Creating a Simple Animation-Part One - Revision history

JavaJones at 21:56, 17 July 2017

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Jo at 08:15, 22 February 2012

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Jo at 10:10, 20 February 2012

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Jo at 10:09, 20 February 2012

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Jo at 10:08, 20 February 2012

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Jo: /* Animating with the main window */

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‎Animating with the main window

Jo at 00:25, 19 February 2012

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JavaJones at 19:04, 14 February 2012

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JavaJones at 19:03, 14 February 2012

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JavaJones at 19:01, 14 February 2012

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-This tutorial shows you how to create a basic animation. We're going to move a sphere along the ground, move it up in the air and then drop it back to the ground. We'll do this two ways. The first way will be done entirely using the main window timeline and param views. The second way will be done using the Animation Panel. This should help you understand the basic processes of animation in Terragen 2 and also show you how the Animation Panel makes animating easier.
+This tutorial shows you how to create a basic animation. We're going to move a sphere along the ground, move it up in the air and then drop it back to the ground. We'll do this two ways. The first way will be done entirely using the main window timeline and param views. The second way will be done using the Animation Panel. This should help you understand the basic processes of animation in Terragen 4 and also show you how the Animation Panel makes animating easier.
 ==Animating with the main window==
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-Start Terragen 2.
+Start Terragen.
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 Create a Sphere object to animate. You can do this by clicking on the Objects layout button and then using Add Object button at the top right. Click the button and choose '''Object > Sphere''' from the menu that pops up.
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 We now have a basic animation. Use the slider in the timeline to scrub through the animation. Move it to the left and you'll see the sphere move left in the 3D Preview. Move it back to the right and you'll see the sphere move, until the slider gets past frame 20.
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-Notice that you don't have to set a key on every frame to get motion. TG2 calculates the values for every frame inbetween the ones where you set keys. This is called interpolation.
+Notice that you don't have to set a key on every frame to get motion. Terragen calculates the values for every frame inbetween the ones where you set keys. This is called interpolation.
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 Now we're going to make the sphere rise up in the air. Set the frame number to 30. Set the '''Centre''' param to 300, 200, 0. Use the animation button to set another key just as we did before.
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-Use the slider in the timeline to scrub between frame 0 and frame 30. Notice how the sphere rises up in the air. You might notice it follows a curved path. By default TG2 calculates the positions between keys using a smooth interpolation method which gives a curved kind of motion. You can see the inbetween values that TG2 has calculated in the '''Centre''' param when you scrub with the timeline slider.
+Use the slider in the timeline to scrub between frame 0 and frame 30. Notice how the sphere rises up in the air. You might notice it follows a curved path. By default Terragen calculates the positions between keys using a smooth interpolation method which gives a curved kind of motion. You can see the inbetween values that Terragen has calculated in the '''Centre''' param when you scrub with the timeline slider.
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 Next we'll drop the sphere back down to the ground. Set the frame number to 40. Set the X component of the '''Centre''' param to 400 and the Y component to 25. Use the animation button to set a key on all components.
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 Params with keys colour their text green when the current frame is one which has a key set for it. When the text is blue it means there isn't a key set at that frame.
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-TG2 calculates values for frames inbetween ones where you've set keys. You don't need to set a key on every frame. Calculating the inbetween values is called interpolation.
+Terragen calculates values for frames inbetween ones where you've set keys. You don't need to set a key on every frame. Calculating the inbetween values is called interpolation.
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 You can use the slider in the main window timeline to move or scrub through the animation. You can also use the timeline playback controls.

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	This tutorial shows you how to create a basic animation. We're going to move a sphere along the ground, move it up in the air and then drop it back to the ground. We'll do this two ways. The first way will be done entirely using the main window timeline and param views. The second way will be done using the Animation Panel. This should help you understand the basic processes of animation in Terragen 2 and also show you how the Animation Panel makes animating easier.		This tutorial shows you how to create a basic animation. We're going to move a sphere along the ground, move it up in the air and then drop it back to the ground. We'll do this two ways. The first way will be done entirely using the main window timeline and param views. The second way will be done using the Animation Panel. This should help you understand the basic processes of animation in Terragen 2 and also show you how the Animation Panel makes animating easier.

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 This is starting position for our animation. We are going to be moving the sphere along, raising it up in the air and then dropping it back down. To do this we will be animating the '''Centre''' param. Click the animation button for the '''Centre''' param. Choose '''Set animation key > Key all''' from the menu which pops up.
-<div style="background-color: #aaaaaa; border-style: solid; padding: 5px;">
+<div style="background-color: #dddddd; border-style: solid; padding: 5px;">
 The '''Centre''' param is a vector, which means it has multiple components - X, Y and Z. When you set a key on a param with multiple components you can choose to either set a key for all components or set a key on individual components. For example in this tutorial we will only be moving the sphere along the X axis and the Y axis so technically we could just set keys for those components. For simplicities sake we are going to set keys on all components though.
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 Here's a movie rendered from what we have so far:<br />
-<center><mediaplayer>file:simple_anim_tut_pt1_dipping.mp4</mediaplayer></center>
+<mediaplayer>file:simple_anim_tut_pt1_dipping.mp4</mediaplayer>
 Something which is immediately obvious is that the sphere drops below the ground! This is an effect of the interpolation method used to calculate all the param values inbetween keys. The interpolation makes a nice smooth motion but not quite what we want. To try and fix this we can go back to the frames where we set keys as the sphere started to rise and when it dropped back to the ground. The sphere looks like it has gone halfway into the ground so we will raise it up by the sphere radius at both those frames. Let's do that now.

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 Here's another movie rendered with the changed animation:<br />
-<center><mediaplayer>file:simple_anim_tut_pt1_nodipping.mp4</mediaplayer></center>
+<mediaplayer>file:simple_anim_tut_pt1_nodipping.mp4</mediaplayer>
 As you can see the sphere no longer dips as badly, although it still does a little. Of course the movement of the sphere isn't quite what we had before either. It starts rising sooner and drops all the way to the ground later.

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 You can download a project file for this tutorial [[Media:Simple_animation_tutorial_pt1.tgd|here]].