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  • Effector – Specific destination?

    Posted by Craig Whitaker on September 19, 2011 at 9:51 pm

    Hey everyone,

    A last minute change has left me a bit stumped, hoping for some assistance. I have 50 objects that form a very specific pattern (arrow) that need to travel around a circle spline, imagine the recycle symbol spinning around the z axis. They also need to fly in organically, then swarm to form this very specific pattern/alignment. I was using spline effectors with falloff to have the cloned objects fill the shape/volume of the arrow. Now, they have to form a pattern. Any and all suggestions are greatly appreciated.

    Best,
    Craig

    Craig Whitaker replied 14 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Brian Jones

    September 20, 2011 at 3:48 am

    You have the shape but the objects are not flying there?

  • Craig Whitaker

    September 20, 2011 at 12:06 pm

    Hey Brian,

    I think I may have found a solution. Picture an arrow filled with 50 objects but in a grid like pattern, five rows of twenty. I drew an arrow spline and added a bunch of vertices where each cloned ball needs to appear. For the tip of the arrow, I have a second cloner setup in a pyramid shape with three vertices. Both clones are set to object clone onto the combined arrow spline with a follow spline tag….which then in conjunction with a spline wrap, spins them around the circle….whew! Haha.

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