robcat2075

Welcome back! Glad to have you!

Can you show your start and result?

That's a good toon-line result

Thank you for your detective work on this! This may be a correctable bug. I recommend you submit your findings to hash.com/reports when when v19 becomes available (presuming the behavior continues in that version.)

Here's my old thread... How to randomly set a value ONCE?

I believe it can be done. On TWO I created a generic crowd character that would assume different sizes and colors and hats (?) each time it was dropped into a chor. There was a small bit of manual key-framing involved but most of the randomization was handled by the character. i suspect the same concept could be re-used to make a value reset when the chor repeated. hmmm... how did that work? I think an expression could be used to check IF the current frame is the first frame and if it is THEN use the random function to set a value. After the first frame, the random thing never happens so the value stays stuck.

V10.5 has the interface we see today with the PWS outline in the left pane and the PWS timeline in the right pane. Some previous versions experimented with elements like that but 10.5 was when they got it right and it has stayed that way since. Of course, many features and speed/stability improvements since then but v10.5 was when it got the GUI it has now. Prior to that, v5 was the big leap to a unified modeling/rigging/animation environment. Prior to v5 they were all separate apps and prior to v5 you had to break your model into .seg files for every bone and rejoin them back together in the rigger. V5 also added most of the constraints we need for modern rigging. But if i ran v5 today I wouldn't know where to start, it looks so different.

Save those for posterity! The last OS I had that ran that early version was Win 2K. It was so different from modern A:M that I couldn't make any sense of it.

Here is a post with a tut on Surface Constraint

Welcome back to A:M, kazagruma!

I think it ought to start with nothing on the ground rather than the first set of blocks. For the clouds, i think you need an actual timelapse of clouds drifting by rather than dissolves from different shots. The different cloud shots are distracting from the buildings. Could you set up a camera and click off a frame every 5 minutes?

The gray is more somber, the color is more "daytime". Which are you aiming for?

That would be a great customer in your coffee shop movie.

He looks gruesome! Somebody call a chiropractor!

One the right of the "Render to File Settings" panel are "Save" and "Load" buttons. Make your render settings. "Save" a preset. When you want them again, "Load" your preset. Does that fix it?

Are you asking how to make preset or saying that the preset doesn't save toon settings? To "load" a preset you go to the render and press the "Load" button on the right of the "Render to File Settings" panel. But that's not what you are asking?

Now we need to get them using A:M again.

A reminder to all applicants... i need a schedule of times you would be able to do the Skype meeting. I need actual clock times and your time zone. "Evenings" or "weekends" is too vague to pick a meeting time that multiple people will need to be at. The more open time you have, the more likely we can find one time that works. You may send it to me in a Private Forum Message. Thanks!

Have you changed a card in the computer?

If NetRender is crashing that's should be an easy bug to document, report and solve. You've never gotten it to work? We need to figure out what you are doing different because other people are having success making big use of it and you should have that too.

The standard advice for heavy models is to make the separate parts as individual models and assemble them in a chor. This strategy also lets you temporarily set any parts you don't need to observe to invisible or bounding box mode. They still render normal. 32 or 24 Gigs out to be way more than enough but once you have enough to hold all the data, adding more won't help much. Beyond that you need a fast CPU. Hair is slow. Set your hair's realtime % very low , 1 or 2 %, so your real time navigation is not dragged down by hair you don't need to see.

Hi Douglas, I probably have a full class from the people who have already submitted an entrance exam but it's possible some of them won't be able to fit into the schedule for the Skype meeting so if you want to submit one I could put you on "standyby" Directions at the top!

Hypothetical question... anything stopping you from going back to Win 7? Did the computer never blue screen with Win 7 and just start blue screening with Win 10?

The non-expiring version is software-keyed like the subscription version rather than keyed to a CD or DVD. I recommend the subscription version.

There must be some specific problem that could be solved.