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I look forward to your animation that details how that all works. New York and several other cities used to have a pneumatic tube mail system. Big enough to carry a cat apparently! Of course the need to mail a cat was very small, even in 1897, so I'm not surprised the system eventually went out of business.

Thank you, for posting this very detailed behind-the-scenes peek, Charles! All most of us know about animatronics is that last chapter in "The Illusion of Life". It is very cool to see what's been happening in modern times and that A:M has been part of it!

That's how my cat wakes me up in the morning.

It is indeed hard to see the bevel in that small screen capture. I'll take your word for it that it is there. The easiest way to have bevels in Spline models is to put rounded corners in an outline, like I did in the example on the right, and then extrude that outline. If you go to my tutorial page and search on "bevel," I have a few entries about bevels.

I like modeling characters in A:M because I like the all spline environment. It is best to start with simple ideas for first characters. I made my first character in A:M back in the 90s and I've enjoyed re-using him in new scenes. You can see another character on my profile page. Here are more. Other people around here are quite prolific character modelers and i enjoy helping them with rigging questions.

That is a fine-looking first model! Idea... you can make more appealing edges by modeling them with a "bevel" instead of a sharp corner.

Here is who i was thinking... the Tea Lady! She was on a V8 CD. Tea Lady.zip Change her dress to red and white... put a Santa hat on her... Mrs. Claus! She'll need some re-rigging to be highly useful.

She used to be one of the free models that came on the A:M CD. Does @Rodney know?

I dimly recall that there was a schoolmarm type character on one of the CD archives that might be repurposed. She was a character from Hash's "Why Does The Wind Blow?" CD?

The most troublesome objection to the "hyperloop" I've read is that it is an impossibly large vacuum space to maintain. Hundreds of times larger than any built so far. Fortunately, animation can sidestep that problem!

A few people have reported an error message when running v19.5c for the first time, saying that mcf100.dll was missing. Steffen recommends running the Service Pack at this link: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/windows/latest-supported-vc-redist?view=msvc-170#visual-studio-2010-vc-100-sp1-no-longer-supported It is in this portion of the page, although the above link should take one to this directly... This solved the problem of the missing dll. Steffen tells me that the A:M installer is built to install this dll so it is uncertain why it didn't work in this case.

I'm afraid GIF doesn't support sound. Video only. For sound, some other format like MP4 would be needed. A:M can render to AVI, which does include sound. However, AVI files are exceedingly large. One work-around is to render to Uncompressed AVI in A:M and then compress the resulting file in some other video editing app to a format like .MP4 (which is different from MPEG4, incidentally).

I remember them from your "Prehistoric" entry...

It is installed like a normal program and has its own uninstaller. You may already have it but it's not working.

If you are not already familiar with imaging and restoring your C drive, that would be a good thing to know how to do, regardless.

It's a Service Pack for Visual Studio, it add libraries that Visual studio uses and it happens to install that dll. I don't know what changes it makes, if any. I don't know how to revert something without reverting it. If it's a worry, make an image of your C drive in its current state. If you HAD to undo this SP, you can restore from the image and be back to exactly where you started. Have you tried re-running the v19.5 installer again as the error message suggested? You could also try re-running the v19.0 installer. You would need to get that from the hash ftp (not this forum) if you don't still have the v19.0 installer. However, I have more confidence in the Service Pack solution being a solution.

Welcome back, Kevin! If it weren't for the bugs we might never see some people here! This dll problem came up several days ago for another user. Try the solution in my last post in this thread... https://forums.hash.com/topic/53458-what-next-getting-am-installer/?do=findComment&comment=432521

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I shall be curious to see more of your story

Hi Darrin, When you are drafting a post there should be a space at the bottom where you can either click and hunt for the file you want or drag it in from another window...

"You kids get out of my yard!"

Guru explains serious new Windows vulnerability, an exploit that requires zero action by you to work! Short version of advice: Update your Windows and turn OFF "IPV6" (Which you probably don't need ON anyway)

After conferring, we found that @Tom 's A:M was behaving oddly. If he went to Render to File and left the "Format" as default AVI, then went to the Filename dialog... ... to set a file "Type" there, such as .tga... ... that would cause A:M to append a fictious .ic file type when saving a render (and fail because there is no .ic type) instead of the .tga he wanted. I'll note that in my A:M I get a different behavior. Trying to set a file type in the filename dialog has no effect at all! The Filetype will always be what was set in "Format" The work-around is to always use the drop-down list at "Format" to choose a file type, and to not select a filetype in the filename dialog In addition, the "Set" option lets you set any parameters that are peculiar to a format, such as compression, or bit depth. Screencam of problem: TomsFileTypeBug.mp4

hmmm... I'd be curious to see a screencam of this happening, beginning with setting the filename.

I was able to load your PRJ, which seems not to require any images. Does the error say which image IO was missing? like jpg? tga? etc...