Captain_v19.model problems

[Skykam]

Hello all,

 

I'm fairly new to AM and am trying to work through the examples from Animation Master A Complete Guide (2006 edition). In chapter six starting around page 250/251 it starts taking about character rigging and goes through an example referencing the Captain character. Looking on the CD I have found several model files which could be of the captain, but none of them seem to load, I get an error that reads:

[/i]Invalid Model File D:/pathToModel/Captain_v19.mdl

 

So I am obviously having trouble with the example since I can't put bones in a model I can't load. Hs anyone else had this problem? Was using AM v 12.0n+ on Windows XP.

 

Tia,

 

-- kammer

[Fishman]

Not sure what to suggest other than the version you are using isn't the latest. Try downloading the latest update of v12. I think the latest is 12.0w.

 

Scott

[Kamikaze]

Isn't that book done in V13....a different model format?

 

Mike

[Fuchur]

Isn't that book done in V13....a different model format?

 

Mike

 

As Kamikaze already said... are you sure your book and the examples of it are for v12?

V13 has a new file-format and you cant load v13-files into v12.

 

There is for example a chapter which will handle OpenEXR-Images but v12 doesnt have this feature...

Maybe the others doesnt have that too?

 

Did have a look at the CD in your file-browser manually? Was there a *.mdl-model with that name?

*Fuchur*

[T-Dogg]

I just did a quick check. That model is indeed a v13 model. It won't open at all in v12.0w but does open in v13.0j. Sorry.