Armstrong (5/30/2010)
Whilst updating some of my Characters
finally oh my God finally FINALLY ...............
I was pondering a method of making small raindrop styled glass beads with a mapped cycling anim on their surface....
THEN I was going to attach these to cloth hanging form the head dress so that they would sway with the movement of the material...
But...
I was only going to make the material invisible anyway so that the beads appeared suspended and they'd effectively bounce.
WHY NOT INSTEAD.....
My Request.Can we have it so that we can attach objects remotely to characters (for instance) say, about two feet away from her head... but that when that character moves; turns, there's a slight [adjustable-controllable] delay before the objects follow suit in an ease in ease out manner?
As if you're pulling something magnetic through treacle.
I'm trying to be thorough here!
This would not only be superb for things like garments, diamond tiaras where the diamonds are to appear as if suspended on wires...
1)
But it would also be good for things like
lil flying bats around a characters head...
2)
A formation of aircraft where a squadron of 8 go into a coordinated dive on the enemy with variables allowing staggered follow on after the leader...
3)
A shoal of Koi Carp (incidentally
Marginally biased on this one!!!) would be able to swim in a superb shoal effect ESPECIALLY if the follow through control allowed slight variance on delay and easing speeds. WOAH... I mean THIS would be amazing....
And Thi Mai (pr. Tee MY) could have utterly the most amazing sparklies with a gravity effect slightly delayed behind each wing motion.
4)
A Swarm of Bees..... Even this could be stunning with 7 simple 2D planes of Bee graphics attached to one singular which is pathed allowing the others to randomly follow it in delayed sequence in close quarters........... instant Bee Swarm.
5)
Bubbles in a drink of Champers. One key bubble, 50 tagged with varying eas in ease out follow attachment.
6) Ducks on a pond, leaves on a tree, Cars in a race, birds migrating, Herd of Horses galloping, Clouds drifting, do I go on?
I haven't got the slightest idea what you'd call it though. "Gravity Attachment." "Momentum Attachment."
But
it's a definite must have.
Tied into particles this would give scope to things you just cant explain.
This is a passing thought. I cant find it in any of the other software's descriptions.
Incidentally 4.2 is singing this end. The 3D effects are spooky.
Armstrong. What you are referring to is often called expressions or scripts in other programs.