robcat2075

I've looked at metal shingles for a long time and haven't given up on doing that on the front of the house, but the installation for those is quite complicated.

Welcome to the A:M forum! Animation is a tough business no matter what program you use, but if you have questions about A:M we'll certainly try to answer them.

http://www.mcelroymetal.com/index.cfm Slate is very heavy and would require a substantial reinforcement of the structure of the house, and difficult to install.

the attribute you have set to black is only one part of a combiner. The other part would have to be black to to make every thing black. And if you just wanted black you wouldn't use a combiner at all, you would just make the material black.

Show a screencap of the properties. Of course, you don't have some other group that is overriding the color choice in this material.

It needs to have some thin thickness (so there is an "airspace" inside) or it will look water-filled

Like this? I don't think you do that anymore.

Does that cover have an inside and an outside or is just an outside?

Here's a simulation of what it might look like:

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I was just thinking about those things! They show up in old movies set in France.

I'm afraid I have yet to find a suitable free alternative to AI for making AI files. If anyone does, send up a flare. However those shapes are also doable with conventional modeling techniques, no AI required. Ask if you get stuck. Good news and bad news on that.... Good news: the movies are done. Bad news (for you): the movies are done. There was brief talk of a third one, but we all need to catch our breathe. You CAN do something for "Rear Window". Take a look at our previous BUS STOP project and you'll see some people did very brief segments which still worked great.

I'm glad you had your work backed up! I agree with Rodney's suggestion about slowing and extending the zoom.

you mean recreate them in A:M, They are already made in Blender, right. Those look like eminently doable object for A:M, with smoother curves too. Lathing can make the legs of the Small Stand. The decorative panels with lots of empty space in the Medium stand can probably be easily done with the AI wizard which will import an Adobe Illustrator outline file.

I'm not an expert on that rig. My first guess is to set Balance and Balance Rigid to 0%. But some bone is in the wrong place.

It looks like really stiff water but I think you're on the right track.

Dents I could live with, especially on the roof on the back side of the house which is practically invisible from every possible vantage point around the property. Repairing a shingled roof every 5-10 years at professional prices... I won't be able to do that. Steel on Aluminum should not be a problem since there's no aluminum in this system and i can't think of any aluminum on my roof now.

Can't get insurance for a house that has no central heat and air, has old wiring and a non-code-conforming roof. There are some very spiffy houses in the vicinity with metal roofs and they seem to have survived the hail storm well. I think this ought to be feasible. It looks great in the brochure, what could go wrong?

I made a grid that reproduces the offset pattern of OSB sheets to better see how they might fit on the roof. However, my grand plan may be foiled. Metal roofs are not listed as a "permitted material" in my Planned Development District. I'm investigating a "Special Use Permit."

could you post a version of that PRJ without the character, but with everything else "Embedded" (Project > Embed All) and also post one frame from the middle of the image sequence?

The problem with the particles being emitted in one-frame clumps has been fixed in current versions of A:M, I believe.

You can apply the image as a new decal, unrelated to the other application. Just like if you were applying a different image, but you happen to be applying one you've already used.

If you turn on Show More Than Drivers for a model inthe chor you can access the properties of its decals. There you can keyframe "frame" values to make an image sequence play at other than the default. You can apply a decal to an object in the chor from any view point. Pick the object inthe chor, then on it in the Objects folder and choose New Decal, then you can place a decal in your current view. The decal sizing is very finicky in perspective views.

You still have ten weeks to jump in and do yourself s segment for "Rear Window"! Don't miss out! See the top of this thread for instructions and downloads.

that works well! Fast spinning is hard to do.