Motion Trail on viewport -Version Up

[kcsaba]

This is a pertty cool tool taro! Many thanks! I have a suggestion to you. (frankly I didn't read trough the thread, forgive me if this mentioned by someone else already) Would be great to see which key I standing on. Would be god to add a different colour for the active "dot" or show the frame number in a first row of the right click menu.
Thanks again!

Csaba

[taro]

Thanks.
I got a suggestion like yours before. But I haven't made it yet.
Actually it is not so difficult, so I'll do it in next version. I don't know when it is though.

[OZazello]

Taro!, thank you for the good tool!

But in version 1.5 i have some strange slope behavior. When i try to move it up/down (in screen space) it move in another direction - forward\backward. Version 1.3 haven't this problem.

[Paulrus]

Same here - I'm having a couple of problems.

1. The camera moves in a very weird direction when using Motion Trails.

2. The spline handles can go crazy if you touch them.

But I wish this functionality was part of Softimage. It's been in Lightwave forever.

-Paul

[sirdavid32]

How do you use this? Please help. There´s no readme. And also the site is down.
Thanks.

[OzAdi]

How do you use this? Please help. There´s no readme. And also the site is down.
Thanks.

If I remember correctly, after installation, go to the keyboard mapping window in softimage, look under "Custom Script Commands" you should find, Motion Trail there,
then assign this command, to a keyboard shortcut (I used <ctrl>+m)...

[mirkoj]

1. create 1 null give it rings shape, turn on animation ghosting on it and object shape
2. create 2nd null, you can leave it at default look, turn on animation ghosting and use trail
3. Parent one under another
4. turn on animation ghosting in view port, constrain pose of parent null to any object/control you wanna see.

works fine

[sirdavid32]

how do you get to activate it on the viewport once it´s installed?

[FXDude]

how do you get to activate it on the viewport once it´s installed?

Uhm, didn't OzAdi's work? I remember doing that too,

If I remember correctly, after installation, go to the keyboard mapping window in softimage,
look under "Custom Script Commands" you should find; Motion Trail there,
then assign this command, to a keyboard shortcut (I used <ctrl>+m)...

If you rarely or have never to assigned a custom hotkey,
it's not at all complicated, but it's just not immediately obvious.

This might help if so ....
Ex-SI :: assigning-a-hotkey-to-a-custom-script-command

1. create 1 null give it rings shape, turn on animation ghosting on it and object shape
2. create 2nd null, you can leave it at default look, turn on animation ghosting and use trail
3. Parent one under another
4. turn on animation ghosting in view port, constrain pose of parent null to any object/control you wanna see.

works fine

That's actually a pretty cool trick Miroj Thanks!,
But is missing in-viewport tweaking of f-curve driven paths,

Motion path isn't without any quirks, but mostly works great in my experience,

sometimes a heck of alot more "direct" than tweaking XYZ Fcurves wich can sometimes be like trying to make a circle with an etch-a-sketch