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RE: How to animate cubes orbiting joining and separating from a sphere?

or so i thought…I’ve changed the distance the cubes come out to 50 and now I can’t get rid of the jump sigh, it was less noticeable when the distance …

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RE: How to animate cubes orbiting joining and separating from a sphere?

Ok that’s working great now thanks, I’ve just got to make a few tweaks to some of the frames to make the transition a little smoother but then i think…

15 years ago
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RE: How to animate cubes orbiting joining and separating from a sphere?

Yeah I added the modifications, my code (with eeks suggestion aswell) is now as follows (comments were from me so i could work it out): /* Creat…

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RE: How to animate cubes orbiting joining and separating from a sphere?

Hi PiXeL_MoNKeY, thanks for the tip, unfortunately setting the time to 299 hasn’t fixed the problem. Do i need to set the time to 299 in the code? Or …

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RE: How to animate cubes orbiting joining and separating from a sphere?

Yeah i noticed that, that does set the positions correctly. With you setting the face keyframe times randomly is it possible there is no room in the s…

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RE: How to animate cubes orbiting joining and separating from a sphere?

Ok I’ve had a good hard look at the code and believe I understand whats going on and what bits do what. I’ve narrowed the jumping problem down to the …

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RE: How to animate cubes orbiting joining and separating from a sphere?

Ok I’ve just tested it and there is still a little jump when frame 300 is hit, does this happen on your version? I need it to loop so that it never co…

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RE: How to animate cubes orbiting joining and separating from a sphere?

Yeah sure, it’s not actually me that’s doing the 3D work, I just came up with the concept and am supplying the script. It’s to demonstrate cloud hosti…

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RE: How to animate cubes orbiting joining and separating from a sphere?

Thanks for your speedy reply, where should I put the code?

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RE: How to animate cubes orbiting joining and separating from a sphere?

Hi sorry to bring this post back up again the project was delayed for a bit, the animation doesn’t loop properly, how can I make it complete a loop (i…

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RE: How to animate cubes orbiting joining and separating from a sphere?

wow that’s exactly what i wanted, thanks and well done on a clever bit of code!

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RE: How to animate cubes orbiting joining and separating from a sphere?

Hi JHN, thanks for your reply. The cubes should be rotating around the sphere in a orbiting fashion, occasionally slotting into the sphere and then co…

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RE: How do I change diffuse colour of a poly using maxscript?

Ah right great that’s perfect, thanks very much you’ve been very helpful!

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