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Messages - jwalt

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Ongoing Anim8or Development / Re: Current Development Release - Build 1115, October 7, 2014
« on: October 09, 2014, 10:02:09 am »
Out of curiosity, I just downloaded, unzipped, and launched 1115. I've not been grabbing the latest and the greatest, but thought I'd take a look and provide feedback on the not opening problem. It does seem to open and run on my system: Win7 Home Premium (SP1), with ATI Radeon HD 4300/4500 series video). Made no changes to compatibility mode, since it opened with the default setting.

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Finished Works and Works in Progress / The band
« on: October 02, 2014, 01:20:08 pm »
Working on this.



Hard to get the motions to look realistic. Then again, with a cow on drums, and a mouse on the synthesizer, what would realistic look like?

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General Anim8or Forum / Re: Manual change of Weight Brush color.
« on: September 20, 2014, 12:37:29 pm »
Quote from: Darknessspliter on September 20, 2014, 11:29:44 am

That is so sad.The problem I have is that I have 2 bones,which wont influence my model between two upper leg bones and lower torso bone,that have the same red color...  :o

I might be totally wrong, but in my experience, the colors are more of an aid to us than to the program. Just make sure you have the right red bone selected, and the vertex should get assigned to the correct group. You might also try the envelopes, although I prefer weight painting.

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General Anim8or Forum / Re: Default spheres looking more like ovals?
« on: September 15, 2014, 12:00:05 am »
Quote from: Kyle on September 14, 2014, 11:32:41 pm

 Textured or untextured, it shouldn't matter.


I subdivided (smoothed), and now see what you are talking about. I hadn't noticed this before.

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General Anim8or Forum / Re: Default spheres looking more like ovals?
« on: September 14, 2014, 11:10:11 pm »
Quote from: Kyle on September 14, 2014, 08:00:28 pm
Maybe you should upload one so one of us can take a look. I can't imagine a sphere made on yours looks fine but not on ours.

I hadn't realized you folks were talking about textured spheres, so my comment is worthless. I'll have to pay more attention. Probably has something to do with those pesky triangles near the poles.  ;-)

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General Anim8or Forum / Re: Default spheres looking more like ovals?
« on: September 14, 2014, 01:13:38 pm »
Got me curious enough to take a look, and the default sphere seems fine on my system. Just a passing comment.

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Anim8or v0.98 Discussion Forum / Re: Materials-bar, switching object, An8 loading.
« on: August 28, 2014, 06:26:21 pm »
I've seen this, too. I hadn't paid enough attention to when it happens, so I can't back up MvGulik's comments. It reappears if I "pull it down." I also seem to lose the first slot material, off and on, when grouping or adding things to the model. It reverts back to the default material. Then I have to reapply to the faces.

Neither of these seem consistent failures. I'll try and note when/if they happen again.

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General Anim8or Forum / Re: Blenderize me, but why?
« on: August 28, 2014, 06:16:21 pm »
Quote from: ENSONIQ5 on July 06, 2014, 01:20:00 am

The only reason I use it at all is so I can work with models created in Blender by co-collaborators, and I usually pull them out and work in Carrara or Anim8or anyway.  On the other hand, while I do 99% of my modelling in Anim8or, it is not able to provide the standard of work I require for my current projects which include physics, particle effects, animated textures and full 1080HD 24fps animations, often running over 300-400 frames per animation with 15-20 such animations per project.

My advice to you jwalt, would be to consider what you want from a system now, and what your future plans are.  If Anim8or provides the tools you need to bring your imaginings to life through 3D modelling and animation, then there's no need to overcomplicate matters.  Not that Anim8or is as limited as you might have been led to believe; it has more than enough functionality to challenge all but the most demanding of CGI artists (you could argue that Anim8or would actually be more challenging, since it has fewer out-of-the-box shortcuts and requires some actual artistry to get the best out of it).  On the other hand, if you intend to continue down the CGI path, aiming perhaps at doing it professionally or even as part of a collaborative project, it might be a good idea to persist with Blender as the things this will teach you could turn out to be invaluable... and it's free to download.

Ultimately, neither system will suffice on their own IMO and spending $ on LightWave, Maya, 3DSMax or even Carrara is probably worthwhile, but both are useful tools in your CGI arsenal.

I recently bought Carrara (on sale). One reason was the promise that it could work with the DAZ Studio figures. It sure doesn't seem to work with the DAZ figures in my case. I'm curiouse, Ensoniqs, if the DAZ models behave in your installation?

I'd recently given F8ce a try and was hopeful that it might help. F8ce comes close to what I needed/wanted. I can make a fairly decent human body in Anim8or, but my faces never, ever come out right.

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General Anim8or Forum / Re: Can't Find Skeleton
« on: August 24, 2014, 12:18:34 pm »
Quote from: lppena on August 24, 2014, 11:54:11 am
Where did you save it? Do a system search with something like an8 as a keyword; windows should find it.

If the problem is just where it is saved, can't you get it back just using the file list at the bottom of the file menu? I read the post as the skeleton had disappeared from the file. Hide and the bones toggle both reset when the file is reopned, so I doubt that's the problem, but might want to show all, and push the bones toggle button.

Regarding tutorials:

 


It was a bit advanced, for me, but I'm going to give some things Soy Sauce mentions a try, since they look helpful. Looks like he has a number of tutorials, only I couldn't seem to figure out how to get YouTube to only display his. Thanks, Soy Sauce.

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Finished Works and Works in Progress / Re: To bed
« on: August 21, 2014, 03:52:24 pm »
I'd put an early iiteration of this scene up on the AGS Forums for criticism. I thought Scavenger's response worth sharing:

http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=50497.msg636488843#msg636488843


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General Anim8or Forum / Re: Using bone as parent in Scene mode?
« on: August 21, 2014, 03:47:19 pm »
I used Ian's technique in the sword fight scene. Just be careful about positioning the two models in the scene for a seamless animation. I also did this, a while back:



In this one, I used only one character model (one figure/sequence), and paths for the two basketballs (objects). It may depend on what is happening in the scene.

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Finished Works and Works in Progress / Re: Gypsy, sort of, dancer
« on: August 15, 2014, 11:16:06 pm »
Thanks for all the nice comments. Ian shares some of the responsibility, since I picked up a lot with his tutorials. Putting a cape on the cow got me thinking about the Banderas Zorro movie. Gave it a try:




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Finished Works and Works in Progress / Gypsy, sort of, dancer
« on: August 08, 2014, 02:27:16 am »


FYI, I'm using three lights in this: two spot lights, and one area light. Fog cranked up to max. I probably should have tried for a fire, but I am a chicken.  ;-)


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General Anim8or Forum / Re: Anim8or v0.98 is ready!
« on: July 15, 2014, 07:44:34 pm »
Quote from: justletgo on July 15, 2014, 10:28:30 am
Hi Steve,

I just wanted to say a very big thank you for such wonderful software...I've been waiting for the update...my computer has not been playing nicely but it likes this anim8or version. I had surgery on part of my head 3 years ago and had been working on an abstract animation as a therapy from the event and then my computer said "no" ...but now says "yay" so now I can put my ideas together...thankyou again.

Quite a while back, I purchased Hexagon 2.5 from DAZ. I have worked with it, but like Blender, it seems to be hard to pick up. I'd made a couple of attempts, recently, to make a couple of different car models in Anim8or. They are, generally, failures, although two are "usable." I poked around the DAZ site this AM and found and purchased a tutorial for Hexagon about making cars. In  the course of the four videos making up the tutorial, Hexagon must have crashed around ten times on the guy. Anim8or does crash on me on occasion, but not nearly that often. In fact, the more I work with Anim8or, the less it seems to misbehave. Also like to point out the guy had to use a "work around" to get his back ground drawings into Hexagon for his model, something that seems overly complicated in Blender, as well. Other words, Steve, you're doing good!

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General Anim8or Forum / Blenderize me, but why?
« on: July 05, 2014, 06:29:40 pm »
I keep getting shoves, from people I respect, toward Blender. Admittedly, I'm still new to Anim8or, having given up sPatch not all that long ago and with more than a little hesitation, but they seem to feel Anim8or will fall short, somewhere, somehow. I'm not seeing where, or how? Anyone clue me in? I know the renderer is limited, but Steve is actively working on the program (yeah, I know, he's in Italy at the moment), and there are other renderers that I can use. Bones are bones (or armatures), and IK would be lovely, but what makes Blender superior? Every single time I've tried to do a tutorial or a project in Blender, I've made absolutely no progress. And that includes a very simple snowman, which I couldn't do in Blender, 'cause it made no sense, but pulled out of Anim8or in no time, without any problem. I do note that a lot of the senior Forum members seem to use multiple tools, probably for a reason. Model me confused.

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