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I have seen several videos (like this one) where the points are made to all point towards a mesh, but none are using animation.
My goal is to have a lot of randomly rotated points on a plane (I have already done this) that then turn towards a certain point, so that you can see them rotating on the z axis towards it. This is being done in Blender 3.2.2.
The problem is how to get the randomly rotated points to be shown moving towards a specific mesh in the animation so that it is smooth.
For a smooth animation just mix the rotation values with a Mix node. This way you can seamlessly switch between the "random pose" and the "point-to pose".
Example:
"Random Pose" - instance objects have a random rotation:
"Point-To Pose" - instance objects are rotated to point at the Empty object:
Now, for the animation add a Mix node and add keyframes for the Factor value. (0 = random rotation, 1 = point-to rotation)
That's it! Of course, you can use another mesh object instead of the Empty ;-)
