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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.

I suppose this is old news, but... Microsoft is ending security updates and bug fixes for Windows XP Does A:M v18 still run on XP? I couldn't find the current system requirements on the Hash.com page. support for Windows XP will end on April 8, 2014

Thanks for the good reviews, everyone! Yup. There's lots of potential in it. That's kind of why i picked this "painting with light" topic, I thought it might provide a good case study for explaining text editing. I'm glad the Spreadsheet stuff works; i hadn't actually tried any of that before I got started. A big breakthrough was when I realized i could export in "Comma Separated Value" format... without commas!

nice skirt! Try increasing the drag on the cloth and that may reduce the jitter.