Custom Animation For Scene?

[tlehnhaeuser]

Does anyone know a way to Animation the entire Scene less than 360 degrees?

 

I am trying to avoid having to Select all the parts and make an assembly of them. I am also trying to avoid using Camera.

 

thanks

Tom

 

[Guest IronKevin]

Yes, after dropping the Spin Animation into the Scene Background, edit it's amount of rotation the same way you woul dany Spin animation.

 

IK

[Mike Twining]

j/k .... beat to the punch

Edited August 10, 2006 by Mike Twining

[tlehnhaeuser]

OK what am I missing. I can't find where to edit the spin rotation in the Editor. When I create a spin thru the emotion toolbar it gives me one shot to enter the # of degrees.

Is my brain that fried that I can find where to edit.

[Mike Twining]

Look for the animation path for the filename (as opposed to the part name).

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[tlehnhaeuser]

Ok and ...?

[Guest IronKevin]

Right Click thte Spin

Properties

Path

Set Current Key to 2

Key Setup

Edit Key Parameter Tilt, Roll or Pan.

 

IK

[Mike Twining]

...yeah... what he said

 

But I have pics!!!!

 

[tlehnhaeuser]

Aha,

I don;t remember having to dig so deep to do this. Was this always like this?

 

Thanks guys for facing me in the right direction

[tlehnhaeuser]

OK guys nice joke

Now how do I really get the scene to rotate only 90 degrees insead of 360?

 

[Guest IronKevin]

That's no joke, the Pan entry should be 360 on a typical Height Spin, then edit it to 90 and that's it.

 

Here's a video to be sure

 

IK

Spin.zip

[tlehnhaeuser]

OK I see whats wrong, I have been trying to do this on a length Spin and it won;t work. apparently only works on a height spin

[Guest IronKevin]

Edit Tilt for a Length Spin

 

IK

[tlehnhaeuser]

Aha, so I guess I need to read the manual

thanks

[Guest IronKevin]

This tutorial isn't too bad:

http://www.ironcad.com/download/ironcad/tu...ith_IronCAD.pdf

 

IK

[tlehnhaeuser]

Ok got it now

 

Pan = HEIGHT Rotation

Tilt = LENGTH Rotation

Roll = WIDTH Rotation

Edited August 11, 2006 by tlehnhaeuser

[Guest mwalls]

Yup, I had this same issue back in July.

 

http://www.ironcad.com/support/community/i...?showtopic=3956

 

I sure would like to see a simple one click action to be able to edit a simple degree input. It would make life much easier. Also, there is not much of a feedback on the screen that shows there is a spin animation hooked to it, like it does for a move animation.

 

Mike

[tlehnhaeuser]

I agreem

I think the terminilogy was created from a movie director which for animators makes senxce but not engineers. Maybe this can be addressed in the future

[Bernd Meißner]

I think the terminilogy was created from a movie director...

 

 

Not quite. It just sounds like that. The correct terms, used e.g. for robotics, aeroplanes and (here comes the movie director!) camera control are:

 

Roll (rotation around x-axis)

Pitch (rotation around y-axis)

Yaw (rotation around z-axis/vertical axis)

 

"Pan" is usually a linear movement of the camera, parallel to the stage, i.e. up/down and left/right (z- and x-movement), without changing any of the above parameters. "Dolly" would be the missing movement, changing the distance between camera and target (by moving the camera towards or away from the target, y-movement).

 

Just to have an opinion here, too: I prefer a terminology that says "z-rotation" (for shaking my head), "x-rotation" (for nodding) or "y-translation" (for moving towards/away from s.th.).

 

Bernd