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Stephen Harrison
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On Fri, 22 Sep 1995, Ken VanBrocklin wrote:

>
> >Stan Shumlick wrote:
> >Here is one that has me kinda stumped. I have a sphere that I need a line
> >or tube to extrude over time around the curvature of my shpere. I have
> >tried a simple morph from a small version of my tube to the finished
> >version of my tube (which has the correct curvature). What I get is a
> >tube that is curved that grows instead of extrudes.
>
>  What you need to do is a combination morph and clip map. The clip map is
> actually a animation of black to white (or vice versa depending wich
> direction the object grows)for however many frames you want the tube to
> grow.  Create the  clip map image sequence in lightwave.Just set the
> background to black(should be there at default) make a rectangle in modeler
> in the face view.Load it in LightWave, set the surface to white and 100%
> luminosity, position it so it completly fills the screen. create a key for
> the last frame af the anim. now move the object left or right depending on
> which way you want the clipmap to move, and position it so it just leaves
> the screen.Create a key at frame 0. This should give you a black to white
> wipe across your screen, which is what wou want for the clipmap sequence.
> You can render this out using limited region set to around 10 pixels(might
> be less) high by 752 wide. Should take about 2 sec. a frame to render, kind
> of fun to watch if your bored.
> Back in Layout, take the tube objects you allready created for the morph.
> Leave the tube morphed at 100% and apply the clip map to the tube object.
> (not the morph target) This should give you the effect of the tube growing
> over the time of the clipmap image sequence. You may have to fiddle with
> start and stop locations of the clipmap box to get the sequence to time out
> right, but it should work.
>   Good luck.
> I tried to explain the same thing, only you did a much better job of
  it.;) Stephen

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