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    Mograph Tracer of Objects quick help

    Posted by Todd Jaspers on November 25, 2008 at 7:22 pm

    Hello Everyone, I want to have a point of a globe that shoots arrows with a tracer in a bunch of different directions almost randomly.

    I followed this tutorial.
    https://sketchypictures.com/tutorials/cinema_4d_tutorials/dotted_lines/dotted_lines.html

    And it works great for one line or path. But what if I wanted a bunch of different paths, shooting out of one point and the lines going in all different directions. I was playing with using this tutorial, then duplicating it a bunch of different times, but it is getting to be too much work for something that can be kinda rough and random.

    I tried to create a particle emitter(not thinking particles, just a regular emitter) that emits the objects that I want traced, but the tracer won’t follow them. I know people are using thinking particles to have traced, but I am not that familiar with that method.

    Anyone got any ideas. Basically one point on a globe that shoots arrows in all different directions from that point.

    Thanks

    -T

    Todd Jaspers replied 17 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Adam Trachtenberg

    November 26, 2008 at 12:40 am

    Just drag the emitter itself into the tracer’s “trace link” box.

  • Todd Jaspers

    November 26, 2008 at 5:40 pm

    Thanks Adam, that was it.

    -T

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