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Finding center of object with PLA animation
Hi,
I’m trying to make an animation where text is inside a bubble that’s floating around and eventually pops (to reveal the undistorted text). I’ve created the bubble and have it animating the way I want. Because I wanted it to pop, I used a cloth tag, not realizing the difficulties I would have with trying to get the text to move with the cloth-tagged bubble object. I finally figured out a way to get it to move with the bubble….kind of. I baked the bubbles animation with PLA keyframes. Then, using Xpresso, I fed the bubble’s object node into a point node and fed that into the text’s global position. Obviously, this works to a degree in that my text is now moving with my bubble. But, it also is (obviously) moving with the points on bubble’s surface. What I really want is to figure out a way to get it to move inside the bubble. Is there a way to offset the position, or find the center of all the points so that I can parent the text to that?
Thank you!
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2 Replies
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perhaps it would be easier to get the text to float around like you’d want then sync the bubble to that
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Hmmm…how would I do that so the bubble still pops and follows dyamics?
Thanks!
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