robcat2075

Only the $80 subscription plan will keep you up to date. The $300 edition never expires but it only includes updates to the end of the version it was sold for. Both are locked to the computer you install it on. I recommend the subscription version.

Steffen has put a lot of time in to A:M and made a lot of dramatic improvements. I'm glad we have him.

I'm not trying to ruin your enthusiasm. I just don't want you putting your film on hold for this feature.

A new rendering feature like that is very unlikely to happen. Even if the old glow remains the same it still means writing a lot of new stuff. A two-pass composite will get you what you are trying to do long before that feature will ever get written. I can show you how to do that if you want.

Although it's not face-to-face you are certainly welcome to drop in on Live Answer Time where we discuss anything A:M and other things as well!

I think the most likely way to make it work with A:M's use of decals is to make it a grayscale map, like other non-color maps. White = full glow. Whatever is the surface color here will glow in that color. Black = zero glow Reach and Intensity are currently set in the Chor because Glow is really a post effect. It's done once to the entire rendered frame. The glow effect would have to be rewritten to get it to treat different decals differently.

You can certainly submit that as a feature request although currently Steffen is focused on bugs rather than features. You can reduce the render time of Volumetrics by lowering the "quality" parameter

I'll note that for 3D painter you can load a model in it directly without having to invoke it from 32-bit A:M

I think that helps add some panic to the scene

Also... might this have anything to do with Windows Control Panel>Personalization>Windows Color and Appearance settings? Is there a reason to not use 64 bit windows since that looks better?

Just to try... - What happens if you do Tools>Customize>Toolbars>Large Buttons? In either version? - Have you tried Help>Reset Toolbars? Help?Reset Settings?

My point about the big time work flow is... it's faster and easier. You'd be done by now and you don't have to re render if you want to change the settings. Can you give a sample PRJ where the volumetric doesn't work?

There is no purely decal-defined glow, unfortunately. Using the transparency on a shell slightly above the regular patches is the only work-around I have. In a big-time production flow they would not do the glow in the render at all. They would do a separate pass with everything black except the part intended to glow in white. That could be defined by a decal on the model. That pass would be blurred and colored as desired in post and composited back onto the regular render. Do you prefer the volumetric effect but just don't want the render time?

This model is two flat grids, with a blue one just slightly in front of a gray one. The blue one has a transparency decal on it so only part of it shows and its group is set to glow. The gray group is not set to glow but is part of the same model.

If you need a partial patch portion to glow you can hide part of it with a transparency map.

Glow doesn't have to be on a whole model. It can be on a Group in the model. Is that what you are wondering?

Try this... clip4158AmbianceIntensityMap.mp4 Flaming Pear Plugins can be found here http://www.flamingpear.com/freebies.html

You want an "Ambiance Intensity" Map

Well, that shows how little attention I've been paying to them.

It may be impractical on format grounds, I agree. Yeah, the voice thing is weird. It's like they invented the typewriter and now are worried that someone's writing dirty books with it.

As always, read the fine print, before you rush into anything.

Although less common, OBJ seems to be a format that has been submitted.

The prizes may not be of great use to A:M users and the judging criteria are rather hazy, but a lot of you already have great looking female characters on the shelf that might be dusted off to be worthy entries. https://www.cgtrader.com/challenges/3d-challenge-female-characters#section-awards

If you can make a crash happen, definitely report that. I will note that my favorite filter is the custom "Filter from Selection" that lets me identify sets of bones that may not normally be consecutive to each other in the PWS (for example all the head neck and spine bones) and then see only those bone channels displayed. This makes it easy to examine their keyframes as a group and keyframe them as a group without needing to dodge other bones.

After I got the house front and the ladder done I rendered a wire frame and took that into Photoshop to experiment with colors and placing the character.