New PageFlip Sample for FREE!!!

[mdunakin]

Wow!
Already four replies, but no comments yet.
Hope you all in enjoy it!
There are FARRRRR more things that can be done with SplineControl, and so far, I haven't seen a single person use it, other then me.

[roguenroll]

looks cool, I think the pagebook.lwo is missing.

or did I miss something.


let me know.

Rogue

[mdunakin]

Thanx, and sorry bout that folks :)
Someone just told me about that and NOW it's fixed.
I placed the wrong object into the zip file.
Download it again, now it's right.
Enjoy!
.............md :)

[mdunakin]

Don't worry about the missing file, Bump somthing or other.
It's not needed.
So PLEASE, no moe emails from the three groups I posted to about this.
It doesn't matter if it's there or not.
I "tried" to find it, but alass, it's nowhere to be found and isn't needed anyway.
............md :)

[pdrake]

is this plugin missing from the mac?

[mdunakin]

Shouldn't be.
It comes with the LW75c update.
For Free!
......................md :)
Check out my other tutorial, called, Morphing Vines.

[pdrake]

maybe that's why. i'm using 7.5. i'll upgrade to 7.5c. thanks. ignore my email unless there's something else.

[pdrake]

after fighting with license key issues (which i'm still having), i got 7.5c installed and was able to load your scene. got a weird error though.

http://www.human2.com/perry/splineerror.jpg

i don't seem to get the whole page. i'm interested in these spline controls and would like to learn more. do you know what's wrong?

[colkai]

Be lookin' at that tonight Mark - cheers! :D

[mdunakin]

Hey!, that's cozmic.
I loaded up the scene roday, and it did the same thing.
Wonder what the heck is going on?

Guess I'll have to study on this one and see if I can figure out what the deal is.
Cause it should work the same way as when I first had the scene loaded.

..............md :)

[mdunakin]

OK, guess I'm going to send this to the bug people to see if they know what the deal is?
Because this shouldn't be happening.
If you uncheck the SplineControl plugin, the page looks normal with no displacement. But turn on the plugin and Bamm!! it screws it up again.
This is just wierd.
Because obviously, it worked when I built it.

You can still make your own from scratch, and see what happens, but really, if you can't save it and reload it again and have it work just as it did the last time it was used, then it's kinda pointless.
but, I'll keep searching to see if I can find where the problem is coming from anyway.

....................md :)

[pdrake]

i changed the axis in spline control and then changed it back and it corrected itself. i did it in the middle of the timeline, so it really funked it out. i had to go into graph editor and delete the keys for that frame and all was normal. i guess if you did the axis switch at the beginning it would work. i'm rendering right now so i can't test that.

[mdunakin]

OK, thanx pdrake.
That did the trick.
Just reopen the panel and change the axiz (just you you say) and then change it right back, and Bamm! it works perfectly again.
Pretty screwy.
But, whatever.
Guess I'll need to post that extra info in a text file to go along with the other files for the scene.

...................md :)

[carbon8]

Originally posted by mdunakin
OK, thanx pdrake.
That did the trick.
Just reopen the panel and change the axiz (just you you say) and then change it right back, and Bamm! it works perfectly again.
Pretty screwy.
But, whatever.
Guess I'll need to post that extra info in a text file to go along with the other files for the scene.

...................md :)


Why not just fix it then give it out. (not trying to be nasty, just asking)

[mdunakin]

Don't worry, you're not being nasty :)

I think you didn't get what was/is going on?
Because it "already" IS fixed.

What happens is, when you reload the scene it comes out wrong.
"I" can't fix it.

The person reloading the scene has to "manually" reset the axis, by changing it from the X axis to something else, and THEN change it right back to the X axis.
It's a bug with LW.
Cuz it's "obviously" NOT saving out the info and that's why you HAVE to reset it every time.

Sorry, but this is just a LW issue.

I suppose though, I could try rebuilding the whole scene so that the Book AND most importantly, the Page, so that they fall on the +Z axis.
That way, it should always work.
BUT!!!, this is just a guess, based on the fact that pretty much everything in LW wants to default and work on the +Z axis.
So, I still don't know if that would solve things, but it's just a guess.

.......................md :)

[carbon8]

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I'll download and take a peek. You've got me curious now. Thanks for the resource.

[mdunakin]

Cool :)
And just so you know, I AM making a "full and complete" tutorial WITH the GOOD files.

They should be up by tomorrow or the next day.
I'm currently having too many things going on this rest of the week.

So, time will be the issue.....................md :)
P.S. If anyone wants the "early" files, I'll be happy to send them to them.
But, the point is, I think people by now "get" how it all works and can probably make their own samples.
Spline Controll is a VERY powerfull, yet seemingly, unused yet by anyone, tool.
I hope that they make it in LW8 so that each "node" will be able to act as a Null object, with all it's rotational and lke that.

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