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bumusu 16-01-2010 03:31 PM

Conveyor Belt for a treadmill
 
hi and hello!

i try to modell a treadmill, but i don't know how to animate it? i wanted to take a plane, but how is it possible that it moves without changing the postition, i'm really confused because i think this can't be so hard, thanks and sorry for this question but i dont know how to start? with curves? or with deformers?

elephantinc 16-01-2010 03:39 PM

Personally I think I would use an animated texture, thats probably the easiest way.

3ddon 17-01-2010 06:56 PM

how to apply animated texture?

bumusu 18-01-2010 05:39 PM

texture animating?
 
ok thanx, but how can animate a texture? keyframing uvs?

Chirone 19-01-2010 08:25 PM

you assign a movie as a texture to have an animating texture

you could animate the UVs, not sure if you can or if that's a good thing to do

alternatively you could make yourself a plane, attach it to a motion path and then use the motion path > flow path object

i found this way of doing stuff when i was looking for ways to animate ribbons

it might be what you're looking for

stwert 19-01-2010 08:30 PM

You can also animate the place2Dtexture node... probably simpler than messing with movie files or UVs. But the flow path looks interesting.

elephantinc 19-01-2010 08:41 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by stwert
You can also animate the place2Dtexture node...
That's what I was thinking of

bumusu 19-01-2010 09:04 PM

mhh thanks for your answers i will try the next days and let you know what worked well!

elephantinc 19-01-2010 10:06 PM

If you're struggling try searching in the help files.

bumusu 29-01-2010 11:05 AM

hey guys,

it worked well with animating the 2d texture node!
thanks a lot!


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