Madfox

I have made some more last years. So let's get on with the fantastic posibillities of Animation Master!

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Found it! "Once upon a candle" Yes, really marvelous! 😚

I'm searching for a toppic on this forum that had a wonderful animation of a "dying" candle on a secretary with a letter and feather. Searched all over the place but could not find it. Anyone knows what I mean or where it is?

I use AM16.0c so v.19 is not my area. I upgraded to v.17 but it tends to crash more often. Yes, I wasn't sure first time. The enforcement can be typed by number, but the start position of the percentage stays on 100%. It has to be forced to zero. Maybe reason why this nestled error stayed that long hidden. I had to repeat the handling twice before I understood the failure.

Well.., that took me more research than I'm used to, but as this silly, stuborn error didn't chase me after all my selfmade models I would have let it at rest. Just found the TMRigger wizard and that has a lot in commen. The thing I had to do was to open the relations directory as you said. In the forearm relations the Euler limits for the right forearm (the right one) is : minimum y -179. The left forearm Euler limits were : maximum y 179. After changing left forearm Euler limits maximum y 0, and use : minimum y 179 , the model responds as it should. Now both forearms change in all three directions. I think it is an "error" in the 2001skeleton.mdl I had from the start. I remember seeing correckted 2001 rig models, but I had only the one I had downloaded. The file should be uploaded correckted. As I'm saying.., I had to double check to see how I did it. --- In relationship => Rig relations => Setup Relations => IK Arms relations : Euler limits => Enforcement => 100% : Turn to 0% . It seems as turning the maximum y to 179 in the number screen is not enough. I had to manually drag down the poseslider from the start in the percentage window down. left forearm => Euler limits => LockOffsets : Turn Mininum Y => -179 to 0. Turn Maximum Y => 0 to -179. --- Last things always slip away. Am2001skeletonrig_coreckted.zip

It is the 2001skeleton.mdl itself, as I have downloaded.

Yes, I'm aiming at both forearm bones. Why does the left one on screen (right forearm) bend in three directions and the right one on screen (left forearm) only on z axe? I accidently wrote calf bone, but I meant forearm.

I wanted to return to the subject of the 2001skeleton.mdl and the "error" I thought to experience. It looks as if the right calf bone does turn in the x y and z axe. The left calf does only turn on y axis. Aside of the fact if an arm should turn only on y axe (mine does three, beside backwards) it seems strange that the right bone does and the left won't . I searched somewhat deeper in the relations and came to the point the statements of both calf bones are different. The right has an euler box with a + sign, and the enforcement is 100%. The left has an euler box without a + sign and an enforcement of 0%. I have no idea why these are different, changing them in the same parms won't help the blocking of the left arm.

I'm not sure, does the 3DCoat program also come in 32 bit version? I had a 32bit version download link, but it happened to be 64bit.

Hey fuchur.., very fine result! I just wondered. 2016 I bought version AM2016.0b How did you made a version AM2019 in 2016? You are sure of the most actual update. 🙃

While converting a lot of models from and to AnimationMaster for game purpose it came to me the import files have the need of a confirmed extention. So I think it is more rule to know how it is imported. I hope it is an obj. format. Without the mtl file it will ruin the UV map. There is some additional software that makes it possible to add these layers (*.mtl) to the obj. One of the most flexible and free programs is Noesis. It even import and export *.fbx files. https://richwhitehouse.com/index.php?content=inc_projects.php I use it often when my 3ds models won't export compatible with the game I need them for. That is when I export 3ds files there ate some programs that use them say : "no vertices in 3ds file. I think it has something to do with splines versus vertexes. Another good one is Mesh lab. It gives control on the way AM uses splines versus squad/vertices 3ds files. https://sourceforge.net/projects/meshlab/

Really surprised to find my thunderbird5 movie there, counted as "strange luck 2009"! 😊 I wonder who made it in three weeks for a film contest? It took me three months to develop and two days to render. ☹️ Is it that easy to use someone's work and use it as documentry for own purpose?

Ah , the last tb3start.zip should have the right info. Now I have the better attitude for the smoke sprites, I guess the case of long rendering is solved. After taking care for the right parms for the smoke_emitters most frames render within a minute, and that is well for a VGA format. Only thing I can't explain is why the front emitters of the rocket have that strange transparancy, while in the model editor it are three constant beams. Before I can explain the wrong file format I've come to another breakpoint. I'm working from an update of AMv16.0b to AMv17.0g . I use both versions , but now version16 won't render sprites anymore. So it might possible the versions give a wrong outcome in case of projectfiles. Version 17.0g renders the sprites well, but also has a tention of crashing more often. I'm working on an old computer, that could also be the case. 09start.avi