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New tutorial about wind animations

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I have written a new tutorial about making animations that can rotate with the wind. The technique is based on CAT, but instead of driving the animation with a timer, you use the direction of the wind. This way you can make for example the vanes of a windmill rotating with the wind, while you can animate the rotation of the vanes in GMax.

You can find the article on the Wiki.
 
I am doing some more studying on this subject as well, to see if I can also make the animation depending on the wind speed. It does not yet work fully, but the basic idea works. Once I have figured this out fully, I think I can even make the CAT code more efficient (no need to alter the SCEN section anymore, so that should solve some trouble).
 
nickw said:
Nice work man... cant wait to see this in a tool ;)
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I was affraid of that question :). But due to lack of time, I expect that for the moment you will have to tweak manual (it is a rather easy tweak as well). But it might be a good thing to include in CAT3 or so (I also found some new techniques that might make CAT more effcient and probably also allow conditioning of animated effects).
 
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