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kem

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  1. I tried that as well, it didn't work. My new Chor/Project is working fine. I have no idea what happened with the other one, I'm just thankful I wasn't further along than I was. In case I haven't mentioned it, I really appreciate your support.
  2. This seems to have worked. I have no idea what happened in the previous project... and I hope I don't repeat it.
  3. I opened a previous project and all is well. Somehow, somewhere in my current project, I must have made an adjustment or something that caused this, but I am at a loss as to what it might be. Seeing how I haven't progressed very far (60 frames) I may just start a fresh project and see what the brings.
  4. Yes. I have a character, I've created a few poses with keyframes. It's only 60 frames long, I selected the play range button, and nothing. On my keyboard I selected control/home and that worked, control/end also works. Just tapping end from 1st frame does not work. I can press + & - to go thru frames one at time, but it will not go in real time so can evaluate my animation.
  5. Suddenly, mysteriously, the play range button at the bottom of the screen isn't working and neither is the "home" or "end" buttons on the keyboard. Tried a reset settings and toolbar - nope, tried rebooting computer - nope, not sure what to try next... Anyone ever have this problem before? If so, what fixed it?
  6. You might also see if when you click in the Chor2 in properties, the click distance (at 20, but wanted to adjust) it crashes... it crashes if I click on objects in the properties window...kinda flummoxed.
  7. Okay, I got Flocking to work...sort of. I got the birds flocked (12 of them) but only the actual bird is flapping (using his action) The others are just gliding, no wing action, plus as the go around the circular path, they spin and point backwards. What did I forget or miss? Plus, even with a settings reset, if I click on "jitters" it crashes...
  8. The beautiful thing about TAoAM is that the more you explore and tinker, the more you discover. I clicked on the gray area of the toolbar at the top that was already displayed and found "draw"...it appeared at the bottom of my screen... Beautiful!
  9. When I go to views, this is how my tool bars is displayed - grey.
  10. Thank you. It's probably in one of the manuals but i failed to locate it.
  11. Thank you, Rodney. As for the turning off and on of particles, the "shift 8" may work fine but isn't there an indicator somewhere that shows you the status? I don't know where to look.
  12. Was just wondering why, when I change the view settings (clicking off Community and Property Info) this black are remains in their place?
  13. and now it's working again...confused, bewildered, and curious, but not giving up. I on a deadline and will do any workaround I have to, like making multiple instances of butterflies VS flocking. I think I must have done something weird in the settings, don't know what it was but I'll keep trying after I finish this project. Thanks for all the advice and help. Kem
  14. okay, I'm back. After resetting and opening your flying south04.prj, I now cannot click on the objects folder without a crash....restarted computer, same... and now I can't open my project i was working on without a crash...
  15. Good question. Here's what just happened: I opened my project and looked around, made a few adjustments to the animation, then I closed the project and opened your flocking project. I looked around and all was okay until I clicked on the birds object folder and it crashed. I tried to re start TAoAM and now it wants me to register all over again... but not really...I put my name in the appropriate place and it restarted, of course looking like I just started it the first time ever. So I guess resting really resets it. Hopefully no more crashing...I'll let you know.
  16. Reset settings did the trick!!!....Thank you Robcat, and Largento. (P.S. largento, my mac is fairly hefty, too 4 GHz, 32 GB ram, Intel Core i7 *smiles* It was operator error, which I suspected.....) I feel a bit ecstatic now and I think I'll do some animation!!
  17. Thank you for helping, Robcat, It opens and runs BUT whenever I click on the objects folder in the Projects workspace (to explore what you did), it crashes. In fact if I click on practically anything it crashes... I look forward to your ideas, insights and advice.
  18. I do have an older version and it's on an older mac and it works, but it is slow...I've decided to go ahead and create instances "by hand" dragging models into the Chor, attaching the individual paths and actions...tedious, but it'll work. hopefully (and I realize you guys are crazy busy) this will be repaired in a future version... Thanks for the suggestions.
  19. Update...I deleted the "shortcut to birds" and it stopped the crashing. Now to figure out how to make flocking work. I have searched both the manual and the technical reference and I am left wondering. I now wonder if the way I modeled the butterflies has an effect on the flocking system. The bodies are normal spline shapes, the wings are flat spline shapes with cookie cutter decals. Is the flocking system not able to create a flock if cookie cutter decals are used? Rodney, if you're out there, Robcat says you're the flocking guru. Any guidance would be awesome. Thanks.
  20. Hmmm...I tried the toggle trick. Now, no matter where I place my cursor and click, the software crashes... I think I'll have to start a new project and import all the models, etc. and try again.
  21. Thanks, Robcat. I'll try the toggle trick and see if it makes a difference.
  22. I have a butterfly model. It has an action. I want to create a flock of them. Well I found flocking, it appears in Chor in when you're in muscle mode and right click on a character/ under NEW/Flocking. I chose "birds." Got that far and played with settings, etc. Bounding circle appears around character (light falloff?) but the characters do not appear as a flock...only one character -- I expected to see 15 of them appear, but nothing... obviously I'm doing something wrong here. Any help out there? Thanks, Kem
  23. I figured it out...premature forum posting...embarrased.
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