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kbrown 23-09-2002 10:41 AM

Swimming fish
 
As I was making my fishy scene for the mini competition I got the idea of animating the fish too. I already have the fish moving forward as I shooted them out with a particle emitter and an instancer. That doesn't look very realistic swimming though. They're just floating forward. I want the fish to bend too but I don't know how to do this. I'm pretty sure there's a way to assing a bend deformer to each fish (instanced particle) and have an expression to control the bend curvature but I don't know how to accomplish this. :banghead: Any ideas?

(i hope you understand my english)

MKess007 29-09-2002 02:32 AM

Well if u go to the Alias|Wavefront website and go to the "How to's" section. CLick on the animation section and ten click "How to Animate with Flow (Object)". Not sure if thats what u mean but it may help.

mtmckinley 29-09-2002 03:50 AM

yeah, with that, you create a motion path and attach the fish object to it. Then, with object flow, it creates a lattice that runs along the motion path that deforms the model to curve and bend when turning and such. I don't know about using it for instanced particles, though.

kbrown 29-09-2002 10:02 AM

Thanks...I'll look into that...

Kevin 29-09-2002 12:13 PM

so kari... whats the avatar about? :)

kbrown 29-09-2002 01:24 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Kevin
so kari... whats the avatar about? :)
That's the charming face o'mine ;) Like it? :D

(had to cencor it a bit with photoshop ;))


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