Bob Copeland Posted December 16, 2008 Report Share Posted December 16, 2008 I am interested to learn if it is possible for an object to change direction during animation. For example if I have an airplane travelling diagonally from bottom left can I change the direction of flight during animation so that the plane will move vertically?Would appreciate any advice on this.Many thanks Bob Copeland Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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fh1805 Posted December 16, 2008 Report Share Posted December 16, 2008 Hi Bob,All you need to do is to break your animation down into steps and then program each step between a pair of keyframes. You can use the animation features (pan, zoom and rotate) in any combination that you want and can have them all take place at the same time if you wish. There are just three limitations ;- your graphics card: older ones may not produce smooth animation on large (in pixel x pixel terms) images or on images made up of many objects- you can work only in 2D not 3D (although Igor has hinted that 3D object animation might come in a future version of PTE - i.e. subsequent to v5.6)- your imagination!Have a good play! There's no substitute for trying it for yourself. To get you started, download some of Lin Evans's excellent tutorials.regards,Peter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davegee Posted December 16, 2008 Report Share Posted December 16, 2008 Bob,In addition to what Peter has said, if you have more than two keyframes AND change the type of PZR from LINEAR to anything else, you will need to go into the SETTING UP / SPEED OPTIONS and change each of the keyframe transition points from SEPARATE HERE to GLUE HERE.DaveG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Copeland Posted December 17, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 17, 2008 ------------------------------------------------Report:Have receive two items of advice regarding direction changes during Animation.Will try these this evening and advise on my hoped for results as soon as i can.Many thanks to both subscribers.Bob Copeland------------------------------------------------ Hi Bob,All you need to do is to break your animation down into steps and then program each step between a pair of keyframes. You can use the animation features (pan, zoom and rotate) in any combination that you want and can have them all take place at the same time if you wish. There are just three limitations ;- your graphics card: older ones may not produce smooth animation on large (in pixel x pixel terms) images or on images made up of many objects- you can work only in 2D not 3D (although Igor has hinted that 3D object animation might come in a future version of PTE - i.e. subsequent to v5.6)- your imagination!Have a good play! There's no substitute for trying it for yourself. To get you started, download some of Lin Evans's excellent tutorials.regards,Peter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Techman1 Posted December 17, 2008 Report Share Posted December 17, 2008 Bob,I have modified your post above with your response to the Moderator's link. Please simply click on the "reply" button below the message you want to respond to and that should work for you. Please only use the "Report this post to a moderator" link to report messages with content that are inappropriate for this forum (spam, sexual links, etc.).Thank you and I'm glad you got some great idea's here from above on how to help solve your animation question.Good luck!-Fred Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arendsoog Posted December 20, 2008 Report Share Posted December 20, 2008 Very, very nice!I think you used the new beta version.Am I right?I wait till beta has become a new release.Perhaps you can give a little tutorial how to make this things? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Copeland Posted December 22, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 22, 2008 Bob,I have modified your post above with your response to the Moderator's link. Please simply click on the "reply" button below the message you want to respond to and that should work for you. Please only use the "Report this post to a moderator" link to report messages with content that are inappropriate for this forum (spam, sexual links, etc.).Thank you and I'm glad you got some great idea's here from above on how to help solve your animation question.Good luck!-Fred Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arendsoog Posted December 22, 2008 Report Share Posted December 22, 2008 LIKE THIS EXAMPLE ?http://www.picturestoexe.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=9151KENHello,Very, very nice!I posted my reply not in the right way.So here again.I think you used the newest beta release to do this wonderfull things.Am I right?I think I do best to wait until the newest beta has become a new release, for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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