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Inheritance effector?
Hi
I’m using a Mograph Text object, and I’m trying to move the individual letters, each following the same spline path, but staggered in time by several frames. (I want them to maintain their relative positions, not run in sequence along a spline like the Spline Effector would do.) I tried an inheritance effector applied to the letters tab of the text object, referencing a cube I had animated along the spline using align to spine tag. Using Direct mode the text moves as a whole; and animation mode only works with keyframed movement (right? please confirm). But animation mode is the only place with access to the step gap.Here’s a link to a file–so instead of just a linear movement of the letters, I want them to follow a more sinuous route.
https://www.tomottoe.com/TextObject_ztransform.c4dthanks!
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4 Replies
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You could place some additional effectors in between the start and destination points to break up the direct path.
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how about this–is there any way to convert my cube’s movement along the spline to keyframes? I could do it by hand but is there a command in the timeline or somewhere that will do it automatically?
–t
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Yep — Timeline>Functions>Bake Object.
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Hi,
I have the very same problem, I want each letter to orbit (not rotate) half circle and come in the final position. I tried with the same setup (referencing a cube moving along a spline), but Inheritance Effector needs keyframes (right? please, confirm). Ok, I can bake it, but then if I scale the cube from 0 to 100% I get the letters scaled AND their relative position scaled too ( that is in the beginning of the animation all letters occupy the same point) as if I was scaling the spline. Same with rotation: all starting points are rotated, not just the letters. Is there a way to scale, rotate, the reference object and the letters behave in the very same way of the reference itself? Is there a way to do it better (and with less keyframes) with Xpresso? In this case how I would delay each letter?Thanks
Corrado Carlevaro
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