robcat2075

There is severe flooding in Clarendon County, South Carolina where forum member Kevin Detwiler lives and in half the rest of the state, also. I hope he and his family are OK! Clarendon Sheriff: All Main County Roads Impassable

You might give my "Modeling and Rigging a Spring" video, in this thread, a try to get started and if you have more questions... ask more questions!

I expected him to say he preferred his SECAM since everyone always complains about NTSC color so it was surprising to me to find out the frame rate was noticeable I guess the advantage is that 60Hz is faster enough that most people won't notice the flicker but 50Hz is slow enough that most people will notice it. I don't think I've ever seen an actual PAL or SECAM CRT display and probably never will now that it's all gone digital.

Anecdote: When I was in college there was a foreign student from an African SECAM (50 fields per second) country and I asked him what he thought about the NTSC (60 fields per second) that we had here. He said he preferred the NTSC because it was "faster." He could sense the difference in the frame rate and liked the smoother appearance.

I'll note that no one has ever been able to demonstrate that subliminal messaging actually works. It may be legend.

The interactive portion of games can be almost any frame rate because the models are being moved and inbetweened "live" and not pre-rendered as in a movie. The two limitations are the speed of the game engine to update/redraw the scene and the speed of the display device to show new frames that the game engine is showing it. Whichever one is slower is what gets shown. You can create 50fps footage with A:M but I'm not sure if Quicktime or other common video players can truly show that without dropping frames. I suggest you do some simple tests at the res you plan to work with.

Hard to believe you've been gone since v14! Anyway, the interface hasn't changed since then except for a few new buttons, so your v14 time should be well spent.

To better understand the capabilities of the 3D printer I made this sample model that has small variations on shapes and sizes and slopes and angles... ... and I sent that to Ken. Ken's printer uses a liquid resin that is cured in place by laser beams. Ken printed it out using the finest detail possible. It took nine hours to "render" but the result is quite promising. The spotting and ripples that appear are on the back, not on the modeled surface side, and get sanded off before the two halves are joined together.

Sproing!

SSS yes Two kinds of AO. Real AO and "screenspace AO" (faster) We have "global ambiance" which can be driven by an HDRI map. There is some distinction between that and "global illumination"

Welcome back, Al! Remember, that ease comes because it take many fewer CPs to make a shape in A:M than vertices in a polygon modeler. 1) Keyboard 4 will constrain a CP to the direction of the spline at the point it starts from. If the spline is curved you will change the shape of the curve as you drag it but I use this quite a bit to adust CPs in a mesh, none-the-less. Also... 5 will constrain the CP to motion perpendicular to the original spline. 6 will constrain it to motion perpendicular to the surface. 2) the CutPlane plugin can do this in simpler situations. It can insert a spline ring (or unsplined CPs) at the intersection of the cutting plane with a mesh. 3) I think so? 4) You may define any res you want, limited only by your RAM and patience. 5) The Snap To Surface tool allows you to draw new splines on the surface of another shape as a guide. Informally called "retopolgy" on the forum. 6) That should be fine. That's way more than I have. 7) Besides the goat?

I was looking for something like this when the Image Contest Awards video was mostly just going to be the scratching of the cards. I was thinking it would be cool to do that "live" but I wanted some way to cut between a camera and maybe some title graphics and do it as a live stream to YouTube. I guess this software would do that, although trying to do everything live in one session would be quite a handful.

Precursor to Cinerama.... the "Hemicycle" of Paul Delaroche. A 180° degree painting on the walls of the Amphithéâtre de l’Ecole des Beaux-Arts depicting great artists of the past, chatting amongst themselves.

It probably won't run at all on XP. I had to upgrade from Win 2K when Steffen moved to a compiler situation that didn't support Win2K. I also had to build a new PC to do that because my old PC couldn't do Windows 7. I imagine our XP users have older machines that can't be upgraded.

I'm sure the clouds in the background and the distant mountains are something they either painted or photographed but all the rest is good A:M work.

Yes, we need to know what it is you are wanting.

I'm not sure what your question is. What material are you wanting to make?

Here is an experiment by Ken on bronzing a scrap of pewter...

And if by chance, any of the caricature winners already have a Caricature by Largent of themself, they could use their prize to have caricature made of a family member or friend to give as a gift!

You are now free to sing "Happy Birthday" and use it in your movies without paying royalties. The rigorously enforced copyright, which all the facts indicated was invalid, has been declared invalid by a Federal Court. This one has actually been all they way to the Supreme Court before with a win for the copyright claimants, but now that is over... for now. ‘Happy Birthday to You’ copyright thrown outand ‘Happy Birthday’ Copyright Invalidated by Judgealso... Old Colbert Report on "Happy Birthday"

There was a time when you could learn a 3D program by just reading the manual, but 3D was pretty basic back then.

Robert, Did you download and install from the official release or from previous download? (or alternatively from Jason's posted owncloud file) I downloaded what is linked to at the top of the thread... that's official, right?

I'll note that I installed both the v18n 64 and 32-bit versions and they both seem to launch and run without reporting an error. I'm on 64-bit Windows 7.

I don't see m in here but I do see versions prior to that, perhaps one of those will hold you over until your n bug can be fixed... ftp://ftp.hash.com/pub/updates/windows/old/

Which ones were those? One I recall is being able to clip a shape with a spline. Sort of like a subtractive boolean.