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Hi everyone, I thought I would share this amazing technique I discovered while making some holiday animations....

Please leave a comment on my YouTube page, thanks.

 

Now that is neat!

:cool: gizmo

Very innovative technique, with LOTS of artistic possibilities. All iClone users are going to be interested in what you discovered. :w00t:

Too bad assigning the path points to the timeline is so tedious--at least it seemed so to me the few times I tried it. This must have been rather trying to assemble.

Your results are great--now if only Reallusion would automatically create a keyframe for every path point, and then just let us slide the keys along the timeline!

Thanks. :P

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Check out Cricky's tutorial on making a path. Great stuff. From memory you select a prop (ball or whatever), and move it around your scene in the positions of your required path creating keyframes. Select all the said keyframes in the Timeline then right click on your first keyframe and select make path. Job done. Good old Cricky I say.

Found it: http://www.youtube.com/user/Panthar#p/u/31/pQ3_0vbkXXU

:cool: gizmo

jasonjbrown

Not only do I like the tutorial but I really like your presentation.  May be this should be pinned and added to the wiki.

Great Job!!!!!

sjonesdc :hehe:

STILL LEARNING!!!

Hmm. Cricky's tutorial didn't explain it as clearly as you have explained it. But I think his method could really make me stop complaining about the tedium of paths...? Thanks!!

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About the Paths:

I didn't spend any time at all making paths or calculating positions.  Almost all the paths in the tutorial are pulled directly out of the template folder, particularly the spirals, the helixes, and the circular paths.  No effort to create those paths whatsoever.  You also only have to set two keyframes-- one at the beginning and one at the end.

As far as the poorly-pathed house shown in the lamp post scene, I didn't spend more than 5 minutes placing points.  In retrospect, I could have used extremely simple paths to frame the house-- rectangles and triangles -- and then let the particle jump from path to path. This would have been way more precise.

I'm excited to try the other path techniques that the others have discussed.

Jason, one thing I'd like to see is a rip-off of the Tinkerbell-trail effect invented by you-know-who. You know, the falling particles that look like multicolored fireworks...

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Happy Holidays,

Chris

iClone training resources  https://forum.reallusion.com/Topic70771-161-1.aspx

                                                                                               

    

Brilliant discovery and brilliant presentation! ;)

Just wish I had know about this technique for the project I'm working on now....Rats:)
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