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  • xpresso help again (align to spline)

    Posted by Olly Bea on August 12, 2009 at 1:28 pm

    Hey all

    I need some help with xpresso if someone could oblige.

    I have 5 cubes and a circular spline. I have attached an align-to-spline tag on each cube using the circular spline. Cube 1 is placed at 10%, cube 2 is placed at 20%, cube 3 is placed at 30% etc… I would like to be able to animate the position percentage of one of the cubes so that they all maintain their spatial relationship.

    How can I do this?

    Many thanks in advance

    Olly

    Olly Bea replied 16 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Adam Trachtenberg

    August 12, 2009 at 3:02 pm

    Easiest way to do it:

    Click on the first object’s align tag and then right-click on the offset paramter.

    From the flyout menu, choose Animation>Set Driver.

    Deselect that tag and then shift-click the other align tags.

    Right-click on the offset parameter and choose Animation>Set Driven (relative).

    That’s it.

    Open the Xpresso tag that was created if you want to see what’s going on behind the scenes.

  • Olly Bea

    August 12, 2009 at 3:58 pm

    Amazing thanks, it would have taken a long time to explain that using xpresso.

    You are a genius!

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