hi all

i made a building animation inside vue...the building consists of many parts i arranged each of them inside groups...and those groups are inside the main group which was named "bldg01"...i animated the group's objects and it was hard..the animation is as shown in this link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa4oYINR21E

now i want to make a copy of "bldg01" and want to move it beside "bldg01" to have 2 buildings beside eachothers, i copied "bldg01" and named it "bldg02" and moved it beside "bldg01" while i was in frame 0 , now when i run the animation.."bldg02" moves till it gets into the same position where "bldg01" is...how can i avoid this problem?? 

looking forward to hear from you...thanks in advance

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF29LOYesYc

](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF29LOYesYc)and also how the model groups arranged in the attached image

Try this:
-Go to frame 1
-Create a primitive to use as a dummy (null object). Move it on top of or underneath the building.
-Link the copy of bldg01 to the primitive.
-Move the PRIMITIVE to where you want the second building.

• Hide the primitive from rendering.

That should do the trick!

Cheers, N

 thanx avanz...i tried it...but when i move the time to the end of animation...the linked building's parts go to the same position where the first building is...that would drive me crazy

 here's an update:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPmqqzPQ4lY

You are right, it does not work. The solution I gave you only works with looped rotating objects like propellors.

The reason why it does not work for you is that the position of group BldgA is also animated. If it would not be animated, and you would set the master group to "Forbid Animation" you can move it freely around, any time.

Regrouping is no option, you will loose all animation within the new group.

The thing you can do is move a copy on the first frame of animation, note the X, Y values of the new position, go to the last frame of the animation of group BldgA, correct the XY value. As long as there are no intermediate keyframes for the position this should work. Else you have to correct them as well.

Tip: If you want to move the keyframes in time, open the keyframe editor, expand all the groups so you can see all keyframes, draw a rectangle around all keyframes to select them. Now you can move them in time.

Cheers, N

Well, Vue keeps surprising me!

If you do the trick with the dummy primitive and go to the last keyframe of the BldgA group, and then move the dummy, it works! And it does not matter if there are any intermediate keyframes.

Man, had I known this before it would have saved me a lot of trouble!

Cheers, N

 still i have the same problem...i wish if i can send u the file so u can check what's going on..how can i get it to u AVANZ??

That's fine,  I'll pm you a ftp

wsami, did you get my pm?

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