Hubukai
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Definatly Fun. I will have the VIDEO from the MAAM Meeting up for the MAAM Members. (Not available to the public forum just yet... the video mat need a little "Editing". Maybe ill put up the best parts from the meeting... I think John R. recorded the entire thing... thats liek 3-4 hours. and i am sure no one will want to watch the entire thing.
PS, i downloaded 13 alpha and i am now playing with the Ambiance Occlusion render to see what i can come up with. Thanks Zach. I know this is going to be cool!
I had a serious blast.
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Hi Guys,
The MAAM Meeting was awesome! Thank you Don for hosting another meeting. Your place in Philly was great. Conference table, projector and everything.
It was great for Vern and Zach to show there latest works! PS, I hope everyone has subscribed to Zach's pod cast already! You should, it’s awesome!
I thought it was interesting that there were some similarities between the space ships that rich and i designed! Looks like there might be a little future collaboration on a possible "Sci-Fi" Project in the future... Hmmmm... Rich, Maybe we can begin collaboration.
Thanks everyone for a great meeting.
We might try to plan another before wizard world.
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THANKYOU!!!
Now i get it... yes, i am using photoshop... i just have to grab my JPG files and add the aplha channel to it and save as a TGA with alpha...
Duh... Many thinks...
No prob.
What you really want to end up with is a flat green TGA with an (invisible) alpha channel that defines the letters. Your software needs to be able to output 32-bit (not 24-bit) TGAs.
Are you using Photoshop?
When you're done, you should end up with a file like this one:
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If anyone can help tonight, I would appreciate it!... I am not to familiar with decaling and alpha channels or decal transparency. Basically i am trying to decal portions of a ship i am working on. the decals i have are colored with black around the edges. I would like to apply the decal to the model and then change the image so the black portion becomes transparent leaving the color portion of the decal. I am attaching the cample images i have along with a screen cap of the decal i am trying to apply. I need help to get this worked on tonight fo the AM meeting in philly tomorrow.
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here is one of the decals i am trying to apply.
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If someone could assist with a description on how to do this i would greatly appreciate it.
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Yep!, ONe more day = a 12 houre animation master sprint to finish all your projects. Ill be working on my project all night tonight... Looks like its time to get that network rendering working ASAP!!!
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Well from what I am told, My wife makes the best cookies in the world. I will see if i can bribe her in to making some.
** (Confirmed, she will make cookies!, Home Made Yummy Cookies!!!!) **
In other AM news, this meeting has been good for me... It kicked me back in to gear and AM-ING! Thanks Don. I gave myself a homework assignment to have something to show for the meeting and i will.
John H.
No cookies!?!?
No cookies!?!?
Does someone else know how to make cookies? I need the cookies. I want... the cookies.
Oh... yes... sorry you can't make it...
... but could you send the cookies anyway? Or could you send Rich the recipe? He was looking for more ways to contribute.
<sigh>
Vernon "Cookies!" Zehr
Scott... I'm willing to "try"... I'm not a great cook or anything, Vern. I've been known to use food as a weapon, though. Hopefully I have all the ingredients. I warn you... I use lots of butter- in everything I cook!
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Hi Rich,
In an effort to get my project going... i asked my buddy John to play with the Earth Federation of Planets logo in adobe illustrator to see what he could come up with. It is all vector based and can be brought in to Master. thats why i like illustrator so much. Hope you dont mind. He took your logo and went a little creative with it.
What do you think?
if you like it, i can send the illustrator and AM versions.
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John H
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Hi Bob,
We will be meeting in philadelphia. Don Davis will post direction information closer to the date.
For the MAAM, where do you meet?
Thanks
Bob
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:-) Thanks Don!
And by the way,
Happy Birthday to you John!
You belong in a MAAM meeting
You look like an animator
You smell like one too!!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!
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Hi Rich,
To change the subject.....
In an effort to get something together for the AM meeting.. i was taking a look at Gen Man and thought he needed a space ship for the Earth Federation of Planets.
do you happen to have a logo for ... Earth Federation of Planets?
I want to imprint the logo on the Ship I am working on.
If you dont have a logo for it, can I use my creative brain to come up with something?
if you do... canyou email it to me?
and just a question... is it suppose to be...
Earth Federation of Planets
or
Federation of Planets?
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I have decided to work on a new plug-in for AM per Rich's Quote #4.
4. Tell me I look like I have lost weight even if you don't think so.Only if you tell me I looked like I gained weight.
It will use Vern’s Bio kit to extract extra fat cells from more stocky AM users such as myself and beam them to Rich! Then, Riches insane metabolism will take over, destroying all AM users extra fat cells within a 15' radius. Ill have to come in with a USB or Fire wire Cable to plug in to the computer and also to Rich. once this is done, I figure we will all come out of the meeting 10 to 25 lbs lighter, just being near Rich for a couple of hours.
Maybe Vern’s next AM Bio project can include a Bluetooth Bio Implant for all of us.
I dub the... "The AM to Entity MAAM weight loss plan".
Of coarse we will have to compensate rich for utilizing his super metabolism.
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It makes me feel good to know Vern stays inside in front of a computer more than me! I thought I was the only one that had dead beat clients. Maybe Rich can build "Web Man!!!" The Web guy super hero that fights for Web developers everywhere!
He can code 7,000 lines of AJAX and SOAP in a single second to program away evil clients in a single bound!
Thwart evil web site hackers!
So, at the risk of sounding like an airhead... is there anything I can do Don/everyone? (Besides show up?)
Top Ten things for Rich to do at the MAAMUG meeting
1. You can keep me company during smoke breaks!
2. When I show off my stuff... I want you to "oooh" and "ahhh" a lot.
3. Create a polygon import/export plugin that is "perfect" and demo it at the meeting.
4. Tell me I look like I have lost weight even if you don't think so.
5. Come up with the perfect UV/decaling technique that will revolutionize AM use.
Keep it a secret so only WE will have this knowledge.
6. Tell me what a waste of talent it would be if I got a part time job at McDonald's.
7. Visit my dead beat clients and tell them you know Kung Fu and will kill them with
only your thumbs if they don't pay me.
8. Assure me that all this strange weather is not a sign of the end times.
9. Bring in and show us the painting from your attic of you as an old man.
10. Bring the Yeti AM disk and the Orangutan Disk and do a finger puppet show.
Vernon "!" Zehr
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Rich,
You can bestow your vast knowledge of Animation Master upon us!
So, at the risk of sounding like an airhead... is there anything I can do Don/everyone? (Besides show up?)
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Don,
Awesome, February 18th it is. if you need me for anything prior to that, please let me know. I am always online if you need me. I will plann on bringing the computer systems and I will try to get there a little earlier to setup. I should also have the latest version of animation master as well!
OK,
Looks like February 18th, 2006 will be our next MAAM meeting date. Lets say about 12 noon as a starting time.
I'll post directions and such in the next week or two.
If anyone has any questions just contact me.
Oh... and check back here every once and a while to see if anything changes.
Thanks
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Most Spectacular! And Thank you Don for again bringing us together!
My schedule is pretty much open so any time will work for me.
And this time I will be ready with something new to show!
OOps, I almost forgot to mention. I will bring my CRAY computer ( AMD 4000 w/ 2 gig ram) and convince my wife to let me bring her new 12" Powerbook! (Now i have 2 MACs in the house.) I will also bring my iSight cam for documentation purposes. So with all that, the computers should be covered!
Hubukai
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Haven’t talked to you in a long time. I just wanted to say Hi and happy new year.
I saw this thread and would like to contribute but don’t want to duplicate any work. If any mechanical, tool props are still needed could you or someone else ASSIGN me some work so I can assist?
Or do you prefer I just go here.. http://lowrestv.com/workshop_ref/ and begin creating some tools.
One strength I have is : AutoCAD mechanical design -> illustrator -> Animation master, for creating things like gears and that type of thing.
If I can assist, please let me know.
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Brilliant! I am up for Saturday the 14th. Not that is a big deal but StarWars Episode III comes out on the 19th and I am going to a StarWars party the 21st. I know we dont want to put it off to long... My votes for dates, May 7th, or May 14th, May 28th. I know I am a pain in the butt. :-)
I cant wait though. There is so much to go over! the new version, Cloth... Woo Hoo.
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Oh man that was funny! Yes Motion Blur would be nice. What a great character!
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Hi Guys,
Thanks to Don for waking me up out of my Holiday sleep. It seems very necessary for Users to have a user group page and sub pages that they can modify. I would imagine that putting a link or links on the second CD that point to the user groups main page would be the way to go.
Speaking with Don before about this, and with the ok from Hash, I registered AMUG.us , unfortunately the .com was taken. I am a web developer of 10 years and defiantly saw the need for such a site, not only for MAAM, our user group, but also for the rest of the users.
It would also probably be logical to have www.AnimationMasterUserGroups.com or something like that, (although it is a little long) that also links to the same spot. Currently I am hosting this site on my server and don’t think Bandwidth will be a problem.
Now. For the site it self. It obviously needs to be a multi-level site.
The main site for information.
Sub Sites for each user group.
The sub sites should have one or two administrators to take care of there own user group sub site.
This site would be complicated to build. There ARE pre built solutions for such a situation such as Microsoft Sharepoint Portal Services. A Microsoft solution would be out of the question because it would be tough to get any $ for putting a site together. I am working on secondary “Free” Solutions for the manager system of this site.
For all of my web sites tha I build I use www.xigla.com components for the back ends and managers. These components are top notch and would be very useful. Please look at them when you get a chance.
Since this would be a “Big” Job, I am wondering if there could be any assistance from AM users.
Well, With the AMUG.us Domain setup, I will begin to assemble a template page. I do not want to ask for help from the community Just Yet because there would just be a flood in questions and thoughts.
So, I am sorry I have Been Missing in the Void.
I am back and ready to be creative in 2005.
John Hubickey
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Man, that is an awesome price for those machines. If online deals are found like that, there should be a place to post that info.
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Defiantly go AMD on this. I have a good amount of experience with net render (currently running a 20 PC render farm and my experience is AMD's out performs P4 when it comes to rendering. If you are going to by some low end PC's with Athlon processors, I recommend you try using windows XP home remote desktop as opposed to a KVM Switch. What I do is I remote into the PC's without monitors with a 640 x 480 window, launch net render, then minimize the windows and continue working.
If you plan on building render farm machines, I can recommend some Good, but cheap parts.
Net render is the only way to fly. as an example, on my 20 pc farm, a 300 frame render at HDTV 1200x700 resolution per frame only took 45 minuets.
Once you net render, you’re hooked.
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This guy Rocks. Simple but already full of potential. I cant wait to see him animated.
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I LIVE!!!,
Wait wasent that the title to a movie? Anyway, I want us all to pick the EASYIST location for other people to be able to come. West Chester, (my house) is on the available block, but you CANT beat the After meeting Philly Cheese steak and picture of beer or two or three in philly.
So I vote where ever is best to get the most new users to the meeting. I know thats not a decision but maybe philly would be good this time, then house of hubukai in early 2005.
Yea, we are all busy in december but hell, an AM meeting is just the thing we need to keep our sanity. (beer works too.) maybe a poll? I am 50% / 50% Philly / West chester... Sup to you guys... Maybe Phollythis time, then WC next time.. i need time to build my HDTV-PC!!!
Oh, and i started working on AM again, good for ME, ill have sometihng new to show.
Thoughts?
John H
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I did a little research into Intel Vrs AMD. Personally i like AMD, but hey. Take a look at...
http://www.hubukai.com/animationmaster.asp
I get requests ALL The Time from people on building computers.
First Question, What is your Budget?
That is where you have to start.
Second: Monitor, LCD or CRT? which do you want? I HIGHLY reccomend LCD.
I have personally built over a hundred systems, both Intel and AMD and if you want a little more assistance, i would be happy to help.
MAAM User Group...
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WoW, I just realized that Zack has immortalized Don Davis and Rich Jackson in his latest Olympic vodcast! Good for you! Man it was funny! I’ve watched it a couple time already! Something for me to look forward to each week!