Re: So who's going to submit a safety animation?
 

my FTC team should be getting inventor soon from FIRSTbase (yes FTC teams r going to get that) and im going to make one for fun and to learn inventor even though i cant submit:mad:

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our team is not looking too hot right now. I could do all of the safety animation but that would be entirely unethical. Our problem is that our animation team consists of 3 people from last year (and this is their second year) and 8 freshmen who are just about the squirreliest kids you could ever find. I would tell them to run around the building a couple of times to get rid of all that energy, but half of them are cross country runners. That doesn't phase them one bit.

I also think a major part of the problem is that we are only meeting once a week. Things will really pick up when the actual season comes around and we are meeting everyday.

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sigh, this is not looking good for team 2090, I think I'm the only one capable of working at home, and I'm sure buddy will atest to how inexperienced I am. Not ot mention how little gets done at our shourt meetings... we are in some serious trouble, especially considering that we need to mail it on december 1st because we are in hawaii and it takes forever for things to get to the mainland, even express.
But I have a quesiton and I know it's off topic, one of my team unistalled 3DS MAX and tried to reinstall it but it insists the license expired... additionally have they opened up the new licenses? cause we are borrowing computers again, and these only have the 30 day trial... this is bad...

Re: So who's going to submit a safety animation?
 

I haven't been to Dakota Ridge High School much this semester since it's off-season but I believe Team 1799 is.

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I've had that problem too, You need to delete the license file that is in your C drive. I its a hidden folder. Goggle it for i have forgotten where it is locatted.

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Alright, a diffrent member of my team has a computer that runs vista. I figured that disabling the display composition, running it in compatablity for XP, and runing it as an admin would do the trick but it's still no good, I looked it up online and with no better success, I got the same advice. Any suggestions on how to get it to run? It opens to the welcome screen but freezes before it can display anything.

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I have windows vista Ultimate on my computer and 3ds max 8 runs fine. It actually runs better than it did on windows XP. I have not installed 3ds max 9 on my computer so i don't know if it will run. I'm reluctant to install 3ds max 9 because if i use my 3ds max 8 files and import them into 9 it completely screws up my models. There is no way around it, if tried so many things, but for some reason it is only my copy of 3ds max 8 that has this bug in it.

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Is anyone here using Maya or does everyone use 3DS Max?

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Well 869 is just finishing our safety animation. We are going to submit it and see if it gets any usage.

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Autodesk released a patch to address the Vista bugs a while ago. If you Google "autodesk 3ds max 9 vista service pack", it is the first option that pops up. Hope that helps.

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Just be glad you have an animation team.... Us Nebraskan's only have 14 members total, but I'm still going to try to enter.

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1094 is, and Pete knows my troubles with the team.

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So does anyone know if we have to put credits on the animation? If so, how is there a length requirement? Do they have to be at the begining or the end or both?

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heh heh.... credits. There isn't anything in the rules about how long credits can be. Well there isn't anything about credits yet.....

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Exploding Bacon is very excited to have Skyler and Chandra join our team as animators. They moved from Colorado and they actually know what they are doing!!! I think we will have something to submit.