robcat2075

It costs nothing to try, which is what I'd do before declaring it impossible.. For a dense mesh it wont' matter if they are triangles or not, especially since all you are going to do with it is run a boolean through it. You can select the whole thing and hit P to turn them into flat triangles just as the polygon program thought they were gong to be anyway.

Power Puff Girls? My Little Pony? I haven't watched TV since the 90's either

there's no way to add a Boolean to a prop because there's no way to add bones to a Prop. When I say import it into a model, I really mean import it into a model. Not as a prop. -Open a new model window. ->Plugins>Import>STL or whatever polygon format works best. Yes, it will take a long time for a big model. Let it go overnight if it needs to. When it's done you have an A:M mesh you can add bones and Boolean cutters to.

For a typical corporate client (not an animation studio) a good-looking George Jetson could be an eyecatcher. Unless it's some 20-something who's never heard of George Jetson. Mark, you might wanna do some research on what the kids are watching these days.

Explain to me again why importing an STL into an AM model that you can do the Boolean slicing on is not an option. That is so much more what you want to do than a depth map process that I can't figure out why you are not pursuing that.

Import it into a model. It's slow but you only have to wait once. Do you have After Effects? Put the depthmap in that and keyframe some levels/threshold operation to make your near slice and far slice and stretch that out over as many frames as you meed slices. If you use the depthmap in OpenEXR your slices can be nearly infinite because it records teh depth in floating pint format rather than 8 bit integer.

Another reason to do the Boolean slicing method rather than the depthmap is that Boolean slicing will get you the contours that would be hidden from the single viewpoint that a depthmap represents.

What's the time frame on this contest?

Happy Birthday, Luuk! For those who haven't seen them, here is one of Luuk's RC helicopter videos... dnvWII6Oz-Q

Here is the thread that shows how to capture intersections of a plane with a solid. Note Serg's demonstration http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showt...amp;hl=meniscus

Happy Birthday, Gramps!

For he's a jolly good fellow! His Facebook page reveals very little but at one time it indicated he was in the Caribbean.

If you know how many slices you want and want to create a series of slices as separate images, Matt's Boolean suggestion can work well. There is a thread around here somewhere where I as asking a similar need for a different purpose and someone showed how to do it.

I just saw those 2 seconds ago n your Facebook page and wondered why we hadn't seen them here!

If the manual covered everything, no one would come to the forum!

For me I find I can't do real animation without being glued to my seat for many hours straight so I might as well be home on a desktop to do it. Is there any laptop that you can actually see outdoors? I always fantasize about living the café life.

Do you have "Particles/Hair always off" checked in Options>Global?

New weird thing I just noticed... after the rollers have moved into place, the belt starts moving as if they were turning one frame before they actually start turning. I suppose the cloth is reacting to the inter-frame movement between the last stationary frame and the first moving frame. We don't' see it but the cloth does because it is simulating its movement in fractions of a frame time increments.

That's a very ambitious first project and it has turned out well. A:M is a great tool for someone who has a story they want to get told and you have demonstrated that. Welcome to the A:M forum!

May your soul be uncaged today! Happy birthday!

There are a number of "Tak" commercials and "cut scenes" out there and I think those are all A:M footage.

Was "Tak and the Power of Juju" by Avalanche?

A more complex arrangement with three rollers RollerTowelB.mov Here's the PRJ if anyone wishes to play with it. To simulate the cloth right-click in the chor and do Plugins>Simcloth Simulate. ClothBelt04b_three_rollers.prj

I notice that the cloth changes direction immediately when the roller changes direction but when the roller stops the cloth coasts on a little bit further. That is odd.

When I was little that's how I envisioned it working.