CompuServe Messages

Greg: The scroll concept is to create a mesh that can be used for any of the following with appropriate texture maps: 1. Scrolling credits that look like a roll of paper towels unrolling. 2. A spool of film with frames one after the other that unrolls. 3. A roll of toilet paper. 4. Unrolling a carpet onto a floor I think you get the idea. This is for animation so faking it would be more difficult than with still which would be easy. I've been playing with paths, helix, height set to 0, etc. but everything I do is too time consuming to modify for different end results. Like a feed reel and take up reel on a movie projector became a nightmare to coordinate. If an IPAS could work like taking a very long, thin, narrow rectangle and roll it up. Then, be able to be unrolled by moving the end of the rectangle to a new key frame. Greg, this is a fundamental physical movement that has many applications and should be reduced to an IPAS routine.