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RE: Animate your models - Path Helper

aussienat2000 — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:47:28 GMT

i downloaded the file and then renamed it as a .zip it turned into a zip file that works

RE: Animate your models - Path Helper

inetsfr — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 19:44:16 GMT

I tried to download the zip files, but the files are invalid. Where can I find a valid copy of these? Thanks.:ermm:

RE: Animate your models - Path Helper

jonny.batch — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 01:39:19 GMT

Thank you. I can imagine how that might be what I'm looking for. It's not exactly point and click, looks like a project in itself to figure it out. I'll give it a shot.

Like everything else in iClone there is the surface stuff, easy to use right away. Then when you dig deeper it just keeps on getting more involved. Guess that's the attraction.

RE: Animate your models - Path Helper

Peter Edwards — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:42:04 GMT

[quote][b]jonny.batch (2/17/2009)[/b][hr]I've been using this method and it's good for what it does. But what if you want a more complicated motion. The plane a few messages earlier is going in circles - try doing a figure eight and see how hard it is to avoid jerking motion.

Suggestions appreciated.[/quote]

Hi,

Not sure if you have seen the section in the Online Help Guide which covers creating your own Helpers. Once you have gained experience with this method, you can create some really advanced helpers that can fit most needs.

If you haven't seen this part of the help guide you can find it under;

Set - Prop - Creating Animation Helper.

RE: Animate your models - Path Helper

jonny.batch — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:52:35 GMT

I've been using this method and it's good for what it does. But what if you want a more complicated motion. The plane a few messages earlier is going in circles - try doing a figure eight and see how hard it is to avoid jerking motion.

Suggestions appreciated.

RE: Animate your models - Path Helper

afterThought — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:02:23 GMT

Thanks Peter - shame it doesn't work in 3. I'll give that a try. :)

RE: Animate your models - Path Helper

Peter Edwards — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 19:06:51 GMT

[quote][b]afterThought (12/8/2008)[/b][hr]Hi Peter - thanks for your patience. I completely understand what you're saying but the problem is that no matter how much I zoom out, the helper rolling prop is not there. Even when I use the camera view to look at it specifically, it's not there. The banking one is fine - no problems. Is this what you have in your scene manager?[/quote]

Hi,

You are quite right that the Rolling Helper doesn't show in the Preview Window like the Banking Helper. It should be remembered that these helpers were designed for iClone2 and so problems can be encountered when using them with iClone3.

A much better method in iClone3 is to create your own helpers that do exactly the same thing as the downloadable iClone2 versions. Full instructions can be found in the help guide (Press F1) under Set - Prop - Creating Animation Helper. Give this a try and see if it helps you solve the problem.

RE: Animate your models - Path Helper

afterThought — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:41:52 GMT

Hi Peter - thanks for your patience. I completely understand what you're saying but the problem is that no matter how much I zoom out, the helper rolling prop is not there. Even when I use the camera view to look at it specifically, it's not there. The banking one is fine - no problems. Is this what you have in your scene manager?

[IMG]http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f353/after_thought_/iclonescenemanager.jpg[/IMG]

RE: Animate your models - Path Helper

Flybynight — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 07:29:37 GMT

Thanks Peter had a play with and guess what? Success!!!!!

RE: Animate your models - Path Helper

Peter Edwards — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 21:47:46 GMT

[quote][b]afterThought (12/6/2008)[/b][hr]Hi Peter. When I tried to load the rolling helper, nothing shows up for me to link to. In the Scene Manager, under Info, it says 0 for the helper. It does however show up in the timeline with all of the perform commands. I've downloaded it twice - the rolling helper iClone file I have is 57.7 KB. Do you have any suggestions on how I can fix this? Thank you.

Oh, if it matters, I have iClone Pro 3.1.[/quote]

Hi,

Just do the following to link to the helper in iClone3:

Zoom out your view after adding the helper so you can see it in the Preview Window.

Then with the your chosen prop selected press Pick Parent under Linkage.

Now choose the Helper in the Preview Window.

Back under Linkage select Link To (see below) to open the Link To Sub-Node window.

Select Box01 and tick Align Position To Parent.

That should do it. :)

RE: Animate your models - Path Helper

afterThought — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 17:33:14 GMT

Hi Peter. When I tried to load the rolling helper, nothing shows up for me to link to. In the Scene Manager, under Info, it says 0 for the helper. It does however show up in the timeline with all of the perform commands. I've downloaded it twice - the rolling helper iClone file I have is 57.7 KB. Do you have any suggestions on how I can fix this? Thank you.

Oh, if it matters, I have iClone Pro 3.1.

RE: Animate your models - Path Helper

Peter Edwards — Sat, 03 May 2008 20:11:38 GMT

I just checked the zips and they appear to be working fine. It may have just been a temporary problem.

Please try them again.

RE: Animate your models - Path Helper

hans jörgen — Sat, 03 May 2008 11:53:58 GMT

hi

the download does not wotk for the *.zip files

hjw

RE: Animate your models - Path Helper

Peter Edwards — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 17:22:24 GMT

Hi Rehdogg,

3DXchange doesn't create animations itself but any parts such as wheels, propellers etc can be separated so that they can be animated in iClone using the Timeline. This will vary from model to model so you should check to see if the model you are importing contains parts that could be animated. There are a number of tutorials that explain how to do this below:

http://www.reallusion.com/iclone/3dx_usecase.asp

When it comes to the tutorials you should try going through them more than once if need be until things become clearer. Skipping things because it isn't clear the first time can make things harder to grasp later on. Practice makes perfect so don't give up. I'm sure you will pick things up the more you use the software.

RE: Animate your models - Path Helper

rehdogg — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 20:12:37 GMT

I just bought the 3dxchange and the tutorial was difficult for me because they said to do certain things to make the airplane wheels seperate uncheck but so many checks and i just didnt get it. How do i animate other things like people or animals? homes etc

RE: Animate your models - Path Helper

christy0 — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 06:23:52 GMT

Thanks Visconti, I've been searching the Reallusion website high and low for these, but could't fine them. Are there anymore available, they're a great idea, and real time savers. :).

Thanks again,

Christy0.

Animate your models - Path Helper

Visconti — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 04:08:02 GMT

With the powerful feature "link-to" in iClone2.5, users can attach any car or airplane to the "helper" for easy animation.
Here are two bonus helper as Props for free download.
(Please get the files in the post attachment)

Helper (1) - Bank Path
[img]http://forum.reallusion.com/image/2008.01.10_Bank.gif[/img]

Helper (2) - Rolling
[img]http://forum.reallusion.com/image/2008.01.10_Roll.gif[/img]

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How to
1. Download the helper and place the VNS files to your template/custom Props folder.
2. Open your project with your target prop.
3. Load the helper from Props folder.
4. Double-click your model (led to modify panel) and go to
Adjust > Link to (open Link to sub-node) > select the placement for attachment
5. Check "Align position to parent"