robcat2075

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

Maybe those wooden beams could be more rumpled to go with the windows?

i like the non-square windows.

Walking_Lower_Body_S1.mov When I look at this short clip with QuicktimeX on my desktop all I see is the brown ground, black background, and green line around the model. Why it displays correctly when I view it on line is way beyond my simple understanding. That one is in Animation Codec again with an alpha channel, possibly because it was rendered with "Millions +". i see brown ground, green sky and the walker model. Choose a different codec in your render settings under Format>Save Options>Set

"Animation" codec in quicktme supports an alpha channel and you got one. In "buffers" in your render settings turn Alpha OFF.

As always, if you can repeat it, AMReport it.

I don't believe they offer a USB dongle option any more.

Where is this again? On my work PC I have video card issues new to V16 that will amaze you... I've been chasing drivers and fiddling with settings and 'living with it' for months now... usually a save-restart gets me going again, but for how long...? That is on my WinXP64 Nividea Quadro FX 3500.I've updated the driver, updated OpenGL even. A:M 64 is much worse- but the 32 is bad too. I'll take any lead I can get. Maybe I'll do a screen capture for the forums entertainment. on the icon on your desktop for A:M and choose "Properties". Anecdotally, it sounds like people have more trouble with the "Quadro" cards than any other.

And of course, we always ask... "Are your video card drivers up to date?"

It just started doing this? What changed?

Pssst... If anyone asks about the "Don't Disable Aero" option, tell them i had to kill you after I told you about it.

It must be my special Aero glasses. Do you have "Disable Desktop Composition" checked in your Compatibilities tab inthe Properties for the A:M icon?

on the Tools menu

To try... on your Options>Global tab... disable "Don't disable Aero on startup" That's a triple negative!

I like that. They're not "gunsights", they're "snowflakes".

Did you on the slider name and choose "delete"?

Works for me. Wonder why the reflectivity aspect missed the 'bake-boat'. Steffen has looked at it in the past, for some reason transparency couldn't get in.

v15j+ is current. v16 is "in beta" The interface will look very familiar to a v11 user. Many feature and stability enhancements have arrived since v11. v16 is about twice as fast as v15. Your v11 models should travel to v15 and v16 fine. Do not expect to take v15 or v16 models back to v11. The features of boxed and sub are identical. Sub doesn't require a CD in the drive to start A:M but is locked to the computer you install it on. Boxed lets you take the CD to any computer to run A:M Welcome back to A:M!

Suppose I made a checkerboard material with half the squares very reflective and half zero reflective. But Bake can't capture that. Change the material to make the reflective squares white and the non-reflective squares black. Bake that then change the map that gets created from "Color" to "Reflectivity".