Saturday, September 28, 2013

keyboard controlled dolly



Dolly being the name of the null comp in this graph that can be parented to any touch geo or camera to make them autonomous.

Orientation and position nodes are both speed chops and the expression pictured allows the thrust to be applied at correct orientation when firing.

Keys connected are rotate on 1 and 2 with thrust /reverse on keys 3 and 4.


Apologies for the lack of rehearsal / extremely poor camera skills...

Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Surface aligned instancing

To display iterations of the same object on it's own skin the surface normal can be converted into RX and RY channels using the pictured expression which features a pair of angle calculations.