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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.

Hey, that looks cool, Gerald! You know what you oughta do?... take a few moments to write a positive review of Martin's book on Amazon! Maybe do it on both .de and .com It couldn't hurt!

I can do that , however I just had another idea... why use a 50% constraint for that? Why not use 100%? Then you won't need to bend the control bone all the way back to get the geometry bone half way back. Would that work?

Cut that down to five lines on each side and it could be some sort of music nightmare thing.

You can see shaded in Windows but you can't you can't render to shaded in Windows? Ouch.

180° is tough thing to track, the geometry bone is trying to split the difference between where it would be when the control bone is at 179° and -179° How about... instead of using that 50% orient-like constraint... how about using a smartskin relationship to link the rotation of the geo bones to that control bone.

I've got mine started! This will probably not be recognizable until it's all done and I say what it's supposed to be.

I presume the script from v17 would work or only need to be slightly modified? In Windows you don't need it, you can just start A:M again.