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Why, when i was a boy I was trapped with just a 7MHz Amiga Computer with only 512K of RAM and no hard drive and I had to . And we didn't even have bones back then. And I liked it! Whatever you are doing wrong that is making CPM not work, it is either not a serious hazard because you will never need CPM again or it will reveal itself in greater clarity on some future endeavor at which time we will be able diagnose it more completely.

It's possible in the older version you have that either Copy/Paste/Mirror had a bug (that has happened) or that the Rabbit on that CD had a setup problem (that has happened). It's possible you dont' have the right keyframe filters on when you copy the pose. "Key Skeletal Translations' and "Key Skeletal Rotations" need to be ON. But worry not. Do the pose manually. I've never needed copy/paste/mirror in any character animation situation and when I get around to doing a tut on walks I won't teach it.

My quick advice is to just make the mirrored poses manually. It's good practice, and making EXACT mirrors is neither necessary nor even desirable, usually.

When i first got A:M v4, at work in 1996, there was a graphics card for the mac that could could natively do splines and patches without needing to approximate them with subdivided polygons (what we have now). It was reasonably zippy and A:M supported it but for whatever reasons it didn't catch on in the industry and I don't think any card does splines now.

Why, when I was a boy we didn't have no graphics cards. We had to wait a year for a shaded render... and we liked it! The card vendors seem to make sure that their OpenGL implementation is a good one now-a-days. In 64-bit A:M it's the only choice. Which ever one works best, use it.

Welcome back, none-the-less!

OK, I got something like an expected result from the plugin, still using v15... It's not quite as functional as the AI wizard but it might be useful in some circumstances.

I've tried it in v15. It runs but it doesn't do anything like the pictures show. What version are you using?

thanks for the tip, Malo! Fortunately the page still exists via the Wayback machine at Archive.org http://web.archive.org/web/20050315082059/...structions.html It includes the download and the instruction page, minus a few jpgs. I'd say it's safe to post here since it was free anyway. It will probably only work in 32-bit PC versions of A:M if it still works. Brian Levine is the name on that. Anyone know him? How to contact him? He probably still has the source code.

So, let me see if I can wrap my head round this: you can make a silhouette of a shape in Illustrator like that and import it into AM and have it auto-extrude and cap it? And will bevel the edge if you want, too! It all started with the font wizard which did that same maneuver for standard outline fonts. I think I made feature request for what you are wondering but it hasn't been taken up yet.

I just found I also had a CD for FreeHand V9. That does work on Windows 7, and can export a proper AI file.

that's going well. You could use a force to blow the particles away if you need them gone but not disappearing. I presume you are going to do something more with the lighting?

A classic CG solution is to use an environment map. Fake reflections that render quickly

If you don't need the actual reflection effect, here's a simple approximation using specular reflection with the "Glossy" specular shader. Remember to turn "Plugin Shaders" ON in your render settings. The actual effect of the real glazed surface depends on it being slightly reflective AND the fact that the SKY is WAY brighter than any other surroundings. The sky gets a noticeable reflection but the ground and other environs are so dim that they don't obviously show.

Can you show a picture of a black ceramic you are trying to mimic? That would give us a starting point.

The installer for FH 7 on my original installation CD won't run under Win 7 or any compatibility settings i can apply to it. That's as far as i get.

I wish A:M could do with outlines made in A:M what it can do with outlines made in AI. OR expand the AI plugin to accept SVG plugins. I used an old version of Macromedia Freehand to make outlines and export them to AI but it stopped working under Windows 7. Someone on this forum said that an EPS file is almost the same as AI and you could make the change with a text editor, but I never found out how to do that.

that one is a bit hard for me to judge, it goes by so fast.

A:M is intended as a beginning-to-end animation workflow. Model>Rig>Animate>Render. If your client wants finished animation from you, A:M works great. If your client has some model that they got from some polygon program and want you to animate it for them... then it gets tougher. A:M works best with models made with A:M.

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