wedgeeguy

Hello everyone ... Thought I would share something from my Facebook with you guys (Robert suggested that I should also post it here). Just a little backstory, the guy in his underwear was originally created for my website about 20 years ago and he has been with me ever since. He doesn't have a name other than I know him as "Wedgeeguy" (if he turned around then you would know why I call him that). Anywho, just thought I would share my latest creation with all of you. Hope that you enjoy and I hope that 2021 behaves itself. Happy New Year!

Congratulations to everyone who entered the contest! As Oprah would say as she pointed to each one of us ... "You win a car!" ... "And you win a car!" .. "And you win a car!" Thank you Robert for all the hard work in creating the video as well. Nicely done! Although, I have my suspicions that you may not have been wearing pants during the whole thing ... Thanks everyone!

Thank you Robert for all your help. I have no idea how you figured all this out but you are officially "Da Man!" ... Glad to read that things have been sorted out and that there is a solution ...

Temporarily disabling anti-virus and firewall before running still doesn't help. Hostler, I hope that something turns up for you and that you are able to get things to work. I am out of ideas ... Sorry

Fuchur ... Tried your suggestion but I'm afraid it's still a problem. Thanks though! Robert ... Ouch! ...

Hmmm? A little bit further investigation may be the verification that the CD is in the drive (at least in my case) may not be working. Normally, if A:M is already installed and you insert the disk, a blue window pops up with the message "Installing Wise Installation Wizard" and then quickly goes away. Then you can click on the A:M icon to load the program but for me it seems to be ignoring the disk in the CD. Again it works if I boot into XP but not when booting into 7 ... same computer - same CD drive? I will keep checking things and report back to here if I stumble upon anything ...

Yep, I have the same problem with ver. 13 on Windows 7 Professional. Mine just states that I need to run it as Administrator (which I am). None of the tricks listed so far seemed to correct it. It was installed and working perfectly fine before. Not sure when the update occurred that messed everything up. Might have been when they started sneaking in the nag stuff about upgrading to Windows 10. Luckily I have a dual boot with Windows XP and can fall back to that. Way to go Microsoft! Sorry that I don't bring any other good news to the table ...

That's pretty cool!

Hi Rodney ... If I remember correctly you need to export a model first as a Direct X file. Then when you export the action file, it is asking which X model file you wish to "open" to add the exported action file to. Hope this helps ... Bruce

Very nice job Robert! ... When I watched it a second time it made me stand on my chair because it looked so realistic ...

Have you guys heard of Three.js and Babylon.js? Both are able to display 3d inside a browser window without a plug-in being installed. You will need a browser that supports HTML5 and a graphic card that supports a newer version of OpenGL though. Not sure if they are compatible with phones and handheld devices. But worth a look ... http://www.threejs.org http://www.babylonjs.com

Hi Nemyax ... Animation Master's(A:M) files (model, action, choreography) are readable text files. Meaning you can load them into a text editor and be able to see how it deals with each. It would just be a matter of parsing this text file to create your own format. Depending on your game engine choice though, you would need to to be able to convert things into a format that the game engine recognizes. Personally, I export my game data to an .X file and then can convert that .X format into whatever I need using another piece of software. Mainly I work in Ogre so I need to convert from A:M files to .X to .XML to .MESH. I'm not sure if the plug-in to convert A:M's files to .X is already included with the recent version of A:M or if you have to manually install this plug-in yourself. If you have any more questions then please feel free to ask ... Bruce

The bad news may be that you're 54 but the good news is that you only have to be that one time ... Again Happy Birthday!

Nancy that is just downright "perty" ... Very cool! Makes me want to put on my feather suit and dance around! ...

Did ya have a boy or a girl? ... Twins? ... Triplets!!! ... p.s. Sorry to hear about your recent illness but glad to hear that you are back home recovering.

Hahaha! That was pretty good! Well done! Perhaps a sequel might be in order ... "Kicking Puppies"?

Thanks everyone for the birthday greetings! @Nancy - Hatching from eggs was just a theory when I was born. Heck, we had just started climbing out of the ooze ...

Thank you Rodney!

Thank you Pixel and Steve for the comments! Sorry about not commenting sooner but somehow I missed these ... Pay more attention! ...

Thanks Rodney for taking a look! Don't sell yourself short when it comes to the knowledge of billiards. You already know part of the official terminology by calling them "round thingies" ...

Hello ... Thought I would dust the cobwebs off this section of the forum and announce a new game. All of the game models were created in Animation Master and programmed using Pure Basic. It's a 3d style billiard game that is "5-games-in-one". Included are "Speed Demon" ... "Pock-it Golf" ... "Stripes & Solids" ... "Stonehenge" and "Pock-it Protector". You can view a video of the game in action from my website. I am offering a free demo version of the game that you can download a try out. The game is for Windows XP, Vista, 7 or 8. You will need DirectX 9.0c installed on your system in order for the game to run (even if you have DirectX 10 or 11) unfortunately ... Of course you can find out more information from my website here: http://www.pencilwedgees.com (Flash required) Select the "games" link to learn more about it. Any feedback on the game will be appreciated. I have tested in on XP, Vista, and 7 Professional ... but it should also work on 8. Thanks for taking a look ... Bruce

I thought I would surprise you and wish you a Happy Birthday a day later than your actual birthday (that's my story and I'm sticking to it) ... So, Happy Birthday! ...

Wow! Thank you guys for the birthday greetings!

Hi Robert ... I use a program called PureBasic to create the game. You can specify OGRE(OpenGL) as the rendering engine but it still has some dependencies on DirectX as well. They have been improving the 3d gaming side of things so perhaps it's just a matter of time before it catches up. It really is a great language to use and you can create programs that run on Windows,OS, and Linux all in one package. I guess things still get a bit messy when trying to get 3d to work on all of those platforms as well.

I really appreciate everyone who has taken a look so far .... @Robert ... Yeah I was afraid that there were some people who were going to have to jump through a few more loops to get it to run on their systems. With DirectX 10 and 11 no longer being backwards compatible, Microsoft created a few problems for the rest of us. I'm still looking for a nice solution that doesn't impose that restriction ... Thanks Robert! @Matt ... Thanks Matt! Sorry but it is just for Windows XP, Vista, or 7 (with some restrictions regarding DirectX 9.0). As I mentioned above, I'm still looking for a programming language that provides good 3d support but allows it to be installed on multiple devices. Perhaps Unity or Shiva3D might be possible solutions ... but to answer your question ... No, not yet. @Rodney ... Thanks for taking a look! I guess your family isn't connoisseurs of banjo music? (then again, who is?) ...