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From: "David E. Tin Nyo" <[e-mail]>
To: Frank Aalbers <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: LOCK & KEY
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On Tue, 19 Sep 1995, Frank Aalbers wrote:

> Just one other question ... If you use this Plug-in in a scene will
> the wole movements be saved in the scene file ?
>
> I need to know this for if I want to make a scene using LOCK&KEY and
> then port it to IMPACT to make other animation effects . Is this
> possible ?

The Plug-in itself will load and save with a scene, but the
motion effects are computed on a frame-by-frame basis.
That is, you could define a motion with LOCK & KEY and save the
scene; when you re-loaded the scene, the settings for Lock & Key
would be restored, but you would actually have to evaluate
the frame to compute the motion (move to the frame, render the frame,
or preview the frame).

IMPACT would not be able to read a scene file saved with LOCK & KEY
and deduce the motions of affected items.  Of course, it will be
able to read the motions of unaffected items.

I have two suggestions if you want to combine both tools:

1) You could run LOCK & KEY and create a key frame on every affected
   frame for every item that is LOCK & KEY'd.  This is tedious but
   effectively removes the plugin from the scene.  We were actually
   thinking of using this method to create scenes that we could
   distribute as demos.

2) Run IMPACT first.  You wouldn't be able to compute effects on
   items moved by LOCK & KEY, but you could do some neat things by
   "locking" to items that have been moved by IMPACT.

-dave-
Meme-X
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