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  • Setting a destination location using a null object?

    Posted by Thomas Hannen on March 14, 2011 at 8:42 pm

    Hi,

    I need to make a cross-hair animation (in 2D), pinpointing various locations on a map. Two lines (horizontal & vertical), and a square where the lines intersect, will fly in from the edges of the screen, pinpointing a map location.

    So far, I’ve been manually animating each location – setting the start and end positions of each object by hand.

    Is there a way that I could set a destination co-ordinate, using a Null Object, so that each time the lines fly in from the edges of the screen, they end up at the null object position? I’ve tried setting the line position by connecting them to the null object (using an Expression connected to the position coords), but it affects all keyframes in the track, not just the second keyframe.

    Any advice appreciated!

    Thomas Hannen replied 15 years, 2 months ago 61,428 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Thomas Hannen

    March 14, 2011 at 9:24 pm

    Great advice -many thanks!

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