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It looks like solar wind aurora sort of thing

Back in 2004 A:M Justin Barrett created a video tutorial set on facial animation in A:M. He has now re-released it on Youtube for free! Check it out! Thanks, Justin! Animate a Face

What is that made out of? It looks more granular than I imagined.

Happy New Year to you, Serg. May you continue to have many happy splines in 2019!

And on a happy new year note... i got v19h to test today from Steffen. There will be more A:M in 2019!

A fine New Year to you all...

That does look like some expertise has accumulated over the years.

The whole Easter Island history is staggeringly weird and unhappy, i find. Nancy went there a few years ago and got some great pics also.

Contact lenses maybe 😀

It's hard to distinguish against the eyeglasses.

Hooray!

My first guess is that a pose that turns on needed constraints is not yet ON. How old are we talking about? What version?

Yup, that got it back. But why is there no combination of settings that will produce a normal display? Don't worry about it tonight. It will make a fruitful LAT topic. Merry Christmas , David!

Doing the "Custom" and "1" gets me some change but now everything is either very very dark or totally black. Even if i go back to "none" I can't get back well-balanced range of light to dark I had before.

I don't get anything like that. It looks the same either way.

If "Current Gamma" is about making the preview renders appear in a certain way then i should at least be seeing a wildly different on screen appearance between the highest and lowest possible settings for "Current Gamma." I can't see any difference in the appearance of the gray scale produced by a 100% "soft" kleig light at either end of the settings.

The disconnect between the explanations and my practical results has always confused me. FYI, when I use the "Current Gamma" tool in the Render Options I find that my Cintiq is about 1.8 while my rather bargain LCD monitor is more like 2.2

Fröhliche Christmas to you too, Gerald!

I have no idea, really, but my first guess is not, since the Dup wizard is an included plugin that gets recompiled with A:M and is not an "external" third party plugin.

Thanks, Jason and many thanks to Steffen for this new release. I've been alpha-testing v19g for several weeks now and it does fix a lot of pesky problems. However, I have noticed a problem around complicated "Undo" operations. I don't know exactly what circumstance triggers it but most of the freezes I've had have come after an Undo after some sort of copy task, like the Dupe wizard. I suggest everyone enable the automatic backup feature in A:M. Do that and you need never lose more than 5 minutes of work. It's on a Tab in Options: Aside from checking Auto Backup, i recommend you also enable "Use global backup directory" and choose an easy to find location on your fastest drive. Set the "Interval" to 5 minutes. After you make these settings, force a Project Save before you quit A:M to make it remember these new preferences. Every x minutes A:M will capture the entire hierarchy of your project across multiple drives or folders and backup all relevant files. If you have a crash you could open up the PRJ in the backup folder and work on that, but then you wouldn't be working in your regular project folder anymore. I usually just pluck out the files that I need to recover from the backup (for me, it's always a PRJ) and drop those into the relevant spot in my regular work folder, then resume A:M-ing A:M saves each of these backups in a folder with your PRJ name and adds a unique number to distinguish it from previous backups of the same-named PRJ. It retains up to the number you have in "Count" and deletes older ones. However, when you save your current PRJ under a new name (such as with an incremented version number like i do) A:M starts over and ignores older backups under previous PRJ names. They will pile up... you need to go into the backup dir and clean it out occasionally. Why do I save increment numbered versions if A:M is making automatic backups? Because I know I may need to backtrack on my work, not just 20 minutes, but maybe days to recover from some strategy mistake I've made even if A:M never crashes at all. A:M Automatic Backup. Turn it on. Use it. You will never need to lose important work again. Example backup result...

Sorry about the exam, Jason! We appreciate your efforts for the forum!

You probably have noticed that Z-buffered Kleig light soft shadows (most of what we use) are not rendering soft. Shadow cast on Ground Plane... However, it turns out that models can shadow themselves correctly. So... Use the Grid wizard to add a flat plane to your model and give it a bone that is independent from everything else in your model. In the Chor, constrain that bone to the Ground, then set the Ground to OFF. You can scale that bone to scale the plane to be as large as you need. Shadow cast on plane that is part of model... Of course this won't work when you have more than one model in a chor. For that, take your project to V18 and render there.

Charming!

Either roll back to v19e or install v18p Copy the master0.lic file from your regular AM folder to the alternate AM folder to enable it. v19g is coming and fixes that problem

It's really not Christmas for me until Grandma gets run over by a reindeer.