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Malo

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  1. Hi, Using v19.5a, win10, nvidia 940M For "DialogFreeze004 external JPG MAT MDL ACT CHO.prj" that freeze without panel. For "Delete.prj" it open, but without "vase" model. For "VaseSlide.cho", it's ok, a panel ask for the "vase.mdl". So I choose "vaseX.mdl", it dont' freeze, and open the scene with the vase. After If you close the project (not AM). You can open "DialogFreeze004 external JPG MAT MDL ACT CHO.prj" witout problem. (as if it had remembered the path of the folder where the files are located) On v15, not this problem, a panel dialog ask for the "vase.mdl" This is a problem that I have already encountered, when a file searches for an image for which it cannot find the correct path, it freezes. Hope this can help
  2. Hello, perhaps to look also on the influences of the weights of its CPs?
  3. Good evening everyone, 🙂 It is possible to create UVs, in a program external to AM, to re-import them into AM. I haven't used AM for a long time. But from memory I used several steps: I save my model in mdl file. I import it into Blender via the Nemyax plugin (Blender 2.79) https://forums.hash.com/topic/47778-am-importer-for-blender/?tab=comments#comment-409549 I create my UVs in Blender. At the same time I convert the MDL file into a "special" Obj file via my little program without subdivisions. https://forums.hash.com/topic/48836-some-tools-for-am/?tab=comments#comment-418077 I import the Obj file into AM while keeping the order of the vertices. I transfer the Uvs of the other model to him. I export my Obj file keeping the order of the vertices. I am using my little program for this time converting and transferring UVs to Mdl files. Note : when we use polygonal UV tools, we loose the richness of the splines. For example for a circle with 4CPs, the UV will be a polygon with 4 sides. We lose too the possible to use the same patch on several UVs. Aside from its peculiarity at AM, it works well. To paint UVs, this is another method. In AM I export the mdl with its UV in OBj with subdivision (to have the shapes) in Blender. I paint the model. The uv painte picture can be used after in AM.
  4. On the picture what is in yellow are the CPs not included in the selection, the green ones that have been selected. Here is the modified file with the selected Cps. A patch to be selected needs at least one CP from each spline that makes it up.
  5. The problem comes from your selection "Rear Glass" ... You have selected the CPs of the spline which circumvents the outside, and those of the center. But you did not select CPs common to both parties.
  6. thanks Robert for your proposition. I will study that.
  7. Thanks for your return. Paths are saved ... but strange thing they are only visible when the "Relationship1" window is open. If I close the "Relationship1" window then the path links disappear. It is not possible for me to use the pipette to select a bones or a path (v.19). My problem can come from there?
  8. Thank you Serg for your reply. Unfortunately that does not change. So I rethink the rigging without path.
  9. Hello, I found that the export of a model containing constraints of path, once animated and exported like a model, loses its constraints and the bones are not in their positions. Here is an image illustrating the problem, and the model to test the problem. Are there some things I did wrong?
  10. Thanks for the answers! David, that would be great, if that's possible. Thank you in advance.
  11. Good evening, I'm looking for tutorials on expressions ... do you know links? I am also trying to understand the logic of the number of ".. |" before an expression. Thanks in advance!
  12. I did a test, here is the model. Create an action. Put in pose mode. Move the nulls to make it proportionate. (it's far from perfect, the size of bones can't be changed for example) (then adapt the CPs in mirror mode) Export the model. Reopen the model. Erase the yellow bones, the nulls and the expression "Pose1". Use the third part of TSM2. The model is ready.
  13. Hi John, Yes, I think it's possible. Currently I study and work on several similar projects, which involves modeling in the window "action" ... hence my interogation of this topic. I made a table here is the file . (activate the pose, go into action mode, move and scale the null, export the model). Next I was thinking about working on a humanoid, so why not see how to adapt Rob's model.
  14. Great, I did not know there was this! Thank you for your answer Robcat!!!
  15. Hello, Is there anyone who knows how to do with expressions to size a bone between two nulls? thanks in advance. Malo:)
  16. Among the strange patches, there is this case in yellow. the subdivision is not done in x16 in AM, it is different from its mirror patch, and there is a bug to the export of this patch, but its subdivision is done.
  17. Hello Robert, Yes, the ideal for exporting triangular patches into polygons would be this topology. Now I doubt that we will not rewrite a polygonal subdivision express for export. But I thought it would be possible to filter its triangles-quads to rewrite them into triangles. Hello Rodney, The proposal (left back foot) is good to avoid the problem of hooks, only does not solve the problem of triangles-quads. The best solution in this case would be to turn the hook into a CPs for export (see the front left foot). There I had to think about it before, because I have to redo the UVs. Hooks and triangles are two differents problems. What is strange to me is that this bad topology in AM is not seen, whereas when we push the creation of weird patches with the hooks, it is seen in general as for the following image.
  18. Robcat, Yes, "f 3/1/3 1/1/1 1/1/1" is not correct. It's a flat triangle, it will not be visible. Fot me their writing lulls the file and does not bring any interest. The import of AM is a step that is not to do with the subdivision of the patches, however it remains interesting to study how the import interprets the writing of triangle-quads export by AM. if we look at the file export in a text reader, we see that there are only quads. The model is the same crtl / copy four times in the same file. So the order of writing the triangular patches is not the same. Hence the difference of topology. It is by modeling the foot of this dog that I noticed this problem:
  19. This missing faces it is not a problem of normal inverted, but of interpretation of a triangles written like a quads. It seems to me that the problem comes from the fact that the three-sided patches are not a triangle but a four-sided patches whose one side is zero. That's why the quad topology focuses on one of the corners and not the center of the patches. The dynamic subdivision of AM does the rest, it eliminates the quads whose volume is almost zero, a flat quad is zero, it eliminates it. on the other hand, if a quad at a null side is volume it is not zero, so it remains. AM only manages quads inside a patch. Yes it is possible to create an external tool to correct the triangles of files exported by AM, but it seems to me that it is better to correct at the source. Here is a model where there is a 4-sided and a 3-sided patches, move the CPs for the differentiators. MODEL
  20. It is true that the export triangles can provide a solution (without correcting the problem of hooks). The advantages of quads is multiple : a file less heavy to treat, may subdivide for zoom, or to make it more smooth, or to sculpt details over it, or to apply a displacemant map.
  21. I think as you Nemyax, but I am not sure. Passing through Wings3D corrects the writing of triangles (without keeping vertices numbers), but does not correct the topology that is internal to AM. Part of the problem of topology does not come only from triangles, but from writing hooks that do not write enough information to know where to attach but try to guess it.
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