried almost all of the sound files. They work fine in the windows media player but none will play in AM.

Right click double click anywhere in AM no sound. Right clicking brings up the PLAY button - no sound. Double click from Windows desktop and they all play immediately with windows media player.

Have tried installing v18 - no sound yet sound plays fine everywhere else in the Windows world EXCEPT AM. Haven't got a clue what to do so any help would be appreciated, heck I'll do some professional art or design for anyone who solves this for me! (serious)