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Post by Hippani on Jul 16, 2013 15:54:13 GMT
Does anybody ever use the center of rotation?
We think it's too fiddly so we're thinking of getting rid of it and replacing it with curved paths.
What do you guys think?
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Post by hinster on Aug 23, 2013 20:19:18 GMT
Like :-)
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Post by oliver on Sept 16, 2013 17:04:52 GMT
The center of rotation is very useful.
Is used for character animation.
Move arms and legs.
Would also have a parent child hierarchy between objects.
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Post by Hippani on Sept 16, 2013 20:03:53 GMT
Sorry oliver, it got removed. I think what you want is bones, we hope to add this in the future.
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Post by Big Frank on Oct 12, 2013 11:46:42 GMT
I did find CoR a bit fiddle and Bones would be a great addition. It would really make me WANT to create animations  |
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Post by Hippani on Oct 14, 2013 8:15:39 GMT
Bones is on our suggestion list as well as rigid body dynamics. Fingers crossed it gets added in the future.
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Post by osidirop on Oct 29, 2013 7:55:10 GMT
why would you remove such a useful feature, when you haven't already added the bones feature?
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Post by Hippani on Oct 29, 2013 11:35:33 GMT
We added the curve feature which does something similar. It was hard to have both features + timelines within timelines in JavaScript. It was starting to struggle on smaller devices like phones.
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Post by Hippani on Oct 29, 2013 11:36:38 GMT
Sorry we had to compromise.
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Post by runes on Dec 7, 2013 20:00:35 GMT
Isn't the question by now "Does anybody ever use the curves?"? I don't and I would very much prefer to have the center of rotation back and the curves removed. However, if this is a performance killer, I can do without both |
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Post by Squeaky Dave on Dec 17, 2013 16:50:09 GMT
I was just looking for this feature and you took it out?  So until you add bones it is pretty much impossible to do any character animation in Hippo.? Do you have a vague time frame as to when bones might happen? Far too many question marks in this post but I think you get the idea. Dave |
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Post by Hippani on Dec 18, 2013 9:16:58 GMT
I'll +1 the suggestion, looks like we need to try and get some kind of rotate around a point system back in place. The last system was really hard to use, which is one of the reasons we removed it, so maybe we need to come up with an alternative. In the meantime, here is an example of rotating around a point using curves: www.hippostudios.co/?S=Animator&P=AnimatorGalleryView&I=3&RecordId=16Here is a diagram of how to do rotating around a point with curves, you can create exactly the same effect.  |
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Post by squeakydave on Dec 18, 2013 15:15:21 GMT
Well, that is something at least, even though it is a tad limited.
Bones would definitely seem to be the way forward so my vote would be to get them as high up the features list as possible.
The Program is called Hippo Animator after all :-)
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Post by runes on Dec 19, 2013 20:48:26 GMT
Personally I didn't find the center of rotation hard to use. Not at all in fact.
I still have a copy of Hippo Animator 2 and I just opened it to try the feature. And now I really want it back in Hippo Animator 3.
on anther note I opened an animation made in Hippo Animator 3 and timeline objects actually works in Hippo Animator 2. That I didn't expect:)
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