Checking the simulation with a Playblast

As we increase the quality of the simulation, the playback will be slower and…slower in the viewport,…to the point where we may not be able to correctly evaluate whether the…animation is moving at the right speed. Currently what I've done is I…have increased the Max Collision Iterations up to 40 in order to…illustrate the problem.…You'll see that my frame rate here is hovering around 10 frames per second.…It's hard for me to evaluate this, and to be able to tell whether or not this is…running at the right speed.…

What I'll do is just simply make a Playblast. I'll rewind back to frame 1, and…I'll go into the Window menu > Playblast, and let's go into the Options for that…Playblast. This will just render a temporary movie out.…I'm on Windows, so I want to use the avi format.…You actually can use QuickTime; maybe we'll do that instead.…I am going to choose a compressor, and since this is just a temporary movie, it…doesn't really matter what compressor we use.…I'll choose H.264, and just turn up the Quality.…