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iClone F.A.Q.

We strive to provide you with the most complete and up-to-date product information. The following are the frequently asked questions from our users to technical support staff.

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Download & Installation

1) Why can't I download the program?
2) Why does this error message (see below) always pop up during installation process?
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Online Verification Failed!
Setup is unable to retrieve the information from internet to validate your serial number.
The problem may occur due to the internet connection failure, DNS recognition problem, or the firewall blocking.
If you do have internet access, please retry installation on a later time.
Setup will be terminated.
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3) When downloading iClone from the web the download takes too long or times out?
4) Why can't I start iClone after I have installed?
5) Will all of my custom data be removed when I re-install iClone?
6) After I download the texture pack and install it, where can I find these newly added texture images in my PC?
7) I can run iClone smoothly at first , but it can't launch after some days.
8) How do I verify which iClone media is installed (e.g. Content, character, project packs, etc.)?

Software Spec.

1) Does iClone support Windows Vista?
2) What is the difference between trial and full version?
3) What is the difference between Studio and Standard version?

Performance

1) When I use horse pack, I find the performence is not good, or pop up HD is not enough.
2) When I use iClone, I find the performance is not so good, iClone will lag when I play the video in the preview window, how can I increase the performance speed?
3) I select no "Anti-aliased" during the preview and creation for increasing speed performance. Will it cause my final rendering lower quality?
4) It's so slow when I render video.
5) Rendering video takes a very long period of time.

System Compatibility

1) Why do I see flickering blocks in the 3D viewer (Real-time rendering view) once in a while?
2) How do I know the compatibility between my hardware and iClone 2?
3) 3D viewer doesn't refresh properly.
4) iClone doesn't run smoothly on my computer.
5) iClone doesn't refresh the screen properly when I change things.

Software Usage

Preference Setting
1) How do I set the Temp file?
2) There are no changes after I load the image in Reflection or Opacity.
3) How can I hide the grid on the floor?
 
Version Compatibility
1) When I open 1.0 project, I find it's different from iClone 1.5.
2) All the particles in the templates turn out to be larger than they used to be, what's wrong?
3) I installed iClone 2 on the system where iClone 1.X are installed already. But the VNS motion files I created fail to work correctly in iClone 1.X and Motion Editor 1.X.
4) iClone Screensaver doesn't support iClone 1.5 projects.
 
Project
1) May I change the default project to my custom project?
 
Character
1) How can I add multi-characters?
2) How can I delete all the characters?
3) How can I paint an iClone character's outfit?
 
Face
1) The face of avatar gets deformed after user fits a new face onto the character. And it looks different from thumbnail.
2) During the fitting process, I find that the cursor continually flickers.
3) When I open a photo for fitting, iClone crashes.
 
Facial Animation
1) Why can't my character show facial animation?
2) How can I introduce facial animation to an iClone character?
3) Why can't an iClone character blink?
4) Special characters speak while the Facial Animation is disabled.
5) iClone can't record voice: When I switch on the record tab, iClone crashes.
 
Hand
1) I've purchased and installed the Hand Gesture add-on pack in my iClone. How can I use these new hand gestures for a character?
 
CrazyTalk
1) When I launch CrazyTalk in the Facial Animation page, it seems I can't save any audio?
2) I can't launch CrazyTalk from iClone?
 
Timeline
1) When I delete all of keys in Timeline track, I can't see the character .
2) Timeline Track is taking up too much space on my display, what can I do?
3) There is an overlay between 3D window above and below when Timeline Panel drags cross the 3D window.
4) When I want to adjust the character's position via timeline keys and modify page, it doesn't reflect on the 3D viewport nor the export result. What shall I do?
 
Motion Editor
1) When I switch between templates or folders in the file manager of the Motion Editor, it crashes instantly.
2) Can I customize Profile in BVH converter 1.5v?
3) When I use the motion editor to combine poses/motions, the avatar moves in slow motion to adjust to the next pose on the timeline. In other words, if the timeline has a pose at the start followed by a 5 second pause (no motion/pose between the first pose/motion and the start of the next pose/motion) before the next pose/motion, the avatar starts to move in slow motion during these 5 seconds into the next pose/motion. How do I get the avatar to just wait 5 seconds between the next pose/motion before changing into the next pose/motion in realtime?
 
Scene
1) Why can't I see 2D background in file manager?
2) When I build my scene with a lot of props, iClone seems lag with poor performanc.
3) All 2D backgrounds do not show in iClone.
 
Props
1) Will the linkage be kept in a newly-created merged prop?
2) Can the merged props be separated after they're merged?
 
Camera
1) When I use lock camera, I can't see character in 3D window.
2) Why does Camera track add strange key?
3) How do I modify a camera motion or join multiple camera motions with my own projects? I have tried the motion editor and the camera timeline in the main interface.
4) I am unable to focus the camera on the avatar as the camera completes a preset motion path. The camera moves along it's path but the avatar is not centered in the picture.
5) When you delete all keys on camera track of timeline, characters or scene seem disappear in 3D view.
6) If I open my iClone 1.0 project in iClone 2, the movement of camera looks different as being opened in iClone 1.0.
7) Why do my camera or lighting position jump to the original location after I reload the project?
8) The mask of the Targa image (32 bits) offsets seriously, what shall I do?
9) No matter how hard I try to change the angle of the camera, the four frames I added in the MMS export page don't display the corresponding views I want.
 
SFX
1) I can not see the particle effect after it is linked to other objects.
2) The position of the particle does not seem to be correct after I link it to other objects.
 
3D tool application
1) Can iClone do the two-side effect?
 
Hot Key
1) Is there any Hot Key that we can use in iClone?
2) Hotkey does not work? (Timeline or File Manager)
 
3DXchange
 
Others
1) Should the size of the child node be adjusted before or after the node links to the parent?
2) What shall I do when I add more characters or props but a warning message pops up?
3) Why can't I get correct TGA with alpha?
4) When I apply a project with music, I can't hear audio from iClone.
5) When I merge some props and launch diffuse, only one image is loaded in image editing software.
6) May I know what the Y axle means in iClone? Depth or height?
7) When I use USB microphone to record voice, iClone crashes.
8) There is a little white square in 3D window.
9) My reflection effect is not obvious in iClone?
10) How do I clip/fade the music? How do I clip/fade out the music after the last frame has played when I want the animation length to be based on the number of frames?
11) iClone doesn't refresh the screen properly when I change things.
12) When I launch the image editing software to edit the Diffuse texture, the image opened is of gray scale mode. How can that be? Shouldn't it be RGB image for diffuse texture?
13) How to make the Clone Cloth when the size of the opacity map is a square?


Import & Export

1)

What is the length for an iClone project?

2)

I can't export video file in WMV format.

3)

The mpeg 4 music files exported for mobile products seem to play faster when I play it on the PC.

4)

My gif file will flicker in the image browser software.

5)

iClone stops me from rendering a big file, but I have enough disk space.

6)

How can I get better quality results with mobile 3gp or Mpeg output?

7) If I select MMS export, I lose the image I selected when switching size.
8) Why can't I key in custom sizes in RM and MPEG-4 for PC export?
9) There is an obvious difference between export and estimated file size?
10) When I use gif with transparency on, there are some light gray spots around the image.
11) iClone renders wrong area.
12) The exported WMV files don't playback correctly.
13) My media player crashes when I play back the AVI files exported by iClone. What shall I do?
14) Rendering video takes a very long period of time.


Others

1) How can I backup iClone objects and projects?
2) After I install the other Reallusion product, CrazyTalk for Skype, I can not hear my recording voice in iClone and also no sound if applying CTS.