3D Animation Talk

3ds max: shortcut for moving up one slot in the stack?

Hm whats the default shortcut for moving up one slot in the ...

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last post on July 11, 2006 - by Theamxyz

Can someone here help me with some biped animation? :D just a simple question imho I can't seem to animate the height of the char.. i want the char to bend his legs, get his but closer to the floor ...

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last post on July 11, 2006 - by FireWall

XSI 5: blend shapes question

Hi all, So suppose i create a base head, then create some expressions on that head by duplicating the head, and deforming the verts (happy, sad, excited...). So i setup the blend and things are ...

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last post on July 11, 2006 - by Carlos Fillion

3ds max: rigging problem

I have problem.. i connected my arms to a bone at the neck But when i move the arms, the connector bone gets dislocated Whats up with ...

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last post on June 23, 2006 - by Rod Sigler

maya: Rigging workflow

Hey guys If I rig my lowpoly version of my model I should be able to Bind that to the high poly mesh? Then just animate/rig the lowpoly ...

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last post on June 09, 2006 - by Kiffy20

Maya rigging?

So I finished my first model.. now its at its lowest poly level How do I proceed with rigging? I was going to uvmap this or should I now go ahead and rig ...

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last post on June 09, 2006 - by UVlas

blender: particle interaction

How do i get static particles to interact with deflection ...

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last post on June 08, 2006 - by abax

3ds max: CS help needed

I need a little help with character studio. I have a motion of a karate but i made a new layer and with auto key rotate the bip bone to change the postion. The biped rotates very well but the move ...

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last post on June 08, 2006 - by Max3D

maya: removing groupings?

How do I remove ...

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last post on June 08, 2006 - by Murat

xsi5: move rotate scale?

Guys can someone please tell me How to move rotate scale in xsi I mean ...

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last post on June 08, 2006 - by Theamxyz

Maya : Particles follow a path

Can i make particles follow a path without using surface ...

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last post on June 07, 2006 - by Vagon

3ds max: Rigging a hose

I have a character with a tank on his back and a hose that leads from the tank to his hand, and he's going to be moving it around spraying things, how do i rig the hose to bend and move between the ...

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last post on June 06, 2006 - by Reid6754

3ds max: Sparks burn over the surface

Where i could locate a tutorial for Pflow's object simulation with particles? Ultimately I want to have an object created as sparks burn over the ...

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last post on June 05, 2006 - by Shawn Lancing

3ds max: modeling for animation

Guys, can I model an object and then later on animate it or is there a special case for modelling objects that are going to be ...

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last post on June 04, 2006 - by Carl Cates

Maya: kite and string animation

Whats the best way to do a kite & ...

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last post on June 04, 2006 - by Murat

3ds max: transfering animation from max8 to max7

Hi! Can anyone tell me how i can export an animation from max8, and allow some one useing max7 to load it up and view ...

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last post on June 02, 2006 - by Max3D

3ds Max: Recreating a brush

Hey There! Anyone knows much about max's native hair/fur rendering? ( aka shave n' a haircut ) Was tryin to recreate a brush ( like a fat paintbrush with stiff bristles ) brushing on rubber cement ...

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last post on June 01, 2006 - by Max3D

3ds Max: Transfer animation

Hey there! Anyone knows how i can duplicate frames of animation from a high poly character to its lower poly ...

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last post on June 01, 2006 - by sperll

3ds Max: What is a dependency loop?

What is a dependency ...

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last post on June 01, 2006 - by Frank Tinoco

3dsmax : cracks between the bricks

I'm making a house of lego bricks, and the cracks between the bricks are not visible. I tried to make it piece by piece.. but still the cracks are not visible.. any ...

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last post on May 31, 2006 - by kinoman

3ds max: Reactor/physics question

I've got a reactor/physics question, i'm setting up a rope with a ball attached , and the other end of the rope is attached to a overhanging bar, I'm using the rope modifier i can constrain one end ...

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last post on May 31, 2006 - by Frank Tinoco

3ds max: Animating smoke

Hi. Is anyone here decent with particle effects? I'm trying to make slow smoke-like motion effect consisting of tiny lights.. Any idea how to do this? Or a better description might be a slow ...

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last post on May 31, 2006 - by sperll

3ds Max: Lip syncing without plugins?

How do you go about lipsyncing without ...

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last post on May 30, 2006 - by sperll

3dsmax : going through a tube

What would be a good way to simulate something going through a tube where the object is bigger then the tube, so the tube extends a ...

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last post on May 27, 2006 - by Andyba

MAYA : making an object dissapear

how do i make an object dissapear after a certain frame do I just translate it off the area in a next frame? or is there a cleaner way of doing it know what I mean? ...

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last post on May 27, 2006 - by Andyba

3dsmax : Smooth camera motion

I can never get a god damned smooth camera motion with splines always twitching at the vertices. Any ideas ...

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last post on May 27, 2006 - by Andyba

3dsmax : attaching an object to the hand

scenario: I have a walking guy, animated. now I have an object - editable mesh, that I want him to have in one of his hands how do I do this? I don't want to make the object part of the same mesh ...

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last post on May 25, 2006 - by Gloski

3dsmax : looping in mixer

Anyone know how you would make the Mixer (with the biped) loop your .bip files and not start over from zero ...

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last post on May 25, 2006 - by Vertox

3dsmax : Cloth?

Patchgrids the way to go for cloth ...

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last post on May 25, 2006 - by dfk

3dsmax : particles on each vertex?

How can i make particles in all vertex to any object? with object position it put particles randomly with particle flow how can i make each vertex has 1 ...

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last post on May 25, 2006 - by Vagon

3ds max: visibility and particle flow

I added a visibility key to an event of particle flow, why isn't it in the ...

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last post on May 25, 2006 - by Theamxyz

3dsmax : Cleaning the translation channel

Is there a way to free translation channel so its zero. I'm trying to export from 3dsmax(3ds format) to maya. When I import everything is set to ...

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last post on May 25, 2006 - by Ted Town

3ds Max : Hair collision

How if only i could figure out this dynamics issue with hair/fur plugin, its collision detection on the collision object is detecting the collision a good distance away from the actual contact ...

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last post on May 25, 2006 - by sperll

MAYA: Linking parameters over time

If i want to script pSphere1 so it at frame 21 has the translation values of pCube1 at frame 2... how could that look? i want to automate the animation of several objects and all should be ...

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last post on May 25, 2006 - by Ted Town

MAYA : setting weights in the attribute spreadsheet

okay why can't I set weights in the attribute spreadsheet this is pissing me off to no ...

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last post on May 23, 2006 - by Vertox

XSI 5: Spline IK?

Please help, I need to animate a ponytale... And I can't find anything similar to 3ds MAX splineIK in ...

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last post on May 11, 2006 - by Fiery

XSI 5: Object collision

How do I make dynamic simulations with hard objects collide with each other? Thank ...

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last post on May 01, 2006 - by Fiery

XSI 5 - Character animation: add new bones to envelope.

OK, so I have rigged and skinned my character. Already adjusted all the envelope weights and such. Spent 2 days only to understand that I need one more bone to drive the envelope. So how can I add a ...

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last post on April 26, 2006 - by Andyba

XSI 5: How do I reverse the animation for my entire scene?

How do I reverse the animation for my entire scene in XSI? Thank ...

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last post on April 26, 2006 - by Fiery

XSI 5: How to copy a key for multiple curves at once?

Hey there! I'm trying to copy the same position of my arm from one frame to another. But when I select more then one curve in the Fcurve editor the copy/paste option disappears! Why does it ...

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last post on April 26, 2006 - by Fiery

Motion Builder animation resources

This topic is strictly for Motion Builder animation resources. Any links to tutorials and tips on animating in Motion Builder are welcome ...

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