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    Storytime

    in Discussion

    Posted

    Going to write down my thoughts. Even if I haven't been in these forums for such a long time, I've been thinking about how I've gotten here. I had to write an essay on how the thought of my future career has changed for the past 18 years. Believe it or not, Mine-imator had a huge impact on this. 

    I found Mine-imator when researching Minecraft animation programs after I had been inspired by Minecraft parodies back in 2012. Fast forward 2013, & I've found MI with a quick Google search. This was at the time when it was at v0.6.2. Now it's on, what, like 1.2.0? It's been improving with every update & I'm quite proud of how far it's come.

    Animating in MI pushed me to be creative in a blocky world & honestly, I wouldn't have it any other way. Despite the 4-year hiatus I've had from it, I've learned from a lot of you here & other communities about myself. I did want to pursue to become a 3D animator or modeler, but realized that it wasn't meant to be. I needed a career in STEM, so I thought of "What if I create the programs that make MI?" 

    This is what got me into coding. Now, I'm a computer science major, going on to transfer out of CC into a UC to become some combination of computer science & environmental science. 

    Would I have gotten into programming if I haven't found out about Mine-imator? Probably, but I wouldn't have gotten into it as young as I have. Perhaps I would've chosen the biology route first, & find out later it wasn't for me. Or perhaps medicine, as I desired to be a doctor when I was younger, but find out that it also wasn't my route to partake. 

    So, this is how I'll express gratitude for MI, its developers, & the community. Thank you all for the past 7 years. 

    Probably this won't be seen by many, but if you do see this, thank you for reading & being a part of a wonderful community. What's your story to share?

    (Also, mods if I posted this on the wrong category, feel free to move or delete it. There's some things that have changed around these parts haha)

    Introduce yourself!

    in Forum announcements

    Posted · Edited by Cat Optimist

    Hiya! I'm the Optimistic Cat, aka Kata. I have been using Mine-imator ever since v0.6.2 came out. Right now, I use Mine-imator solely to help people out with particles and create stills when I'm bored.

    I can say I've moved on from MI to Blender, but I cannot say I've moved on from this community. It's been sometimes bumpy, sometimes smooth ride with y'all, and I don't plan on stopping any time soon.

    If you desire to chat with me, I'm almost always active on Discord (username: @KATAstrophe#0855) or you can pm me through here (though, it'd take a while to answer).

     

    Updated: 10/06/2019

    Forcefield/"Future" Particles

    in Particles

    Posted

    Heya! I'm back with the particles. This works in MI 1.10. With the right setup and angles, they can look like this:

    https://gyazo.com/adcf6ea1cf14afd9ff1bec740e69d685

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c64gkJ0_VME

    Downloads (respectively):

    http://www.mediafire.com/file/722rc7krwpc8jww/Future.zip

    http://www.mediafire.com/file/izi2l8fcln8ctci/Forcefields.zip

     

    Hope you guys enjoy. All I ask is that to give credit when used. Thanks!

    Questions and concerns? Ask below.

     

    Future Particles

    in Random/Test animations

    Posted

    Heya! CatO here and this is another one of those..."random-particle-tests-that-were-actually-made-by-accident-when-trying-to-make-something-else" gifs. AKA test particles. For some reason, I thought of the title "Future" particles since it's almost depicted as a time-traveling scene.

    v gif v

    https://gyazo.com/adcf6ea1cf14afd9ff1bec740e69d685

    Also, should I release Forcefield/"Future" particles for download? Poll rn.

     

    Forcefield: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c64gkJ0_VME

     

    Pc gamer

    in Work in progress

    Posted

    3 hours ago, LegendMC said:

    Necista habla english. Si no, tu va esta banned de aqui. Sheesh, I'm so bad at Spanish. I failing in Spanish class :/ Like @XxEmeraldSquidxX said, it was the rule of the forums.

    I know you need to speak English here. But I know how to speak Spanish a bit. I just learned this year!

    What should I start on?

    in Help

    Posted

    Hey everyone!

     

    It's been a while. I had a ton of school projects for the last two months and one BIG project that just ended this week (phew!)!

    So I'm going back into my hobbies, which includes animating!

     

    So this poll is asking what kind of animation should I do?

    (One more thing, I might be starting to make websites for anyone in the near future so stay tuned for that!)

    Oh by the way, I will do the one that has the most votes by the end of tomorrow

    Snowball Fight (ANIMATION)

    in Narrative animations

    Posted

    Hey! Not bad! Better than my first one! (which no one will ever see...)

    (*Add transitions between the keyframes for movement)

    But practice, and you'll get the hang of it.

     

    (Also, just a heads-up, forumers don't like fad or anything to do with fad [fad]

    I like it, but not a lot here do :()

    Forcefield?! + poll

    in Random/Test animations

    Posted

    1 hour ago, AlexTSC said:

    Try to set particles Alpha to 50% or more or less (for green and fire shields)... Also try using spheres instead of particles.

    Ah I did for the Alpha ;)

     

    But for spheres...it...crashed...

     

    (I used an item texture for the particles, and not the ones on MI)

     

    The closest I've ever gotten was this:

    ZNdDfh4.jpg

     

    (horrible, I know. Sorry >.<)

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