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Dumb Beginner Question
I’ve been working with this program for about 8 years and I can’t believe I am having trouble with this!!
I have a closed oval spline. I want a car to travel along the spline (tangentially… car always facing the direction of travel) Pretty easy. Align to Path.
BUT!! I want the car to continue for more than one revolution… Pretty Easy… Loop the Animation or I guess it’s REPEAT in v. 10.
BUT!! I want the car to start slowly and ease into the move. And at some point I want the car to speed up. If I loop… the ease function is repeated and the car slows down at the 0 mark and starts again. And I can’t control the overall speed.
I have tried to use a Time Track but that doesn’t seem to work. Once you reach 100%… you’re done.
The Offset on Align to Spline only allows for 100% which means one revolution around the track.
I have tried to key frame it but there is always a little “bump” as I go from 100% back to the next keyframe. The next keyframe is never 1% it is some decimal that is impossible to calculate for a perfectly smooth transition.
I have used the Cloner object with 1 Clone, a Spline Effector which allows for any % beyond 100%. This is great.. the car just Zips along.
BUT!!!!! I have a camera target attached to the car. This target DOESN’T move with cloned car. It stays in it’s original position.
This should be simple. How do I get the car to move tangentially around my oval spline multiple times so that I can use a time track to control the speed?
If I had any hair left I would tear it out of my head.
Thanks for your patience!
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2 Replies
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You could do a little XPresso setup to control the continuous movements, but you can also replace the circle by a flat helix spline. This will allow you to use the 0-100% position animation to animate several driving circles.
Kind regards,
Arndt von Koenigsmarckhttps://www.vreel-3d.de
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