"MoGraph - Part I - Cloner" tutorial question
by alex kogan
on
Jan 30, 2009 at 4:21:52 pm
Hello,
MoGraph - Part I - Cloner is very nice and clear tutorial, except 1 thing i cant figure out.
In the spline object part, cone (arrowhead) is moving along the spline, as the result of clone's "end" parameter animation (at 15:06) - i cant make that work..
Could anyone please help me with that?
Re: "MoGraph - Part I - Cloner" tutorial question by Brian Jones on Jan 31, 2009 at 3:53:24 am
The cloner with the pyramid should be simple enough. I suspect the tricks are:
- the helix is used twice, once for the cloner - once for the arrow
- he uses a spline tag for the Cone (Arrow) and animates the cone along the helix and matches the Align to Spline's 'Position' parameter to match the Cloner's 'End' parameter
- set the Cone's Orientation to +Z and Check 'Tangential' and set Axis to Z in the Align to Spline tag
- the Helix should be set to Uniform (makes it easier to match the timing along the spline)
Re: "MoGraph - Part I - Cloner" tutorial question by alex kogan on Feb 2, 2009 at 10:57:48 am
Thank you very much for reply
I suspected that it animated separately, but thought that may be there is some trick to animate the arrowhead through the cloner start/end parameter.
