do you animate every frame of this or do you assign each ball a weight/initial momentum and it does the rest for you in some crazy algorithm? P.S. I'm assuming you do every frame, but it seems like a computer could do the later if necessary no? once you do this once is there a way to take this template and extrapolate it to another scene? say i want the red/white ball to appear twice as heavy. basically can the computer reproduce it with modifications once you've done it once? -Nick
It took somewhere around 8 hours total I'd say with revisions. There are ways you can assign a material to a ball and get the computer to simulate it to a point, however, this was all animated by hand. You input the extreme poses ie the top of the arc and the contact with the ground. The computer then spits you out a curve pattern of parabolas which you can edit to say how high, how fast, how far forward etc. I could take all those curves and copy paste them onto another object which would apply the same animation to it. Next time you're over I'll show you : D
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do you animate every frame of this or do you assign each ball a weight/initial momentum and it does the rest for you in some crazy algorithm? P.S. I'm assuming you do every frame, but it seems like a computer could do the later if necessary no? once you do this once is there a way to take this template and extrapolate it to another scene? say i want the red/white ball to appear twice as heavy. basically can the computer reproduce it with modifications once you've done it once? -Nick
How long did that take you to make?? I bet it took a lot longer than I would imagine!! Very cool!!
It took somewhere around 8 hours total I'd say with revisions. There are ways you can assign a material to a ball and get the computer to simulate it to a point, however, this was all animated by hand. You input the extreme poses ie the top of the arc and the contact with the ground. The computer then spits you out a curve pattern of parabolas which you can edit to say how high, how fast, how far forward etc. I could take all those curves and copy paste them onto another object which would apply the same animation to it. Next time you're over I'll show you : D
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