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This came out of a discussion with Simon Edmondson and David Simmons at Live Answer time...

An image sprite with a little circular bubble would probably work well.

In the model window> RMB>Plugins>Export>STL

Here is what I think is a better solution, with a variation of an IK spine. Look in your messages for the PRJ clip4458SimonsButterFlip1K.mp4

Here is a test implementation of David Simmons' suggestion of a spine switch. It's fussier to create than using a premade rig but once it works it does make for a better controlled spine... tubeFlip000.mp4

I got the TSM2 spine that i was trying yesterday at LAT to behave. Basically this is animation of a pelvis bone and a torso bone to get the flips going, The interpolation of the IK spine isn't as smooth as I hoped so i will look into other solutions. ButterFlip_12.mp4

Close enough! 🙂

That was cute! The client should be pleased!

the link in my signature takes you to the instructions and the Hangout link

Noon CST. I think that is 1800 GMT

This would be dramatically simpler to diagnose if i could see it. Can you come to Live Answer Time tomorrow?

An old mouth pose test from 2009... SmileTest.mp4

I never get service like that at the emergency room or even the semi-ergency room. Once I dropped a power drill into my knee and the bleeding wouldn't stop so I thought, "maybe someone should look at this?" But when i describe my problem to the receptionist she just glares at me and scolds, "THIS... is an EMERGENCY room!" It's not like the place was busy, either. So I went home and stuck it back together with duct tape and left that on for about two weeks. Did you try duct tape for your UTI?

That looks great Paul!

try that StarsDemoDemo003.prj StarVase.mp4

You should have brought this to live answer time today. We were talking about streaks!

Particle streaks. those would be 3D and correctly move with the camera.

Unfortunately, they don't' sell it any more, but it is my preferred video compression tool. Because of that I'm not up on what the current alternatives are.

That looks good! How about stars whizzing by in the background? On mp4... Do you have Quicktime Pro?

Hi, Myron, good to see you back! The planar thing is a bug in 19g. two options for now... -Roll back to 19f. You can down load it from the FTP here... ftp://ftp.hash.com/pub/updates/windows/old/ -or... you can also have v18p installed. Get it here...ftp://ftp.hash.com/pub/updates/windows/v18/old/ After v18 is installed copy the master0.lic file from your v19 folder to your v18 folder to enable it with your current license.

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Well, Hash is still there and we're all here answering your questions ASAP! That's better than Softimage is doing these days. Keep up on your subscription!

NEG doesn't seem to be on the list. Most 3D printers can take STL or OBJ which A:M does export to. Forum member Pixelplucker has had success with OBJs that I send him for the image contest medals. Complex objects are tricky to prepare for 3D printing, however. The course is probably free, right? You could take it an find out more.

Here is a sample PRJ that demonstrates the squeezing on one axis while another axis rotates. RotationSqueezing02.prj clip4606RotationSqueezing.mp4

In A:M you can flatten it while it's rotating by making the bone the mesh is on a child of another bone and scaling the parent bone in one direction.