#Animated Text
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Hi folks,
I'm working on a project for a friend and I'm dead in the water. 'x,x'
I've got a string of text that I want to fly along a 'S' shaped path.
I want each letter of the text to follow the path like train cars would
follow tracks. I'm drawing a blank.
If you know how to do this please let me know.
Thanks
Ray Falcione
ray:
here is how you do that:
i assume you already have the s path from the lofter.
1)you assign all the objects to the path(all the objects individually to the
same path)
2)in the key frame track info you delay the timing of each object by the
desired amount by SLIDING the position and rotation keys of that object to the
right. the number of frames you slide the track key positions depends on how
much distance you want between each object.
this way at frame 0 all objects will have the same position.
the first object stats moving right away. depending on how many frames of delay
you gave to the second object in the track info, the second object will start
moving along the path a few frames later, and then the third and fourth and so
on.
it works perfect. if you want you can hide each object at the begining and
unhide them as soon as they start moving in the track info. for this you will
need r3.
try it
ara