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ddeveloping
09-27-2007, 09:39 PM
Hello, I have 2 problems. I have a long rectangle/tower that has a footprint of 50x50. I need to animate the changing of the footprint from 50x50 to 40x60. This is driving me nuts. I have the scale button cheked to record on my keyframes but if i record the change it just changes the size of the object itself. In other words the size is changed throughout all the keyframes. How do I animate scale and deformation of a object? my other question is that later on in the animation I need to break my tower in half and animate both pieces independently. How should I got about doing this? Thank you so much in advance. Sorry, for so many posts lately I'm loveing the program and using it for a current project! Thanks again!
Per-Anders
09-27-2007, 09:48 PM
You're animating whilst using the model tool rather than the object tool.
ddeveloping
09-27-2007, 09:59 PM
Thank you so much I new it was something obvious. What about breaking apart the model?
Per-Anders
09-27-2007, 10:22 PM
Just make sure that it's two objects, group them together in a null to begin with and animate that, then animate the components seperately later on.
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