Really getting into the animation of my dancing ball now and got into a lot of new things tonight and just kind of started winging it. Well it was a loosing battle trying to figure out how to create a long sequence of repeating bounces; like a thousand frames. I know repletion is not a good thing, but it is just the base of all the other animation I am adding to it. I have used the hypershade to connect 4 balls together to do some really cool things (you will really have to see it to believe that all the repletion is cool).
But anyway, after trying to figure out the Trax editor and wondering what use the dope sheet is (I know at this point I just don’t know enough for it to be of use to me, but I am sure Buzz and Zak will enlighten me very shortly) I went out and took a break. Then it hit me. The Script editor! So I simply sat down and clicked through the motion and started to cut and paste. Within a few minutes I had enough that I simply had to hit enter several times and BAM! The ball repeated bouncing…
Now I know there are easier ways to do this, but I am excited as hell because I am learning to think outside the box in Maya already and make her my bitch. Ok fine the truth be told she beats the living hell out of me most of the time, but tonight I was her master and she did my bidding.
Anyway, its going to be another long and tired day at work tomorrow, because I just can’t stop… Must animate… must learn more about Maya…
Lessons learned:
Tonight there were a lot of lessons, but the biggest is to leave my computer alone while making a playblast. Don’t know what I did, but Maya really had a fit and refused to make playblasts until I restarted my computer. All because I thought it would be cool to play the old playblast while it was making a new one. There was a half hour wasted deleting every Maya temp file I could find.
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