 | | | Rubik Cube Re: grouping | Rubik Cube Re: grouping 2003-12-27 - By Robbert de Groot
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I just played a bit more and I probably didn't need to make the
plugins at all. The Rotate (r) will let you clamp to 45 degree
increments. It just shows I'm still not pro yet with Carrara.
But anyway, nothing like a problem to annoy me. :) Now I can file it
away as done and clear the old heed.
--- In Carrara@(protected), "whkguamusa" <guamauto@(protected)> wrote:
> Nice work,
> I was wondering if it would be one of the plug in guys figured this
> out first.
> Thanks for posting it up along with the tool.
>
> --- In Carrara@(protected), "Robbert de Groot" <zekaric@(protected)>
> wrote:
> > Boy! It's been a while since this was talked about. Such a
simple
> > problem and actually nt that simple and pretty tedious to do.
> >
> > http://www3.telus.net/robbert/temp/rubik.mov
> >
> > It isn't perfect but I finally managed to do it. :P Each
object's
> > hot point is the center of the cube. Just one group of all the
> > cubes. I wrote a simple plugin to rotate a selected bunch of
> objects
> > all the same. Which is a LOT faster than selecting each
> individually
> > and setting it's rotation. It's reacheable with the above link
> just
> > trim off temp/rubik.mov and mosey on into the development area.
> >
> > I still had to manually set the hotpoint to zero on all of the
> > smaller cubes. So not everything was peaches and cream. Also
this
> > was the first time I actually did some animation. You'll have to
> > play with the ease in/out values of some of the tweeners. For
some
> > reason spill over in a previous tween happens. It looks like a
bug
> > to me but then this might actually be expected behaviour. In the
> > above clip you'll see it on some of the blue and red cubes near
the
> > end. They aren't exactly in place but they are not out of place
by
> > much.
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