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Translate to / Orient Like Enforcement & Pose Slider
robcat2075 replied to Marcus's topic in New Users
yes. odd pivoting. the bone will wander from its original position and back as you go from 0 to 100% enforcement. Consider: - at 0% enforcement a constrained bone makes no attempt to get to the incorrect 0,0,0 offsets, and so stays in its original position -at 100% enforcement the constrained bone will be trying to get all the way to it's full offset position, and so stays in its original position -but at 50% enforcement the constrained bone will be trying to get half way to an offset location that is halfway between the target bone and the correct full offset position. try it and you will immediately see . enforcementoffsets.zip -
"Radiosity" is probably the most accurate scheme, although it is very time-intensive to render. note the tutorials and examples in that archived forum. Image based lighting with a high-dynamic-range image with the light source in it might work also. you can get close to the effect of a flourescent light by making an array of point lights: http://www.brilliantisland.com/am/crawl.mov (they're in a single row in this example)
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Translate to / Orient Like Enforcement & Pose Slider
robcat2075 replied to Marcus's topic in New Users
good question! change the "curve" for enforcement from "hold" interpolation to "linear" There's a way to copy and paste values form 100% to 0 but I dont' recall it. You can Edit offset curves manually by sliding the CPs at 0% to match the level at 100% (the red green blue icon at the bottom of the PWS switches it to curve view.) -
Welcome back to A:M! Stitch: Hold down the Shift key when you are clicking in new spline CPs. This will make the old splines keep their shape.
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It sounds like your hitting the (T)urn view key rather than ®otate key.
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The essentials of A:M have been pretty constant since V5. The interface for dealing with the timeline and keyframes has changed somewhat, but for the better. The only reason I can think of for staying with V8 is if you are on Windows 95. No idea if current A:M would run on such an old OS.
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oops, i guess rotoscopes do have the frame property. make sure your rotoscope is under the camera and not just in the chor.
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Keyframing the Image>Frame property in a Layer seems to be the way to go. It works here in V13. If you had a video that was 10 frames long you'd keyframe 0 at frame 0, 9 at frame 9 and 0 at frame 10 , the set the post extrapolation to "repeat" make sure the keyframes are set to linear interpolation, not spline. Rotoscopes don't seem to have that property available. Last resort, edit as clip together that repeats the vid as many times as you need for your shot.
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That character was made by Kevin Detwiler, one of my AnimationMentor classmates. He asked me to rig it for him and somewhere out there is his demo reel with a wonderful short he did with "Larry" for his final class project. Animated with Animation:Master, of course. I guess that would actually be the way the standard TSM2 fingers work with one bone for the whole finger. This example was the "advanced finger" option which divides the control between two bones.
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demonstration: http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?s=&am...st&p=299043
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The basic TSM2 rig controls, just in case you are confused by TSM2's non-use of nulls in the rig. TSM2ControlsH264.mov there are other nuances, but these are the basics.
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Pixar made a lot of movies without any ambient occlusion, but they didn't do many shots like this either. Yeah, i think AO would help very much in a diffuse lighting situation like this. On the other hand, "morning" would have very strong, long shadows; this seems more of a midday shot.
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Yup, you're missing something major since all those controls are in TSM2. It doesn't use nulls but bones are moved just like nulls. if you want a box around a bone just hit n to turn on the translate manipulator.
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I might have a few notes but before I do, how about if you write a bit about what you feel is working well and what you feel is not? Now that you've had a moment to step back from it you probably have some observations.
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TSM2 doesn't do the "face" rig so a symmetrical face isn't required. You brew your own face rig or adopt one from something someone else has developed. TSM2 supposes you have made you body symmetrical since it has that "Flipper" step that makes a symmetrical left hand copy of the bones. But if your left side is different you can just move the left bones into position like you did for the right ones initially. TSM Rigger ( the third step) usually doesn't care about symmetry.
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Questions about setting other poses inside another pose
robcat2075 replied to heyvern's topic in 2008 - Rig
If you need to temporarily turn on Pose A while making Pose B but don't want Pose B to actually key Pose A, then turn off the "Define Relationship" button while you turn on Pose A and the turn it back on while you are making your Pose B stuff. It's near the top and looks like two chain links. -
Those look great. I'm surprised there's a big difference in rendering time since a hair with an image is basically a cookie cut image too.
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downloading models ? (for a computer illiterate person;)
robcat2075 replied to ladyliquette's topic in New Users
And you can also find the models by looking on the CD in the models folder. top menu File>Open> browse to folder anything ending in .mdl is a model. -
If it's genuinely inside the body it should not be a problem. Making it 100% transparent might be easier, however.
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You dont' have to do TAoA:M but later when you ask a question that was covered in one of them, don't be surprised that no one leaps to answer. TAoA:M is there to get new users all up to the same basic level such that they can begin to pose more individual questions. It's true that the first group are more about animation than modeling, and personally I think modeling should have come first but they are all so brief that the precedence of one over the other hardly matters. Well, #6 is a bitch but the others are mostly brief. Most new users are eager to see something move. TAoA:M gets them there ASAP. TAoA:M isn't intended to answer ALL possible questions, it is intended to answer the initial questions that almost everyone will have. You will certainly have additional ones after TAoA:M. That's what the forum is for. Nothing wrong with experimenting. The results will be pretty evident in most of the cases you mention. And some you wont' even have to try if you've done TAoA:M because it would have acquainted you with the matter already. A simple "save" before you try something daring would be an easy solution. I frequently do daring things and always save a new version of my work before I do. You've heard my opinion about the best place to start. The accomplished users you will need the advice of later on may start to dismiss you as a problem child if you are frequently here asking questions they know are already covered in TAoA:M. Don't say i didn't warn you. Of course if you get stuck on something in TAoA:M, that's a fair thing to ask about here.
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Yes, it is challenging to work in 3 dimensions on a 2D screen. Have you done the modeling tutorials in "The Art of Animation:Master"? Those are an essential starting point.
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The directions for TSM2 are in the TSM2 folder that gets installed in your Hash>AM>hxt folder.
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He seems to generally move with his bones but something is wrong with the knees. If I lower his hips or tilt the forward his kness bend backwards. There is some problem there. I also notice the "back" and "pelvis" bones have been moved away from the Hip Null. I believe they should all originate in the same spot. The "leg hinges" no longer reach all the way to their respective foot targets. Those are a couple things i nitice right away when I compare this to the "2001 Skeleton.mdl" on the CD. I dont' know a lot about the 2001 rig. Any reason not to use TSM2? I really think it's easier.
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It's in the Options Panel. If you hold down Shift when you press the lathe button it will bring up that Options page for you.
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You do need to have the muscle filter on when you hit the delete keyframe button for muscle keyframes to be removed. If you're in a percentage pose window you can use the next and last keyframe buttons to skip from on key to the next to find the one you want. And you need to have the correct filter on for that to work.