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did not work...it is not a big deal. i can go back to a previous choregraphy that worked. maybe something got corrupted in the project. thanks for all the help... pierre

i am trying to render as wireframe only and i do have the object set as curve. it only have this effect via the camera view. any other view displays fine as circle. What puzzles me is that i can load a previous choregraphy with the same object amongst 2 others, and it display fine. I am just going to redo the choregraphy. Maybe something weird happened.. Pierre

Does not do anything. Starts beeping after a couple of clicks. I am also using a laptop. Not sure if it only works with a numeric pad. Pierre

Let me ask another question. I have my objects set to be rendered as wireframe. They look like they are drawn as vectors although they should not be. The edges are straight and not curved. So when i look from my camera, i see a square object with straight lines. If i rotate the object, it becomes rounded. How can i make the wireframe not look like vector through my camera view? Hope i am making sense? When i go in the modeler, the object is all rounded, no straight lines? I checked all the settings and they are all set to wireframe. Thanks. Pierre

Exactly what I needed...Thank you very much....

I would like to make a wireframe render of my object but i do not want the teal background of AM. I would like it to be white with the wireframe to be black. I tried to change the background color under the camera settings but it still gives me a teal color. Can that be achieved? Thanks. Pierre

Well, after i posted I did go to the dell web site and updated the bios and video driver. I also removed a KVM driver that controlled multiple computers. Anyway, it looks like now it is indeed working. I knew it had to do with my computer because i search the forum and did not see any reports. Thanks for the input... P

I have major issues when I switched to a Dell E4310 with an integrated Intel HD video card. AM is very hard to use now. I am running win 7 and also have XP virtual machine. the symptoms appear on both OS. All the visual modes are turned off. When i click a shortcut key, the button in the toolbar gets depressed but nothing works when i try to use it. For example, if i press T, i cannot turn. If i go and press the T button, then it works. Also, the screen does not refresh when you go from one view to another. Not everytime. Sometimes, when you try to rotate, scale...nothing is happening. You do not see any feedback but if you switch view, it indeed worked. Do not know if there's a fix for that. It is a pain in the butt. I am running 15 but it happens in earlier version too. I know it has to be the computer. P.

i sure will but your black plastic looked really good. what are you looking to get? rougher or shinier material?

I had made a request a few days ago if someone could create a film canister for me. I wanted to create a logo for a program I write. Well, PixelPlucker created one for me: http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=40098 So i have to give him credit for 90% of the modeling. I did modify a few thing on the roll and mapped a couple of decal. This is what I have right now. It is still not the finished product. I have not used Hash in the past 7 years so I need to relearn quite a few thing. A lot different than Journeyman on my amiga in 1990 !!! Pierre

Even tho you'll be going with dissolving in some video editor, I wanted to satisfy myself to see if it could be done all in A:M - I tried to get a full wireframe version transitioning into a full color version, using the "render as lines" feature. This could probably also be used with textured model, with a bit of tweaking. Very cool. Do you have the project to study it? Pierre

Select all cps of your model, right click/add image - the image is a solid surrounded by black on all sides. It will give you a wireframe look (except for 5 pointers - will look like triangular faces) For this example, I also decaled the thom model (blue) & then I varied the percent of the decal from 100 to 0 - which then allowed the patch image to show I could have just had a blue thom model (surface color), and then only decreased the color percent for the patch image so that the surface color would show The thom model might have some funny normals (pointing wrong way)? If so, that might account for some of the wireframe patche images having variation in how they rendered in intensity. Otherwise I don't know why that would be. Thanks...I was impressed. I think i may have to go with the render of 2 videos. One in wireframe and one textured, then use a 3rd party to dissolve between the two. I am trying to get a full wireframe model... Appreciate your input.. Pierre

Got it...I thought you were talking about dissolve in AM, not another editing program. Yep, i can do that. Render the wireframe and render the fully textured, then use a third party program. i'll try that...Thanks...

I am not familiar with the sweeper wizard so i guess v 11 does not have it. I may need some help with the dissolve method. I assume that you dissolve the material to make it transparent via the timeline. What i do not get is on how to make the object wireframe appeared. If i dissolve the materials, i will get a solid non textured object but not a wireframe... thanks for any input.. PS: If someone can create a video of a sphere that change from solid to wireframe, i would appreciate it. I guess i cannot get a project as i may not be able to load it.

Thanks I found it...It is called swept to wireframe it looks like from the movie attached. Now i am still running v11. I have not used AM in a long time and just need it for a small project. I started in 1990 with JourneyMan on the Amiga:) I cannot load this prj file. I guess it was created with a newer version. Is it possible to export a prj file to have it read with an earlier version? Thanks. Pierre

Thanks for all the answers. Where can I find the trick from JohnL3D? is it a tutorial, a project? I would like to do everything in AM and not try to involve another software. Thanks. Pierre

I would like to make a 2 seconds animation of a simple object rotating. I would like it to start as a wireframe and as it rotate becomes fully textured and then back to wireframe. Is that something possible to do? If so, could someone point me in the right direction? Thanks. Pierre