I decided to wander into the cloth room and see what the party is like over there.  I read a couple of the tutorials here on renderosity and figured I'd just try and see what happens.  

I have a conforming skirt that I thought I would try and 'clothify'.  It sure would look better in this laying down pose if it draped instead of stood up in the air.

Anyway so now I am at the part of calculating the simulation.  

Is that the final step?

Right now in the 'Dynamics Status' it says:  Draping... 2005 and some other randomly changing numbers.  

What do those numbers represent?  The bar is completely full as it would be if a render was all the way finished.  But it doesn't show any sign of stopping soon.  Just keeps going and going.

I only did this with 9 frames because I wanted to just see what happened.  Last night I tried with 30 frames and after an hour or so of this same Dynamic Status just going up and up and never giving me a clue what was going on or when it would finish I cancelled it.  

I realize asking how long it usually takes is not going to give me much info since op systems and ram are all different.  But I'm curious for SOME input so:  How long does this part usually take?

What do those numbers mean?  Are they just mystery numbers meant to keep you guessing like the 'recalculating splines' message in The Sims?

I am:  aka Velocity3d