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When you do the Benchmark on v16 or 17 be sure to use the associated .pre file to make sure you are using all the same render settings.

Welcome back to A:M! I also recommend you jump forward to V16. If you haven't been around for a while I also suggest you do the exercises in "The Art of Animation:Master" (TAoA:M) to reacquaint yourself with the interface and workflow. And we're also aiming to revise that whole set of tuts; you can get the rough draft of the first chapter here, which I recommend you do first.

If you put 64 bit windows on it it would be able to use all 8GB

WOW!

One way woudl be to stretch out the key frames at the intended time . You woudl need to do that accurately for every object in your chor. Another way would be to set the FPS to a much higher rate and render that for just the time interval you need the slow down. edit that section into your normal fps footage.

Having a birthday just a few days after Christmas is probably a drag. But happy birthday, none-the-less.

Possibly this person had a similar problem: http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?s=&am...st&p=353787 Try running the installer for the 32-bit version of A:M (you can have both installed and it will install to the 32-bit programs folder on your PC) and then running the "Master.exe" file. See if that gets through the activation code thing OK. If it does, then copy the master0.lic file from the 32-bit version to the 64-bit version. Let us know what happens!

I like the look. The thin arms and legs will be easier to rig. He looks a bit top heavy but that's been true of cartoon characters for a long time.

Were getting closer! There's a "Master_64.exe" that is the actual program after it's installed. Is that what you are trying to start?

Welcome to A:M! discs... hmmm...What's in the top directory of that disc?

-In the Tools>Customize window you can create new tool bars and arrange the "View" buttons to mimic the numberpad arrangement: -you could reassign some unused keys on your keyboard to behave as the number pad 789 UIO JKL M perhaps with CTRL or ALT - In the view window you can >Views> to choose a view

DaVinci was into thick eyelids too.

Can i do a test segment?

Get better! I had pneumonia once, it actually hurt to breathe.

I think it's more complicated than declaring any one thing is "king", there's a whole palette of parts that need to be engaging, but in different movies the parts are in different proportions. Sometimes the mix works and sometimes it doesn't and no one seems to be able to identify whether the mix is correct until after the movie is made

First guess.... this is some sort of confusion between saving a PRJ and saving CHOR. AFAIK, Netrender still only properly works with PRJs. so maybe you saved a CHOR but the PRJ you are loading into Netrender still points to an old CHOR. Some confusion like that. NetRender slaves reload all assets for every frame whereas A:M does not. Renders that are only a few seconds per frame (I estimate yours at 22 seconds per) show that extra overhead more obviously than long renders. That may be part of it. Two slaves on a 2-core system may not be efficient from an OS resources stand point, there may be some slowdown associated with that.

I like that! What would it take to get the beard to not pass thru the knees, I wonder?

If you can find some set of steps that makes it happen that would be a good thing to report at AMReports. It will get fixed if you can show how to make it happen.

Don't forget the AO settings in Render to File Settings>Options Ambient Occlusion needs to be ON "Occlusion sampling" determines the noise vs. speed trade off It can be set very low for test renders and 30% is usually high enough for most final renders.

A modest proposal...

adorable critters!

That works, it bring in the image and then it lets me select the image as a decal. Just doesn't seem to want to do it directly. That should at least get you back to working on your project. You should also be able to right-click on the Images folder and choose Import

Help>Reset Settings

How about if you go to the upper left corner and do File>Open and navigate to where your image is saved?

Well, after "restarting" that was going to be my first guess.... what happens if you load an older PRJ that has some images in it already and try to add a new image to it?