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Hi all, hope you are well. I am trying to animate a granola bar, running towards camera and have tried to bone and IK the wrapper, I want it to pivot and move forward and then pivot on the other side and move forward, my bones don't seem to be helping me have two points of pivot. Any ideas as to where I am going wrong?? many thanks! Anthony

Hi Tomas, I will upload the project when I get a spare moment, thanks. Rodeo works in a blank project but now in the one I wanted it to, thanks for getting back to me. Anthony

Hi Guys, sorry to bother you, I am trying to get Rodeo to do a simple animation of a cylindrical tablet to roll towards a tube and go inside. Rodeo did it for me in a previous project (which I have mislaid now) now when i add the plug-in it doesn't show any of the items in my project widow and crashes soon after I try to do anything with it, it only shows the world and camera. I have used it on a new project and it didnt crash, but I am wondering is there any known conflicts that I am overlooking. project has HDR lighting enabled. Any help would be super as I am on a deadline and did the tests a few weeks ago so assumed it would be fine, may thanks! Anthony

Hi Tomas, thanks for that news, I suspected something was afoot in that regard! Take care. Looking forward to v9. Anthony

Hey Guys, thanks very much. My heirarchies were all not set to inherit scale in the Joint editor. It's working as one would expect now! Thanks again! Anthony

Hi Guys, thanks for the responses! Shame it's gone! I might take you up on your very kind offer Richard, if i can't get it to work in another way! Thanks again! Anthony

Hi All, have been trying to purchase object2fact and am at a loss to find it anywhere? Any ideas, I have a Max model with baked textures and I need to be able to render it in EIAS 8.0!! Any help appreciated! Anthony

Hi Robert, thank you for your response! Will let you know how I get on! regards Anthony

Hi all, I seem to be having some trouble getting a group to scale properly when they are parented to something I am scaling. I have gone to the joint editor and chosen inherit scale and set offspring etc. This seems to work on some objects and not on others. Can anyone shed any light on this issue, it is causing a long delay in my workflow, the models are from eim and I am using V8.0. thanks in advance!!! Anthony

Hi there ALL, am just starting a project that requires an isometric view similar to old school video games. Is there a way to set-up EI's camera to see in this style. Any help appreciated!!! Thanks! Anthony

Hi Tomas, thanks for replying! Hope you are well. It seems to be a problem with the anisotropic shader, it's not working in 8.0 or 7.0 and I have used the update on the EI site. The procedural window does not open and the shader has no effect? i got the simcloth simulation to run fine but the surface I am using relies on the anisotropic shader as a camera map to work! edit: I have done another test and when I apply any shader to the "plane' or cloth it quits animator! Any ideas? Anthony

HI all, another question if i may about simcloth and the texturing of the plane or cloth child. When I add a shader/texture to the plane it crashes animator. Anyone know why?? Am using 8.0 and simcloth 1.1. I originally made the project in 6.5 and collected it for 8.0 and deleted the resources as advised on forum. Also the anisotropic shader seems to be broken as a camera map in 8.0 (have updated too), any suggestions???? Thanks all for any help you may offer, always happens whaen you are on a deadline!!! Anthony

Hi ian, thanks so much for the speedy reply and the examples. I assume from the attached jpeg that the set-up requires the sphere not to be a child of the simcloth plug-in and the plane to be the only child of the simcloth plug, then the simcloth plug becomes a child of mrs. bebel! Just got my 8.0 disc today and am looking forward to trying out some of the new shaders and lights and everything else! Nice one! and thanks again for your help!!! kindest regards Anthony

HI All, Ian would you mind if I may ask you a question about something you said regarding simcloth and mrs. bebel recently.? I don't have mrs. bebel but would consider getting it if I could give the cloth a slight edge thickness, you mentioned it being possible, could you explain, a little, how you would go about this, please? Also have a general one for anyone about simcloth. If I wanted to make a banner type object that floated, ie never fell according to gravity, if I turn gravity to a super low setting and the particle mass low and air drag higher will that work? I have done a few simulations but was wondering if i am chasing something that isn't possible!!!!! Thanks so much! Sorry for my rambling questions!!!

Hi guys, am working on the project and am trying to add a shader (anisotropic) to the specular channel of the plane (cloth) this actually makes Animator (6.6) quit! Is this a known bug? I ended up adding it as a camera map. Just thought I would let you know, I am using version 1.0 though so maybe it's not an issue any more! Waiting for my upgrade to come!!! ;-) (mac OS 10.3.9 G5 EI Animator 6.6)