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Subject: How can one animate a car along a motion path?


ed1111 ( ) posted Sat, 21 July 2007 at 3:51 AM · edited Sun, 17 November 2024 at 4:49 PM

I remember seeing it done using a walk path and walk designer but it was too confusing.
I don't read or write code and i'm not sure how to parent the car to anything without it looking like its having a seizure. any help is always appreciated. Ed


ockham ( ) posted Sat, 21 July 2007 at 9:09 AM

Try my Hansel and Gretel scripts.   Hansel lets you draw a real-time
path, with stops and speed changes where you want them .. using a map
as background if desired. Gretel then applies the motion to a chosen object.  

You could then apply the Steering script to the vehicle to make it 
face the proper direction.

http://ockhamsbungalow.com/Python/HanselGretel.zip

http://ockhamsbungalow.com/Python/Steering.zip

My python page
My ShareCG freebies


ed1111 ( ) posted Sat, 21 July 2007 at 5:04 PM · edited Sat, 21 July 2007 at 5:11 PM

Thanks. sounds helpful. I'll try and give it a shot, although I don't know anything at all on how to utilize a script. I don't understand the procedure. any step by step on this? I'm assuming i take the .py scripts and drop them in the python scripts folder in my runtime. after that..........?

thanks a millon for any more help on this, I really want to pull this off.  Eddie


Miss Nancy ( ) posted Sat, 21 July 2007 at 5:35 PM

o.k., thx fr the scripts, ockham.



mhscspo ( ) posted Sat, 21 July 2007 at 9:34 PM

Will this work on helicopters as well?, and will this work in anyother program ?


ed1111 ( ) posted Mon, 06 August 2007 at 4:58 AM

This does come with quirks, for want of a better word. for instance,the object does follow the path you draw . but too much in my opinion. unless it is a prob on my end, a vehicle does not travel the path smoothly. instead it follows EVERY little jagged edge of
 the line. ??????
Another BIG issue I have is, after  having removed the hansel and gretel folders and trash them, I get a window prompting me to "locate cameras and lights" every time I start Poser.

Ockham, any help here?


Dajadues ( ) posted Mon, 06 August 2007 at 12:32 PM

Why not just use walk designer?


ed1111 ( ) posted Tue, 07 August 2007 at 8:20 AM

Thanks for replying. I have tried walk designer and If memory serves correct, It wont work with a vehicle. someone had suggested parenting the car to a figure and hiding the figure. well I tried that and the car literally walked the path. maybe you have a better solution? thanks.


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