robcat2075

I don't understand the problem. A new model starts out with a default name of Model1.mdl The first time you try to save that you have to do "Save As" and if there already is a Model1.mdl in the dir you are saving to you will get a warning. Now, if you saved a model either with Save or Save As and got only a blank model file on the disk... that's a separate problem from this warning stuff, that's an outright bug some sort. Just as a general note, I almost never save an MDL or an other asset separately. When I'm developing things I save entire PRJs with everything embedded and I never resave over a previous filename. That way my entire development environment is all in one file and if I need to go back to a previous version i don't have to worry that some change I made in a separately saved material or action or whatever will be loaded by that previous version of my project and make that older version of my project be not like the way it was before. Disk space is cheap, it doesn't bother me that this everything-in-PRJs approach uses up a bit more. If i later need to take a model or material to another project, I will save them out separately, just long enough to load them in the new PRJ and embed them. Then i'm back to saving whole environments again as PRJs. For me, this is the safest workflow and I haven't had any saving mishaps or confusion with it.

Ah, OK. I guess Kickstarter never sent me a notification of that reply. Thanks!

Looks good, mark. I recall in the commentary for "Open Season" they note that in a crowd scene they really only had two models, a fat person and a thin person and they just varied the clothes colors and hair. I've asked this before, but I'll ask it again... what sort of picture do i need to send you for my kickstarter-funding zombie?

The ESC key stops a cloth simulation for me. try that.

I'm not sure what more to do. There's two ways to Save in Windows, of course. "Save As" always warns/prompts you if you are saving to an identical filename. "Save" always resaves with the current filename, so you already know it's writing over something. Is more warning needed for that? I almost never use "Save", I've been doing "Save As" with a manually incremented filename for years and I've not had a problem with that.

There's a midicontrol plugin in the current A:M

I'll note that my rigging scenario still involves you assigning CPs and fan-boning or weighting or whatever. But if you like the TSM2 workflow, the spread sheet could revive the part the TSM2 did which was adding all the non-geometry bones and constraining them.

I presume what he means is that when A:M needs you to find an asset and opens a file loading dialog and you need to click on a folder inside the current folder... it wont' open.

Today's episode will probably not arrive until Saturday. Just in case anyone was staying up late waiting for it.

Good looking models!

There should be no shortage of entries.

I really thought it was a Theremin but I get the various 50's movies confused.

That's funny. He looks like he should be plowing snow.

The always-reliable Wikipedia tells me that "Forbidden Planet" did not use a Theremin but some other electronic contraption made for the film.

That's fabulous, Kevin! Thanks for posting that!

"Forbidden Planet"? Hitchcock's "Spellbound" had theremin in it too. The composer also pulled a piano concerto out of the score. Skip ahead to about 5:10 to see professional Theremin playing in action... JwMoCOFGIPE

Lets see... I recall that increasing the "damping" on the Bend angle and Stretch/Shear may be the more important parameter to making cloth settle down rather than Drag. Try values between 1 and 5 for the Bend Angle.

This isn't the demo that is currently performed but it probably hits all the major points... http://amfilms.hash.com/video/148/Animatio...emoGreg-Rostami

You probably saw "toon rendering". That renders all the surfaces with flat colors rather than shaded and puts a black edge on all the shapes as if they had been inked. Welcome to the A:M forum!

Here is a Theremin simulator that runs in your browser. http://femurdesign.com/theremin/

Most are available via the Hash Inc FTP (ftp://ftp.hash.com/pub/movies/) But the interface isn't there to keep them together. The dirty hack I mention would be to take the old framework and combine it with the files on the FTP. With modern tech the way it is we could probably reduce some of the video sizes considerably as well. How about a separate dedicated Youtube channel for them?

Are the films on the server anywhere still?

The old video site is still out there I think but I don't recall the URL

I recall that the original TSM was an app outside of A:M that would read a MDL file and save out a modified MDL. They wrote it in Macromedia Shockwave and basically it was automated text editing. Now that I know this spreadsheet thing works... I'm thinking TSM2! I think it may be possible to recreate TSM2 as a manipulation done by a spreadsheet. You could paste your entire MDL into one cell at the top, magic would happen somewhere in between, and then you'd copy out the rigged MDL from a cell at the bottom. And it would work for both Mac and PC again. Somebody do that.