Now, I thought this would simple(ish); animating the unrolling of a roll of a coil of paper. You know, you place a roll of wallpaper or document down and it unrolls across the table. I thought I could do this with a coiled up geometry and use the cloth solver. It sort of works but does flop about. Anybody got any ideas, or done this before? Cheers

Might help:
http://forums.odforce.net/index.php?/topic/6181-unroll-the-surface/page__pid__47448__st__0&#entry47448 [forums.odforce.net]

check out this file, it uses bones if I remember that correctly!
Oh yeah and I picked this one up on odforce a while ago, don't know who the credit goes to
cheers!

I will give it ago. Thank you for the prompt reply while interesting the bone one is a bit odd!