Adjusting the Anchor(Axis) Point of Selected Polygons

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Adjusting the Anchor(Axis) Point of Selected Polygons
by Jason Connolly on Oct 5, 2004 at 9:20:02 pm

Hello the COW!

Gotta simple question I think. I'm modeling a simple book that I need to animate the cover opening. However, i can't seem to figure out how to adjust the anchor point of the polygons that make up the cover of the book. Click this link for screen grab.

Do I really need to purchase a plug-in just to do this?

Thanks very much in advance!

Cheers, Jason

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Re: Adjusting the Anchor(Axis) Point of Selected Polygons
by Tuan Nguyen on Oct 5, 2004 at 10:56:02 pm

You have serve choices:

1. Buy the commercial plug-in by Astrofish to animate bsed on the axis location.
2. You could make the cover a separate object. Move the axis to pivot where you need it to.
3. Use a bone and restict just the polygon that make up the front cover to this bone.

I am sure there are other ways, but that should get you started.

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Re: Adjusting the Anchor(Axis) Point of Selected Polygons
by Adam Trachtenberg on Oct 6, 2004 at 4:26:49 am

You're going to want to use bones for this. You can move the axis to rotate the polys, but PLA animation is linear so the pages will get shorter as they rotate. You can also use deformers--there's a tutorial on Maxon's site.

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Re: Adjusting the Anchor(Axis) Point of Selected Polygons
by Jason Connolly on Oct 6, 2004 at 2:33:31 pm

Thanks very much for the tips, guys!

Cheers, Jason

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