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So finaly I am sort of satisfied with this little macro (would be much better as fuse, but Im not there yet :) )
I've been playing with for a while.


(animation inspired (not just) by Dunns ribbon earth :) )

Its very simple and should be easy to use, good for info/mograph stuff which I do a lot.
There are couple of parts I couldn't figure out how to solve (changing order within tools (duplicate/jitter) and some parts are just experimental
(Bend somehow doesnt work with Twist, even if it did few weeks ago, so I realy dont know what I screw (but screw I did for sure) :D )

Also I found out that sometimes it gave me bugs when rendering out velocity, probably due to connections between head and body of the arrow.


(I was working on a version where you could have different Heads (basically shape 3d (sphere, cube, cone..etc), but didnt not how to nicely implement it (switching between shapes the same way as Shape 3d does), so until I will find out how to do that...this first itteration have to suffice :)




(I shamelessly ripped Pieters copyright, If thats a problem I just get rid of it :D )
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Oh Yeah ! Totally Aweesoome man! :)
I always wanted to have something like this. Thanx for sharing!

.. gonna give it a spin ;)
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Dunn wrote:Oh Yeah ! Totally Aweesoome man! :)
I always wanted to have something like this. Thanx for sharing!

.. gonna give it a spin ;)
thanks man :)
theres a lot of limitations, but its ok for what its meant to be :)
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Looks pretty Cool!!
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Fantastic!
Can't believe how fast you got into scripting!
nsf wrote:So finaly I am sort of satisfied with this little macro (would be much better as fuse, but Im not there yet :) )
I've been playing with for a while.

(animation inspired (not just) by Dunns ribbon earth :) )

Its very simple and should be easy to use, good for info/mograph stuff which I do a lot.
Theres a couple of parts I couldn't figure out how to solve (changing order within tools (duplicate/jitter) and some parts are just experimental
(Bend somehow doesnt work with Twist, even if it did few weeks ago, so I realy dont know what I screw (but screw I did for sure) :D )

Also I found out that sometimes it gave me bugs when rendering out velocity, probably due to connections between head and body of the arrow.


(I was working on a version where you could have different Heads (basically shape 3d (sphere, cube, cone..etc), but didnt not how to nicely implement it (switching between shapes the same way as Shape 3d does), so until I will find out how to do that...this first itteration have to suffice :)


(cant get to work this youtube code here again)


(I shamelessly ripped Pieters copyright, If thats a problem I just get rid of it :D )
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vivi wrote:Fantastic!
Can't believe how fast you got into scripting!
Thanks man:)
I think it was time after 10yrs with fusion probably :D
but realy, this is just macro (and my first, yay ) I wont be probably able to to write anything down :)
this was just something which bothered me for a long time (as I do a lot of these kinda "arrow" infographics) and concluded when working on a scene very similar to that featured animation.
It gave me headache to copy all the tools from scene to scene, I wanted more elegant and easier to use tool, not just for me.. So after few weeks of playing I came up with this. :) Hopefuly I will be able to upgrade it somehow..best would be to have a working fuse (but since I dont know how to write fuses, I will have to start learning and that can take a while:D (maybe you can make very fast tutorial about that you see :D )
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You can't make 3D Fuses anyway, so macros are the way to go.
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cool! great one!
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Looks Great!
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