CGTalk - Animating Vertexes?

pitrie17

08-03-2007, 10:43 PM

Hi again. I'm just playing around with a custom shape particle emitter. I have a loft nurb defined by a spline and I want to animate the vertices so that the shape emitting particles changes over time. I can't figure out how to actually set a keyframe on the vertex level. Is this even possible? Thanks for any help.

macsupremacist

08-03-2007, 11:20 PM

You have to enable Point Level Animation (PLA). You'll find this button .... well ok look at where the keyframe button is just above the coordinate manager. To the right of that, there's a grouping of buttons, that look like the move tool (position), the scale tool (scale), and the rotate tool (rotation). Just to the right of the rotation button, there's one that looks like points, click on it so that it's blue before animating your vetices. That will enable the PLA track for that object. Lol I hope I was clear enough for you.

pitrie17

08-03-2007, 11:51 PM

Clear as a bell! Thanks!

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