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Thanks for the help, I will open up the file and see what you are talking about. i appreciate that you just don't do the work, that would be kind of pointless like you explained.
I did notice in some areas, when I was deleting stuff that I did not want, that the lines were still there, I think I had to delete like 4 times to get it totally off. It just didn't hit me that it was layers upon layers of stuff.
I am pretty new with Adobe, and the AI wizard, but I think I will get a handle on it from what you explained. I ended up just creating the whole thing, well almost, I left out some stuff, in A:M, got my image completed and then sent it in.
Now I feel kind of bad, because I finnaly went back and looked at prior hero image contest entrys, and noticed that my theme had been used before.
Well, nothing left to do but wait to see if anyone likes my image in January.
I will get on the Adobe thing, and 'get er done'.
Thanks for the help again.
EDIT: Okay, I have to pull out the old lap top now, that is the only thing I run A:M on, it is better than my 4 year old desk top.
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I think u did a great job on this character........ very inspiring........
Yes, I agree, I have had A:M since June 05, and still cant get my models looking like that. Great job
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WOW, this thing is the HEAT. I am goin to have fun with this, I have been wondering why something like this wan't with my A:M version, it would have been usefull ALOT. Thanks again
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It looks fine for the way you've done it. I'd do that sort of thing with all the letters coming from all different directions. The only crit of what you were trying to do would be to have the r in the wrong place for longer. Then have the h "kick" it down to the lower line.
Good first steps.
Yeah, thanks Ken, I have decided to go at it from a different angle. I call it 'A meat man in tiros.' Here it is...........
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I have been messing around animating different stuff, trying to get a handle on timing so that I may complete ABC. I have problems with thinking something is to fast or to slow, and never really know which one it is untill I render it and it comes out like this.
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I have tried to animate frame by frame, and it still looks way to fast.
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I cant seem to find the cap wizard. Can someone point me in the right direction??
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Since you are going from a .jpg to an .ai to A:M, I thought I would point out that you don't have to trace it in Illustrator. You can use the "Cap Wizard" to do everything the .AI wizard does with splines made in A:M.
So you could put the image in as a ROTOSCOPE then draw outlines around the shapes. Then use the cap wizard to close the shapes,bevel, and extrude it.
Wow, I have to try that one, I don't think I have seen the Cap Wizard though. I will be looking for it now though. Thanks for the tip.
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Well, if you didn't change anything in the model, try the Page up and Page down button, or use the quick render to check if your model actually changed.
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The AI import will close the fronts for you if you select the correct options.
I had a lot of trouble at first making sure the AI file was formatted correctly.
There is also the bevel option. I use this a lot for mechanical stuff. It is brilliant for mechanical modeling.
If you like I could look at your AI file and "fix" it if needed. Compound paths are a breeze. Although I think the problem is in the settings in the AI import.
The bevel options can be "confusing". You get an "error" sometimes about intersecting surfaces so you need to experiment a little to get those settings just right.
Vernon "!" Zehr
Thanks Vernon, I sent you an e-mail. I am probably making the settings wrong, I havn't had that much practice with the AI plugin. Thanks again
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When you get up to speed with AI and have traced your picture...
In Illustrator You have an outer shape and inner holes. Select everything and create a compound shape. I won't go into exactly how... don't know which version of Adobe Illustrator you have.... the most recent version might be different.
If you get outlines on text in AI, like the letter "O"... this is how the "hole" in the "O" is created in AI.
AM will read those compound shapes from the AI file as holes when importing.
Vernon "!" Zehr
it sounds to me like you want a transparency map for the image. Just paint where you want the holes to be. You can do that in AI or PhotoShop (or equivalent)
Rhett
Well, I got what I needed, but I had to close the front in A:M. I didnt' use the pencil, instead I used the paint bucket to paint what i wanted closed, and what I wanted opened, I used the 'no' symble, cant remember what it is called.
It still wouldn't come out right in A:M, so I had to take parts and then peace them together. I tried transparency layers, deleting sections, and everything else I could think of. I guess because of how the shape was that I wanted to plug in, it made it to difficult to close right.
thanks for all the help, I would post the shape, but it goes with the Image contest, so it will come out 15 January 06.
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What I need help with is within AI, how would I take the white parts of the picture, and lets say cut them out, so when I put it into A:M the red parts of the picture is the model, but the white parts are wholes.
Really, you can't because you're working with two diffrent types of pictures. When you pull a JPG into Ill it's a raster image (uses pixels for the image) but AI is vector based (uses lines link Flash does) what you need to do is when you haveht image in AI you need to retrace it using the pen tool. then when you export it out A:M will understand it.
I hope I understood your question enough to help. If not, let me know.
Sounds like a good idea to me, I will give it a shot. Thanks for the help
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I want to take a picture, a jpeg that is red and white, that has some black for outlines, and put it into AI. That part I can do, the problem that I have is that when i put it into A:M, it just comes out as a big block.
What I need help with is within AI, how would I take the white parts of the picture, and lets say cut them out, so when I put it into A:M the red parts of the picture is the model, but the white parts are wholes.
If I am confusing you, think of the Font Wizard and AI Tech Talk. The logo that gets imported into A:M has stars on it that go all the way through the model.
That is what I want to happen with the white part of the picture I am trying to import.
The thing that is happening inside AI is when I try to delete/remove the splines around the white sections, it just gets filled by the black parts of the picture.
Thanks for the help, if I explained what I needed right.
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I watched this last night, but didn't get the chance to comment, cause I kept watching it over and over again, laughing so hard that my sides were splitting. My wife said 'he has to much time on his hands' but I was laughing to hard to defend you. Sorry.
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Yes that was cute, loved the Thriller part the most.
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Yep, I have to put my name in as well, completed TAofA:M sometime in November 05
Thanks for the opportunity to save a few bucks Rodney.
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I read somewhere that you needed to start your own thread and post your model hopefuls in that thread, not sure who or where it came from, just something I read..
Best of luck,
Michael
You read that in the New Users thread (Here), Ken suggested that, so far, however I was the only one to do it, I thought it was a good idea though.
Sorry to interrupt
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These are some things I am working on to put in shaggy's house.
BTW, does anyone know how to make a decal change on a model during chor???
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Yeah, sorry, I forgot to put the sound file in with it, I just pasted it into the animation. 
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I finally got around to making a logo that I can put at the front of all my animations. Hmm, that means I have to make so animations first, but I could always put it infront of the already made tutorial animations??
Ahh well, without further ado, the one, the only.............
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Its amazing how much this project has progressed the last few months. All the models look fantastic, I envy all the modellers. I expect this to be a big hit with all Oz fans and new to Oz children. Great work everyone
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You wanna hear disturbing? I got your disturbing right here:
Yes I know, I took a look at the profile
I just thought the piece was disturbing because I don't feel the father punished the child enough thats all.
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Yes that was disturbing 
but funny as he11 Poor parent, now he has to ground the child
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I hope your house isn't in California. As is it'll fetch a quarter million dollars
Okay, that sounds easy enough, importing walls from the apartment.
Yeah, the square footage on this little shack would go from about 500k to probably 750k depending on where it is in Hawaii, man releastate is outrageous here.
Anyways, I plane to do more work on this house, however I am going to model ceramic shingles for the roof, so I have a long road ahead of me, that will add about 75k to the house.
James
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Cant seem to remeber what email account i jused, if it was the one from work, I have to wait untill monday, was it
@amedd.army.mil??
I feel a little silly