Off-setting A Small Animation

[ragupasta]

Hi guys,

As the title says I need to off-set a small animation, heres the scene...

I have used a curve for a backbone, a cricle for the cross section, and swept them into a tube and polycaped the ends. Before the sweep I have used a carveSOP, so I can control the height for animation purposes.

Inside the carveSOP I have a small expression controlling the height growth...

smooth($F/15, 0.001, 5)

Now thats all good. I have layed a line down and used a copySOP to copy those tube to the points of the line, which is fine, but I want to offset the growth, e.g: As the first tube gets to half its height, I want the next tube to start growing, and so on and so forth. Any idea's, or an I missing something obvious?

I tried using copy stamping, but couldnt get a right looking effect, although Im fairly sure thats the right way to go about it.

BaseGrowTest.hipnc

Edited January 13, 2008 by ragupasta

[frading]

Hello,

Hope that's what you re after! as you said, stamping was your answer. I just edited the expression in the carve to:

smooth(($F-35*stamp("../copy", "i", 10))/15, 0.001, 5)

Guillaume

BaseGrowTest.hipnc

[ragupasta]

Hey frading;

Thats exactly what I was after, thanks a lot

Edited January 14, 2008 by ragupasta