@lkindall,

Where are you in NC?...I'm in Mooresville (Just North of Charlotte and South of Statesville).

Although many around here felt it...I didn't...I was jammin with my friend Joe and we had it up loud...If I did feel anything, I probably would have just chalked it up to a thundering bass riff I was working on...lol

I have felt the Mossouri tremors here before though...very mild ripple wave.

Tom

LOL...good one beos53

Lipstick in School

According to a news report, a certain private school in Washington
was recently faced with a unique problem . A number of 12-year-old
girls were beginning to use lipstick and would put it on in the
bathroom .
That was fine, but after they put on their lipstick, they would press
their lips on the mirror leaving dozens of little lip prints . Every
night the maintenance man would remove them, and the next day the
girls would put them back . Finally the principal decided that
something had to be done ..

She called all the girls to the bathroom and met them there with the
maintenance man . She explained that all these lip prints were causing
a major problem for the custodian who had to clean the mirrors every
night (you can just imagine all the yawns from the little princesses)
..

To demonstrate how difficult it had been to clean the mirrors, she
asked the maintenance man to show the girls how much effort was required .
He took out a long-handled squeegee, dipped it in the toilet, and
cleaned the mirror with it .

Since then, there have been no lip prints on the mirror .

There are teachers . . . . and then there are educators 

LoL @ cspear

Weight Mapping certainly isn't "Cutting Edge"...This is a copy of what I posted in the other thread.

"Weight Mapping has been around for at least a decade as far as I know...I started using it in Lightwave 7 and it probably existed before that...It's pretty old technology... I'm actually a little surprised that it hasn't been integrated into Poser long ago.

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Essentially it allows you to modify the area of influence a bone has on a mesh and furthermore allows you to set the fall-off of that influence...

* *

I think it was Lightwave 8 that introduced a "Weight Brush" which allowed even more control over the influence.

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I've only got up to Version 8 in Lightwave but I suspect that it's been even further refined in later versions."

Tom

Weight Mapping has been around for at least a decade as far as I know...I started using it in Lightwave 7 and it probably existed before that...It's pretty old technology... I'm actually a little surprised that it hasn't been integrated into Poser long ago.

Essentially it allows you to modify the area of influence a bone has on a mesh and furthermore allows you to set the fall-off of that influence...

I think it was Lightwave 8 that introduced a "Weight Brush" which allowed even more control over the influence.

I've only got up to Version 8 in Lightwave but I suspect that it's been even further refined in later versions.

As for Giving up Poser...meh...I only open it every couple of months as it is...so I have no real investment in it either way.

Blazing fast here...

Chrome

I'm Sorry for your Loss...

Perhaps this will cheer you up a little.

http://youtu.be/sP4NMoJcFd4

My Local Wal-Mart recently painted the outside of the store Tan…And just when I thought it couldn’t get any worse…they changed the color of the floor tile and laid that cheap laminate simulated wood floor in the baby department…

I guess some other store is going to get my money from now on…unless they change it back to something more to my liking that is…

8 )

Tom 

I agree...Passengers,(Brothers or not) should speak only if spoken to during a police stop. I have a few cop friends and they say the best thing for a passenger to do is look forward, hands clearly visible (on knees perhaps), and say nothing unless asked...and even then... as little as possible.

It pisses cops off to have some armchair lawyer interrupting.

This thread prompted me to ask one of my cop friends about this when we were talking today...He said Passengers will ALWAYS do more harm than good if they try to "HELP".

Rule(s) of thumb.

Keep hands visible.

Do not volunteer any information.

 Do not answer the un-asked question(s).

Tom

Chrome working fine for me...Just adding info...Not slammin Browsers.

Tom

Wish I was going...I love going to SIGGRAPH. I agree...Vancouver would be a nice change.

Tom