Transfer Motionpath To New Curve

[user_deleted]

hi i am trying to extend a motion path. if i use the add points tool it moves my positionMarkers. if i attach a new curve to the existing one how do i transfer the old path so its identical and can be added to on my new curve?

cheers

sam

[dryodryo]

If you need multiple motion paths, you can use intermediate locators or dummy objects. You'd have one dummy per motion path. Parent constrain your geometry to the dummies, then animate the constraint weights to transfer the geometry between dummies.

You didn't do this to start with, so you might need to make a duplicate of your original geometry and parent constrain it to the geometry on the first path, making that original object invisible.

You could also achieve the same results using object substitution.

[user_deleted]

Erm thanks for that but you've lost me a bit! basically, i have a camera going along a path. i need it to go further than it did but i cant add to my path curve without messing it up. all i'm looking for is like a motionPath-transfer path to new curve option!! or some way of disconnecting motionPath1 from my old curve and reconnecting it to my new one, or did you just say all this and i'm being daft?

cheers

:edit: if i copy and paste my keys in the graph editor it stretches the animation curve to the length of the new motion path, i guess thats cos its done on u value..

[joojaa]

just change the node connection to different curve.

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:edit: if i copy and paste my keys in the graph editor it stretches the animation curve to the length of the new motion path, i guess thats cos its done on u value..

yes that would happen, but you can make it length dependent (thus same speed) by scaling the anim curve by lengthOld/lenghNew