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I tried that but seemed to be slow...So I was wondering what actually qualifies as an "Instance" in XP or Vista......AND how do you affirm that a single core is being used for each.....OR does window automatically do that. William

However..... When I opened the program twice and tried to render simaltaneously on both,,,,the second one seemed much slower..So i stopped the process. Figured I would inquire here for some better info on how to properly do it.

Hey Guys.... Do you simply open the app three different times and render the same thing... Or do you have to install the app in several places?? My machine(s) have i7 Quad core ....with 3-6 gigs of ram

Hey everyone. I read that it is possible to run more than one instance for a second render if you have more than one core on your processor. How can you do this without slowwing down the other render? If I simply open the program twice and run the same render, the second render is much slower and seems to bog the firstdown too.....SO I figure there must be some other method of opening the software......OR is that just how it works. Are all renders(3-4) slower than just running 1 single render. That seems to defeat a multi-instance render. How do you set this up properly on a multi-core Vista or XP machine?? William

I could've made a mistake, but I tried all the above and it still doesn't work. IT ACTIVATES WITH THE KEY....but the program crashes when you try to use it... The only version that will work is "V15i". It's like my activation code is locked to that particular version(15i).

BTW.......This second web license is installed on a different machine than my first web licence.

Hey Everyone. I had to get a second license(web) and installed v15i. However, I need to have 15f instead. Can anyone walk through a step process how to do this on a pc/ vista 64 computer. I have installed, re-installed, tried to copy paste things.... Where I have come back to is I re-installed V_15i again. It is the only one that has worked(obviously)..... The other installs I tried installed fine and even said "successful" after copy/ pasting the activation code. But when I open and begin trying to work in 15f, it errors, and crashes. Where do I create these new folders and paste file(s).... Is there a step process anyone can fill me in on. I have tried what I could find on the forum, but it hasn't worked. Must be some steps I'm missing or something. As of now, 15i is installed and works.... but it has too many glitches for my current project which works fine in V15f. Nothing personal against 15i or any updates for that matter, but I need to stick to 15f to finish out this project. Please can anyone help. William

That's fantastic....Love the tracking match...

Robert.... Looks really nice man.. Great work.

This works with Klieg lights for sure. It's been done. The key is to run a shadow pass with a single light for the shadows. Then of course you need to use a compositing software to bring the two together.... You can blurr sharp shadows in a compositor like After Effects to overcome the sharpness factor. With incredible results.

Hey guys, That's awesome information. Thanks for your help. For this sequence I'm going to go ahead and keep the Motion blur and Multipass in there. I guess I'll just have to take some extra long lunch breaks for the render times... Well more like days away from the computer... The results are worth it. I am in the process of trying to get Net render on my machines which will obviously help. William

I know I want the Multipass setting on, but should I just go ahead and shift the Motion blurr off... It's a 24frames per second shot.

I just want to make sure that the areas of "Lesser" motion remain as "Crisp" as possible without also having some blurr... At 1280 x 720 I'm not sure if 25 multi-passes is enough... But it is a LLLLooooooong render. William

I had this same thing happen to me a while back. Seems like I got it to appear somehow, but I can't remember....At that time I was thinking it was my video card so I didn't investigate it. It was back in V14 I think.

Hey Everyone, I have my render settings with Multipass at 25 passes and I also have Motion Blur ON at 20%... Should I avoid having motion blur on at all since I'm using Multipass??? William

It seems to only display the camera data as an object to track rather than all the other objects in the choreography.

I have discovered with sadness that the PI tracker does not work in 15f....OR at least not on my machine.... Worked great prior.

Robert, Did you use an image for the lighting? Without seeing the image it's hard to tell how effective it's matching up with your kettle.

Hey All!!! So if I have a character lighted to my needs using HDRI.....How can I render just the character without the Image background model. Basically with an alpha/ exr(preferably) This would be for the purpose of compositing the character with the IB lighting into another composite.... similar to alpha channel rendering in normal lighted shots. Thanks for any suggestions, William

I almost never use actions for animation. In my workflow on my work stuff and hobby stuff, I work as much of the face into things out of the gate... Normally, I work on characters that have bones/ controls in the eyes rather than the slider system... With that being said, it often boils down to the rigg you're using. In Animation Master, I find it preferable(at least for me) to remain in the Choreography from start to finish. William

Hey Everyone, Thank you for your input and help with this. It would be nice to have a scale to display/ manipulate dimensions, but it's not the end of the world. I thought maybe I had missed something and had just never turned the feature on or something. I have found the export features in A:M to work quite fantastic(hats off to staff for continuing to support the export features). In order to make these exports match up easier, numeric values would help, but it's not the only working solution. Hey....yeah ...the spline measurement tool is a great feature. I use it sometimes myself like a measuring tape while I'm modeling. William

But the rulers don't have a display box for the object itself does it?? I mean something like this: Scale/Size x: 10.5m y: 7.2m z: 12.6m Thus you cannot type in a quick and precise adjustment. William

Hey, When I model an object, there doesn't seem to be a means of seeing it's dimensions in any system...Inches, centemeters, feet...etc. The "Scale" settings in the properties panel is not adequate. Why is there no numeric system display for this??? William

Does anyone have any resource on how to import the file, this pluggin produces into the target program.... The plugin info does a great job explaining how to use it to create the file.....But I can't see any info as to how to import the exported data into PI... Anyone have any guidance in the right direction?? William

I have had to do this on a multitude of projects....both into AM and out of AM........ ONE thing that is for sure. Hash is very successful at importing OBJ's for architectural projects......HOWEVER......it will display a seemly lock up at 20% ....Don't fear it is processing still. If the Obj import is over 5 or so meg...it can take quite a while. I have found that the Hash obj exporter works better than it's importer. Also there are some other methods.