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I see Ambiance Blend covered on page 17 of the TechRef

A new rendering of my Animation Showdown "catch something heavy" entry of 20 years ago, now with some context and foley. I got the basic "blocking" poses in but time ran out before I could turn it into real animation.

We can do this in A:M. If you want make a pendulum model and bring it to LAT some day, we could look at this.

If you're having a store problem, I recommend sending a Private Message (envelope icon at upper right of forum) to "Jason Simonds" explaining the difficulty. Note that the $299 version is not "unlimited access", it is a non-expiring license for the current A:M version, it doesn't extend to future versions that may come out. That plan is gone. Limited Time only, as they say. Hash now offers a one-year license for $79 (or the $299 non-expiring version) as standard prices whether one was a previous purchaser or not. The old "upgrade" price during the CD era was $99, I recall, so the current one year sub is still lower.

Try this... clouds58_h3k.mov

Something like this? It's hard to get the bright saturation spot and still have the rest of it look like a cloud.

I have several cloud projects on my tutorials page, have you checked those out?

I'm still guarding my treasure! 🐉

Sunnier skies...

"I love you, brother Thom, but in an arms-length distance sort of way."

in HD...

Well, I'm still toying with it, but maybe at some future LAT I can show how it works.

He has dumbbells for arms so he can always be working out!

further experiment...

A re-render of this long-ago animation, 20 years ago this week! My character isn't properly rigged and I don't know how to use the rig anyway, but I'm getting started on my character animation journey.

Some experiments with making cloud-look materials, using a gradient and a turbulence

The answer to that is mostly... no. v19.0 was the last version to support a MacOS and only up to Mac OS X 10.13.6 or earlier. You can still buy an A:M license and run any past version from v15 to v19 on a Mac, but only if it has that old MacOS... which few people do. If you have an Intel Mac and can boot Windows 10 or 11 I'm told that works well, but I have no personal experience with it myself and most Mac users don't want to boot Windows anyway. Some people have tried the various schemes that run Windows within MacOS, with incomplete success, mostly real-time graphics trouble. I regret that A:M has dropped Mac support but it had to happen after Apple dropped the MacOS code that supported legacy, cross-platform programs like A:M.

Hans looks like he's been borrowing clothes from Paul Lynde. An ascot would be right here.

Lesson 28 (Return Values) shows how to get a value back from a function. Lesson 29 (Parameters) shows how to send values to a function We can show what we learn in one program Assignment program Write program with at least two functions. One function when called will prompt the user for an item of data and return that data to the main program. The second function, when called, is sent that data as a parameter and returns the result of some calculation on that data. The main program will display that returned result. Remember to label your outputs. Possible topics Area of a square or any other geometric figure Perimeter of a rectangle any other geometric figure Sales tax on a purchase

You can also do this copy/paste between the camera and a Null in the same Chor, although that won't save camera parameters like focal length.

Huh. That's weird. But CTRL-Z works on that laptop in other apps? My back up idea was to create a second Chor in your PRJ and use it to archive Camera positions. -Set the Translation, Rotation, ETC, and Key Model filters ON -select the Camera in your first Chor and do Edit>Copy Keyframe (or CTRL-C if that works on your laptop) -select the Camera in your second Chor and do Edit>Paste Keyframe If you ruin a camera position in the first Chor you can copy and paste it back from the second Chor.

I had forgotten that even exists. AFAIK, you have to press the middle mouse button with SHIFT and/or CTRL to do this. Are these what you mean? But I am able to CTRL-z my way out of those maneuvers. You can't?

Slipping on the ice?

Invisible man... Invisi_h2500.mov

That's a cutie Myron!