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Zoom down a tube
Posted by Richard Dewick on January 17, 2008 at 4:07 pmI’m looking to create the effect of zooming down a tube/cable and coming out at a server. Does someone know of a tutorial or is this the wrong software all together?
Thanks
RichardAdam Trachtenberg replied 18 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 8 Replies -
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Adam Trachtenberg
January 17, 2008 at 5:58 pmPretty easy to do in Cinema. Create your tube using a sweepNURBS object (extruding a circle spline along a path spline). Then create a camera and give it an “align-to-spline” tag, referencing the path. Then animate the tag’s offset parameter.
AdamT
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Richard Dewick
January 17, 2008 at 6:36 pmThat’s easy for you to say Adam 🙂 You’re talking to someone who can successfully produce a 4D logo and make it spin and rotate! Do you know of an example I can see so I know we’re talking about the same thing?
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Adam Trachtenberg
January 18, 2008 at 1:42 am[Richard Dewick] “That’s easy for you to say Adam 🙂 You’re talking to someone who can successfully produce a 4D logo and make it spin and rotate! Do you know of an example I can see so I know we’re talking about the same thing?”
I gotcha. 😉
Hopefully this will make it clearer:
https://www.3danvil.com/tutorials/tunnel_fly/tunnel_fly.html
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Adam Trachtenberg
January 18, 2008 at 1:50 ambtw, in case the bit with the null was confusing, I used it so the camera would look ahead as it followed the path rather than turning religiously. If I was less lazy I’d have made the path spline longer than the tunnel so the null could maintain the same offset throughout the animation.
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Richard Dewick
January 28, 2008 at 12:13 pmThanks for the tutorial Adam that’s great. Could you recommend a professional who could take this one stage further?
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Adam Trachtenberg
January 29, 2008 at 10:06 pm[Richard Dewick] “Thanks for the tutorial Adam that’s great. Could you recommend a professional who could take this one stage further?”
Further? You mean as in expanding the tutorial or as in doing actually doing a project?
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Richard Dewick
January 30, 2008 at 10:16 amActually doing the project Adam, I need a professional job so my skills aren’t up to scratch!
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Adam Trachtenberg
February 1, 2008 at 4:09 am[Richard Dewick] “Actually doing the project Adam, I need a professional job so my skills aren’t up to scratch!”
Gotcha. In that case I would recommend … myself. 🙂 If you like you can contact me off-list at adamt ( at ) 3danvil ( dot ) com. If not me, and depending on the job, I can probably recommend someone else.
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