SmartSkin Weirdness

[svetlik]

Is this just on my machine er whut? Please try to rotate the Lbicep bone in the Smartskin window, either with the manipulator or scrubbing the Y axis in the PWS. On my machine it goes WACKO rotating spastically in large increments and the bone is way off. Even tried saving the model to disk & importing it into a new Prj. but no difference.

Recently had similart problems but was resolved with AVG anti virus but it's not working now, so any help appreciated.

SuitCoat3.prj

[robcat2075]

problem 1 - the only bone you should be rotating in a smartskin window is the bone that smartskin is for. The smartskin window says it is for "LBicepDynamic", so moving "LBicep" is going to be trouble unless there is a great reason to do it.

 

problem 2- you're still using this rig that has a zillion extra bones and constraints added on top of the geometry bones. When you are making smartskin you should be using a version of the model that is geometry bones only... geometry bones that are easy to move.

 

problem 3 - I don't think this "COGS" rig was designed with smartskin in mind. Is there a place in the instructions where it says "do your smartskins now"? If there is, I don't think this stage of the model is it.

 

problem 4 - You should be using TSM2. You'd be done already. TSM2 gives you a version of your model with just geometry bones for you to do your CP weighting and smartskinning and no constraints yet making things fly around crazy.

 

[svetlik]

Understood, I have to redo the rig from scratch using this TSM2 and version 15 if I remember right. You also used an "auto assign" at one point I think that made things quicker and that's why I could use the video of that LAT to study more closely but I don't think it's available yet. I'll keep checking to see when it is.

thanks for responding robcat.

[robcat2075]

4 hours ago, svetlik said:

You also used an "auto assign" at one point I think that made things quicker and that's why I could use the video of that LAT to study more closely but I don't think it's available yet. 

The more thorough September 5 , 2020 video uses Auto Assign at 43:53

Note that the "head" problem discussed at 1:01:37 will probably not be a problem for you. It seems to have only happened to me.

[robcat2075]

If yo get stuck on some part... be sure to ask!

[svetlik]

Ok I'm asking. Can't reach the FTP site to get v15 and the TSM2 plugin. What am I doing wrong?

[svetlik]

clicking on the Support button brings up a message re opening Microsoft Edge and trying to click on the FTP site from Edge brings up a blank page.

How does one reach the AM FTP site??

[Ganthofer]

try pasting the following into the address/location in Windows File Explorer (not the browser.

 

[Ganthofer]

ftp://ftp.hash.com/pub/

[svetlik]

It WORKED! Thank you Glen!

[svetlik]

Thought i was home free. clicked on the v15 folder and tried opening the AMCD.exe and only the MSN website comes up.

WTF??? What am I doing wrong??

[Ganthofer]

I have Win 11, you have to drag the file to your PC or right click and "Copy to folder"

Double clicking or selecting "Open" , just opens a browser window and as discussed on another post, Browsers no longer connect to FTP sites, at least not the common ones.

What version widows are you running?

[robcat2075]

Edward,

I'm using Firefox.

When i  on "Windows Installer" and choose "Save Link As" ...

 

 

I get  directory window prompting me to choose a place to save the installer....

 

[svetlik]

Sorry about the lapse in communication my internet's been down for 2 days. Thanks for the responses guys I will try these things.

I'm using Windows 10 currently.

[svetlik]

Copied the AMCD.exe for v.15 to my desktop but it wants the CD in the drive to operate. Is there a serial number I can get or something?  How do I get this installed?

Any help appreciated.

[robcat2075]

CD? You have a web subscription. You don't want the CD version. You want the "Web Activated Yearly Subscription"

Look at my previous post above. I'm downloading the web version and saving "AMWeb.exe"

Do an uninstall on that CD version before you install the web version.

 

Remember... all you need to do to activate the web version is to copy the master0.lic file from your v19 folder to the new v15 folder.

Also remember that the v15 folder will be in "Programs (x86)" not "Programs"


 

 

[svetlik]

Thanks for the help robcat & Ganthofer, got v15 working now. Is the TSM2 plugin something I need to install?

[svetlik]

Nevermind! I'm watching the Sept.5 video about it. Thanks for all the help, much appreciated.

[robcat2075]

@svetlik

Here is the August 9 2025 LAT video that you were asking about, although I still recommend the Sept 5 2020 video.