Multiple Motion Paths

[hummus]

Does anyone know how to connect an object to multiple motion paths?
I had an object I wanted to follow a curve do some animation and later follow another curve. I ended up making one curve and playing around with the timing so it looks like it follows two different motion paths; - but I was wondering whether it's possible to actually connect the one object to a start/end times of one curve and then a start/end times of another...???

[msimon]

I'll need to try this one out, but if the end time of the first curve doesn't overlap the start time of the second, it might work. Another technique, might be to group the object, and attach the group to one curve, and the object to another. This way Maya wouldn't get confused. I think your first approach was probably the right idea though.

[tbriggs]

Animate a locator on each path. Point constrain your object to all the locators. Animate the weights and your object will follow the constraint that has a weight of 1 (make the others' weight 0) . Fractional values will give intermediate results.

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[blitzbo]

Howdi! You could also just copy your object that needs the different path animation and have one object per path and simply display and hide along the time line as desired. As long as they are in the right place at the right time they will be fine.