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Subject: Bryce tree animation problem.....

Pedrith opened this issue on Oct 30, 2005 ยท 10 posts
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Pedrith ( ) posted Sun, 30 October 2005 at 7:28 PM ยท edited Thu, 06 February 2025 at 12:38 AM

Hi. I usually don't have many problems in Bryce, but I'm working on a Jack and the Beanstalk animation for work and have run into some problems. I created my beanstalk in the tree editor and have set all the necessary key frames to have the beanstalk grow upwards, but I also want the beanstalk to grow in thickness. For the first two seconds the beanstalk's thickness is set at 2 (in the tree editor) and is keyframed for two seconds, but when I move to the last keyframe in the animation (the 10 second mark) and change the thickness setting in the tree lab to the desired thickness (200) and keyframe that the problem starts. Once I change the thickness setting, it stays at that thickness throughout the entire animation, despite that I keyframed the first two seconds for a smaller thickness. Does anybody know why this happened and how to fix it? Sincerely, Pedrith

Aldaron ( ) posted Sun, 30 October 2005 at 8:06 PM

It appears that all the settings in the tree lab are states and are not animatable.

Pedrith ( ) posted Sun, 30 October 2005 at 8:23 PM

Well this is not good news. Any idea how to get around this problem?

FranOnTheEdge ( ) posted Mon, 31 October 2005 at 5:29 AM

How about that "Twig" program someone was talking about a few threads back? Sackrat had it I think, but it was made by the guy who made Bantam Grass too. That actually creates a model of a tree, which might be easier - or at least POSSIBLE - to animate. AS was going to try if he could get it into the backroom, if he can contact the guy who made it. Sounds like a good idea to me...

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Pedrith ( ) posted Mon, 31 October 2005 at 5:39 AM

As far as I know all the Bantam 3d programs were for pc's and I'm on a Mac. Thanks for the suggestion.

FranOnTheEdge ( ) posted Mon, 31 October 2005 at 5:58 AM

Ah. Oh dear. Sorry. :-)

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gregsin ( ) posted Mon, 31 October 2005 at 9:01 AM

I did a similair animation with a redwood tree that went from seed to mature tree. I used the resize tool to do it and key framed along the way, you might try this.

Pedrith ( ) posted Mon, 31 October 2005 at 12:16 PM

Hey Gregskin, I'll give that a shot. Thanks.

Aldaron ( ) posted Mon, 31 October 2005 at 5:27 PM

There's a program called plant studio that may help too, not sure if it runs on a Mac.

Pedrith ( ) posted Mon, 31 October 2005 at 7:21 PM

Aldaron, yeah plant sutdio runs on the mac, but the quality is not high enough for what I want to achieve. Looks like I'm going to have to keyframe the animation....if I start now I might be done by Christmas....

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