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My current take on this gap between bipartite grids and four color theory is that at the moment we join 'areas' (grid squares) we need to establish a new 'color'. According to the science we don't need more than 4 colors but we can have as many colors as we want. So... Underlying the whole gamut of shape and group assignments our algoritm can chug away at reducing to 4 colors. We then dictate in some fashion the shapes and extents of those areas and build upon and extrapolate from that. To the observant this might appear to place us at the intersection between raster and vector graphics. Attached is this 'nonbipartite' grid project: nonbipartite.prj

[moderator note: many interesting WIP pictures and closeups throughout the thread!] Hi fellow A:M'ers I've just started up an new and ambitious project (maybe to ambitious? ). Anyway, the project is to model the beautiful WWII cruiser KM Bismarck. I hope that I manage to keep an certain amount of details, but as you probably guess, this model is going to get an huge amount of patches. as it is now I have approximately 171K of them.... I make many of the parts of the ship as individual models, and assemble it all in an actions. Let me know what you think so far Best regards Stian UPDATED 03.08.06 assembled: [attachmentid=19199] [attachmentid=19200] [attachmentid=19201] [attachmentid=19202] arado floatplane: [attachmentid=19198] cannons: [attachmentid=17714] [attachmentid=17563] [attachmentid=17564] guns: [attachmentid=17616] [attachmentid=17640]

When following a tutorial that teaches by making incremental additions to an previous project or when developing your own program in an incremental way, you may wish to leave an existing project as it is and proceed to work on a copy. Lets say I have project in my Visual Studio Solution named Wash002 and that I wish to preserve it as is and proceed with a copy of it. On your hard drive , find the folder that contains it. Copy the folder and paste it into the same directory. Rename the copied folder. I will name mine Wash003. In a program such as Notepad++ do Search> Find in Files... Use it to replace all text instances of "Wash002" with "Wash003" Do the same to replace the ALL CAPS version of the project name... Next use a utility like Power Rename (found in free MS Power Toys) to change all filenames in folder Wash003 that have a "Wash002" in their name to "Wash003" Next in Visual Studio, in the Solution Explorer, on your Solution title>Add>Existing Project... Navigate to your new project folder, open it and choose the .vcxproj file... In Visual Studio do File>Save All to make the newly added project saved in your Solution. I think this will work. @Rodney @Roger

nothing too great but an okay tinkering with Hash Project1.prj

2guysnow2.prj

sorting my collection and found this newdinosaur.mdl

2014_BusStop_v15c.prj

Welcome to the A:M Forums. We are glad you are here. If you are returning, we are glad you're back. If you are just getting started please make sure you spend some time in the Newbies forum and read through the A:M Manual (The Art of Animation:Master and The A:M Technical Reference). Ask questions. Join in the discussions. Give and get feedback. Explore A:M! This Welcome topic is a continuation of introductions to the forum from previous years. Click here to read some of the past introductions General Overview of Animation:Master Anyone can create 3D pictures and animation at home or in the studio with Animation:Master. Animation:Master includes everything you need to create fabulous computer graphics; complete sculpting features, powerful animation tools, superb rendering, and all this is compatible with the most popular computers (PC and Macintosh!). Its cross platform compatibility makes A:M an excellent choice for the individual or studios with multiple operating systems. 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morefun.mov Project: more_fun.zip I edited once in 2007 before saving it forgot to mentioned that

You can make them talk wuith the right image on a simple project

decal for face accidently erased xxxx.prj

I have been going through a bunch of AM things the last few weeks. This was prompted by my back up drive telling me there is an issue. I love an SSD and NVME drive but when they start having issues you better pay attention. Anyway, I started looking at all the assets I have modeled over the years. I was sad to see that I have started many projects over the years and did not finish most of them. Some of them include Cupid's Sick Day, Coffee Shop Disaster, A Knight's Tail, Corner Pocket .... Thanks to Robert Holmen, I look at the animating portion of a project differently than I use to. There are a couple of the projects I think I will look at restarting in the future. One of the characters from A Knight's Tail was Willard the Wizard. I really like the character and back in the day I rigged him with the Zundel Rig plus some add on items that I incorporated. There are several characters I used from A Knight's Tail, in the image contest a few years back, Sir Harold the Knight, Willard the Wizard, Tim the Goblin, Archie the Archer and of course Herman the Dragon. Here is a shot of Willard I posed this morning after being snowed in today. Don't be surprised if you see a few more characters over the next few days, along with Han's Flower pickup animation being completed.

This is the final "Particle Fire" project from the C++ tutorial that a few of us have been doing. I have modified it so that you can draw a trail of fiery sparkles with your mouse as it runs. Unzip this ZIP to a folder on your drive somewhere and double click on Sparklies.exe to launch. Sparklies.zip Left-drag to draw sparkly particles with your mouse!

Note: this post is incomplete yet and needs some editing. Starting a new MFC "Single Document Interface" style program in Visual Studio 2022. The second video in this playlist of MFC tutorials demonstrates the basics of getting a plain-generic Windows program authored in Visual Studio 2015 This post is to document the difference between what is shown in that video and the current situation in VS 2022. Video time - 0:35 Add new Project to solution (this presumes you already a "solution" loaded in VS) (In this image I am adding the new Project to an existing folder in an existing solution) Choose MFC App, then Next 0:40 Enter Project name (location should default to being in your existing Solution) 2:10 Choose Project options This screen mimics the choices in the video 2:12 The VS 2015 screen in the video at 2:12 has no exact match in VS2022 2:14 This VS2022 screen is default auto-populated with names based on the project name. 2:17 The VS 2015 screen in the video at 2:17 has no exact match in VS2022 2:19 Choose Interface features This screen matches the choices in the video 2:32 Choose Advanced features This screen matches the choices in the video 2:37 Generated Class Options This screen is default populated with class names based on your Project name. 2:51 Created Project 5:30 Compiling the Project now should run default MFC "Single Document Interface" window: 12:15 i had to delete the "Save" Button from the _256 toolbar 17:30 Choose Project>Class Wizard instead of "Add Class", then choose MFC in wizard 18:00 Choose from drop down list first then edit ClassName Then OK, then OK in Class Wizard window

found this render and model converted to gif BasicMan.mdl

trying ooot simple idea simpleok.prj

I downloaded a few models @Darrin S All that I've downloaded have worked. Thanks for sharing! Edit: Actually... I spoke too soon. I had only downloaded models and not projects. In order to include files such as models in a project you'll first need to embed the models. That can be done via the menu just prior to saving via Project > Embed All. Without that embedding the Project files will be missing external resources. Edit 2: I see that your individual files/models are likely what the projects are looking for. What you might want to do in that case is Zip up all the files into a single Zip file and then post that. Then all of the projects and models can be maintained in one single zip file.

For future reference: Four mods must be made to a Console project's properties in Visual Studio for SDL to work. They must be made to both the Debug and Release configurations C/C++>General>Additional Include Directories must point to the SDL2/include folder in your SDL repository (probably on your C drive) (Choose "Apply" after every edit to these properties) Linker>General>Additional Library Directories must point to the SDL2/lib/x64 folder in your SDL repository Linker>Input>Additional Dependencies needs this string to be pasted into the circled edit box: opengl32.lib; SDL2.lib;SDL2main.lib Linker>System>Subsystem should be set to Console (/SUBSYSTEM:CONSOLE) Finally, when a "release" exe is created, it must have a copy of SDL2.dll pasted to the same folder it resides in to be able to run. If an exe is distributed, the SDL2.dll will need to be included with it. Ideally, we would have made our SDL template include all these changes for both Debug and Release. @Rodney @Roger

I know you've helped me with this before but don't remember that there was a resolution; clicking on the CPs fixes some of them some of the time but these aren't going away. Tried to isolate the model in a chor by itself (just the face and moustache) but it only manifests in my big fat chor on this project. As always any help appreciated. Using v 19.op on Windows 10

I'm sorry for the delay getting this posted. My work has been out of control. We have a list of systems that need to be replace and very time when think we get ahead. Another systems needs to be replaced. Windows: Windows 32Bit Windows 64Bit SDK: v19.5 SDK Change Log: Fixed 0007278: Files above 2 GB not correct read Fixed 0007277: ImageIO HDR fails on some supportet files Fixed 0007276: Crash , when obj Files with decals importet Fixed 0007275: RenderServer crashes without notice on this project Fixed 0007267: Feature: node cloner for materials New entrie in the menu for materials "Clone Material" creates a new material with the same attributes New entries in the menu for material attributes "Clone Attribute" creates a new attribute with the same settings "Copy Attribute" copies the settings from this attribute (including childs) into a buffer "Paste Attribute" paste the settings wich are copied before into the now selected attribute the last 2 actions working also between different materials and different projects Fixed 0007272: Dragging Pose causes crash Fixed 0007271: Deleteing unwanted Hair Guides leads to crash Fixed 0007264: Duplicator Wizard causes crash Fixed 0007274: In v19.5c, cannot render an EXR file without a crash Fixed 0007268: Crash during Radiosity render Fixed 0007273: on Path in Chor causes crash

Love the new Material Clone/Copy/Paste feature. I was missing that duplication capability recently and had no idea it was being added. This implementation is even better than I was hoping for as it allows us to copy/paste materials from one project to another. Nice! Here's a quick material created via copy/pasting and tweaking:

I'm researching software for the initial workup of a game app proposal and have been asked to investigate software to build the proposed application. At this time the project is pre-pitch/prefunding with much of the material confidential so I can't go into detail on specifics of the game itself but the following is basic criteria: The team is affiliated with an Educational Institution and likely eligible for education/student licensing. The team consists of approx 14 people most of which are technical experts in the games subject matter (not gaming, graphics or software development). -- Depending on funding/green light to go ahead the team may involve students and previously established (paid) programming outlets with that expertise The game proposes to target 'Clash of Clans' quality and playability (probably more 2D than 3D) but graphics may be created in 3D and rendered to 2D sprites etc. I've mentioned Unity and Unreal Engine as possible software development platforms (although they may be slight overkill for the initial app) I believe it unlikely the app will cross the threshold requiring licensing payments to Unity/Unreal Engine but that is all guesswork from me. Here is a breakdown of some various software and the level of appropriateness to the project from my perspective: Unity/Unreal Engine - Likely more complex than required but would be excellent should the app garner support and need to be extended Flash - Possibly incompatible unless HTML gaming is an option for the project (unsure if institution already has appropriate licensing as most have students foot own license from Adobe) Game Salad and similar- probably too low end but could be an option especially if the student/game programmer is familar with the software - Game Salad's licensing may not be ideal however. Added: Python/Pygame is another option but is very technical and lacks GUI support. This is the gaming approach I am more familiar with than other mentioned above. Let's see, what else can I say... The game is to be developed for iOS and/or Android. Should the game development be green lit a mockup demonstrating basic play may be created in one software while the final game developed in another. Any information you can provide will be much appreciated. Thanks!

While working on my model (which is inside a project) I constanly used 'Save Project As', thinking I always have previous versions of my model if I dont like the current edition. Only now I realised that all project versions have the same version of my model. Is this how it should be? Maybe there is an option to have all models inside a prj file or smth?

Hey guys, I mentioned in my diary topic that I was working on a new audiobook project called Breckridge. It's a ghost story for anyone who's interested and takes place in and around Breckridge Secondary School in the fictional town of Southedge in the North of England. I also mentioned I was working on making Breckridge School to use as a visual aspect to the audiobook. Below is what I've got done so far. This part of the building is a geography classroom in the schools' south block, flanked by a girls bathroom on the left and a boys bathroom on the right. I know this because I'm basing the overall layout of the school on my old high school. The major difference being that I'll be adding a second floor to south block that doesn't exist but is necessary to accommodate the sealed corridor. Once I've built the second floor for this particular wall I'll add some gutters (Eaves trough's in North America) and then will have enough school to use as a photo in the first episode, which will be released over on Blip.tv/aceco. Thanks for looking