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- By Fuchur,
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At long last... the results of the "Finish the Unfinished" Image Contest! See all the entries, hear the winners interviewed and, yes... The Big Scratch-Off! Congratulations to the medalists and a BIG THANKS to everyone who entered! Get yourself a soda, fire up the big screen and... FINISH THE UNFINISHED! There was more than one winner in the Big Scratch-Off... you'll have to watch it to know who you are! Send me a PM on the forum and I will arrange to PayPal you your winnings! @Shelton @johnl3d @Goss @Roger @ChuckGram @R Reynolds @Vance G @wedgeeguy @Michael Brennan @svetlik @createo @Madfox @Rodney @Tom
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Hello, I started a FAQ using http://www.phpmyfaq.de/ It seams to be what i was looking for. I'm open to software suggestions for FAQ's but more what i'm looking for here is categories and things you would like answered. Lets start out small install questions, Systems requirements, And getting started things. If you want to help with this and be a user that can submit info to that you can sign up here http://www.hash.com/faq/?action=register I think i get a Email when this is done and i will approve the names i know. Of you can post your FAQ's and answers you and i will add them to to faq at http://www.hash.com/faq/ Thanks Again All, Just remember t…
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On Saturdays from 12 Noon to 1PM Central Time I will be available on Google Meet and attempt to answer/solve/demonstrate any A:M question you may have. 1PM-2PM Eastern time 12 Noon to 1PM Central Standard Time 11AM-12 Noon Mountain time 10AM-11AM Pacific time 1800 Saturday Greenwich Mean Time (while US is on Standard Time) You will need your Google account and a microphone. You don't need a camera, I don't have one either but we can show each other what we are doing with screen sharing. To access the Google Meet, click on this link: https://meet.google.com/fzm-rhzy-dcr You will need to be signed into your Google account. Yo…
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Kevin brought in a great demonstration of the Gerstner Wave 00:00 Opening chit chat 02:13 Kevin's Gerstner Wave 29:08 Discussion of additive waves with muscle motion instead of bones 36:59 Implementing Gerstner motion with muscle mode pose sliders 53:22 Tiling possibilities 58:05 Cartoon: The Catanooga Cats sing "Birthday Suit" January 3, 2026
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One of our users has a laptop running "Windows on ARM". Until a few days ago he was able to run A:M and it worked fine but now it crashes upon loading a PRJ. Steffen says this is due to the "OpenCL™, OpenGL® and Vulkan® Compatibility Pack" In Windows Settings one can choose to "uninstall" that pack but it reappears upon reboot. Does anyone know a solution?
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Thanks, Rob, for all your help. Everything so far seems to be working. Thanks for the live video and for fixing my models—I applied what you showed me, and so far, so good. I’m actually curious—does anyone know how to create a star sphere for space scenes? I found these in the extra data bonus files. Could anyone show me or direct me to a tutorial? Thanks again for all your help! StarSphere-10m.mdl StarSphere-12m.mdl StarSphere-05m.mdl StarSphere_fixed2.cho Space starsphere.rar
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May your New Year be better than the old one! That cloth simulation worked on the first try!
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Hi everybody, I just wanted to show a small piece I just finished with A:M for my YT channel Intro: Hope you like it! Best regards *Fuchur*
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Hey everybody. the advent time is often pretty stressful. To make it a little funny from time to time, a little advent calendar. Each day a new door will be opened till 24th of December showing a small funny, heartful or just nice video clip to bring you a little joy in this pre christmas time. And if you wonder: Yes, the image is of cause done in Animation:Master. I wish you a beautiful pre christmas time and please remember to check in each day to open the new door of the day: https://advent.targomed.de/adventskalender.php?lan=en Best regards *Fuchur*
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A new feature on the way...
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Hi guys I recently got a new computer a windows 10 and im trying to instal HASH 0.15 and for some reason when I load up the program it appears then disapears.Can you guys direct me on how to fix this.I have re instaled twice and it still doesnt seem to work.
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Great! Well.., to answer my question I tried to acomplish last minute.😐 I'm trying out an avii file on a screen background in a choreography. The funny thing happens that a 54 sec avi file (not compressed) has a strange behaviour in the 24 sec animation. On this site is a part called "Brains & Parker on the way to Penelope" that explains the subject. The screen animation stops as soon as the car stops. I could easily make a "still" from the last good frame, but it is a bit silly for a 54 sec file. https://mad-red.com/animationmaster/ With the avi file I get a missing plugin error "radiance error".
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At Live Answer Time today we tried to import an OBJ that had more than one bitmap texture but only got a grey model. UPDATE: I believe @Fuchur 's comment below is correct, the OBJ isn't really made to use any bitmaps. It seems the bitmaps provided were only for the other formats the model was offered in like FBX. UPDATE II: @Madfox and @Ganthofer have had some success in modifying the files to make the OBJ apply the PNG decals. See below. Can anyone open this OBJ... either as a "Prop" or into a model... and get the textures to show? OBJ: 70-well_obj.zip PNGs: 25-textures.zip It should look something like this...
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Can anyone make the MirrorBone plugin get an appropriate result in this sample case? v19.5dhanslowres5-1fxxxx-53g SimpleCase CFAd.prj In "LowResModel": -The character mesh was Copy Flip Attached from the right half so it should be perfectly symmetrical. -Where there are already bones on the left side, I believe them to be proper mirrors of the right-side bones. -All the CPs on the character's right side are assigned to bones. The CPs on his left side are not yet assigned . MirrorBone is invoked by selecting the "body" bone, then RMB>Plugins>Wizards>MirrorBone... MirrorBone should create any missing bon…
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Here is a comparison of a real time screen render of the same model. v19.5a appears to have an issue with alpha channels in decals, rendering the patches as clear. Progressive renders are correct in both versions.
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Does any one know why the Group "Bad 5" can't be made into a 5-pointer? Divider001.mdl
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The Prehistoric! Image Contest poll is closed. The votes have been cast! There is a winner! Keep your peels eyed on this spot for the results announcement coming soon! Soon-ish! Not like next week or anything but I'll get to it! This gallery will be updated with artist names after the results video is released. Click any image to see it larger! Competition entry: "Amber Waves" wireframe: Competition Entry: "Time Traveling" wireframe: Competition entry: "Homo Cellphonius" wireframe: Exhibition image: "Travelin' Trilobite Trails" wire…
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I got a 3D resin printer. My first print is the teapot from the Three Teapots Benchmark As it is printed on the build plate. This took one hour to print. At this scale the walls are paper thin. After curing and removing the supports:
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HEY HEY HEY!!!! everyone, I’m working on my Krystal character in A:M and I really need some help bringing her to life with actual animated staff actions. I’m looking for someone who can help create a few cool moves, such as: Staff swings and strikes A spinning sweep or twirl A kick-swing combo Blocking/defensive staff actions I’d be super grateful if anyone here could make a few action files or short examples that I can plug into my project. Even just a couple of polished moves would help me a lot and give me a base to build from. Pizza Time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Krystal .zip 4b…
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It's spline controllers... see? Rocky42_000.mp4
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I've been messing about with a 'watchfolder' script (in python) that monitors a directory and when it finds a new sequence of PNG images it converts the sequence to MP4 video and moves the PNG sequence to a datetime stamped directory inside a 'processed' directory. There are a number of things that are still rough about the program. Firstly, the majority of people will not install python, set it up, run python programs etc. right? Correct. So, I compiled it into an executable .exe file. That seems to work pretty well. The python script has a watchfolder.ini file where users can quickly adjust settings. If no .ini file is found def…
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Here is another modern render of one of my old Animation Showdown animations. I added a school gymnasium set and rendered with radiosity. A birdseye view of the chor looks like this. The set is a completely enclosed box with two kleig lights in the ceiling... A conventional render with those two lights gets this... That is very severe. If I were going to use conventional lighting I would need add a number of fill lights in strategic places. Here is a radiosity render. The shadow areas are no longer pitch black and there is visible detail even where the lights do not directly shine. Overall, …
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Once again I must remind everyone of the sage advice offered by my friend three-finger-Pete ... "If it's explodin' ... Don't be holdin' " ... Have a safe and happy 4th of July! [Mod note: Posted on behalf of password-unremembering forum member.)
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The results of the "Finish the Unfinished" Image Contest are finally here! Watch the video at FINISH THE UNFINISHED
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Please load the PRJ and tell me if "Happy New Year.wav" show its waveform in the Chor. Can you hear it if you scrub the chor timeline? Then import "slurp2.wav" and drag it into the Chor. Does it show? What version of A:M are you on, including the version letter? SoundTest001.zip
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The "tongue sandwich" is a classic cartoon gag but I had never seen a real tongue sandwich until I went to New York City and my New York City friend Dean took me to the world famous 2nd Ave Deli where I ordered... the tongue sandwich! For Dean's recent birthday I made this remembrance of the occasion... It was good but it was probably my first and last tongue sandwich. I looked up the current price of a tongue sandwich at the 2nd Ave Deli... $27.95! Oy!
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Look at this fabulously flexible result of rigging a face with the Transfer_AW plugin. Steve @Shelton modeled this great character (right) and then we pulled out a lo-res version (left) with just enough splines to cover the essential landmarks of the face. We rigged and CP-weighted that with some minimal bones for the jaw and lip corners and then used Transfer_AW to interpolate that lo-res rig to the hi-res mesh. It would need some further fine-tuning but this is a huge time saver for rigging a face. TAW Hans.mp4
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Hello Hashers- I was playing with the latest version of AM 19.5 E and I loaded a simple 10 frame avi into an action window to test whether or not I could advance the video one frame at a time...and it didn't work at all. I tried the same procedure in v19.0 and it worked fine. Has anyone else had trouble loading an avi video into v19.5E and been thwarted? Attached is a bare Project file and the simple 10 frame video I was trying to use. Thanks for any insights! Tom MovieTest.avi RotoTest.prj
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Anyone have anything like this happen, where some of the sounds don't show a waveform? They all play, but one doesn't show. SoundWaveTest001.zip
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A couple of toon line experiments. This one composites renders with four different line widths and biases The next one takes a render with a thick line/very low bias like this... and then a "levels adjustment" to force out the gray.
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so yesterday i posted about the 300 dollar A:M not shipping to my country so i thought about using smthn like MyUS to ship it but i still have some questions like i know i will get a physical box with manuels and stuff but it also says it will send me the download and activation code but my question is after buying it do i immediately get the activation code and extra dvd file in an automated email?
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I feel a bit like I've just woke up in an alternate universe. This has been a thing for a few years now and I'm just now discovering it. (Probably because this is the first time I've used Powerpoint and Word in years) Here's what surely must be Euisung Lee's Running T-Rex of old school A:M fame... obviously repainted... but... ...imported into Powerpoint as an animated model that can be turned around, duplicated and scaled... ...and exported as an animated gif with transparency or an MP4 video. Trexes.mp4 What is a bit disconcerting to me is that Microsoft has shut down/deprecated its Paint 3D program which sugge…
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May you have a festive Ground Hog Day.
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I am trying to get some animations into the GODOT engine, but the direct X exporter goes to and OPEN window instead of save... Any thought? @Fuchur
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There has been many requests for a linux port but this would result into so much work from the developers. However, there is a company called Codeweaver that provides a service called Portjump and they claim they can speed up the process. Would it really help.
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Hey everybody. I want to wish you all a great pre-christmas time and have as each year a little treat for you created with A:M, which will hopefully give you a smile or two with each little clip each day till the 24th of December. I hope you have fun and wish you a nice time (don't forget to visit it each day, since there will be a new clip for you each day opened up): https://advent.targomed.de/adventskalender.php?lan=en Best regards *Fuchur*
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I was lathing a shape and thought I could easily turn it into a giraffe's head... A few hours later this dragon thingy appeared: The motion blur... a bit thick no? I thought I'd be lazy and make the eyelids be patch images that turn on/off. That was probably more work than it should have been if I would have just made actual eyelids. It kinda worked though. Had fun with a few things that won't be particularly apparent such as having the color of the horns change so that the lightest/grayest horn is always in the back (presumably aiding in giving a sense of depth). This guy technically has no mouth although he does have a jaw bone. He real…
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The MuhHair and Kajiya-Kay plugin shaders work to make Particle Hair look better by re-shaping the Diffuse and Specular response of their surfaces. Kajiya-Kay is the easier one since it has no parameters of its own, it's just ON or not. However, unlike MuhHair, that lets you fine-tune the placement of highlights on the hair, Kajiya-Kay requires you to carefully place your specular light source... as you would in real life lighting. Here is hair with no extra shader and Specular Intensity 0 in the surface properties. Same hair, but with Specular Intensity greater than 0. The renderer seems to regard the hair as one simple mass and paints the spe…
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Some weird shapes i made with the Duplicator Wizard. I had never experimented with the "Tumble" parameters before. DuplicatorShapes004.prj
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Hello all, I have installed for AM 19.5c on windows 11 and then suddenly my UI is so small now for text and picto, how to resolve this, please ? Thanks. See my attach from my screenshot :
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Hey you guys. I received this message when starting Animation Master 19.5c for the first time:
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Have been playing around with the new 19.5C build and while doing some tests using four different fur materials. this error message popped up; "Missing Image IO Plugin ..." Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks! Fur-TESTS.prj FurBEST.mat FurFenwick.mat FurMouseKing.mat Shag.mat
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This is very interesting – I thought it was just an annoying effect in 3d software, but it seems to be real live.
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I'm creating a new clothespin character in my Twisted Knickers series, and I'm having hair problrms. Her hair is parted in the center and hangs down mostly straight all the way around down passed her shoulders. Here's what I'm getting: Charity's Hair29.tif How do I get from here to there? Charity's Hair29.tif
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@fraizer writes... -I recall the chor problem (fixed in a later version I recall) but it's exceedingly rare that I ever save work as a chor. I always work with a PRJ that has everything embedded. -I'd have to see the path circumstances to guess at the path problem. -If you are on an annual subscription your license should allow you to also install/run v19.0 which still has a Mac version. Try that and see if the .pre setting are more comprehensive. We have Live Answer Time at Noon CDT tomorrow if you would like to look at this in real time.
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I want to add some information related to Netrenders Event Commands that allow us to run batch files and programs after a job completion (or frame completion). This process can allow use of other programs to post process output from Animation:Master's Netrender and help us understand how we can do the same basic process without Netrender as well. There are three basic components of this process: 1. Set up the Event Command in Netrender 2. (Optionally) structure a (textual) batch file to take arguments from Netrender and pass them on to other programs 3. Run the desired programs and processes This does assume a basic understanding of r…
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Hello Hashers- In the beginning of the sequence the volumetric beam reaches all the way to the ground plane but as the project continues (frames 30-60) the beam breaks up and doesn't reach the ground. Can anyone figure the problem? VolumetricTest.prj
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At the top of the forum is a banner of film frames highlighting interesting A:M work, which was a feature of the forum years ago but somehow got lost in a forum-software up date. Click on a frame and it will take you to the relevant post! New frames highlighting new work will will be rotated in over time. Thanks to @Rodney for creating the code that makes the banner work!
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