How to stop an object from flipping along a Path Constraint. I have a pflow source traveling along a circle path. Half way along the path it flips shooting the particles the other direction.
View 4 RepliesI want an object to follow a spline path that is not planar.
I have to select the "follow" option in order to align the object to the path but I would like to maintain the object vertical.
i'm trying to generate a path constraint for text to create a Pf source to highlight the perimeter of the text. i have fused the text vertices together to generate a continuous path. however, when constraining the Pf source to the path it only follows one letter. any assistance would be grateful
View 4 Replies View RelatedHow can i rotate an object between specific frames that has a path constraint? Here's a rough (mouse) sketch of what i'm attempting to do:
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have problem with animating camera along a spline using path constraint. The spline has been spline normalized before added to the path constraint. Then I add besier floating to be able to slow down the camera.
The final camera seems to move not smoothly. This can notice especially when the camera are further away from the origin (0,0).
Some says it's because of Max's coordinates is not fine enough which can clearly proved when import autocad file which located very far from the origin into max and most vertex will be shifted from where it should be in Autocad.
How to do tile flipping animation? I looked every where on the net, low and high, but couldn't be able to find any tutorial for this kind of animation. I saw this in some ArchViz animation where tiles were flipping in air(to reveal walls ) and ground to construct house.
Here is a bit similar animation: [URL]
I was wondering if there was a way to make the Target Camera not flip to the opposite side; especially in such an abrupt way.My camera target is linked to a moving ball, the camera is not moving. So when the ball moves far enough, the camera will make a flip.Is there a way to control this camera behaviour or stop it all together?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI'm doing a walk cycle. and I have 2 feet. I have to manually switch in the numbers that result in a graph that is basically identical but with a horizontal and vertical flip.
instead of manually typing in the numbers I'd like to copy one set of keys and paste it onto the second foot. I know I can get a vertical flip by doing *=-1 but is there a way to get a horizontal flip also?
New to 3ds Max. Watched the movie on constraining to a path but it never showed how to create the path. What's the easiest method?
View 1 Replies View RelatedSo i started making my own rig and at the end when i was testing my clavicles i realized they dont move the bones so i went back to try and fix them by attaching the bone to the control using orientation constraint but because i already finished the rig, the constraint does nothing. Is there a way around this? I really dont want to start all over again.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI know how to use Link Constraint but I've yet to find anything on linking an object to the biped mid animation. I have a world link and the link constraint applied to the weapon but I can't get the arm to move to continue the animation. It's like the arm is stuck. I know it probably pertains to the World Link but don't know how I should handle this.
View 7 Replies View Relatedis there a way to show and use the transformation and rotation values of an object after using an path constraint e.g., without using another EulerXYZ in the stack? I know, i could use an ExposeTM, but i'd like to avoid this.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI want to morph an object based upon a look at constraint.
That is, assume object (A) has a look at constraint target object (B).
I want to morph object (C) to (A), based upon movement of (B).
Is this possible ?
The basic premise is that I've built a grid of 100x100 tiles and aim constrained them to a locator. Now I'm wondering if I could somehow attach an "area of effect" to the locator so that only the closest tiles aim at the locator and the rest lay unchanged?
View 5 Replies View RelatedWhen I record an animation in .avi using the Drive Constraint command here's what pops :
-The codec you selected to compress this AVI video stream cannot handle the current screen color depth and/or the graphics frame size. Please try another codec.
-Then I press OK and it records but the AVI file is empty and no video is watchable.
What can I do?
I'm using Autodesk Inventor 2012 ans a windows 7 64bit brand new computer with Nvidia graphic card.
I am trying to get the hand to write with a pencil. I pose the hand and fingers holding the pencil and constrain (parent constraint with offset) the pencil to the hand's wrist controller and freeze the pencil's translation attributes. When moving the wrist controller creating key frames or translating in the UI, the pencil does not follow the hand/fingers. There seems to be an offset with the pencil that get worse the farther I translate or rotate the wrist controller. I tried doing the same with just the fingers and getting the same result.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to use the spline IK system to animate a linked 'train' on a path.
There are 4 segments which are joined with a universal coupling. I can only get one segment to actually follow the path, as the others don't follow at all. I've attached my example file.
I am designing a vertical axis wind turbine just for some practice (just started using Inventor) and everything was going smoothly until I tried to "animate" it spinning. First, I set up a work plane that goes through the center of the structure, and then I clicked angle constraint "explicit reference vector." After watching several youtube videos, I figured that I should click on the work plane, click on another reference point, and then click another point that would be orthogonal to those two (right?). Well after I choose the first point, Inventor will only allow me to choose the center axis as the second option (which I think should be the third option).
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have a woman with her arms spread and a cloth starts follow a defined path around her and her arms.
Is there any way to do that in max?
So I have been trying to use path deform but it alters the shape of my path...? I try to line up the pathdeformed object back up with the original path and it's barely close I can't figure out why it changes my path....
View 1 Replies View RelatedWhat is the best workflow to create vehicle animation path for Civil View extension, when these path segments are not exported from Civil 3D, for example in intersections like in the picture of a simple case I attached. Do you create arcs in AutoCAD and then import them in scene, project them to road region surface and connect them to split corridor base lines, or you draw them directly in 3ds Max 2013?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI've got a Locator attached to a Curve with a Motion Path - the Motion Path is animated so the Locator moves nicely along the Curve. I now want to swap the original Curve with a new one and have the Locator follow it instead.
Is there a way to simply switch curves and tell the Motion Path to use a new Curve while keeping the animated keys in the Motion Path node?
I've tried playing around with the connection editor but cant manage to connect the new Curve to the Motion Path nodes "geometryPath"
I'm currently working on a advertisement for a client and I need to creat a kind of ribbon to wrap around like a present. I thought what would be best would be making the ribbon and then using a motion path add it on but also I would add a gravity field to the ribbon so to moved more like a ribbon.
Also with the motion path I have made them and connected my ribbon and for some reason it doesn't move until the last frame and just snaps to that position?
I am trying to move a free camera along a path... but the 'target' not moving with it.
Is that correct even tho it does not have a 'target'?
To get camera & target to move together, do I need to move them both individually?
3ds Max Design 2012
Is it possible to animate an image along a path? Or can you only track text on a path?
View 1 Replies View RelatedWhen I assign an object to a path using the default setting the object sits nicely on the first point of the cv curve in the path. And moves fine going in one direction but as it goes around a corner it is offset from the curve but continues along with this new offset until the end.
View 2 Replies View RelatedTo create an animation similar to the one shown in the page 225, in the tutorial, I created a curve but I am not too sure that was the correct way to create it.
1. Selected the Surfaces Menu.
2. In the font view, using the CV Curve Tool, created the first half.
3. Using Duplicate in the Edit Menu, I created the other half.
4. In the Edit Curves Menu, selected Attach Curves and connected two curves.
5. I, then selected the Animation Menu and created an object to be used as an aircraft and followed the same steps shown in the tutorial and it worked nicely.
I am trying to attach an object to a motion path but when i do the object goes to the beginning of the path but when i move the time slider nothing happens and when i move the object it isn't attached to the path.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI'm new to Maya 2011 and simply put, I need to know the basics of animating a camera around a scene, along a path, slowing down and speeding up, how to move the point of interest, that type of thing.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI've created a motion path animation. In preview everything works well, I then go to create a AVI/WMV file and it builds the video without any problem. When you view the video it always stops in the same place (about 6 seconds in) but the video keeps running for the full duration of 30seconds.
I've tried this several times with different settings but always the same outcome.
I am trying to animate a car to follow a circular path thus performing a burnout.
The problem that I'm having is:
1) when I push the car along the "Y axis" it's good up until the very end of the bend (after the first quarter of the first circle), then it just stops. and when I use the green, blue, red gizmo to get it around the bend, it pretty much skips to the overlapping path so it doesn't actually drive along the path.
2) I can make the back tyres rotate faster than the front tyres, however I'd like to keyframe the tyre rotation so it looks like a proper acceleration and burnout. How do I achieve this? The tyres rotation parameters' are wired up to the percentage of the path constraint of the position of the car rig (which is linked up to follow the path). So if it's possible I'd like to pretty much keyframe in different amounts of rotation ratio with some biezer effect so that the tyres can look like it accelerates into the burnout and then as it comes out of the burnout it gains grip again and goes back to having the same rotation speed as the front tyres. (once I learn how to achieve this to the front tyres then I could essentially apply the same effect to the front ones to make the animation look more realistic.