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We want to be able to give AI an OBJ of a shape and, regardless of how dense it is or how its edges and vertices are arranged, it will find the essential contours that splines would run through to define the shape.

The fundamental thing one needs to identify to model a shape in splines is "Peaks" and "Valleys". These are the contours of the shape. These are the extremes of a shape, between which the surface is interpolated. We want AI to look at a picture of a shape, or an OBJ of a shape, and identify the essential Peak lines and Valley lines it will take to make that shape in splines.

Alternate topology

@Rodney and I were talking last night. AI can make a 3D image of a hammer from a text prompt... But getting it to do that in splines seems undoable.

We were wondering if 3D Painter could be modified to to use standard brushes. It looks like it already does! Discussed on pg 30 of the pdf manual in the program directory... "7.1 Brush Management" Haven't tried it yet. Also, I was at a loss to find the switch that makes Painter only paint on the front, visible side of the model. That is an issue only for Projection Mode

At LAT we talked about and demoed 3D Painter's two modes of painting in A:M 00:00 - Greetings, chit chat 10:40 - Possibility of adding 3D Painter to A:M 14:44 - Demo of 3D Painter modes 34:37 - Random discussion @ChuckGram @Roger @markd

It's thumbs-up for answers to your A:M questions at Live Answer Time, Saturday February 15, 2025 at Noon CST! Italian composer Alfonso Fontanelli was born on this day in 1557. Unveiling of statue honoring great composer:

To save a model, on the model name in the objects folder, choose "Save As", and save to a location you can find and open from 3DPaint. Note that saving a model from a PRJ makes it no longer embedded. Your PRJ now links to the model as an external file. All totally normal as long as you understand what you have done.

May you have a festive Ground Hog Day.

Hi Saladeen, Anything that will create a BVH file should be usable in A:M I think the easiest way to go is to use one of the AI services (like deepmotion.com) that attempts to convert regular video into a BVH file. We did a mini contest a while ago with that. Summer Mo-Cap Challenge.

A programming guru tests your eye for bugs in C. Bonus: Can you spot HIS mistake?

That's a funny series you've got going there, Chuck! Everyone be sure to check out Chuck's TheSuperMegaFox channel for more R-rated fun...

Hooray! Now you wait.

Yes, you will need to carry the installer to the new machine.

This is a new license on a new computer? Windows: First download: http://www.hash.com/down/get_host_id_win.zip unzip that file to the desktop of the computer you want to activate your A:M license on. For windows .... Extract the files from the downloaded ZIP-file to your desktop. Double-click "get_host_id.bat" Atached the created "your_host_id.txt" file in a email to support@hash.com Add your OrderID or activation code that you want moved. We will email you back a new master0.lic license file

When following a tutorial that teaches by making incremental additions to an previous project or when developing your own program in an incremental way, you may wish to leave an existing project as it is and proceed to work on a copy. Lets say I have project in my Visual Studio Solution named Wash002 and that I wish to preserve it as is and proceed with a copy of it. On your hard drive , find the folder that contains it. Copy the folder and paste it into the same directory. Rename the copied folder. I will name mine Wash003. In a program such as Notepad++ do Search> Find in Files... Use it to replace all text instances of "Wash002" with "Wash003" Do the same to replace the ALL CAPS version of the project name... Next use a utility like Power Rename (found in free MS Power Toys) to change all filenames in folder Wash003 that have a "Wash002" in their name to "Wash003" Next in Visual Studio, in the Solution Explorer, on your Solution title>Add>Existing Project... Navigate to your new project folder, open it and choose the .vcxproj file... In Visual Studio do File>Save All to make the newly added project saved in your Solution. I think this will work. @Rodney @Roger

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This is the final "Particle Fire" project from the C++ tutorial that a few of us have been doing. I have modified it so that you can draw a trail of fiery sparkles with your mouse as it runs. Unzip this ZIP to a folder on your drive somewhere and double click on Sparklies.exe to launch. Sparklies.zip Left-drag to draw sparkly particles with your mouse!

Flatten him a bit and you could have a gingerbread man!

I wish everyone a Fine New Year and I look forward to seeing you all in 2025!

I presume that's Chewbacca's long underwear.

At Live Answer Time today we watched the very first animation treatment of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" Produced and directed by Max Fleischer as "A Jam Handy Picture" in 1948. Of the four credited animators ... Howard Kakudo ... animator Robinson McKee ... animator Fletcher Smith ... animator William Sturm ... animator ... only Sturm has a substantial IMDb trail, having been a former Fleischer Studio animator. The original Rudolph story was written by Robert May for an ad campaign for the Montgomery Ward Department stores in 1939, I recall. All of this precedes the famous Johnny Marks song (1949) and, of course, the 1964 Rankin/Bass production.

Welcome back to A:M! I'm unsure of what you mean. You already have it but need to update it? Do you have a one-year subscription or a non-expiring sub?

Is it possible you have an ad-version of Filezilla? https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/17erdd5/why_filezilla_is_triggering_antivirus/?rdt=42959

Hi Edward, v19.0p is the newest and last version of v19.0 The latest version of v19.5 is v19.5d which can be found here If you are looking for older versions of old versions, they are on the ftp site but common web browsers no longer support ftp To do ftp exchanges you will need an ftp client. Filezilla is free