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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.

Don't miss... my tutorial series "It Can't Be Done" is a ground-up explanation of text editing for people with no previous experience at such things, using a practical project need as the premise for exploring it.

Ferocious fourth episode is up. Link in top post. (It's OK to watch even if you didn't do your homework from episode 2. )

Yes it is on the same frame.I am attaching a small project. Pasting from left to right works, but not mirrored. The first thing I notice is that the bones aren't labeled "right" or "left". That will make it tough. Try this... clip3306RolfMirror.mov

And are you trying to paste this mirror on the same frame or a different frame?

Can you post a test case PRJ with the necessary bones to duplicate what you are trying to do?

I'm still not quite sure what you are dong but I'll note that you can easily refind a bone position in a regular smartskin by using the keyframe forward and back keys while you are in mesh editing mode.

Smartskinning isn't really done in an "Action", it's done in... Smartskin. Are you sure you really mean an Action? in the tutorials link in my sig there are some tuts on mirroring Smartskin. Do a search on "mirror" to find them.

From one action to another action? Tell us more about what you are doing.

I'm guessing the 256Mb was the whole system memory and not just the graphics card? That sounds like a tight squeeze these days.

There was a segment on the Daily show a few days ago where Jason Jones was in Russia showing a picture of Rocky&Bullwinkle and Boris&Natasha to see if they'd identify the Russians as the bad guys. Hey, Mark, if you could show a wireframe of one of those characters I'm sure people would find that educational.

That looks excellent, Mark! That occurred to me too. It almost looks like an airbrushed drawing.