robcat2075
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The long overdue Prehistoric contest medal is taking shape...
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It should be lifted in general (this post showed up right away).
I think the "DVD" sub forum somehow needed extra permissions for everyone.
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In the PWS,
on the Sounds folder (1) to import a WAV (2)
In the PWS, drag the WAV into your Choreography (3), it will appear in the timeline pane.
You can scrub in the timeline pane to preview the sound(4). It will sound choppy.
On my computer, I can't hear the sound until i add a WAV of silence(5) to the Chor in the same manner.
You can try it with these two WAVs.
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I'm glad that you're continuing to continue, Jason!
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I am concerned that Jason has not been back to the forum (and the store, I presume) since the previous Saturday.
That is unusual for him to be gone so long.
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Once again Humble Bundle has a cornucopia of books on the Godot Game engine for sale
One of our members has made a Godot plugin for A:M
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She looks great!
Unless you know you need these two splines where they are I'd be tempted to join them as one...
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We'll just remind @Jason Simonds that you have a confirmation problem.
The weekend is nigh!
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I had reason to renew my subscription today. The emails arrived... immediately!
The serial key is communicated in both the "Serial keys for..." email and the "Animation Master Web Store..." email.
My email reader is set to text-only normally so i had to temporarily set it to display HTML to see the emails.
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Possibly related: a few people contacted me after trying to reset their passwords... and not getting the email that is supposed to make that happen. Some maybe something is AWOL in Hash emails right now.
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11 minutes ago, kujaibacha said:
Just remembered that I checked out as a guest
In that case I wouldn't happen to have access to an 'account' right?
Which means I wouldn't be able to check all that Summary information as outlined in the screenshot?
eeeee-yup.
Haste makes waste!
I guess you'll be waiting for Jason to check his messages... which he may not get to until le weekend.
I presume you got a receipt for a completed purchase from your payment method. I presume that was PayPal.
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Videos now available here...
https://forums.hash.com/topic/52653-texturing-a-head-model-by-jim-talbot/
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The confirmation email and the email with the key have always been instantaneous for me, but I am not like other mortals it seems.
It is possible to retrieve keys manually. Log in to your store account and then go to Serial Keys, then scroll WAY DOWN to the bottom of the page to see if your recent purchase is there.
If it's not there, if your payment method didn't go through, or some other problem, then you may need to ask Jason about it , but wait a day first.
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On 9/9/2023 at 2:59 AM, kujaibacha said:
2. Will there be a FBX IO planned for AM for future releases?
AFAIK, it is not planned. There is an SDK for A:M available, perhaps a knowledgeable programmer could be recruited and commissioned to create a plugin.
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I have Jim on Facebook, I'll ask if they are still available somewhere.
I suspect the reason there haven't been as many A:M-specific tutorials on texturing is that the practices are so similar to practices among all 3D software. There is already a large body of texturing information out there that can be used with A:M with little translation.
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Since you are already familiar with bitmap texturing in other 3D programs you may need to ask a more specific question as I am uncertain of what you are uncertain about regarding that in A:M.
The TAoAM tutorial EXERCISE 10: FW-190 FIGHTER includes introductory decaling.
My tutorial page has coverage of narrow topics under "Decals and Materials and Particles and Cloth"
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17 hours ago, kujaibacha said:
Hello everyone
What is the one best method of texturing models in AM?
One best? No. That's a big "It depends" question.
QuoteI know there's Decals and Stamps, and I've seen the various videos on this topic .
Although it seems the process might be a little too involved? Or has it changed in recent versions of AM?
I presume 90+% of all the models you see in the professional CG world are textured with decals (or whatever their software terms the equivalent of that... "UV Mapping")
Painting a decal lets you put a detail exactly where you want on a model.
The other significant technique is Materials (AKA algorithmic textures AKA Perlin textures...). Materials are handy for general surfacing.
The BlueSky movie "Robots" was done with all algorithmic materials, no decals. However, I don't think they are as commonly used as painted textures are today.
I like using materials. Here are a few of my images that use Materials...
Materials: sky, hills, stonework, demon skin
Decals: box, demon eyes, eyebrows
Materials: sky, cave and rock surface, dinosaur skin
Decals: "STATE", hair
Materials: almost everything except "STATE", "DO NOT TOUCH", and the hair.
Materials: Sky, woods, metals
Decals: gravel, hair
Materials: all the surfaces including the wood and chipped paint effects are Materials.
Decal: can label
QuoteIs there a video tutorial that explains the process of taking a model to texturing and decaling and baking for export?
That's a big topic. Whole books and classes are made about CG texturing. However, texturing is probably where A:M is most like other software in the techniques used.
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32 minutes ago, kujaibacha said:
By the way, is this rule for the subscription version only or does it apply to the 'one time' license too?
Both the subscription license and the non-expiring license are for one computer only.
Also note that the non-expiring license won't forever enable future versions. It stops with the version that is current when you buy it.
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Welcome back, kujaibacha!
6 hours ago, kujaibacha said:I use both MacOSX 10.13.6 High Sierra and Windows 10 Pro
- Will one license allow me to run AM on both my computers?
One subscription (AKA license) will let you run A:M on one computer for one year. If you have a Mac and a PC and want to run A:M on each you will need a license for each.
QuoteI understand V19 was the last one supported on the Mac
Will my one license allow for using V19 on my Mac and any latest version on the PCA license lets you run anything back to v15
So, on a a PC you could run v15-v19.5 and on a Mac you could run v15-v19
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8 hours ago, serg2 said:
Problems in spiral splines. Slightly changed the topology.
Yup, that's it!
Thanks, Serg!
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Why don't the two "four-siders" in the selected group ("problem") form patches?
It is not a problem of back-facing normals.
What am I missing?
Try it...
HandProblem.mdl
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Hi Edward,
The core problem is that the Head bone you are making the target of the constraints is a child of the bones that are being constrained to it.
Something is wrong that it was even possible to make such constraints. It's a circularity!
If I make a copy of the Head bone, name it HeadControl, make it a child of Back, then remake the Orient Like constraints for Chest, Neck1 and Neck2 and... constrain Head 100% to HeadControl... I get motion like I would expect when I animate HeadControl.
Play the Chor in this PRJ...
I did this in v19.0, there was some oddness happening with constraints in v19.5 that I will need to report.
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Look for this to be fixed in v19.5b
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I dunno... her knickers don't look twisted.
Using relationships
in Work In Progress / Sweatbox
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It's a bug in v19.5
Go back to v19.0 for this until v19.5b comes out, which should be soon.