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This would be a good thing to bring to Live Answer Time tomorrow.

I'm not sure about the question. Did you watch the video I pointed you to? Absolutely, totally none of it works? At all?

I don't think Bullet element have the ability to merge and separate like fluids and blobs do. they are more like Jell-o than liquid.

Hi David i believe the simplest solution is to save a PRJ with all those files embedded. Load your PRJ in A:M Do Project>Embed All Resave your PRJ with a new name Use the new PRJ for Net Render.

I presume the losing wine guessers got fed to sharks.

That is amusing! How did you end up saving that in 3gp?

There's a lunar eclipse going on now. Go out and look at the eclipse but remember to wear your moonglasses. https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/usa/dallas

I'll note that turning on "Volume Preservation" in the Bullet Soft Body constraint generally makes things look better.

Try this one... ThomDrop04 unsimmed.prj

Hi Guest Returning User, The death of Quicktime is a problem. One solution is to render to an image sequence of TGA or JPG and use an 3rd party video editing tool to compress that to a video format like MPG. In Render to file settings click to the far right of "Format" to get the drop down list of available formats you can save in. AVI is a video format you can still render to in A:M but it is poor and I don't recommend it. If you merely need to watch your animation you can still load image sequences into A:M and it will play them if you have enough RAM.

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