John Bigboote

Know whatcha mean... when did God apply a decal in my EARS???

BABY STEPS!

It JUST so happens I have a new character that may benefit from a very LIGHT rig... Happy NEW YEAR too you, Holmes!

OK--- I got this to work. The 'trick' I found was to NOT use an alpha-channel in the image file... so in the image file, use BLACK where you don't want hair, and WHITE where you want hair to be full... mid-tone gradients would give partial results, naturally. ALSO you will want the decal to cover ALL of the patches in the group you apply the hair/decal to, or else hair will grow full out of the undecaled areas. Very interesting. HERE is the project file if anyone wants! Decal_Hair.zip

I think I know that girl! V 13 was good...but V15 is much better for speed and dependability, and as Rob mentioned the new 'liquid' feature might help on her...'problem area'... ALSO--- if you are in a hurry, you might try to copy and paste a face mesh and adjust it to look like her... of course, adding-in her little bulge. GOOD LUCK! Thanks for coming back! Some of us here may also be able to answer any AE Q's you might have as well.

That was what I am doing... it may be that I am using a pre-existing hair-mesh with a pre-existing hair material..,. I'll try it all 'anew'.

HI!- I've always added Hair to my characters by creating a group and dropping the hair.mat onto it...now, I want to try using a decal with an alpha to control where the hair emanates from. I've realized i have NO clue on how to do this... I've read Holmes hair tutorial which covers using decals AS the hair (feathers) but I want to use the decal as the emitter... I've done a search too. Do I--- Apply the decal, change it's type to 'other' and then apply the hair to the decal? How does the hair know the decal is controlling it? Where do I put the hair material? Thanks for any help-

I like the #1 for the orange 'penumbra'(?) in the lighting...

I've been using Adobe Photoshop since V2 on a Mac back in the early 1990's... today it is more of a 'utility' than a program for me. I'll go in, tear an image apart into layers, retouch, crop, adjust, 'save-as' and close it before I even knew I was there... But-If I were to build a 'pyramid' with the programs I use, it would be the cornerstone. Is it necessary? I'd say yes, if you can afford it, and we don't condone the use of illegal apps here on this forum. If you can't afford it... there are several alternatives... the Gimp(free)...Microsoft Paint(free with Windows)...Inkscape(free)...even the Google program 'Picasa'(free) can do much of what Photoshop users need it to do.

Only you can answer that... I'd recommend watching some of the tutorials before you buy to see if it's your 'bag'... you need to dedicate a lot of time to this...kinda like learning to play guitar or speaking Japanese...

Cool Cronos!!! Reminds me of an old TV commercial for Domino's Pizza with a clay-mated character named 'The Noid'. http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=qJ7RnXakSXU

http://www.hash.com/store/index.php?main_p...02fd9b28501cd63 Persevere. ALSO--- If you ask a VERY detailled question regarding where you are stuck, it is possible to get a very detailled answer right here on this forum!

Y'know...this reminds me... some of those nickel slot machines have some great 3D animation on them. I play one in St. Ignace, MI called 'Frequent Flyer' with an airport theme... there's this stewardess who does a strip-tease when you win, Pilots, baggage handlers... I'd LOVE to get some of that work!

It sounds like you want to use your designs as a rotoscope in a model window. Make a new model(File/New/Model) and then drag-n-drop the image from the image folder onto the model and you will be presented with a choice: Rotoscope or decal, choose rotoscope. Now you will need to place the image in the proper view and set it's transparency and begin modeling. There are many, many, many more steps involved before you will begin to animate it. As Fuchur recommended in another post, the 'Art of Animation:Master' should prove to be an invaluable resource at this point in your '3D life'. Live long and prosper!

Hey Chris- Welcome to our forum. You WILL need to give us a little more info on what you have in mind, if you could elaborate. Your question 'sounds' a little naive regarding the fundamentals of 3D, and Fuchur's 'The Art of' advice would be a great start perhaps. MERRY CHRISTMAS!

WOW! Fantastic minimalism... should yeild amazing results! I don't see any 5 point patches either! Great modeling!

Great image! Reminds me of the old SNL 'inventors' skit..."Introducing, The Lord and Lady D----bag..." (Belushi) " So, D----bag, just what IS this new invention you are sitting on? Tell me, did the Lady D----bag help you with this?"

You can 'cloak' a PC to look and act like a Mac...

Performance? 2 things... 1- MAKE SURE you are running the latest version (15) of A:M... anything previous is 'who knows'... 2- A:M is designed, programmed and calibrated on a PC, and then 'ported' to a Mac. I have nothing against Apple, think they are GENIUS advertisers- (Those 'BETTER' ads... pure snakeoil! I love it! And they berate MS for Vistas problems after YEARS of their own OS debacles...) We recently had a longtime A:M Mac user here on the forum get his hands on a 2nd hand(recent model) PC and he was singing 'who knew' it could be so good? All I am saying... is IF you get a chance to TRY A:M on a PC...give it a try. I work on both myself.

Spaghetti. I will usually peak (P) the CP... and then you can adjust the bias all 3 ways until smoothness.

Great! It would better if there was a whole row of them! We've got casino's now in Michigan, it was SUPPOSED to be the cure-all for our troubles. I'll pop in once in a while to play$25 in quarters on the nickel slots...unless I am in Detroit... THOSE casinos are all 'TAKE' and no 'GIVE'!

TWISTED! I want one.

Yup...FUN! I dig the SSS...how long was that to render? Very generous to donate it like that...THANX Cronos!

Hilarious! You shoulda seen me laugh when Alice beat-up the guitar player! Congratulations! It will get a TON of views up there on the 'You'... I LOVE Alice Cooper and that song in particular!

I doubt Flash lets you 'weight' the control-vortex to 2+ different bones like A:M does! We are SO spoiled!