Sean delgatto

WOW so just for grins I created a new Material hair emitter and the option came back for that one, but not the other hair emitter. That is really really weird! I'll leave this up incase someone has the same problem and does a search, but looks like you have to just create another MATERIAL-> HAIR SYSTEM -> Hair emmiter

I use to have under properties a way of adjusting hair density, but My computer ran into issues and had to do a fresh install of XP SP2. However when I reloaded Hash V11 with Upgrade to AM V13.0 suddenly that Density option went missing. I tried reloading it, and will try again after I get done posting this. But its a real problem, I can't find any software update links other than for VS 17 web version, which I refuse web subscription, I only want hard copies of software. Anyway if you guys know what possibly happened so that I can undo it that would be great. Thank you.

Yeah I know how that is, I just got done with hallows' eve and started submitting it to film fests. But then I switched up to a new project to get over the old one. The two are polar opposites, one is a period piece abotu a guy that fights eveil to save his village, then switched up to a space sci-fi story. I found changing genre helps get back on the saddle.

Have been having issues even uploading a mascot photo to hash for the past couple months, is there a different way now than use to be? You need to send it per E-Mail to support@hash.com. I think that is the way that always worked the best. Ah ok there use to be an up load image button on the stills screen and then it went away. Well maybe next time!

Have been having issues even uploading a mascot photo to hash for the past couple months, is there a different way now than use to be?

Wow never mind, restarted hash and time line appeared in a seperate window, where as it didnt before. so I got lucky. Everything is good

So I was moving another window and some how dragged my timeline off screen. there is still the time controls and slider at the bottom and despite clicking on views and checking time line it still doesnt reappear! Awesome.

I ended up turning off motion blur and just had to deal with it. Sucks but at least Im getting the shot done, I have completed 35 shots and still have 200 more to go and dont have a lot of experimenting time lol. But I will see if I can upgrade once this project is done.

Awesome thank you guys

The scene isnt complex or involve too much movement, no multiple passes, nor particles. Just an empty room with a single light source, yet I get this error 010. If its taking too much memory 2gigs, im wondering then why it only takes 3 minutes a frame to render. not sure why the program gives terms like exception error when it doesnt describe what the actual issue is.

I placed a light into choreography and noticed that the lens flare "ON" was greyed out and disabled. Have you guys noticed this??

Yeah its weird. its really really hard to explain something that is visual in this case. But yeah I notice it was trying to render the object even if it isnt in frame. Plus it was moving fast with motion blur. probably it.

Noticed a glitch, I have a character that is being tossed into frame to be comp'd in to back ground. When character is not in frame to where it is a blank back ground it takes 2 hours to render each frame when there is nothing to render. Yet once he is in frame it takes 45 seconds. So I usually have to follow him with the camera and then After effect it back to how it would have originally looked. Anyone noticed this or know why? VS 13 OS XP SP2 2 gigs of ram 2 TB of HD space

I've always made walking cycles and added them to the model then move the model bone around and tried to get the walking pace to match, which usually sucks. I would like to however have the model bone move with the hips so when I move the hips forward, though the walk cycle (while in choreography not through action) the model bone follows along without scooting the whole model along. Otherwise the model bone just lags away as I walk the model further and further away. Im sure walk cycles are nice but they look artificial and when a character walks , say up a hill or across rocky surfaces it doesn't look good. See below, I walked the character forward but when I click on choreography mode as oppse to Skeletal mode you can see the model bone is no longer center. This might be a stupid question, but doing a walk this way looks smooth and fantastic and would rather deal with it than have to use walk cycles.

worked wonderfully thank you

Sweat thank ya, will give it a try!

I have a character that holds a staff and from it is a hook from which a lantern will swing back and forth. But what I want it to do is to swing naturally rather than animated myself if at all possible. So Basically the character will move the stick itself, then depending on the direction, speed, and etc the program will figure out how it will react.

Most definitely love the ah ha's after hours and horus of torment and frustration. Then go back to creating again

WOW its working great, Yeah I created an Image and keyed out the Black around the feather shape and use the attribute stuff for the actual coloring!

That would be an interesting way to do it, though I wanted to use the decale attached to the skin itself to give the hair color (attributes) already able to do that just fine. Will try some stuff and see what happens. The book showed a picture of the bird and said it was done with thickness yet the tips of the feathers where curved. WEIll have to experiment. Wish they had a specific setting to control it like taper or what have you.

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I get It!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 Got it to work and understand how it works. LOL Thank you guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now on to problem number two! LOL Doing pretty well with Hair system but now Im trying to use it to create Feathers like MR. Dodo. His Picture in the book looks great however despite changing thickness I can't seem to get the ends of the feathers to be rounded off like his in the photo. I tried Cap ends on and off but no luck. Any suggestions?

The Tinwoodsman has a gold chest and green body parts on the v15 disc...I'm thinking you have the v14 disc (which can run v13 as well). Interesting enough when it finished the V13T upgrade the tn man changed to a gold chest plate. But the sim cloth still didn't work for me.

Updated to V13T

There are two CD's with Tinwoodsman and Scarecrow on them. If Tinwoodsman's chest is chrome, that has v13l on it and can run v13t (as well as 14c, if I'm remembering correctly). If Tinwoodsman has a gold chest, the disc can run v15 and the v16 beta. LOL Im going to guess chrome even though its a little yellowish, probably from reflecting the yellow off the scare crow. After installing it I did the tutorial again, still didnt work. Interesting enough the book said to go to ADD GROUP then click attached, yet they dont talk about what attached is, where it came from, how to create it, or even what or why its there. Kinda missed a step in the step by step instructions and the pages are in sequential order so not like a page fell out or something.

Its the Tinwoodsmen of OZ on the CD