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88994
I'm using, or was using LW 9.6 and recently changed my startup settings in Windows. Now LW consistently crashes or wont open. When I insert the program disc...
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Jun 1, 2009
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88995
Have you tried reinstalling? If you can't get it from your disc you could download it from http://register.newtek.com . Log in and go to My Downloads. ... ...
Phil Nolan
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Jun 1, 2009
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88996
trash the configs do a full uninstall dump all remaining program data and do a complete reinstall. if that doesn't work you can try a system restore to before...
Alex Lee
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Jun 1, 2009
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88997
I'm animating a basketball player running along a straight line, bouncing the ball, etc. When I started, I realized that by rotating the various body nulls,...
Greg Reyna
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Jun 2, 2009
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88998
How are you moving the rig and rotating it? I dont understand why the character would be moving away from its pivot point. -Larry...
Larry
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Jun 2, 2009
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88999
Maybe I'm using the wrong terms, Larry. When you animate a walk, the character moves away from the character object's pivot point, doesn't it? At frame zero,...
Greg Reyna
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Jun 2, 2009
9:12 pm
89000
Maybe I'm not following you, Greg. You refer to a character and a character object as separate entities, and that's confusing to me. I don't do a lot of...
Mark Morehead
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Jun 3, 2009
12:27 am
89001
This is probably a no-brainer but it's late and my brain stopped working hours ago. I have an HV sprite particle emitter that is working nicely in a longish...
Chuck Dotson
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Jun 3, 2009
5:35 am
89002
I think I found what I was looking for: a gradient on the Dissolve in the HV panel based on particle age. Is that correct? TIA again! Chuck...
Chuck Dotson
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Jun 3, 2009
5:42 am
89003
I think you are ending up struggling with the rig you have built for, as you can see, little positive effect. One way you do it, and I think that Larry would...
Will Silver
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Jun 3, 2009
9:31 am
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That will work. I also sometimes use the particle age gradient for size so they are very small when they are born and grow quickly. ... From: Chuck Dotson To:...
Patrik Beck
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Jun 3, 2009
1:19 pm
89005
Stacking nulls would be helpful if the object was having gimbal lock problems, which it doesn't sound like it is. Instead, the mesh is being animated away from...
duneboy79
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Jun 3, 2009
10:08 pm
89006
Moving away from the null also is including more mathematics to resolve the IK. The further away from the central point of the character, the more the object...
Will Silver
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Jun 4, 2009
1:40 am
89007
Ooh, good idea. Thanks Patrick! Chuck...
Chuck Dotson
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Jun 4, 2009
2:30 am
89008
I have a nice set of basketball motions available in BVH format if you are interested. ... From: duneboy79 <ken@...> Subject: [LW] Re: Animating...
Mr.Bones
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Jun 4, 2009
2:34 am
89009
Thanks everybody for your input. I'll have to look into this Null parenting scheme. At the moment my brain is fried from timing an Angelina cartoon today....
Greg Reyna
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Jun 4, 2009
4:18 am
89010
Looks like an FPrime update is now available, and it's free for Fprime 3 owners. http://www.worley.com/E/fprime_support.html Some nice new features. It'll be...
Michael Morrison
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Jun 4, 2009
4:40 pm
89011
I thought it was here that I was just reading a discussion on this but I can't find it. I thought you could use a PSD as an image map and the transparency...
Phil Nolan
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Jun 5, 2009
4:17 pm
89012
Works here. Are you rendering it, or just looking at it in modeler or layout? I made a white circle as a layer over transparency. Applied to a red cube (using...
James Burns
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Jun 6, 2009
1:50 pm
89013
No I was rendering it. I switched to PNGs and it worked fine. Here, the image was posted in an FXGuide article (at the bottom): ...
Phil Nolan
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Jun 6, 2009
1:56 pm
89014
way to go Phil! "actual render took 10 minutes..." funny... Will...
Will Silver
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Jun 6, 2009
10:15 pm
89015
Thanks! lol I sure did try with that render time though. I just had a really hard time believing the first guy said he did it in 1min 42sec. I did have it at...
Phil Nolan
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Jun 6, 2009
11:00 pm
89016
No meeting tomorrow. We'll try again in June. -Paul...
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Jun 9, 2009
11:56 pm
89017
woops...even better... July!...
paul_wesberry
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Jun 9, 2009
11:58 pm
89018
Hi   Watch Graphiti’s Animation Film Premier   Kulveera - The making of Heroes, presented by Graphiti and Turner International, premiering on 14th June...
Aman
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Jun 11, 2009
2:54 pm
89019
I wanted to show this off here since I used Lightwave to model it. I converted the file to STL and e-mailed it to a guy who has access to a 3D printer. This...
Don Drennan
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Jun 11, 2009
4:58 pm
89020
On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:58:20 +0100, Don Drennan ... Those look great! Thanks for sharing! -- Fernando Martins __ /_ /|/| / / | 3D Animation and...
Fernando Martins
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Jun 11, 2009
5:12 pm
89021
I located a company here in Chicago suburb that provides 3D print services directly from OBJ file format BTW - what was total cost of creating the model? not...
William Johnson
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Jun 11, 2009
5:22 pm
89022
what are the dimensions of that model? ________________________________ From: William Johnson <wisemasterchief@...> To: lw3d@yahoogroups.com Sent:...
William Johnson
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Jun 11, 2009
5:30 pm
89023
That's very nice. Have you ever watched Tiki Bar TV? http://www.tikibartv.com/ ... ~~Phil Nolan Modeler / Animator www.philnolan3d.com...
Phil Nolan
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