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  • Ball Bouncing again

    Posted by Alessandro Lucchini on April 15, 2011 at 3:32 pm

    Hi all.

    I need to animate a bouncing ball through a maze, with obstacles and so on.
    Everything went ok so far, tweaking Dan Ebberts’s expression about bouncing and squashing that I found here, but when it came to have the ball bounce between a floor and a ceiling, i don’t know what to do.

    Any ideas?

    Thanks.

    Alessandro Lucchini replied 15 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Jason Mettler

    April 15, 2011 at 4:42 pm

    In the expressions, is there a way to limit the pixel range for top and bottom movement?

  • Alessandro Lucchini

    April 15, 2011 at 4:50 pm

    There’s a “floor” value, which is the y at which the ball bounces up again, but no upper limit. It should be enough finding a way to switch from an absolute cosine like function to some kind of sawtooth, and then back again.

  • Jason Mettler

    April 15, 2011 at 6:35 pm

    Here’s a tutorial that goes over the Sine wave math for AE. It’s quite rambling and he makes a lot of mistakes that get corrected later but, nonetheless, it’s quite informative. You may get some ideas.

    https://twurl.nl/7h6s72

  • Alessandro Lucchini

    April 18, 2011 at 9:37 am

    Thank you very much, it won’t be easy but i think i can get some ideas from that.

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