Corrado Carlevaro
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Hi,
thank you for your reply; you’re right, but it’s just the sample image of C4D Manual so I thought everybody knew.
I never found an explanation or a tutorial pointing me in the right direction; the manual just says “made with 2 primitives” (!) and I believe cloner object properties alone are not enough for this
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That is strange. I always have arrows, if you mean XYZ axis in each object’s center, no matter which mode I’m in. How can you move objects if not grabbing them from those arrows (a part numeric value in object attributes)? And before you were talking about bounding boxes when you where supposed to be NOT in object mode, while I’ve bounding boxes ONLY in Object mode. Maybe not useful but also try to load standard or startup layout
Corrado Carlevaro
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Maybe you are in Point, Edge or Polygon mode instead of… what’s the name… Object mode? First icon top left? 2 black perpendicular arrows with orange triangle? Just guessing…
Corrado carlevaro
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Yes, I had all tracks needed, it just looks like it had something to do with Key mode or F-curve mode in the timeline: I mean, if I am in Key mode I can copy/paste everything everywhere, but if I am in F-curve mode I can’t understand the logic, it looks like I can’t paste keyframes on different tracks (X to Y of same object) or on different objects. Anyway, I’ll stick to Key mode, thank you very much.
Corrado Carlevaro
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Thank you Brian, I’m trying some workarounds with Costraints but so far the best I can achieve is not using joints at all, just Null and costraints (Aim, Up)
Corrado
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same problem here
corrado
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Thank you for your help
Corrado Carlevaro
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I put the letters axis in the middle bottom of the bounding box, shifted them horizontally, tweaked the falloff and got pretty much the effect I was looking for.
If you are telling me this is not a perfetc arc, good reason to try and make an Xpresso setup to move objects in sequence, from the tips you gave me or waiting for your setup.I saw a video of Chris Smith talking about Py4D in which the first example is a script to scale objects in sequence with spring effect, very easy to do with MoGraph, but could be a starting point for more complex movements.
One more question, if you can: I want the letters to have a little trail, 2 or 3 copies of the letter itself, kind of motion blur/ghost effect: I tried with a copy of the whole text and shifted it one frame forward but of course one frame is a too big gap to have the copy close enough, just behind the original. Any idea?
Thank you very much
Corrado Carlevaro
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The method Brian suggested is working cause the second Plain Effector is actually shifting the pivot, or perhaps shifting the letters respect to the pivot, anyway it works.
Animation Tool is a good tip too. Fortunately I baked the spline-aligned null manually, so I didn’t see the rotation issue.
Speaking about Xpresso (or even Py4D), is there a way to write some script behaving like Animation Mode of Inheritance Effector? Taking objects inside a list and apply them some kind of movement in sequence, with frame gap?
Question is: do you know where I can find some info about that?Thank you very much
Corrado Carlevaro
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Yes, I’ve been thinking to the Plain Effector but I knew you can shift the letter’s axis only inside the letter’s bounding box, so the arc was very little ( the rotation I meant is around the Z axis, so the arc is frontal and the letters shift on X axis). I still can’t figure out how the second Plain Effector can enlarge the arc instead of just shifting the letters, cause, as I told you, I don’t have C4D at the moment, but, if this is what is supposed to do, then this is what I was looking for.
I’ll try as soon as I can and let you know.
Thank you very muchcorrado carlevaro