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  • Time = Rotation

    Posted by Nick Anarky on February 26, 2011 at 5:05 pm

    Hey guys and gals,

    I have a question. I’m doing an animation that involves spinning tops and i wanted to know if there was a way I could set up maybe an Expresso so that for every 25 frames that passed it automatically span 720°. Does anyone know if this is possible and how I’d do it?

    Thanks in advance

    Nick Anarky replied 15 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Brian Jones

    February 26, 2011 at 8:29 pm

    Here is a simple setup. Just multiplying the Frame (from a Time node) by a Constant (28.8 because 720/25=28.8) then running that through a Degree node (because the calculation will give us degrees and the rotation port of the cube it’s being passed into expects Radians) then passing that into the Cube’s Rotation.H port.

    It’s not the only way it’s just a simple way. To make it spin at different rates just increase/decrease the value in the Constant node.

    1681_xpressospinsimple.c4d.zip

  • Nick Anarky

    February 27, 2011 at 11:51 am

    Cheers dude.
    I found a simpler way though. Just connected a Time node to a Condition node to a Range Mapper with a degree output.

    I’ll give yours ago too, will probably give me more control over the speed.

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