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  • Motion Controlling Stroke end %. possible?

    Posted by Vishal Medepalli on June 24, 2011 at 1:42 pm

    I’m currently working on a project where i need to control the stroke end percentage based on a motion of a hand. I stroke animated the strings of a guitar in a footage where the person moves his hands over the frets.. now i want to animate in such a way that the guitar strings ( which are strokes.. ) follow the motion of the hand, [which i want to achieve through changing the value of end % of a stroke from (50% – 100%)] ? is there nyway to achieve this

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    Vishal Medepalli replied 14 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Michael Szalapski

    June 24, 2011 at 2:07 pm

    It would probably be better to just keyframe it by hand. That is, unless it’s a really long shot.

    It might be possible to set up an expression that calculates the distance between two things (a null with motion tracking data and another null on the neck of the guitar) and translate that to an amount for the stroke, but it could be a bit involved.
    I’d recommend posting this question in the Expressions forum.

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  • Vishal Medepalli

    June 24, 2011 at 3:36 pm

    thank you for the suggestion. Its a 10 sec shot, but has lot of hand movement. key framing it by hand? i guess i dont have that much time. I’ll better try posting in the expression forum. thanks again. 🙂

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