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Dropping boxes... BoxDropC1000.mp4

More stuff dropping... JackDropB1K.mp4

It's a bit like cloth in that denser meshes can be floppier. Sometimes slightly different settings can get very different results, so you have to experiment. So far, I haven't detected that "Bounce" changes much

It's been sitting there for a year now but I've never tried Bullet Soft Body Dynamics. It works very well! Here is the PRJ if you want to try. RubberDonuts05 unsimmed.prj in the Chor and Choose simulate Bullet DonutDropAO1500.mp4

Yes, it is Bullet now. You add bullet behavior as a constraint to an object in the Chor. Select the object>New Constraint>Bullet Rigid Body Here's a simple sample...

What is "hench"? 🤔 Have you thought of making the detail on the front of the small dragon more scales or plates?

What plugins were there for Bullet?

I once made video on using that feature to create 3D movie pairs i haven't re-watched this but I think it will cover your question of video in the timeline If you still have questions... ask.

Costco return policy... 90 days ought to be enough to know if it works or not.

What is Costco's return policy? How much would you be out if you ended up with inside-out graphics and wanted to return the cheap laptop?

That has the Intel graphics however... which sometimes works and sometimes doesn't for A:M.

Now that I see it's an Intel "Pentium"... that seems pretty primitive. I didn't know they were still making Pentiums. What are some other options for a cheap windows laptop?

I dunno... I used A:M for years with 2GB and twos core including all my AnimationMentor exercises and all of my TWO scenes and I rarely felt the computer was under powered.. That was with Windows 2K. About ten years ago I moved up to a quad core with 4GB and windows 7 (because A:M wouldn't run on Win2K anymore) and that was fully functional for A:M. Now I have 8GB in it but I never really went past the first 4 until I tried rendering things for huge resolutions or with huge bitmaps. Does the Mac have a system monitor so you could see how much RAM you are using when you are doing your A:M things?

Computationally, they should be no problem since we were doing A:M on way less back in the day. The wild card seems to be the graphics. Roger had a laptop that worked fine for A:M until Windows updated something and then the shaded mode was always inside out. 4GB RAM out to be plenty. An SSD of 128GB ought to be fine You'd want one that doesn't need a power brick when you want to plug it into local AC power. A monitor out so you could potentially use any available larger monitor. Two USB outlets so you can plug in both a mouse and full keyboard. Pressure-sensitive pen input, because you might like to draw on it, too? Can you show an example of what you are looking at?

Personally i think the screen size of a laptop and the lack of the numeric keypad are counter to the task of using A:M

I think you should print a life-size one that you hide the button for the secret lair in.

You are wanting to convert a numbered image series to video, right? Quick question... do you have QuickTime Pro installed? Quicktime Pro will show enabled options for Export and Export for Web under the File menu when you have some file loaded.

It looks like solar wind aurora sort of thing

Back in 2004 A:M Justin Barrett created a video tutorial set on facial animation in A:M. He has now re-released it on Youtube for free! Check it out! Thanks, Justin! Animate a Face

What is that made out of? It looks more granular than I imagined.

Happy New Year to you, Serg. May you continue to have many happy splines in 2019!

And on a happy new year note... i got v19h to test today from Steffen. There will be more A:M in 2019!

A fine New Year to you all...

That does look like some expertise has accumulated over the years.

The whole Easter Island history is staggeringly weird and unhappy, i find. Nancy went there a few years ago and got some great pics also.