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A question about timing?
Hi Im relatively new to c4d and I have a question about timing. In c4d i have a 3d text scene which i track a camera into which is one project then i have an explosion scene in another project what i want to do is merge the explosion scene with the text scene but i want the explosion to happen at the end of the text scene but it always happens at the start how can i get it to happen at the end. e.g. can i move elements about like in a non linear editing timeline?
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Pretty much yes. Your explosion has keyframes …just move them later in the timeline.
I would right click on the explosion in the object manager (default top right) and choose “show tracks” then move the keyframes to where you want them.
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Thanks for the quick response all the best Emmet
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what happes if there are no key frames the explosion has no key frames?
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Is your explosion animated? or does it just break a apart your text and not change over time?
If its animated there are key frames. If it just breaks your object up you need to animate it.If you click on the Explosion object then look in the attribute manager (default bottom right) in the Object tab there is a Time percentage. Mine defualts to 10% 0 puts your object back together…100 blows everything long gone.
Right click on the little circle to the left of the word time.
You can then see show track, or add key frames.
The little circle will be red if it already has a keyframe./randy
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The explosion is quite complicated i downloaded the scene files from c4d cafe it dosent use the explosion deformer its got xpresso pyroclusters turblence and emmitters and all sorts going on thats why i nicked it from the web site, any way all i need to do is get it to explode at frame 100 instead of frame 0?
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Haha good to know…cant really help with out seeing the file.
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sorry to bother you again this is a link to the scene files if you want to have a look?
https://www.black-and-white-to-color.com/ipbsfx/index.php?download=18
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The in and out points are in the Bottom NULL Object.
Double click the expresso tag and when you hightlight the “ACTION TIMER”
Under all the coffee code it says: Start time and under that end time…those are your controls./randy
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Thanks a lot thats working for me now, time to start blowing stuff up.
All the best Emmet -
glad to hear it.
randy
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