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RailClone => RailClone Pro (*) => Topic started by: scott on March 16, 2015, 05:37:51 PM
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I can't find any info or figure out how to animate an escalator. Is there an animate check box like in ForestPack?
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Hi Scott,
Are you referring to the escalators from the included library?
Thanks,
Paul
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Yes exactly. All my tests don't seem to work! Tnx
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?? Anyone. On a bit of a deadline here. There doesn't seem to be any other posts about this....I must be missing something that's right in front of me! Grrr.
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Hi,
Apologies for the delay. To animate the escalators you can use the following steps:
- Change the Default In/Out tangents for new keys option to Linear. This is to prevent 3ds Max automatically adding ease in and out to the animation.
(http://lonelymonk.com/forum_images/c799d1d3e9f04e9f955c405b5d66d520.jpg)
- Turn on AutoKey and animate the Parameters > Step Animation value from 0% at frame 0, to 100% at Frame 20 (for example). This value represents the animation of a single step
- To make the animation loop, open Graph Editors > Track View - Curve Editor.... Select the animated track and set the Parameter Curves Out Of Range type to Cycle
(http://lonelymonk.com/forum_images/bb517e5938a248e1bcefbd1be58c3232.jpg)
- To adjust the speed of the animation, just change the timing between the two keyframes
You should now have an escalator that with a looped step animation.
(http://i.imgur.com/Hm3ab63.gif)
I hope that helps, please let me know if you have further questions.
Many thanks,
Paul
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Hey Paul, really appreciate the help on this. Worked like a charm.
Sorry I didn't come back before this. Tnx much.