yosunic opened this issue on Mar 28, 2002 ยท 7 posts
yosunic posted Thu, 28 March 2002 at 1:34 AM
Hi, I'm trying to make a flowering plant's flower move in sync with the movement of the sun across the sky. Is it possible to do this in Bryce? I think the process would involve some sort of joint-connector between the sun's motion and the flower's motion. But.. I'm not sure. Please help!!!
Alleycat169 posted Thu, 28 March 2002 at 8:47 AM
You can animate the sun in Bryce, just move the dome and set key frames. If you want to sync it with a flower's motion you might have to do that by eye.
yosunic posted Thu, 28 March 2002 at 3:17 PM
So, there is no elegant way of creating a connection between the visible sun's movement and the flower head's?
Vile posted Thu, 28 March 2002 at 4:14 PM
You could creat another object and make it invisible and move it across the sky with the sun. Then have your flower track the object. That is about the only way I can think of. Good luck
yosunic posted Thu, 28 March 2002 at 4:17 PM
like what i'm wondering is if bryce allows object linking.... for example, i know it lets the camera track an object... now does it allow a similar relationship between two objects: the sun and a flower? as the visible sun moves across the sky, is there a way for the flower head to also move along with it (without the arduous and inaccurate and old-fashioned hand-animator's task of eyeballing every single frame!)... via some sort of tracking-connector thingy?
yosunic posted Thu, 28 March 2002 at 4:18 PM
oh great! i just missed your message, vile. how do i do that sort of object linking?
clay posted Thu, 28 March 2002 at 6:35 PM
You should be able to sync the sun and flower up in the Advanced Motion Lab by moving their keyframes around until they're line up with one another.
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