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- Mark A Gosine wrote:
- >I may be over looking the obvious.
- >The answer to my following question may be "..get Lock & Key".
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- I havent used Lock & Key but it may be teh way to go.
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- > The problem is that I have two rings parented to a null as shown:
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- -- --
- -- -- --
- -- -- --
- -- -- --
- + -- Right -- Front
- -- Side -- View
- -- -- --
- -- -- --
- -- -- --
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- > When the null rotates its heading, the rings rotate with it. The
- > illusion produced is that the rings are rolling on thier center with
- > the edges remaining always in contact. The edges remain connected at
- > the same spot, but it appears as if the rings' edges are rolling as
- > two warbling mill stones. (ie. as in the containment rings in the
- > Superman movies.) This is not the problem, or maybe it is...
- > I now wish to have my lightning bolts arch from a ring edge to near
- > a stationary object close to the null (say a letter in a logo) for
- > about 30 frames. I can lock down the one end of the lightning bolt to
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- > the letter, but the other end of the bolt is the problem. With the
- > rings actually rotating only around thier center, and not rolling, I
- > can't track the end of the bolt to the ring's edge. I tried using
- > morphing techniques (Although, I will use morphing to make the bolts
- > crawl and jump), bones, a combo. I even tried rolling the rings, but
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- > this doesn't allow the two edges to remain in contact at all times,
- > and I think I would still have the lightning bolt problem regardless.
- > Any Idears??
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- If your only dealing with 30 frames you may want to try adding the
- lightning bolts later.
- I have WinImages by BlackBelt, they have a very good lightning bolt
- generator that
- may do just what your after. You could go in and add the bolts by hand to
- each frame,
- or you could let WinImages do the whole sequence for you. Just setup your
- first and last
- frames lightning characteristics, and WinImages will TRY to tween in the
- rest of the frames.
- Depending on your motion, it seems to do a good job. I did a logo for a
- local hobby shop
- where I had bolts of electricity blast out there logo from a block of wood.
- I used a animated
- clip map to reveal there logo that was hidden within a slightly larger
- block. I set up WinImages
- to track the first,middle and last frames of the clip map wipe and sat back
- and watched the fun.
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- I hope this helps.
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- Ken Van Brocklin
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