Well after losing all of my Alcatraz Model from my last project I got my an external hard drive and started me another. I rewrote the script for it be in 3d (I'm thinking about it) there one part in there where I have great white shark come out of the water....LOL They won't expect it. I also made me a asset list of everything I need to model it help out a lot who every thought of that ideal thank you. I'll have about 3 choreographic for the San Francisco Bay, The Island and The Prison. One thing about modeling a prison everything just about the same and there a lot of copy and past does that save a lot of time. Fell free to let me know what you think and if I need to change anything.


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Just curious how do you turn off those yellow lines ?


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Just hit
[Shift]+[1]
to toggle Show Normals ON or OFF

Maybe you are already doing this, but some repetitive items like individual cells could be models themselves, and you could assemble many of them in the chor to make the whole set, then you could turn their "Active" property ON when they are needed on camera and OFF when they are not visible to possibly save on render time.

You can also turn their realtime visibility ON and OFF in the chor to speed up your general working. Whether this is useful depends on how much you need to be working in the whole set.

Sorry you lost your previous work! That new external drive is for backups, I hope?

(Shift + 1) I'll have to write that down to remember it.

Yes Ext hard drive is for backup only but sure does save a lot a space on the Int hard drive.

Why does this Filter Key window keep coming up ?



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Wow- I've never heard of that one... the improper English in the dialogue box suggests it is written by someone using english as a 2nd language... "Filter Keys lets you to ignore...". Also- never heard of the 'Ease of Access Center'... are you sure you are in A:M or maybe a Windows box appeared over A:M...?

I'm not sure where that "Ease of Access Center" came from looks like a google search tonight to found out who they are I'll let yall know what they say about um .


I'm working on the Island and some of the building think I ought to decal some of the building or just go ahead and draw um ?


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Think I'll watch escape from Alcatraz with Clint Eastwood for reference

When I go to add a CP in one place it goes to nearest CP. Is there a way from keep this from happening ?



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I suspect that you have snap turned on and your grid spacing is larger than the areas that you are trying to draw in. Zoom in closer and turn off snap or set the grid spacing to something smaller.

How you turn off snap ?

Ok I right click on mouse and hit the Refind normals and the control point are working right

Sorry scratch that last post the refind normals didn't work bummer.

unclick the snap manipulator to grid icon

Thank you NancyGormezano I clicked the snap to grid you showed me but still doing the same thing though bummer I may just delete that model and start over when I start a new model it doesn't do that.

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I'm working on the main Island right now got one building done and the watch tower still tweaking the island.

would any body know what model blue prison truck that was in escape from Alcatraz with Clint Eastwood ?
It's like an old panel truck.


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great work! I love it!

Thank you TheSpleen

Now I'm working on Robert Stroud 1942 version that when he arrive at Alcatraz island, I still tweeking the model, the first ears ever made, need to make the eyes, and teeth then body and paint.


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I don't like that front view need to work on it, the moth looks like robot or something....HMMMMMMMMMMM

Your head is looking great. Just remember to tweak the heck out of it to get it smoother. You may also want to remove entire spline rings once you have it finished to make it smoother.

Curious what are spline rings ?

If you select one line between cps and hit the "," key it will select all the cps that are connected in a ring or line.

Really good start.

Steve

I made a 3d head of Robert stroud yesterday which one yall like better the first one

or this one ?


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I like the 1st Robert Stroud model... this is an interesting project. For your island, there is a cool A:M model MTPeak built called the 'Ocean Rig" which would make you some great wavey water for your SFBay... just a suggestion!


http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showt...ocean+generator

Also you might talk to Jody, aka MMZ Timelord, as I recall he did a model of the Golden Gate Bridge. might be of some help

Steve

Was working on building 64 and when I working on the windows the bottoms would disappear and reappear when I would select them how do you get them to stay visible ?


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I'm still working on the island and characters.

John Bigboote : thank you for that link I checked it out that will save a lot of time thank you, and thank you MTPeak for putting the ocean rig up.


Shelton : thank you for the info on the golden gate bridge I'll check it out.

Done the Thompson 45 cal machine gun I need to tweak the handles a little bit and add the texture.



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It's a Windows "feature" - if you keep the shift key down without pressing a key or clicking, it assumed you have one finger & can't press <Shift> and another key simultaneously. "Ease of access" is Microsoft's politically correct way of avoiding reference to the disabled or impaired body functions of its users.

Nicely modeled! I like your economy of splines on the Tommygun.

Yeah, nice tommy gun! this whole project is looking pretty good.

Thank you Gorf, Rodney, and Gerry

I'm still working on the project been busy here with the family get together we haven't got into any fight or ended up in the hospital yet so that a plus....LOL just kidding.

Well I just about got Robert Stroud this what size he was when he went in prison sure does change a person. I need to tweak the arms or redo the arm I'm not liking the arms for some reason and tweak the body.

Hmmmmm 5 more characters ( Prison Guard) to go and add a few building to the island and I can start putting everything together



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Hello everybody I got some models all most done today The Warden Johnson Boat that trans ported the prisoner back and forward to the island. I need to add a few details and texture won't be to bad it was wood color and back may not add a prop since it's going to be in the water moving. Is there a way to make broken glass cause one of the crows is going to slam in front of window.


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Also got Robert Stroud just about done need add a few thing and tweaks and texture, next going to do the guards and crow, man I wished I saved all that work from the last time.



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I'm not sure if it's the largest size but the largest I've seen uploaded but not resized successfully is 320 × 180.

It's great to see your project is still coming together.

tbenefi33--way to keep churning out the characters and models. I really liked the tommy gun and the boat. The characters are pretty nice too and really amazing how much you get done. will keep on watching with excitement as you progress.

The filter keys are a windows function, If you hold down shift for 8 seconds without pressing anything it asks if you want to turn them on. I think it makes it so if you press shift (or ctrl, alt etc) once it stays 'pressed' even if you take your finger off and then becomes 'unpressed' when you hit the key again.

Usually happens to me when i'm selecting CP's I want to group from a largers area and can't find the CP I want right away and I've just been leaning on the button.

Hello guys thank you for the comments.


I'm working on one of the Choreograph the main building I haven't got it completely set up I'm still tweaking it a little need to add the roof and the lighting.

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The other two choreograph is the boat and the island and sea hopefully that wont be that bad...LOL Still got a add texture and make some characters, Once the characters
are done think I can start animating


Oh yah here the Thompson 45 caliber model Yall fell free to do what you wont with it and here the pic I went by.

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tbenefi33----that machine gun is crazy good !!! and thanks for your generosity of sharing. I also like the prison cell block scene. Very Nice . Keep it up ...you are doing such great work here.

Your Welcome

I'm playing around with the lighting now trying to get it right. The look I'm going for is where it turns just the edge of darkness.


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tbenefi33- It's been a while since I have been in a maximum security prison like Alcatraz , but i like the lighting in this last one. without knowing what if any outside light is coming in ---it does appear to be like that almost dark outside look inside .....when the indoor lights start to actually do something.

Hello everybody I'm still tinkering with the project not as much I kind of got burned out on it.

You ever get burned out on projects ?

yes
I take time off after each project

Hello every body how yall doing hope yall had a safe and wonderful holiday.

I was working on the island and doing some texture and I made a transparency decal in gimp but when I bring it into A:M it still has
a white background how can I get the white back ground off in A:M ? When I bring the other decals it's covering up other parts of the
first decal I done. bummer I'm going to have to change the color of top part in the second one.


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Have you set an alpha channel in your image software? dunno about gimp but that's what I do in photoshop. Then save it as a .png or .tga and when you bring it into A:M it should see the alpha channel and not show the white area.

Yes I set the alpha to channel and save it as a png file. Walla go I saved it as a tga it worked. Thank you Wildsided


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Glad to help

PNGs and transparency can be a little tricky. I had problems with one that I made in Gimp. mtpeak had the answer to fix what I did wrong when saving a PNG in Gimp.

I lost my prison layout image in the choreographie how do I bring it back ? I've tried reset in the help section didn't work. I may have hit a hot key or something.


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I'll check that link out moseman.

If you select it in the PWS do you at least get a bounding box showing where it is?