Kurrykid

Maybe this will help me with some of the other questions I have been posting... I am trying to just take a character (i.e. KeeKat) and lifting the right arm at frame 5 and the left arm at frame 10. I do not want the left arm to lift until after the right arm is done (frame 5). However, the left arm begins lifting at frame 0. I have tried to nudge the left arm at frame 5 (by the way, you can only nudge with the mouse cursor...moving by arrow buttons on the keyboard doesn't make it recognized as being moved) to set it in the same position as frame 0 but that doesn't seem to work. I have done several of the tutorials but it seems that I may be missing some basics here. If someone could just guide me through these basic steps, it would be very helpful. Thank you.

Yep, those are all pressed as well as the "key constraints" and "key pose" buttons.

I am struggling quite a bit with the door stuck project. To begin with, the help file isn't doing much good. I am having a hard time looking things up. For example, if you put the word keyframe in the search for the index, there is not an entry for keyframe Kind of surprising when that is so fundamental to the program. Anyway, my plan was to create Shaggy turning the knob back and forth and pulling back, which I did. These are represented on frames 0:00, 0:05, and 0:10 respectively. Then I would copy keyframe 0:00 and paste it at frame 0:15, copy keyframe 0:05 and paste it at 0:20 and copy keyframe 0:10 and paste it at 0:25 so that he would repeat the action. I thought it would save me a bunch of time but it doesn't seem to work. The first copy seems to work (0:00 to 0: 15) but the other two don't. It seems that the hands on the knobs don't move the right way for some reason (they barely move and the arms twist up). I know there is certain buttons that probably need to be clicked in the bottom toolbar but I am not sure which ones and I can't find any documentation on it (either online or in the help). I have tried a variety of settings and it hasn't worked. I am pretty frustrated right now because this noob just can't seem to get any successes. I know the learning curve is steep and I am trying to be patient but with the little amount of time I get to spend with the software, I had really hoped that I could get more accomplished. I am a pretty skilled computer guy (obviously not with animation software)...I thought after watching the demos while I was waiting to receive the software, it was going to be a little easier than this. Thanks for the help and listening to the "whine" of the day. Someday, I will be a great animator! Even if I am 50 years old (that's only 7 years away...ouch!)

Thanks for clearing that up...I thought that was one of the problems with my nVidia card

I thought when viewing some tutorials that when I go to the skeletal mode, the bones should all be in different colors. When I load the door stuck tutorial on my machine, they are all the same color...gray??? I don't know if this this is a graphics card issue or a normal process...can someone please help me clear it up? Thanks.

When resting over a button, it looks like a description of the button pops up for a fraction of a second in the status bar area (bottom left of the screen) and is then replaced with "For Help, Press F1". Does anyone know how to make the description stay there so we can see what the button does? Thanks.

Thanks...both methods work very well.

Hello, Is there anyway for me to setup the forum so that when I click on a topic, the most recent response (post) comes up first instead of the initial response? Right now, when I click on a topic, I have to go through all the pages (or click on the >> icon) to get to the end. With most forums, the last response pops up first. Thanks for the help.

Must of been something I had changed in one of my files...I am able to render today. Thanks for the help.

Make sure you are not rendering with fog enabled in your otions. Also make sure you are looking through the camera you want to view your scene from, before you render to file. David Thanks for the comments...I have checked both of those options and they are OK. I can render a tutorial (from the CD), it just won't render after I do a tutorial and try to render it.

Does anyone have a tutorial or any other kind of help for rendering (to file)? Granted, I have only been using A:M for 1 day but I can't seem to get any of my rendering to work. It seems pretty straight-forward but for some reason if I render a tga file, it just comes out completely white with nothing on it. If I render a movie (i.e. Quicktime), it is just pure black. There must be something I'm not doing right. Thanks.

You need the CD to start the program EVERYTIME? I haven't seen that before...that's going to get irritating really fast I am anxiously awaiting the program...I ordered it yesterday with next day shipping. However, unfortunately for me, the 4th of July is probably going to delay it for me. I was hoping they were open today at least so they could get it in the mail. Thanks for the comment. Dave

Does anyone one know if Animation:Master allows you to install it on both a laptop and desktop? Most applications allow this nowadays...I just wondered if Hash was following the trend? Thanks. Dave