360 rotation with parts flying in to create model?

[tonyhaer]

I have a model with multiple parts that the client wants to fly in one by one to create the fully formed model, while the camera rotates. is there any easier way of doing this rather than keyframing each piece individually?

[joojaa]

is there any easier way of doing this rather than keyframing each piece individually?

that depends on your definition of easy. See thing is keying the indivisdual parts flying in is a 5-10 minute job so i dont really se how you would beneifyt form even easier stuff, if you still want retain some controll.

[bjohnston]

Sure...keyframe them all at once, and then offset the animation curves in the Curve Editor or the keys in the Dope Sheet...

For 360 you could turn them into rigid bodies, each on their own layer and using bounding box mode...then repell them all with a radial field...bake out the rigids to keyframes and offset/reverse them...