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  Rotating Animated Objects in Cinema4D

  Posted by Gareth Wood on July 28, 2010 at 1:28 pm

  Hi, I have a Cinema4D 11 question.

  I’ve used keyframes to animate a ball that bounces along a street. I’d like to make copies of it in order to have lots of balls going in different directions. Is there any way of flattening the animation so i can rotate not only the object but also the animation path?

  Many thanks

  Gareth Wood replied 15 years, 9 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  Adam Trachtenberg

  July 28, 2010 at 2:47 pm

  You can bake the animation using the Timeline>Function>Bake Objects command, but that will create a key on every frame which uses a lot of RAM.

  Instead, you might want to use Tools>Animation mode. That allows you to move and rotate animated objects *and* their animation paths at the same time.
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  Cactus Dan

  July 28, 2010 at 2:48 pm

  Howdy,

  You could put the ball under a parent Null object, and rotate the Heading of the Null object. This would give you a different direction.

  Remember that all animation keys are in local coordinate space, so the ball’s animation would be local to it’s parent Null in the above scenario.

  Adios,
  Cactus Dan

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  Cactus Dan

  July 28, 2010 at 2:53 pm

  Howdy,

  Oh, cool. I didn’t know about that one.

  Adios,
  Cactus Dan

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  http://www.cactus3d.com
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  Gareth Wood

  July 30, 2010 at 8:03 am

  Thanks Cactus Dan! That did the trick. Many thanks to everyone else who replied too, what a great forum!

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