Timeline for Trying to learn basic animation using curve and array modifier and get this to loop
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| May 3, 2021 at 19:37 | history | edited | Lane_animate | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 30, 2021 at 18:24 | history | edited | Lane_animate | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 29, 2021 at 7:44 | comment | added | Gorgious | If you select the curve in edit mode and right click you can choose "Toggle cyclic" then the mesh should cycle back onto itself. If the start and end are clipping you can try to scale it a little bit along the main axis. | |
| Apr 28, 2021 at 19:06 | answer | added | moonboots | timeline score: 0 | |
| Apr 28, 2021 at 19:01 | comment | added | Lane_animate | I suppose the best way to answer is to admit i do not know what a texture along a tube is. | |
| Apr 28, 2021 at 19:00 | comment | added | Lane_animate | I am not sure how to answer. I've viewed many tutorials on procedural texturing, animation, etc. Frankly, i'm a little flummoxed by how to learn blender. I so solid modeling all the time, but it's challenging to learn where to go next to try to figure this stuff out. | |
| Apr 28, 2021 at 18:57 | comment | added | moonboots | so this is just a texture along a tube? | |
| Apr 28, 2021 at 18:56 | comment | added | Lane_animate | I am trying to simulate electrical current flow. I seek to be able to have open ended "wires" with something simulating flow down the wires. | |
| Apr 28, 2021 at 18:55 | comment | added | Lane_animate | I added a screen shot from Blender of the curve. | |
| Apr 28, 2021 at 18:55 | comment | added | moonboots | could you show a drawing of what the final image should look like? are we supposed to see a start and an end, what is the shape of the curve, etc? | |
| Apr 28, 2021 at 18:52 | comment | added | Lane_animate | I'm not sure what you mean by final frame. I'm guessing that the shape is open. It is a curve with end that is not back at the beginning. | |
| Apr 28, 2021 at 18:50 | comment | added | moonboots | could you please show a drawing of what the final frame would look like? is your shape open? do we see its start and end? is it circular? etc. Also is it just a texture that is moving or is it a 3D object with rings? | |
| Apr 28, 2021 at 18:48 | comment | added | Lane_animate | Thanks. Now i know i can edit my original question. And sorry for putting the GIF at the beginning. you can tell i'm new at this. What i really want to do is to create the illusion of a continuous flow of something. That GIF i just posted into the very beginning shows what appears to be a continuous flow. I am trying to replicate that and do not know how. | |
| Apr 28, 2021 at 18:46 | history | edited | Lane_animate | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 28, 2021 at 18:44 | comment | added | Lane_animate | yes, i think i GIF would help me explain what i'm trying to do so that you smart folks might be able to help me better. | |
| Apr 28, 2021 at 18:42 | comment | added | vklidu | Do you have some specific issue to add another one gif? | |
| Apr 28, 2021 at 18:41 | comment | added | Lane_animate | is there a way for me to add another GIF to this discussion. I think it would help. thanks | |
| Apr 28, 2021 at 18:33 | comment | added | moonboots | maybe you could use a Boolean modifier to hide the beginning? | |
| Apr 28, 2021 at 18:25 | history | asked | Lane_animate | CC BY-SA 4.0 |