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@Jason Simonds I've sent you a PM

Beautiful work, Michael! And fun to watch you work.

@Jason Simonds, I presume this change will also happen for the A:M bug tracker site?

I never understood how giving all your passwords to someone else to manage got to be a recommended security practice. I'll do what we did at Nortel... put all my passwords on a Post-it under my mouse pad.

I think two-factor is excessive for what we do here. If we had a problem with hackers changing people's profiles or editing their posts, maybe that security would be needed, but we don't have that ... yet.

Can you provide a sample PRJ? The description is a bit unspecific.

Since the A:M forum doesn't handle financial transactions it probably isn't a prime hacking target, but it is easy to discontinue this weak security practice.

This change doesn't end hacking attempts but it does stop providing them with half of what they need for an easy one.

Here is the explanation from the makers of the forum software...

Hey @Jason Simonds, I just tried logging in with my email address (it's already an option) and it doesn't work. When that gets sorted out I recommend that some very visible alert to the change be added to the standard sign in screen. I think most people will not notice the mere absence of "Display Name" in this box.

Thom's kid needs a doggy downer.

Some brief animation rendered with Radiosity. Still has a few flickers and odd bits...

Great character and great model, @detbear! You can upload models to the A:M Exchange where user model contributions can be found found. Forum >The A:M Exchange - Resources Center > Free Models! Materials! Projects! > Models https://forums.hash.com/forum/173-models/ I suggest the "Clothing and Accoutrements" subsection If it has any external image maps I suggest putting it all in a standard zip. Thanks!

We are still open to people wanting to try C++. We have potentially three eager-to-start-C++-ers so far. The basic plan of the course is this... There is free Udemy course with videos (10-20 minutes) for each lesson and a small programming project associated with the new thing taught in that video You watch the video. Probably re-watch it. You code the program You bring your finished program to our meeting. If it runs, great! You can show us what you did that was creative or unusual. If it doesn't run. we look at it to figure out what went wrong and get you back on track for the next lesson.

My spacepod. They always seem to land in inconvenient places

Between 5 and 10 minutes. For quality good enough for animation the time would need to go up to reduce flickering.

I recall when radiosity renders took hours. Now it's a few minutes. I dropped some old models from the AM CD into my tiny house room lit with radiosity. All the lighting is just that one bulb light near the ceiling. Mach 5 Racer: BioBot: MotorCycle: Janitor of War: Space Marine. Something about the surface specularity on this model and the previous one is causing the conspicuous bright spots in the room ( I think).

I have not read the particulars regarding this contest but you may be interested. Animation Competition

Here is one of @detbear's characters dropped into my imaginary living room...

That is a "hard news" newspaper.

A camel cookie!

I think you have Depth of Field on, which is causing the blur. Did you want that?.

Thing found while looking on my hard drive for some other thing... a bit of unused character animation for TWO. This would have come near the end of Woot's verse in "We're Off, We're Gone". These renders are shaded previews with no backgrounds.

Probably Sunday evening but this is uncertain.

Who is interested learning C++ and computer programming? C++ is the core language of A:M and just about everything of importance in computing. You will like programming if you like using small things to make something bigger. We've done this group twice before and at least one person made it to the end each time! We've found a free curriculum on Udemy that does a good job of introducing C++ and programming itself, so you don't need to know programming already. What you will need is some time. The early exercises are easy but later ones will need about three hours of devoted attention to get done. Rodney and I can pretty much answer any question you might have about the projects in the course or the use of MS Visual Studio. The course leads up to a particle explosion display as the final project. This is my variation of it... Midway through the course I was able to make this character graphics game... Let me know if you are interested. Start date is TBD.