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Trying to add a cube, please help
I’m trying to add a couple of cubes as I want to design a pair of dice, however I can’t find a cube generator and designing my own in 3D space is proving a bit difficult.
Is there a cube generator inside motion? or Is there a way to group together six squares so that they all move in the correct manner? Or do I simply have to sit down and work out the individual movement for each square?
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Sorry, no cube generator. If it where me, for dice. I would Create a square and your dots in a group. Add a camera so you can change to perspective camera, so you can change the angle of the camera to see if everything is lining up right. Duplicate the group and adjust the dots and then rotate it and change it’s position so it lines up against the first group. In theory you would end up with 6 groups. Place those groups in one group and animate the main group to animate the dice. Hope I made sense.
You could also take a look at Zaxwerks. https://zaxwerks.com/proanimatorfx/index.shtml
Check out my Motion Training DVD
Check out my Motion Tutorials
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https://freemotiontemplates.com/?p=10
T.J. Imbrigiotta
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You make perfect sense Stephen! 🙂 Unfortunately I think I’m too much of a novice to follow your instructions, working in 3D makes my head hurt and probably will do for a while. Thanks for that link, I’m going to check that out.
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I’ve used it a couple of times over the years with the drop zones…usually to show a rotating news bug.
T.J. Imbrigiotta
Envision Communications, Inc.
Washington DC
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You need to meet Mark Spencer. He’ll be your savior.
Here’s a whole page of his tutorials:
https://www.applemotion.net/macbreak-studio/
You’ll be interested most particularly with this one:
Building 3D Objects
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Wow! Thanks Thomas that’s pretty incredible that it’s free, I’ve downloaded and will use.
And Thanks Mark for those tutorial links, the tutorials I have are good, but pretty basic.
Once more I’m left with a warm glow thanks to the Creative Cow guys.
Cheers
aka Newbie Wan Kenewbie. “The young Newbie, is now a Padawon.”
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Mac Pro 2.8Gb quad core
8Gb RAM
1x 320Gb 7200 hardrive
1x 1Tb 7200 hardrive
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Panasonic AG-HVX 200
Firestore FS-100 -
Hi Thomas, hopefully you’re still subscribed to this thread, I was wondering if you could help me, that link that you sent me for the dice motion template, I downloaded it but I’m left with an executable file that I can’t unzip or do anything with.
What am I meant to do with the file?
Many thanks
aka Newbie Wan Kenewbie. “The young Newbie, is now a Padawon.”
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Mac Pro 2.8Gb quad core
8Gb RAM
1x 320Gb 7200 hardrive
1x 1Tb 7200 hardrive
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1x 1Tb external WD ‘My Book’ eSataEquipment
Panasonic AG-HVX 200
Firestore FS-100 -
Pretty easy to do in Blender, you might want to add it to the toolbox.
Scott Sheriff
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I am hoping somebody could chime in on this one.
I created cube in motion using 6 squares and aligning them up.
But for some reason, when rotating them or using camera to show several sides of the cubes, I encounter random artifact that appears to be a line.
This seem to be coming from the hidden sides of the cube which should not be appearing since, it is supposed to be 3D. For example, when I uncheck the objects that constitutes hidden sides of the cube, artifacts disappear. But then, I could not do the 360 rotation with it.
Sorry, I don’t know how else to explain, but I am looking for the solution for this one urgently.
Did somebody here have same experience as I did?
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