• Maxon Cinema 4D

  xpresso help again (align to spline)

  Posted by Olly Bea on August 12, 2009 at 1:28 pm

  Hey all

  I need some help with xpresso if someone could oblige.

  I have 5 cubes and a circular spline. I have attached an align-to-spline tag on each cube using the circular spline. Cube 1 is placed at 10%, cube 2 is placed at 20%, cube 3 is placed at 30% etc… I would like to be able to animate the position percentage of one of the cubes so that they all maintain their spatial relationship.

  How can I do this?

  Many thanks in advance

  Olly

  Olly Bea replied 16 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Adam Trachtenberg

  August 12, 2009 at 3:02 pm

  Easiest way to do it:

  Click on the first object’s align tag and then right-click on the offset paramter.

  From the flyout menu, choose Animation>Set Driver.

  Deselect that tag and then shift-click the other align tags.

  Right-click on the offset parameter and choose Animation>Set Driven (relative).

  That’s it.

  Open the Xpresso tag that was created if you want to see what’s going on behind the scenes.
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  Olly Bea

  August 12, 2009 at 3:58 pm

  Amazing thanks, it would have taken a long time to explain that using xpresso.

  You are a genius!

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