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robcat2075

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  1. That's valid reasoning. It just seemed to be dropping to the ground awfully short. Maybe the arc is mishapen in some way that the descent is too precipitous. Or maybe it's just fine.. That item wasn't fatal. The thing that really got my attention at first was the flat glide into the first bounce.
  2. here's some notes on #4. Haven't gotten to #5 yet. danfBB4.mov
  3. You know there's a Project Workspace window, right? You know there's an "Actions" folder in it , right? And I hope to God you can right-click on it to load a file. If not, it's going to be a long day.
  4. If your object doesn't move, the easiest way is to fake it by painting the floor to glow in any shape and color you want. I did that for this video. idl_150kbps.wmv At about 0:20 there's a "spaceship" with a ring of rectangular glowing lights on the floor. I just painted a blurry ambience map around the rectangles to make those parts appear to glow brightly. It was an animated map to make the flash on and off. Alternatively you could attach a kleig light with a mask to shine down from your object onto the floor. the mask will make the light any shape you want.
  5. the mov is only 91 bytes and won't play. Try uploading again. however, are you using a different version of A:M than before?
  6. Welcome to A:M! you can drag it from the Objects folder in the Project Workspace window into your chor window (or onto your chor in the Project Workspace, either way.) Have you done the exercises in The Art of Animation:Master? Those will answer a lot of questions like that.
  7. Just to try... put it in a text editor and do a search for "error". let us know if it's there. But how is you've been saving new versions of your work over the last version? That's a bad habit. Save versions. It makes it easier to recover a damaged file because you can compare it to the last one to see what changed. And fix it.
  8. if you "spherical" apply the map at http://flickr.com/photos/87849770@N00/2572996930 you can get the new 2008 ball but I haven't found an equivalent classic soccer ball map. There ought to be one out there. EDIT: here is the actual Creative Commons License image in case the above link goes dead:
  9. good-lookin model! I'll be interested to see how the hair performs.
  10. You can right-click in the Chor window>Plugins>Simcloth Simulate
  11. No, but you can (T)urn the model to other angles. use CTRL for for rotation around the screen z axis. then apply the decal. You can also create a pose for the model, turn the model and apply the decal in the pose.
  12. How to preserve Photoshop transparency when making decals... http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?s=&am...st&p=241122
  13. One quick point I'd make is ... maintain overall volume. When a ball stretches it gets a little narrower. When it squashes it gets a bit fatter. Yes, the falling motion looks out of whack, like it's not accelerating. Tracking dots would be needed to really evaluate it and pinpoint it. A good start, but that one will need specific diagnosis, that i won't get to immediately. For now, go out and play in the sun again.
  14. Something has gone wrong here. Remember you can make special case keyframes anywhere you want and adjust the curves leading into and out of them anyway you want, so there is no need to lose the natural acceleration of the ball's falling motion.
  15. try making the ball jump itself into the air from a standstill (and fall back down to land). Unlike a frog or rabbit the ball has no legs to push itself off with, so squash and stretch is involved. extra points if you can make it leap with sideways motion, as a frog or rabbit would do.
  16. I sense a mistake right there. You rotate arm bones, you dont' grab them and move them to new locations. Always use the rotate manipulators for bones, don't drag the tip around. Jeff Lew uses an old technique for adding constraints to a character. Remember to import the action that came with the character and drop that on the character in the chor. When I do that, that character works fine.
  17. It's alive! much easier than calculating X and Y. There is a bit of tradition and formula about the frames around the bounce, but that's a lesson for another day. If you have "The Animator's Survival Kit" it's on pg 93-94 But I'll tell you, for the very first bouncing ball assignment at AnimationMentor they wanted people to explicitly key the ball on every frame, much like you had done as they hadn't intruduced the curve editor yet. MOst of them looked absolutely awful since most of them didn't know what you knew about the math of the motion. (Me, I figured the mentor was never going to see my channels anyway so I just edited my curves and my bouncing ball bounced just fine.)
  18. That's impressive. What do we have to do to keep the ball from penetrating the track edges sometimes?
  19. You do have the "Show Bias Handles" button on? It doesn't have a default keyboard shortcut but you can assign one in Tools>Customize>Keyboard On rare occasions I have encountered invisble bias handles. I think it was a graphics card problem. But I could hover my cursor over where the bias handle was supposed to be and move it. I dont 'reccommend it.
  20. Wait, Hold it! Here's a better intro to channel editing... channelbiasmp4.mov
  21. This isn't exactly an introduction to the curve editor (which is accessed by pressing the button with the RGB lines on it) but it shows manipulating the shape of the curves with the bias handles. CPs can be peaked or smooth, just like in models. http://www.hash.com/two/RCHolmen/biasmagnitudeMP4Low.mov Someday I'll do a bouncing ball tut that covers all this but I haven't done that yet.
  22. The "takeoff" looks odd, partly because the spacing is inconsistent and partly because there's no anticipation prior to leaving the ground. Anticipation is a later lesson , however. A more typical gambit is to have the ball enter from the side, near the apex of a hop, or just start from high and fall into the first bounce. the first two hops look good, none-the-less. Are you actually keyframing on every frame? That's a worthwhile exercise and not far removed from what 2D animators have to do anyway but the magic of CG is that by editing the "curves" you can get A:M to properly place those inbetweens and to whatever precision required. But maybe you haven't been introduced to the curve editor yet. Working on a bigger scale would make sense because the long graceful hops you are doing wouldn't be possible for a ball that is only getting 2cm of altitude. And fewer decimal places are needed. But I'm a little doubtful that a distance of less than .01 cm is the problem, I suspect some other error. No, if this helps you make sense of why the motion is the way it is, then it's good. Eventually you get so you can eyeball this stuff.
  23. Hold on. I'll try to make a demo later to day using your character. I'm not saying it's easy, but it doesn't get any easier than TSM.
  24. besides the special cases of a cone or a cylinder it's probably topologically impossible. yes. I'm pretty sure that's standard practice. However.... There is an "A:M Paint" program you can find discussed somewhere on this forum that allows you to paint on the whole model in 3D. Sounds like a bargain at $99
  25. I see quite few things not done right. For example "torso" has been changed to be a child of "pelvis". It needs to be a child of "body". That's how TSM built it. I also see that the Foot IK Control bones have been moved to be children of the lower legs. They need to remain at the very top level of the heirarchy. Also CPs have been attached to the control bones that Rigger makes. No. You attach CPs to the bones that you have after you run Builder and Flipper. Thy will get hidden after you run Rigger, but they are the bones that the CPS go to. Similarly I see that the fan bones aren't part of the geometry bone heirarchy. You've been attaching them to the control bones that Rigger makes. That wont' work for long. I'm sure there are other things I haven't caught. I'd have to really dig into it to figure out why the legs fly around, but I know that doesn't happen in a regular TSM rig. In the TSM2 folder inthe Hxt folder in your AM folder there is a manual that explains the workflow for installing TSM2. I recommend starting over and installing TSM the way the manual shows. Dont' guess. Don't try to skip steps. Not following the steps in the manual is making it WAY harder than it needs to be.
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