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Occasionally when I'm animating the splines on my model will stop smoothly interpolating thru their CPs. Suppose several patches are twisted then straightened out. The CPs move to their correct places but the splines going thru them don't' quite adjust right it's as if the angles of intersection has frozen. like this. I've marked the corresponding angles with red green and blue arcs. So far, saving and reloading is the only sure remedy. Anyone seen this and know what causes it?

Quicktime has great compression and almost everyone has it.

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Seeing that picture of the real wood object makes me want to try to get that look with A:M.

15J+ CD version, running on Windows 7 I got exceedingly few crashes with v15 and I did lots with cloth. If you got something you can repeat... make an AM Report on it. And if you're on the v15 subscription version you can be trying the v16 beta.

Funny movie!

Exporter corrector? It worked for me on the first try. Here's an OBJ I made in Wings imported as an OBJ into A:M v11.1i running on Win 7 WingsOBJTest01__2_.zip If what you are trying to import is so complex that you don't want to remodel it in A:M it's probably got a lot of polygons.

No, only the first chor action "needed" to change the color. However, when you "show more than drivers" to see "Groups" and then try to set a color there, it makes a difference whether chor action 1 or 2 is active even though you're not clicking on anything in either one. After you set that group color a channel representing what you have done also gets created in the chor action that was active. I didn't make a Pose to change the color since I didn't want to save a new version of the character to preserve the pose. Changing the color in the chor avoids altering the character file.

What version are you using? Help>About Animation:Master... what version does it say?

After some backtracking through the previous versions of this PRJ (there's only 378 of them) I find that the problem surfaces after I added second chor action to Shaggy. If that chor action has the green "active" check mark next to it when i try to change the color on a group i get the odd result. If I have the original chor action active when i try to make the change I get normal behavior. The second chor action was set to "Add" So this probably isn't a "bug" as much as A:M trying to accommodate two competing influences on the same element.

I'm wanting to change the color of a group on a model, in the chor. When i click on the color chip no color i set gets accepted and the RGB channels for the color do not resemble the values shown in the color picker. The red and green are actually below zero. Is there a good reason these are not corresponding to the color picker? I dimly recall seeing something like this a long time ago but don't recall if it was intended or not.

That turned out well! I'm wondering about the flesh colored flaps on her hips... what are those?

Camera Mapping, actually applying the image as a decal while looking through the camera, is the way to get the image to stick after the camera moves to a new location. Front projection/rotoscope can't do that.

It works in v15 for me

An object is in your camera view.... Select the object in the Objects folder and >New>Decal The decal will appear in the camera view for you to position and apply on the object. The bounding box is very jittery in this view. Drag an image onto a light and the light will project the image like a slide projector. Good also for making non-circular light patterns.

Really, really, really close now. Mark, how are those shadows doing?

High powered!

I'm trying the Stanford Bunny OBJ right now and, yeah, Windows says "Not responding" but I've done it before and I know if I wait long enough a bunny will show up. Try something over night. Once you resave it as MDL it doesn't take so long to load. Just to make sure it's an A:M readable file try importing it as a polygon "prop" first Be warned that anything over about 10,000 patches in A:M is asking for very tedious waits when editing splines.

It's not really freezing, you just have to give polygon import a long time. The progress bar will look like it's stopped at 60% but inside it's still doing stuff. It's still like that but people have success letting things run over night sometimes. But most polygon models are poor candidates for conversion to splines. Learn A:M's spline modeling and avoid the trouble all together.

that's a limitation of the technique... in any 3D program. If the camera needs to move so much that uncovered surfaces become an issue then they start painting something to put there, possibly cloning from the original image, and apply another decal.

I'm looking at it and I'll try to come up with some picks.

Generally animators will just manually animate objects so that they don't pass through each other. However, you're asking about simulations. the Newton plugin handles most rigid object situations like a hard ball and the ground. Look for "Newton" Cloth can be used for floppy body dynamics like this although it takes much trial and error and testing to find good settings for each particular situation.

Thank you for keeping the plates in the air!

Your biggest variable may be your video card. Most work fine, some don't, not sure why.

I have my 32 bit v15, my 32-bit v16 and my 64-bit v16 running fine on my 64-bit Win 7