kem

I hope someone out there can help me...I want to render my animation with a full alpha background for compositing reasons. The ground i simply turned off, the sky is another thing...how do I get rid of it???

Well, it worked (except the waist crawl thing), I got excited, thought I'd go at it again to replicate my results...and the skirt exploded on the second frame.... I knew it wouldn't be easy and I know it's operator error...I shall not give up, though...

Wow, that was awesome info. You are all they say about you, Rob, an A:M genius. The cloth is behaving MUCH better. It still crawls around her waistline and there are a few frames where her knees protrude through, but this is such an improvement.! I know you're a busy guy, but if you have any advice on the crawling waistline thing, it would be wonderful. Thank you so much.

I think I get all this, I have gone through the entire Jason Hampton video meticulously and it is quite informative...still, I can't get my model's dress to behave. It crumples up around her and goes chaotic whenever I move her at all. I'm still doing something wrong...just can't figure it out. I even tried reducing the dress spline count tremendously (the calculation before was long) and redo the entire set up, still mess... Is there a tut somewhere showing the actual process of dressing a character and animating the moves? The Nimmee Aimee thing you sent was how the flag and pole worked, which is fine, but animating the flag pole "disconnects" from the flag, so... I',m sorry but I'm still in the dark... I need my character to move and the dress according to her movements. I know when I get this I'll be elated.

Thank you for this great info. I feel like my eyes are beginning to open!

Thanks for the speedy reply. I am not new to A:M but I am new to cloth sim...and I'm not clear on the 'direct method' you speak of... Could you elaborate or send me to a topic? Thanks.

I followed the flag waving exercise...no problem, BUT, when I created a character and try to get her dress to work via cloth sim, etc., when I get to the part where I'm supposed to pick "attached" group, there isn't one.... I added a screen shot below... Thanks for anyone's help. Kem

THANK YOU for the decal application fix! I can now happily get going! Very prompt and much appreciated!

Looking for A:M users in Charleston, SC area. You out there?

For me, on an iMac, 4GHz intel core i7 w/ 32 gig ram, A:M keeps crashing every time I attempt to apply a decal. Long time user (1997 or earlier) never encountered this before. Anyone else getting this?