JohnnyB

This doesn't help you right now, but when you get back home, take a Sharpie and write the serial number on your AM disk. I can't count the number of times that simple act saved my bacon in the past. Got it!

OK. That's right. It is stamped inside my user manual. I'm working in Florida right now and my user manual is in Cape May. I guess I'll have to wait until I get back home. Good to hear from you again Rodney. John

I've experienced a system crash, and AM needs my serial number to re-activate, which I can't seem to find. Help. John Bailey

Ooops! Is it possible to move my stuff over there? Or, should I just leave it and start a new thread?

I gave up on the math and did it on a calculator. Entered scaling manually. Comments? [attachmentid=20725] JohnnyB Bouncing_In_Place.mov

Ran into a problem right away trying to bounce the ball. When I right click in the transform Y scale box, as discussed in the tutorial, X and Z disappear so I can't copy it into the formula. If I type 1/Z I get a syntax error.

Chat room bell was on All fixed now. I've stopped getting the script error, so not to worry. Thanks for the quick responses. Johnnyb

When I open A:M, I get a message that says, "Error running scripts on this page. Do you want to continue running scripts on this page?" Then, while I'm working, I keep getting an annoying ding-a-ling chime. Over and over. What's happening here Johnnyb

Is it off in the Render to File panel? Are you using the default "Animation" codec? Don't. What are you watching them in? I was watching them inside A:M right after the rendering. I just checked the finished product with Quicktime and the sky is blue

How do you make a dome?

You mean in A:M or in Quicktime? A:M trying to render a mov rendering so I can post it. When I watch the rendering time, while Yeti is stomping along, the sky is blue. When it finishes, the finished piece has black sky! It's wierd. But I've noticed several posts with the same problem.

No. The Alpha option is OFF on the camera. Another wierd thing is that when I watch the rendering process, the sky is blue all the way through while Yeti is stomping along, then the finished piece has a black sky.

I tried that (at your suggestion), and it didn't work. I still have a black sky. Should I do something with the Light Buffers or Camera's Post Effects? Should they be on or off?

Rodney When I render in Quicktime, I get a black background. It renders sky color in AVI or JPG. What's up with that? Can that be fixed? Or, what am I doing wrong? Johnnyb

Check this out. I couldn't make the ease changes work for me. Pulling the leg down with the foot bone stopped the leg from kicking at all. So, I started messing around with the knees and finally got both legs starting and stopping together. Whew! http://media.putfile.com/Exercise-2

John Bailey Exercise 3 4/12/06 [attachmentid=16043] Have I found the right place to post? I think I've also figured out how to get a jpg. My first one was a screen print.

John Bailey Exercise 2 4/11/06 http://media.putfile.com/Exercise2 How can I make them dance longer? If I extend the time range, they dance slower, and if I add key frames they stop at 2 seconds and just stand there like dummies for the rest of the time.

John Bailey Exercise 1 4/10/06 Here's my first submission. Hope everything works. I wasn't quite sure what the assignment was exactly, so the I just formed the pose by using only the Pose sliders. I did cheat a little to get both of Keekat's feet aligned on the ground (the rig slider leaves his right foot slanted and that bothered me). I didn't animate him. http://media.putfile.com/Exercise-1-44

I couldn't find the Animate Mode icon, so I thought I should reset the program to original configuration. I did that and the Paste Mirrored works like a charm. Rabbit's walking just fine now. However, I wonder what I turned off or changed during my initial explorations of the program. Another mystery. How do I Zip/Compress if I want to send you a file to look at in the future? John

I've looked all over the forum and can't find anything that addresses this problem - Rabbit's legs wont Paste Mirrored. After frame 15, his ears, arms, feet and toes all swing along nicely (the feet sort of look like they're flailing about) but the legs stay in the same position they were in at frame 15. Jason told me that I have to move the leg bone to set a key frame for it. I went through all of my key frames moving the feet up and down and rotating them. Then I rotated the pelvis which moved the legs around a bit. I even rotated the knees with the arrow keys. I rebuilt the exercise from frame 1 along with the video tutorial, step by step. The instructor's Rabbit's legs moved, mine didn't! Wassup? Hasn't anybody else had this problem?