[Josh Goldberg]

I managed a cheating little workaround on this in Motion 4. https://vimeo.com/122959628

I was inspired by the viral video “The Proof We are Soulmates” (https://vimeo.com/43457382) to try to get globes hanging from strings.

1. Create your “string”, a Bezier Line with several points (I made 5 for my test).

2. Make the Bezier Line rounded in the “roundness” setting in Inspector>Shape>Geometry. I set mine to 63

3. Apply the behavior “oscillate shape” to your Bezier Line. Here are my settings:

Wave Shape: Sine
Phase: 0
Amplitude 100 (beginning) 5 (end)
Speed 35 (beginning) 3 (end)
Origin -116, 6 (beginning) 0, 0 (end)

4. Play with the Origin location in the Behavior settings to get a nice swinging.

5. I set keyframes in the Amplitude, Speed and Origin to get it to almost 0 at 5 Seconds. This was to get the Globe to slowly settle.

6. Then I exported it as a QuickTime film with Alpha, and re-imported the resulting film. I put it in its own Group called Import String Group. Deactivate the Original String Group. (You could just delete it, since if all goes well, you won’t need it anymore.)

7. I made a blue circle as a new shape, and for fun added some green “continents”. I put them in their own Group called Globe Group.

8. I used the Match Move Behavior on the Globe Group to set its movement to the end of the Bezier Line on the imported film and after analyzing…. voila!

There must be an easier/better way to do this. Would be pleased to hear about it!

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