help with a butterfly
by david lieberman
on
May 18, 2008 at 6:04:22 pm
hello,
I've got a composition of a butterfly. Inside the comp i'v emanipulate the wings to move like a butterfly. I then took the comp into a nother composition with the rest of the environment... i've parented the butterfly to a null and started moving it about... the Zrotation and postion have wiggle expressions which make it move very nicely. the problem is that as i move the null around, the butterfly sometimes looks like its flying in reverse mode (not moving in the direction of the head)
is there some way that i can use anchor point or anything like that, so when i move the butterfly it only moves head first? or do i need to simply key it to fit perfectly with the wiggles?
Re: help with a butterfly by david lieberman on May 18, 2008 at 6:07:31 pm
just thought- maybe is there some kind of expression which will sort of put the 'weight' on the anchor point, that way every time it rotates (with wiggle expression) the movement follows to wherever the weight is pointing?
Re: help with a butterfly by Ron Lindeboom on May 19, 2008 at 12:48:55 am
Hi David,
My apologies if this doesn't answer your question but I am starving and running out the door to go get something to eat -- Kathlyn and our daughter went to an opera in Los Angeles, so I've been home alone feeding cats. ;o)
There is an article/tutorial on butterflies in AE at
