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FranOnTheEdge
05-04-2009, 07:15 PM
Hi,

I have an almost complete animation. I now need to animate the logo.

I could just make it fade/disappear - but I thought it would be cool to use the TP Object Fragmentation preset.

I have done almost no XPresso, and it terrifies me.

I will try, if it's not too complex, but I had hoped that as there was a preset, that could be used instead.

The logo text is on a plane. It was made editable.
"fragments" from the Thinking Particles Settings is in the Particle Group text box of the Particle Geometry object thing.
"fragments" is also in the Fragments Group text box in User Data in TP Object Fragmentation.
the plane is in the Polygon Object text box in that same User Data menu.

Is that correct?

In Thinking Particle Settings, there was also "startgeo" - do I have to go into XPresso to use this preset after all?

What do I do with that?
Sneaker
05-05-2009, 05:35 AM
TP Fragmets only work on Particles. Is your Logo a particle?
If not I'd suggest going a different route and using the explosion object.
-Michael
FranOnTheEdge
05-11-2009, 02:05 PM
Oh. No, it's not a particle.

I saw an example where a sphere was fragmented into its component faces, and as my logo is on a plane - which has faces - I hoped I could do similar to my plane as the example did to the sphere.

I can't now find that disintegrating sphere example. I can't remember where I saw it.

But if an explosion object will work I'd like to try that also.

I've been searching everywhere but I can't find an "explosion object" anywhere - can you tell me where to find it? and if there are any instructions - where to find them too?
kvb
05-11-2009, 05:19 PM
I've been searching everywhere but I can't find an "explosion object" anywhere - can you tell me where to find it? and if there are any instructions - where to find them too?

did you try the manual?
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