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  • Animating a Straight line Changing to a Circle

    Posted by Tony Barone on August 13, 2013 at 8:00 pm

    Any suggestions on how I might be able to animate a straight line to a circle, back to a straight line?
    Preferably with a Sweep Spline.

    Now the problem is, I need the circle to be produced from a straight line, from the center of the straight line, so as if the straight line is splitting in half at the center to make a circle.

    Any ideas?

    Tony Barone replied 12 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Brian Jones

    August 13, 2013 at 10:29 pm

    with enough subdivisions in your straight spline you can just apply a Bend deformer to turn it into a circle and that can still be used to sweep along

  • Tony Barone

    August 14, 2013 at 7:09 pm

    Thanks for your help. I was able to finally achieve what I was looking for by creating 2 half-circles with a MoSpline, and Spline…. little complicated to explain, so if anyone is interested, I’ve attached my file!

    6407_indicator.c4d.zip

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