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Maintaining a perpendicular position
I’d like to animate a conveyor belt that would keep an object perpendicular to the belt as it moves around a pulley. I believe I say a tutorial someplace that showed how to do this. Any idea where I might the tutorial or can you help me create this effect.
Thanks!!
Jim Collins
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2 Replies
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Hi there,
First thoughts are that you could build the belt out of segments. So you build one segment and have it’s position and rotation animated so it goes around in a loop. Then duplicate this a bunch of times and offset each duplicate’s timing in the timeline so they are no longer on top of each other.
Then, take your object and place it on one segment of the belt. Then parent it to that segment and it should follow and stay perpendicular.
Haven’t actually tried that out.. I’d wait around for a few more posts as there are a lot of people much more experienced than me!
If I haven’t explained it well let me know.
John
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John may have something going but I do recall Dan from the COW’s AE Expressions forum doing a ferris wheel effect which is very close to what you want.
Sorry, but my AE is busy and I’ve had way too may beers. So,Dan’s the man for now.
Cheers!!!!!!!
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