robcat2075
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If I had to use A:M for a live presentation, I would make each "slide" something in a separate Chor. Maybe I'd have 25 numbered Chors in the PWS
I could call up each Chor from the PWS as I got to it in my presentation and Play it. It would stop at its Range "end" and I could talk about what ever was being displayed, maybe replay it if need be, maybe even grab objects and move them if that were relevant to do. That might be relevant in an architectural presentation.
But you still don't have live writing and annotating this way.
Also, you'd have to be absolutely certain that before you launched, every Chor was already set to the proper "View" and proper start time. Once you start futzing around with navigating the interface to get back to the right View or right Time you'll be losing the audience.
Another downside is that you'd have to get a license for A:M for the computer in your presentation room if this wasn't running off a laptop your brought with you.
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There's no easy way in A:M to draw and write on the screen in real time.
To me, that seems to be the functionality that distinguishes slide shows from whiteboard presentations.
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I think what the salespeople want most is something they can reuse in their "pres".
I think some commonly available presentation software is your more likely bet. A:M is more about creating the content than being a platform to present it with.
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Not much is demonstrated here, but Adam Savage has a fun talk with a stop-mo builder/animator, none-the-less.
Adam Savage Learns How Modern Stop-Motion Puppets Are Made
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Hmmm... I think there have to be better solutions.
What do you need that a regular PowerPoint-style presentation will not do?
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V15 still has the OpenGL/Direct3D option
v19.5 (not out yet) will have an option to not install AVX...
However, I presume early versions like v15 won't have any AVX either?
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19 hours ago, a.quaihoi said:
Regular wine doesn't support Catalina yet, I did a bit of reading and one of the issues is, that WINE only supports up to Open GL 2.0 and I think its actually using open GL 1.
I suppose you already tried setting A:M to use OpenGL 1 instead of 3?
Did you try a version of A:M that uses Direct X?
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So you can't even get a wireframe view? I presume render-to-file works. Do onscreen (Q or SHIFT-Q) final renders work?
I wonder if previous versions of A:M would behave differently
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Was that truck in one of Spleen Gene's videos?
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I found out that shape is called a Squircle.
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If I didn't know they were serious I'd think it was a joke... and I don't know that they are serious.
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23 minutes ago, MJL said:
Hi Robcat,
I lthought I had purchased an unlimite lifetime subscription. My old antique computers are filling up their harddrives and I got a couple of refurbished Dell Laptops. I tried to transfer my AM to them usic my master licensing file but they were missing a couple of dll files when I tried to install them. I sent a message to support a few days ago and have gotten no response. Do you have any ideas.
You want to transfer an A:M sub?
Let's tag @Jason Simonds on that, in case he missed your email.
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WaPo report on CES
Safety advocates see red flags galore with new tech at CES show
Quote...They included some of this year’s breakout favorites, such as the U-Scan urine sensor from connected health care company Withings, which analyzes hormone levels in urine
Quote...Companies could choose to make useful, private, repairable products, said iFixit’s Wiens during the Worst in Show announcement, but what is the real purpose of a $200 travel mug with location-sharing capabilities and an irreplaceable battery?
I'm reminded of the USB-powered bong Martin showed me that he got at Siggraph
Also, the Wired report:
CES 2023: 100+ Highlights and Oddities From the Show
QuoteArguably one of the weirder things I saw at CES is Rollkers—a gadget you strap to your feet to double your walking speed.
No, they don't look weird at all...
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AFAIK, the dump file is a set of information about what went wrong. When I can repeat a crash I send the dmp with my report to Steffen.
I don't believe it contains project information.
However you can recover your work after crashes by using A:M Back Up which I recommend everyone use.
@yoda64 Is it possible to retrieve project data from a dmp file?
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2 hours ago, Phil said:
Do we see any updates/ upgrades for AM in the near future?
Hi Phil,
There is a v19.5 that is supposed to be coming out real soon now.
It won't have dramatic new features ( it's just a .5 update) but Steffen is doing this to ready the code base for other interesting things he hopes to implement.
A:M is still being developed... slowly.
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Sebastian Smee, "Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic at The Washington Post," has a running series of commentaries on historic paintings (and a few photos), some famous... some not, of many genres.
QuoteI know people who go to museums to look at a single painting. That might seem a bit perverse, given all that’s on offer. But, in a sense, I try to enact a version of this same, focused impulse in my Great Works, In Focus column. I’m saying, “Hey, let’s look at this one thing.”
This link should enable the collection for you without a subscription. The front page has buttons that let you filter the selection by category or location. A great painting may be in a museum near you!
If you slept through Art Appreciation class in college... now you can catch up on what you missed!
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1 hour ago, martin said:
I've also had a homeless person resident, but she was camped in the bushes instead of one of my rooms. I'm still awaiting for her to cart off the last box of treasures she left there.
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That is unhappy news!
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There was a lot of interest in the Cap Your Mo, Summer Mo-Cap Challenge! The most frequent question I got was, "Do I really have to show myself in the video?"
"Why, of course!" I answered, "That's half the fun, right?"
There the interest diminished quite a bit!
That video rule does seem to have warded many people off. 
But we do have a fine and worthy winner! The First Prize of a $150 Hash Store Credit, for mo-capping, bravery, and getting the one entry in on time goes to...@Wildsided Dan Skelton!
"Only Fools and Horses"
A $50 Hash Store Credit, for his not-in-by-the-deadline-but-I'm-glad-he-got-it-done entry goes to...@Shelton Steve Shelton!
"Suspicious Mind"
And for $0, my non-contest entry...
"Leap"
You can still enter!
There's still money to be won! Complete a Mo-Cap Challenge entry by the end of Summer 2023 and we'll add it to the gallery above and you will win a $25 Hash Store Credit!
Let's see some more Mo-Cap!
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Yup.
After watching the behind-the-scenes video it seems like the AI has appropriated the visual style of Pixar's "Monster's Inc." especially the "Sully" character... of which I'm sure there were thousands of sample images on the web to scrape and modify. The character designers at Pixar ought to get a credit on this film.
AI creature...
Pixar's Sully...
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Although I've never done it this way in 25 years of A:M-ing, those operations also appear in the Edit menu...
"Group Connected" is introduced in "Exercise 9: Flower Power" in the TaoAM booklet of introductory tutorials
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On 4/10/2023 at 11:39 PM, Roger said:
That's a shame, but he had a pretty good run I'd say.
Yeah, he worked until he was 99!
And a few more obits...
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Before you do that copy/paste, go to Tools->Options->Units to uncheck and zero these items, so that your paste has the same XYZ location as where it was copied from.
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The Good News . . Running AM with WINE works great on Mac . . . the Bad News . . . Graphics / rendering not working [work-around: use v15]
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And that's a modern Mac with an M1 processor?
I'd be curious to hear what the results are for the Three Teapots benchmark, in v15 and v19