robcat2075

I wonder how long before the big printer companies get into this, acquire all the patents and we have cheap 3D printers but the 3D ink costs a fortune.

That's a good price if they can do it. I'm tempted to jump at it but the print size seems a bit small for things I imagine myself wanting to do.

I've seen that done in theaters where they can't have an actual flame, they have a fluttering cloth and light it and it looks like a flame!

It occurs to me that if what you need is more than 99 frames of onionskin and you'd rather not use onionskin at all you could create a single model that exhibits this behavior with... a spreadsheet!

Cool-looking result even though I'm not sure what you're doing exactly. The clipping plane problem could be reported as a bug if you have a repeatable case.

I was going to sit down this morning to finally record this tut and now they are smashing the street outside my house. Maybe this evening I'll get it done. Yes, it is a very large sun light (1000 cm) tilted somewhat forward rather than straight down. Only 2 rays, but not "distributed". More passes makes more rays and this was at least 100 passes, but it still only took 276 seconds to render. I'm not sure what "size" truly means for a sun light which is already an infinitely wide source of parallel light rays, but in practice it seems to govern how much those rays are tilted among the passes.

No SSAO, no AO, just a standard light. That happens to be a glass casserole dish. Casserole_Dish.mdl It's really just a quick doodad I needed for this test scene. I'm still adding stuff to it to show what works and what doesn't.

In Windows there is a little pop-up menu at the bottom that shows "hidden" apps (those not with a button on the task bar) and it shows the icons for the render nodes that are "offline" with red cricle and slash over them. You on them and select "Activate" to make them "online" that's how it is handled in Windows and there must be something like that on Mac?

While I was researching... Would you believe this AO-look render comes from just one Sun light? It's not on a spinning rig or on a spline or z-buffered, it's a regular ray-traced Sun light like we've had for 15 years or more.

Didn't someone already make a write-up on how to set up NetRender? I dimly recall that.

Hi Toadstool, welcome to the forum! When you have questions or doubts, go ahead and ask, someone here will have an answer.

That quite possibly might be THE best help I have ever received in ANY forum EVER. Thank you Rob. You Da Man! And thanks Fuchur for the tutes!!! Be sure to let all the other fangs know! One of the things that facilitates help is that the A:M forum lets us upload screencam movie files like that. A lot of forums will only let you upload a picture or two or not even that and you have to provide your own webspace if you want to show something. A:M Forums makes it easy for me (or anyone else) to screencam an answer and post it.

The problem is a missing CP... clip3459BlickFangsVase.mov

Happy Birthday Paul! I see him on Facebook occasionally. And Happy Birthday to Mark, one of our best A:M problem solvers!

That's looking very elaborate!

Could you post your model here?

Hey, that's cool stuff. I remember some of that. Best wishes, where ever you are!

The other free one I use is Malwarebytes Antimalware

That was cool.

I might phrase it more generally... you can relate any keyable thing to the rotation of the bone. Typically Smartskin is used to relate the deformation of a mesh (mesh deformations are something that can be keyframed) to the rotation of the bone. However it could be anything... color properties, bone scaling, hair length... anything that can be keyframed can be keyframed to have a certain setting at a certain rotation of the bone the "Smartskin" belongs to. And, of course, A:M will interpolate those settings between the other rotations of the bone. Powerful stuff!

With Windows you can have Microsoft Security Essentials for free and it worked fine for me.

I would recommend having your C Drive for your OS and programs and another partition for everything else. I would suggest making a ghost image of your C Drive after you get all your software installed and the bloatware uninstalled. Then it's easy to recover from drive failures and the general creep of space lost to updates. I think you'd enjoy a Cintiq to replace your tablet and to use as a second monitor (make sure your graphics card can handle two monitors) Consider a used Cintiq in the 15" size or larger. Many can be found for less than $800 (way less) I have an 18sx that I got used for $600, now they can be had for even less.

I'll note that you can Render to Quicktime directly in 32-bit A:M which you can have installed also, although reloading in 32-bit A:M may not be any fewer button presses than going to the Mac side to reload.

Try this Smartskin approach. I think this will do what you want to do. clip3457PhilsFinger.mov

OK, I see you need to leave 100% for the third finger bone.