robcat2075

Yes. This bothers me too. The hands and feet, being most distantly attached to the torso, ought to be the last things to get going but they begin moving backward as soon as the torso does even though the arms and legs haven't been pulled tight to start moving them. Also... he's slowing down in mid air. That can't happen. Once he's been flung thru the air his horizontal velocity will stay the same until something can slow him down, like the ground. Look how his horizontal speed changes in mid air: fling.mov Also 2 ... he's going horizontal, then down. It's not a real arc that he's flying thru.

The perfect Forum Project: -interesting enough that people will be drawn to participate -clear enough that everyone understands what to do -simple enough that anyone can play -flexible enough for each person to contribute something unique -bullet-proof enough that it still works if someone drops out

Summer is here and we'll definitely want to get this going by September-ish, I think. I already have a preferred premise that will cause me to take too long to finish my segment, so more brainstorming is still welcome!

Good news, there's a PRJ of the technique up already... http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?s=&am...st&p=322946 Animate the emitter to put the clouds where you want them

I'm thinking something like this could be devised, slowly drifting and churning... http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnson7/1460568819/

Would something in this vein be useful? overcast.mov

First, can you find the constraints you made, in the PWS?

Happy Birthday, John! We enjoy all your tinkerings and experiments, explosive or otherwise!

Constraints also have precedence depending on what order they are in the PWS. I forget whether lower is higher, but you can reorder them by dragging them. Close and reopen your model after that.

You can still make your tree in V15 if you have it and use the result in v16

It would be cool if his puffy shirt could be flapping in the stormy wind.

I'll see if I can make a boiling sky. One thing that baffled me was how the realtime view of him was dark brown but if I preview rendered part of the screen all the colors would change. Why is that?

It works in V15 for me but not in v16 so I've made an AMReport of it.

After a cursory try in v16b I find I get a tree but no "levels"

I've never used Treez, where's the tut that explains it so I can try it?

I just caught the clip with the clouds, that looks cool! Were you wanting sort of a boiling sky effect?

I can see that making a good seaweed for underwater scenes.

Have you got the rigging solved? If you have questions, ask!

it seems the attachments didn't get attached?

I'll also note that booleans such as polygons modelers have that actually cut the mesh don't always work. You can put two shapes together, tell one to cut the other, wait for it to chug through all the calculations and then get the message "Operation failed."

There's something about the way he starts out that doesn't seem to be enough for what happens to him after. I think we should be seeing this more from the side, too.

I think he needs to get whacked a lot harder at the very beginning.

Don't worry... it only take a mere 10 years of constant daily use to become proficient. But seriously... because toplogy is so important, A:M does take a bit more advance strategery than other modeling paradigms. It's easy to build the bevels into a shape, difficult to add them later. The hard part is recognizing the easy way first.

another example

A few boulders might help the effect. Model a rough lump and put a few larger ones inthe foregournd and smaller ones in the mid ground and maybe none in the distance. There are several Darksim shaders included with A:M that make terrain-looking surfaces. If you do some hunting on "grayscale elevation map" you may find an image that could be applied as a displacement map to give you more surface detail. This one isn't quite a proper elevation map but it's similar, height is represented as brightness: