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At the end of today's LAT session we watched a "Jerry on the Job" cartoon. A silent cartoon by Walter Lantz for Bray studios. IMDB says it is from 1920(!) which is before Walter Disney was even animating.

We'll clear our throats to find live answers to your A:M questions at Live Answer Time at Noon CDT, Saturday June 28 2025! Flemish painter Peter "Don't call me Pee-Wee" Paul Rubens as born on this day in 1577. Self-portrait in a circle of friends in Mantua (c. 1602) Venus at the Mirror (c. 1613)

Filip... send a PM to @Andres Trujillo also, please.

It is unlikely Filip will be able to get that website back. Send a forum PM to "3DPainter" and I will see if I can direct him to that.

Here's the AI answer, so it's possibly true sync windows settings with One Drive there must be some reason we don't want to do this, however.

Thanks you both! Very mysterious. If I add a second of silence to the end of "Happy New Year.wav" it will show but only as a flatline (but still be heard) If i convert it to stereo i do get a visible waveform. Import this wav and see if it is visible Happy New Year11_OrigToStereo.zip Do you mean both wavs are not visible? "slurp2.wav" doesn't show after being imported?

Please load the PRJ and tell me if "Happy New Year.wav" show its waveform in the Chor. Can you hear it if you scrub the chor timeline? Then import "slurp2.wav" and drag it into the Chor. Does it show? What version of A:M are you on, including the version letter? SoundTest001.zip

My Live Answer Time thread has the link in the first post. There is also a link to that thread in my signature at the bottom of all my posts (like this one). The instructions on how to use the link are in that first post.

I'll look for the replay. that's a subject I've been wishing they'd do!

I think we're waiting for David to use it in his animation first.

The CS50 download code for "Filter" uses a library for "getopt()" which seems to exist in their linux environment but not in windows. At first blush, this windows replacement seems to work. https://github.com/kubo/ya_getopt

If you want the thickness of the tube wall to be meaningful, give it some refraction setting greater than 1.0

the carts look like they have Ambiance Intensity set to some non-zero level, or they are set to "Flat Shaded", or they are set to Toon render.

Hi Sabino! Great to see you back! As David pointed out, the subscription will get you one year of use of A:M. Iit will let you run any of the versions from v15 through v19.5 Unlike the old CD versions, your subscription is locked to the computer you activate it on. Here is a list of new features in recent versions. I believe v15 did have a CD version but the copy-protection scheme that worked by putting a CD into the drive no longer works on Windows 7 and later.

Only v15 and later use the subscription system. The subscription won't activate anything earlier than that. For the v5-v14 era you need a serial number (found on a registration card) to install and the A:M CD to run.

LAT... Live Answer Time

The oldest installer I see on the hash ftp is "AM98" which I presume to be v6.0 If one could find installer disks one could run ancient A:M on an appropriately ancient OSes. My recollection is that I first bought a "pro"version of A:M v3 and v4 that used a dongle. I was able to install and run that when I was still on Windows 2K, but not after I went to Windows 7. V5? through v14 required a CD in a CD drive to start. That CD scheme is now disabled in Windows 7 and later. V15 was offered in a CD version but it was also the debut of the current internet activation subscription system. You can install and run anything back to v15 with your current sub.

Typing at LAT is possible but awkward. It sounds like your mouse problem is solved however. Hooray!

I want you to be the on the machine that has the problem. Are you near a computer store? Can you get a cheap USB headset with mic? BTW When I Iook at the ports on a Beelink, the icon indicates it will take an analog mic/headset

Hi Darrin, Transparent objects usually need some sort of reflection going on to show they are there and to suggest their curvature. In this sample scene the TubeA and TubeB are the same, but TubeA on the left has some slight reflectivity, which reflects the skydome above the scene. TransparentTubes.prj

10AM! I bet the California roosters aren't even up by then. Probably still dark out!

You should come to Live Answer Time and we could look at it and maybe see something.

Is that the computer you never put on the internet?

My computer has this. If you get Chrome uninstalled, don't re-install it right away.

Nothing changed when you unplugged the mouse and keyboard?