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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.

That is interesting. I have never encountered "script lining" before in film making discussions. I had no idea what you were talking about when you mentioned it at LAT!

One problem with moving to a new licensing scheme is that all of our old versions use the current one and won't be able to migrate. Hash would have to continue to maintain the old system just so we could use old versions when we need to. That would be uneconomical for them.

Find out. What are the costs. If it's something they licensed, is there a cost per user? Do they maintain a server for this themselves or contract that out?

Wouldn't a Dropbox location be simpler?

Sorry to hear about your back injuries!

I'm sure it's possible but I imagine it would mean a more expensive subscription price. Something I found very useful with my Cintiq is a chair at my desk that is adjustable height so i can be over my Cintiq instead of in front of it. Alternate idea... get a cheap stool of suitable height that you can quickly switch out with your desk chair when you want to draw on your Cintiq. I presume your Cintiq already has the stand that lets you flatten it out quickly.

Sprites can rotate on the axis that faces the camera but they always face the camera. You might be able to make a sprite that appears to spin. Alternatively, small pieces of cloth can be dropped in a scene and fully turn in 3 dimensions.. https://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=47931&p=410996

I just find it very time-consuming, weighting a shoulder that needs to be able to rotate 180 degrees, for instance, is no fun whatsoever. That post was made right after I'd asked the mirror bones tool to rig me a left arm just like I'd rigged the right and it made some very questionable CP allocations (Like attaching parts of the right arm to the left arm and half of Bernie's face to his left shoulder) and I was feeling a little miffed. If you have a case you'd like to present here definitely do that. Bringing it to Live Answer Time is good too!

From Tom, in another thread... I'm not sure what AVX is. Are you checking "Import as an animation or a sequence of images" when you choose your targa series?

Rolling flat tire effect made by rotating a projection map on a tire. The tire itself doesn't need to rotate. Flat Tire! on YouTube

Comparison of three different anti-alliasing results (click to see full-res)

For most purposes Yes. For most images, regular render will be faster and of the same quality. Regular render generally takes about as long as a 4-pass render but has anti-aliasing that is (usually) as good as a 16 pass render. For extreme anti-aliasing needs you can either render at a higher res with regular render and scale the image down or use a higher multipass setting.

The high quality DOF and motion blur can only work in multi-pass. AFAIK there is no way to skip sub pixels in the way that adaptive anti-aliasing does. Sub-sampling every pixel is how they work.

The results for most rendering should be the same between the two. The same rendering engine is drawing the pixels. A noticeable difference should be brought up as a possible bug. There are some effects that only work in Multi-pass. The dig difference between regular and multipass is how the anti-aliasing is done. Multi-pass subdivides each pixel (16 passes would be a 4 x 4 subdivision) and does a full render for each sub pixel then averages the sub pixels together. However, a pixel that is among other pixels of similar color (like in a blue sky) needs no anti-aliasing and won't benefit from it. Multipass rendering wastes time subdividing it. Regular render does "adaptive anti-aliasing." Every pixel is rendered, then the contrast between pairs of pixels is compared. If the contrast is above some threshold the pixels are subdivided and re-rendered on a 2x2 grid. The sub pixels are again compared for contrast and if any pairs are above the threshold they are subdivided again and rendered. The result is that regular rendering has anti-aliasing detail equivalent to 16-pass rendering, but usually in far less time. It is possible for an extremely detailed scene to take longer in regular rendering and I have noticed that objects with thin lines look better with multipass.

Happy Valentine's to you, John!

It's possible Jason is still on his vacation. Try the email again tomorrow. First, let me note that every version of A:M installs to its own folder. All v19 updates go to the v19 folder, all v18 updates go to the v18 folder... etc. and you can have multiple version of A:M on the same computer with the same subscription. I note that so i can ask this next question without you thinking that you have to uninstall v19... What happens when you install v18 and run that? or v17?

I'll note again that you can get your current activation codes at the Hash store. That should solve it, along with using the right one on the right computer.

It has a thread with instructions and samples stickied for it... https://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=33795 I've never installed the 2008 rig so i'm not sure what is involved but don't recall anyone saying the process didn't work anymore. I suggest trying it out on a simple test case which is what one might do anyway to learn a new rig.

I always save old installers, with a version number, just in case there's a reason to roll back