robcat2075

If you can email me the hand, I'll take a look at it. I don't know enough about what has gone wrong to know what to tell you yet. theguy (at) brilliantisland.com

nice work! Reminds me of El Porco Rosso

Without actually seeing it my first guess is that the roll handle of one of the bones was not oriented correctly before Rigger was run.

I may not understand what you are trying to do , but you can drag the red bar of an action (when it's in the chor) to any time in the timeline.

That looks great. Except for maybe the thumb. I think making it on the same plane as the fingers is an unnatural default position and harder to CP-weight so it moves well. I've found this easier to rig: http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?s=&am...st&p=292232

If they appear to work, they'll work. If they have a fault it was probably something that was there already. The warning is just a CYA thing to perfectionists. Perhaps the only reason Hash doesn't do it themselves is lack of people power to manage it, and not wanting to be responsible for maintaining 1000 models against every possible thing that might crop up when the software is revised. Most free models will need some revision to be ready for a new purpose. Many have rigs that were "ok" in their day but we would consider lacking now. Same model, still works the way it always did, but now we expect more from them.

That would be the "Extras CD" c. 2006 or so. I believe the contents are downloadable but I know not the link.

I'm rendering... "Time Remaning: 2:29"

Must be some previous dispute between those two.

Cute character! We'll look forward to seeing his adventures.

It's not quite your birthday here yet, but I'll jump the gun and wish you a happy one in advance!

It's not that the strategy is bad. It helps keep the character alive. But hard to keep the weight on. It's hard to have believable weight to begin with... and then to believably shift it... ouch. It seems to take longer to polish small things than big things.

I think that's a very promising clip. It doesn't have that floating from pose to pose look that most of these things do. It's clear you're aware of the challenge of showing weight and mass. My favorite moment is when he launches himself up the ladder. Little things like the way his left heel sinks a bit when he puts his weight on that foot are nice touches. Less certain are the moves he has to do when he is shifting from one foot to another or repositioning a foot. (some of those may be unintentional foot slips. I'm not sure.) Those are hard to do and hard to diagnose. The way he supports himself sometimes with his right arm helps to cover these up a bit. I think the big pulling up gesture he does around 180+ would have served better to accent "see 'em back". Too late to change that now; that would be a major rework. Does the right hand really need to be drifting from about 150-175? I'm not real big on mouth shapes, but when you're doing a "w" word like "When you let..." you can probably make it stronger by doing an "oo" shape to precede the "wh", which is what we tend to do anyway. It gives you more of a place to go from than the resting mouth shape and should make the "wh" have a bit more hit to it. some other notes: strohbehmMP4.mov (sorry, misspelled your name)

I would say the anti-aliasing of the decal in the three images you posted is functionally identical. There may be a pixel or two of difference, but it is definitely getting well-anti-aliased in the regular render. If the AA of the mesh was acceptable (and this level would be in most circumstances) I'd definitely choose the regular render over the 16 pass render(4x4) render because it is so much faster. Is that something supposed to be fixed in V15f? Did it get AMReported?

Here's one idea for dealing with no-forehead characters... the eyelids seem to be rigged to just open and close. If you rig them so you can shape the line of the lids you can start to suggest things like \ / and / \ and _ / and \ _ Any character will benefit from shapeable eyelids, but this one especially so. It may be too late to re-rig him for this spot, but for the future...

Those decals look completely anti-aliased, no?

Well, no wonder you're getting bad results! I thought i had posted the actual targa but I guess not. try this... AntiAliasingTestAlpha02.zip

Something must be wrong because you are not getting the good anti-aliasing of decals that I'm getting in V13. In V13 the anti-aliasing of the decal is as good as a 256 pass render. Do you still have 13 installed? to try?

I don't think that's true - if you look at first image I posted - the decal doesn't get AA'ed at all in the regular render, compared to the 256 pass render (and like I said before - I purposely made the decal ugly - used it straight from Robert's original jpeg post and skewed it) http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?act=a...st&id=44048 I downloaded yours so I could duplicate the exact angle. Here's what i get in a regular "final" render, multipass OFF. Blow it up and look at it. The decal is as anti-aliased as anti-aliased can be. It's even better anti-aliased than the the actual edge of the patch you can see beyond it. here's a (hopefully) uncompressed png

teaser podTH264.mov

Anyone remember the days before 5-pointers? There was something called the "hanging spline" that you tried to make work.

In V13 I can move multiple keys (including pose keys) as long as I don't select any Pose ON/OFF keys at 00:00 a Pose ON/OFF key at 00:00 seems to act like an anchor preventing the others from moving. Aside... be careful when shift-selecting keys. Shift-selecting additional keys can sometime cause previously selected keys to get unselected. Make sure everything you want to move is green before you start sliding things around.

In your case, you do this in your chor. You can connect anything as long as you're not creating a "circular constraint" in which one bone is trying to be constrained to a second bone which is already trying to be constrained to the first bone. I'd say you constrain the model bone of the man to the model bone of the chor. Or, suppose your car has some sort of suspension rigged where the body of the car can jiggle a bit from where the model bone is. then you'd constrain the model bone of the man to whatever bone is the main chassis of the car. What if your car had rigged power seats that could move in relation to the chassis? Then you'd constrain the man to the bone for his seat. "offsets" allow a bone to be constrained to anther bone without being snapped to the exact same position. The "use offset" button should be on by default when you make a constraint in V15. Before you had to turn it on manually.

Looks like a good proof of concept! constraints. You can constrain any object (or bone) in the chor to any other object (or bone ) in the chor. You'll need a Translate To and an Orient Like constraint. With offsets, of course.