robcat2075

Collaborators are tough to come by. As hard to come by as money. But those backgrounds are beautiful! You should do a brief 30 second test that puts characters in maybe just two backgrounds and puts across some brief story segment. If that looks as good as I think it could and and your story is interesting you might get some interest. 15 minutes of video is A LOT though. That's a scary large amount of animation to get done.

I tried it and v15 doesn't seem to create an audio track in AVI. v16 does. If you have v15 you can also run the current v16. Install it and copy your master0.lic file from v15 to v16. I presume you have a great reason to use AVI. You'll need to choose "uncompressed" video and the audio track will also be huge. If you have QuickTime Pro it offers good options for compressing audio (AAC is good). I like to render to something uncompressed and then compress everything in QT Pro.

It's hard to debug this from a distance because there are so many things that could be misset. One way to debug it is to take JUST the window into a new model, Put that into a new blank chor and render that. Does it work?

Those are lovely! Can you tell us more about how you do them? I presume there's post processing in a paint app for the soft focus effect?

I see transparency 0% there What are we looking at? What does a real render do?

I loaded 008.cho, cancelled out of all the files I didn't have, and deleted everything that didn't have a name and resaved it. That gives this chor that loads and doesn't have numerous phantom objects, but appears to retain the desired models. 008x2.cho If you load this , with your models, and you get the phantom folders back, then it's something about a model

Yes. So the answer to this was really "no"? If you just make a brand new blank PRJ (that means absolutely blank and new, not an old one)... import that one model (just one)... drop it in a chor (a new blank chor, not an old one)... and that creates a whole bunch of phantom models? Does it or doesn't it?

Yes. Time to get out a text editor and find something weird. If you want to send it to me I'll look at it.

I just noticed the thing about the duplicate phantom models. If you just make a brand new blank PRJ, import that one model, drop it in a chor... and that creates a whole bunch of phantom models?

I haven't read this in detail but the key things I see are "v14" and "memory". If this is a bug it won't get fixed in v14 since that is past. If it's still a bug in v16 you could submit the PRJ that does it and steffen woudl probably find the problem in no time. But a lot has been fixed and changed already in v16 (and it's lots faster). I'm sure someone has suggested it already, but... move up to v16. that aside, I see lots of lights. Are they z-buffered or ray traced? Whatever they are, have you tried the other? When i have something that crashes a render I try removing items one by one until it works. Then I have some clue about what was causing the problem.

Walking on an endless sea of white sand. He's going to look good.

Make one cross-section that's curved right, then you can just extrude that forward as many or as few times as you want to make most of the rest of the roof.

On a real bus they'd be separate pieces anyway, no?

I'm confused about the "windows", those look like they will be filled in patches to me.

I didn't catch that last update. That's a great looking set, even in gray!

Hey, that looks like some splining going on!

I should note that to make sure a setting that is normally a default be explicitly saved in camera settings, you must set it to something else, then set it back. If you just leave it at the default it will have no setting and might be overridden by whatever was set in the last work you did in A:M. The render presets are simpler since they automatically capture even unset default settings, but they are a file separate from your PRJ and you have to remember to use them.

I recall Victor Navone saying here once that Toy Story (1) was animated entirely with off screen sliders. No on-screen bones. That was long before he got to Pixar, so maybe he heard it wrong, but that's what he said.

Because it's "there" where you are looking anyway. When i was doing AnimationMentor and we got the "Bishop" Character everything for the face except the jaw and mouth corner controls were done with the Maya equivalent of a pose slider and so when i made my A:M version of Bishop I did that too thinking that was the way it was done. But I hated that. Over in your pose box you have a long list of sliders like Left Lip Upper 1 Left Lip Upper 2 Left Lip Upper 3 Left Lip Upper 4 Right Lip Upper 1 Right Lip Upper 2... ... and on for about 40 items Everytime you want to adjust something you have to scroll through that box and read the labels to find the one you want. The problem with pose sliders is they represent all adjustments as a horizontal scale even for things that do not move horizontally. And they are not on the face. I very much prefer having a control on the face and that's what I've done since. When I want to adjust an eyelid or an eyebrow or a lip I like a control that is right there on what i'm moving. My preference may be too on-the-face for some and it doesn't look glamorous. Maybe they don't like the controls obscuring their view of the face and that's valid. These instrument panels we're seeing like Ken is showing are sort of a compromise between the two extremes. It's near the face but not on it and it doesn't abstract everything to a horizontal slider. But me... I prefer to have all those control details on the face itself.

Yes .... but why would anyone want to? .... The more I look at other programs, the more convinced I am that A:M has a vastly superior constraint and animation system ... for those who know how to use it ... I'm with you! I don't see much there that we're not already doing and I don't see anything that we can't do.

Interesting. That certainly could be done with A:M, although I'm getting to be less a fan of control-panels-on-the-side interfaces. What's a "brown bag"?

you need an anticipation before each big stab

No, they can not be re arranged. however, you can make a "selection Filter" (I've been tellin' you about those) for any set you want, causing only its members to be displayed in the PWS, and you can easily recall that Filtered set anytime after that. Two videos at this link

Although it is sometimes said "half of English is mispronounced French". Thanks to William the Conqueror and 1066. I recall being in a cathedral in Germany in the 70's and seeing an inscription on a wall that was not in modern German but "old" German (according to the tour guide). It surprised me that that somehow resembled today's English more than "old" English does. I had German in school from the 7th thru 12th grade but aside from the first year the teachers were not very rigorous so not much was learned.

We're glad you didn't go away mad! Be sure to show us that clip when you get it done.