Q: How to move objects to fixed positions; for an updating, sorted score table?
(using Motion 5.1.2 on OS X 10.9.5)
I'd like to create a "table" (groups with backgrounds, names and score) with 25 candidates of a show that collect points throughout the show. After each "game"; the table would need to get updated.
Simplified example:
Inital situation:
Position 1: Candidate A - 0 points
Position 2: Candidate B - 0 points
Position 3: Candidate C - 0 points
After game 1, it gets sorted by score:
Position 1: Candidate B - 4 points
Position 2: Candidate C - 1 point
Position 3: Candidate A - 0 points
and so on, there are about 20-30 games.
The final output *must* be a movie file exported with Motion, the game situation was just an example.
My problem is how to animate the movements of the slots, say, from Position 3 to Position 1.. not moving after the next game, then moving to Position 2, and so on.
I'd like to avoid having to draw a motion path for each object after each "game", as that's too time consuming and not precise enough.
I'd like to have fix positions pre-determined, that I can just assign the movements to. However, with what I saw in Motion so far, this isn't possible or at least not intuitive at all.
To simplify my example:
We have 3 squares (A, B, C) with fixed position across the whole project.
Then there's a circle, starting on square A. After 10 seconds, it moves (duration of 1 second) to square C. There it stays for 30 seconds. Then it moves from square C to square B, within a second (or any other custom time).
It would be great to be able to achieve that with "snapshots" ("Square A / Square B") on the parameter "position" of "Circle", if they could be animated via keyframes, but the rig snapshots doesn't allow animation between snapshots, and in the slider rig it's too difficult to set up 25 positions, that much I'd need throughout the table.
I tried with linking the "circle"'s motion destination to a fixed invisible object ("square"), but it comes with issues, it jumps back to the circle's initial position after the movement (which it shouldn't), and I just feel like I am missing something very basic.
Can anyone help me there plz?
Motion 5
Posted on Mar 9, 2016 6:33 AM