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General Category => General Anim8or Forum => Topic started by: Bmer on September 02, 2008, 09:36:03 am

Title: Key Framing Modifiers
Post by: Bmer on September 02, 2008, 09:36:03 am

Is it possible to key frame modifiers?

Title: Re: Key Framing Modifiers
Post by: Kubajzz on September 02, 2008, 09:57:11 am

No... You have to use bones (http://www.anim8or.com/manual/5_figure_editor.html) or Morph targets (http://www.anim8or.com/manual/3_object_editor.html#morph_targets), it depends on the kind of animation you want to do.
I would use bones to simulate "bend" and "twister" modifiers and morph targets for "curvature", "skew" and "taper".

Title: Re: Key Framing Modifiers
Post by: ENSONIQ5 on September 02, 2008, 10:00:12 am

A modifier is applied to a wireframe, and once applied the modifier itself is gone, leaving the modified wireframe.  I assume a modifier can be used to create a morph object, which can be key framed, but I have not actually tried this so I would suggest a bit of experimentation.

Title: Re: Key Framing Modifiers
Post by: Kubajzz on September 02, 2008, 10:05:06 am

Quote from: ENSONIQ5

... I assume a modifier can be used to create a morph object, which can be key framed, but I have not actually tried this so I would suggest a bit of experimentation.

Yes, you can use a modifier to create a morph target (I've just tried it :))

Title: Re: Key Framing Modifiers
Post by: ENSONIQ5 on September 02, 2008, 10:12:23 am

Cool.  Something worth remembering, no doubt!

Title: Re: Key Framing Modifiers
Post by: kreator on September 03, 2008, 04:37:29 am

yep, and you can scale and rotate the points as well as just moving them up and down.

Title: Re: Key Framing Modifiers
Post by: headwax on September 03, 2008, 06:14:11 am

and you can morph from one extruded spline to another with morph envy