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We're rolling! Assignment for Week 2: Everything in Week 1 if you haven't done it already. Watch Lesson 1 in the Udemy course. No assignment. Skip Lessons 2 and 3. They are mostly about John Purcell's particular Mac environment. Watch Lesson 4. Assignment: Your own "Hello world" program, typed from scratch. Watch Lesson 5. Assignment: Make a program that will print a picture made with several lines of "cout" text. Tips: Watch John Purcell type in his programs and type in the same into your Visual Studio. Do all the little tests and experiments that he does along the way. Use the skills you learned to make your own version of the lesson for the assignment. But as a minimum... get a working version of John Purcell's project going. Get started early! Don't wait until the day of class to try coding the lesson! We're meeting at 7:30PM CDT next Sunday. Bring your projects to show and tell. If they don't work... we'll debug them!

It is still possible to join our C++ study group! https://forums.hash.com/topic/52292-c-study-group-june-4-2023/

You can bounding-box select your keyframes and stretch the cycle to any duration you want. Also, a walk cycle on a path will scale its duration to traverse the path in the specified time.

Raid!

When I was taking AnimationMentor classes, there was a lecture that began with a montage of several studio animators each revealing what they dreaded animating most... walks! Convincing walks are hard to do and harder if you are doing a walk cycle. What ever is wrong with it becomes more obvious as the cycle repeats.

Hi Roger, I don't recall a switch but I think the key is to have the action "Length" equal to the time of the end-of-cycle keyframe that is a copy of the start-of-cycle keyframe. That seems to work in this sample PRJ. Robot05k2 egg .prj If you are watching your cycle in in real time you will want your Play Range set to be no longer than your last frame. When I had a slower computer I think I had to set the Play Range one frame short but when I look at this project today it doesn't seem to need that.

Do you have an AM reports issue number for that?

You can still join our new C++ study group! It's fun, it's exciting, all the cool kids are doing C++ these days.

That is an interesting Hair result! Almost like a robe!

@Rodney @Roger @Shelton Robbie For our first meeting you will want to get four things done. Download and install Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 "Community" edition Sign up for a free account to Udemy.com. Enroll in free Udemy course "C++ Tutorial for Complete Beginners" and watch Lesson 1 "Introducing C++" Get a personal Google Account so you will be able to attend our Google Meet sessions. Get the computer you will use to do C++ set up with a microphone and earphones so you can participate in our Google Meet session. No camera needed. Getting Visual Studio... Go to https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/ and choose the "Free Download" of the "Community" edition You will be prompted to save a setup file. Save it to where you can find it, like to your desktop... Run the Setup file. It will lead you through several steps... The installer will give you many options for downloads. Uncheck everything except "Desktop development with C++" We'll check your installation at our first meeting. You will be able to add Getting course at Udemy... When you put "C++ Tutorial for Complete Beginners" in the Udemy search bar you should get an option for a course taught by John Purcell. Choose than one! It is free.

Welcome to A:M, @Madfox! Glad to have you! Cool to see what Tubehead is all about! He was trippy.

We appreciate your efforts on behalf of A:M, Jason!

For anyone following along... After some testing, Saladeen and I concluded "Mirror Constraints" was working correctly except for Spherical Euler Limits. That may be a bug that needs to be reported.

That could be a Who from Whoville.

If you want to send the "before" version to me in a PM I'll look at it. You can take the mesh out if you don't want share that.

That's a guy who's had his first beer. 😀

The constraints that have a 2 in the name after the % sign are very suspicious. The "Before" version has some of those. Are those intentional or accidental?

Project Workspace. Can you show me some of the heirarchy where the extra left is showing up?

I think I know what you mean. Can you show a shot of your PWS before and after?

We are still planning to start the new C++ Study Group on June 4 and you still have time to get on board the C++ train. If you have not already, PM me if you are interested. C++ is the language of A:M and just about anything else that does anything useful.

Hi Korge, You may be thinking of "Animate! with Cristin McKee" which was produced by Anzovin studios rather than Hash. Last I heard, she has officially withdrawn it and intends it to be not available. However, you might find a second-hand copy on ebay or likewise. I never saw it but I do recall an animation demonstration by her at Siggraph that made me realize, "Ah... this doesn't have to take forever!"

I thought of Bertram when I saw this picture of Mary Kelly, a girlfriend of Jack Benny long before he married Mary Livingstone.

Note for everyone... copy the master0.lic file from your current v19 folder to your new v19.5 folder and tht will activate v19.5 for you. Recall that 64-bit versions of programs are in your (C:)Program Files folder and 32-bit versions are in your (C:)Program Files (x86) folder.

Perhaps @Jason Simonds can help.

Hooray! And that's a modern Mac with an M1 processor? I'd be curious to hear what the results are for the Three Teapots benchmark, in v15 and v19