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Follow different objects or apply the position
by Yafes Altun on Jun 28, 2008 at 10:34:31 pm

Hi guys,

i have about 9 objects, object1 starts doing his movements and i want that a light is following it. Which seems to be very easy, but after 10 frames i want to indicate the light to follow object 2. Can someone give me some hints? Maybe i searched with the wrong keywords for it.

Thank you very much.

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Re: Follow different objects or apply the position
by Mike Park on Jun 28, 2008 at 11:07:16 pm

It seems as if you want the target of the light to track the 9 objects in sequence. Sometimes the simplist solutions are the easiest.
You could kust duplicate the light 9 times, keyframe the intensity of the various lights to come on as the prior one goes off and then simply pickwip and parent the light target position to the position of the elements they are tracking.

This will be much faster and easier than trying to figure out an expression to handle changing position targets or look at targets for a simple need. But, I am not an expression guru either.

Hope this helps

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Re: Follow different objects or apply the position
by Yafes Altun on Jun 29, 2008 at 7:37:24 am

Hi Mike,

thank you for your help :) you are right with that, the solution is pretty simple and i will try to do it now, like you described.

thank you ;)



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