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.

Seeing the results give me things to remind, like timing, exaggeration and second action. Some actions take too long, others are too short. Maybe it is a question of feeling. Thing is that construkting and observing are two different states of mind.

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 was a bit confused, as the model ant has a stride function. But then it seems rare as when I first import them to the chor window the repeat option was there. Then I thought it had to do with too much actors. So I added the same walk action to one of the other ants, and the repeat option just showed up. Back to the other one it was not there, but in the chor window there appeared only one pose cycle before freezing. Saving the work and closing, and reopening it brought the window back with the repeat option. Maybe it is a screen refreshment problem, maybe not. If I think of another unfinished project ready, this would be it.

It seemed I forgot to turn off another smoke emitter, before I start rendering on a part of the choreography. Me donkey. Things change a lot after saving the choreography. Now I have this strange error, while finishing the last part. After deleting a model, because it had changed all pose actions from the beginning ( site effect of making a small pose change in a pose action of a choreagraphy) I needed the same actor again. In this case, I neede the ant fall down in a stand pose, and end with a walk pose. Normally this is done by dragging the action to the choreography folder. After having added all actions, suddenly the last added action won't give me a repeat function (?!). I don't know what I'm doing wrong. It is the excact way of the two actions I added before, but for some reason the window is changed. There is no repeat function, only a cycling length and hold last frame. What happened? Nevermind. Bad screen refreshment. It works OK.

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.

I'm taking the chorechraphy after eachother. Now as the rendertime for one frame has come to 4 minutes, I decided to render them to tga. This way I can stop the rendering, while avi gives a better result. It only takes longer, 6 a 7 houres for 20 sec. While doing so I came to a strange rarebit. After finishing the last choreography of 32 seconds, I had to go back 10 seconds to change to evoluation to the end. So I started renderering at 22 seconds, and then tga frames get this rare glow from down under the feet of Pink Panther. No idea where it is coming from. Here is a march22 from the last rendered avi compared to the march603.tga sequel starting on 22sec01 again,

After finding the Flintstones on the ExtraCD I had no Dino. So I modelled myself one that fits the regular. Had no idea what to do with, than it came so easy. https://youtu.be/tTavP6Vkdzk

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?

Het was even zoeken, maar de olginstelling van 1 camera is voldoende om de choreography te volgen. Wel heb ik veel moeite met het toevoegen van actions, als er al een aantal staan. Bij het laatste gedeelte, als die bolhead begint te springen, had ik een action. Maar zodra ik deze toe wil voegen bevriest de beweging in de choreography. Ik heb dus de laatste action maar in de choreography gedaan. Wat best onhandig is, omdat dan de vorige wel toegevoegde actions gaan zwiebelen. Startframe met een stijve arm. Het lijkt erop dat het me veel moeite kost om de choreochraphy te saven. Vaak crasht het programma als er meer dan vijf acteurs in voorkomen. Of er staat plotseling een dubbele set met belichting met camera toegevoegd. Vreemd genoeg wilt zo'n dubbel bestand wel saven. https://youtu.be/cEGAQyqQnlM Mod edit: Google translation...

Thanks for the video app. I have another question. How do I make a change in camera in a choreochraphy? I first tried to make the camera go fast to the next frame in another position, but it makes a lot of turn swaps. It must be possible to change from one to another camera in the same choreochraphy. I made this one, but it is cut and pasted in Corel Video Studio.

I know here is a statement to make all models walk out of synchronic order. But I think I am onmitting with a command in the flock,bird, swarm option.

Add some ringging and looking for a good act.

I found a print of the pink panther sizes and decided to make the challenge of animating them. Not a big thing, probably a lot of small errors like five fingers or twisted patches. Just for fun! The models come from AMv16. pinkpanther_models.zip