Duplicate with time offset

[waterfunsky]

Sorry ,I'm not familier with MAYA,
Can someone teach me how to
Duplicate object with time offset

[catalin-niculescu]

Im not sure what you mean. If you mean offset keyframes, then simply duplicate the animated object
and offset the keyframes manualy in dopesheet or graph editor.
Good luck

[waterfunsky]

Thank you!
But If I want to duplicate 100 objects,and need
they move in the same motion path and their
timing to move is one follow another.
Move the curve in Grapf Editor is works,but it's tired.
I'm the user of Alias in the past time,it has very convenient way to do "Time Offset" ,just in the option
of Duplicate.

[autumn]

Look for the animToolbox.mel script on this site. It allows you to select multiple objects, and perform functions like offsetting and randomisation with a single click. I find it really handy for quicly offsetting keyframes without having to use the graph editor, dopesheet or timeline.

Tom

[waterfunsky]

Yeaa~~~
It work!
Thank you so much!

[mantrid]

...yeah, or you could right the code. I'll get you started :

heres an example expression :

float $offset = locator1.translateY;

ball2.translateX = getAttr -t (frame - $offset)ball1.tx;
ball2.translateY = getAttr -t (frame - $offset) ball1.ty;
ball2.translateZ = getAttr -t (frame - $offset) ball1.tz;

ball3.tx = getAttr -t (frame - ($offset * 1.5) ) ball1.tx;
ball3.ty = getAttr -t (frame - ($offset * 1.5) ) ball1.ty;
ball3.tz = getAttr -t (frame - ($offset * 1.5) ) ball1.tz;

...the locator's y axis used as an offset is a great interactive way of controlling the offset value...i.e. lossening or tightening up the flocking objects. You could add an attribute, but its more fun this way Also, notice that I increment the offset value for each object. This can be a random figure if you like using the rand function. This way the objetcs aren't uniform and looks more like a flocking system. What I do is select all the objects or particles and load em into an array with a simple mell script that then applies the expression to every object in the array, as opposed to typing in by hand for each of maybe 1000 objects. To prevent the flocking objects from colliding you have to go a lot further into it, but this should get you started.

~Pootang~