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you can also >Measure Spline on any selected spline. There is no tool for measuring the straight line distance between any arbitrary two CPs, I'm afraid. Yes, there is! See pixelplucker's post below.

Fog has been around forever. It's in your camera properties. You'll need set start and end distances to accommodate your particular scene.

That's looking good! I think your scene would benefit from using camera fog so that distant objects are less strongly colored, as in real life. Example:

I'll note that you can't call a car a "Corvette" just because you don't call it a "Chevrolet Corvette" or sell it at a different location. I think Martin D. Hash, attorney, should send them a cease and desist letter.

Grass gently wafted by a passing breeze.... WavingGrass.mov Here's the PRJ. It plays in real time fairly well and only take a few seconds to render each frame so... it can be done! waving grass02.prj Take a careful look at the settings for the Grass in the Material and the settings and animation of the Force in the Chor.

First... I think you could get the same look with a much lower density of hair. Second... tuning that with a density map might help. Would real weeds be that dense right at the border of the patch-of-weeds? Wouldn't they be thinner at the edges and get denser in the middle? Third... alternatively, you could use a density map to make the front row of weeds dense and the interior less dense with just enough hairs to appear over the top. That's what i did with my Al Capone head. I made the hair denser at the hair lines and thinner in the inner areas.

I saw the clip from Letterman. It seemed like random syllables with random body actions. The band all had that "I hope no one recognizes me" look on them. I admire their restraint in not putting huge cat ears and the naughty school-girl uniform on her but I'm still doubtful it's going to be big here.

I'm surprised that "Animation:Master" is not trademarked. Or is it?

Let's be adult about it... 21! Then I won't feel guilty looking at it so much.all night Steffen has just gotten back from an extended recuperation so, yeah... it's early.

hmmm. This seems like another "imagine a place where" trailer.

I recall there was a sitcom, "Inside Herman's Head" back in the 80' or 90s that had the same premise. That's what i thought of when I heard about this one.

Richard can you show a screen shot of what the scene looks like with hair?

The only way I can immediately think of to manipulate a specific hair is have some object "collide" with it. It could be a transparent object. Hair guides are only available at patch corners. I believe those can be animated. While testing, you can set the realtime density to something less than 100% and still get a flavor of how the whole hairpiece is reacting to forces.

I've been thinking there's way to do color keying in A:M composite projects but since just about every video editing app now has some color keying feature I've not pursued it.

A ghost with racing stripes.

For some reason I can't get the link to work. It has an extra www in it but when I try to edit that out it comes back! Edit: I think I got it... http://www.123videomagic.com/ My own dabbles with greenscreen have been troublesome. It's really hard to get the screen evenly lit (outdoors works best) and hard to get a clean edge.

William was describing the nature of the wall decorations in the underground lair and i said, "Ah, that is known as 'bas-relief'" and said he might look that up for examples. Then i got to wondering what the official definition of "bas-relief" was and got this on the web: That clears that up! My definition: sculpture in which the objects are mostly fully 3-dimensionally formed but are not free-standing. They are substantially attached to the wall behind them.

I'm glad you're day job finds you valuable!

A secret decoder ring!

Welcome to A:M, SimpleYork! I guess you already know that current versions of A:M have the STL exporter but for some reason don't want to upgrade but that's not going to stop me from suggesting it. Perhaps one of our other STL fans can suggest a 3rd party OBJ to STL converter so you could use v13's OBj export. However even if you do that you're still missing out on v18's higher res polygon export.

Classic haunted house ghost!

What does the product do? I'm hoping it's something that stands by the cat food bowl and swats raccoons that try to eat out of it.

Do you have to see their feet in this shot or is it just shoulders?

Show us some pics when you have time. I'd be curious to see the coin!

I'll note that on my computer, at least, if I have any sort of simulation in progress and I do a mouse-click, in or out of the window, or if there is any other program running that is updating its screen, A:M will go to "Not Responding" and appear to be frozen. It's still working and will come back when it finishes but if you want to monitor the simulation in progress you need to just let it be and not do anything else on the computer.