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[EDIT: The latest version of the butterfly sequence is in another thread called "The Butterfly agqain, improved" , The original version is still on the geocities link below.]

Here is my first animation in Moho. Sorry, there is no story, just an experiement to see if I could make a butterfly's wings flap.

http://us.share.geocities.com/scmxyzzy/ ... maller.mov


(It turns out that geocities only allows about 2 downloads an hour, so here it is on angelfire:)
[EDIT: WARNING, dont bother following the link below. Angelfire disabled it due to me violating there terms of service. I will post a new link when I find space somewhere else. I think my ISP gives me about 5 megs of free webspace somewhere...]
http://www.angelfire.com/mac2/scmxyzzy/ ... maller.mov

(and it turns out angelfire does not allow "direct linking", so please copy and paste the above URL to your browser)

Sorry

Stephen

Very nice.

Add some animation to the grass particles (bend) and it will look awesome.

The butterfly is very nicely done.

Very nicely done. One minor point - if you watch a butterfly, you'll notice that as the wings beat downwards the body moves upwards and vice versa, giving the strangely 'fluttery' flight motion they have. Get that included and you've cracked it.

kdiddy13 wrote:Very nice.

Add some animation to the grass particles (bend) and it will look awesome.

The butterfly is very nicely done.

Thanks

I tried to use the bend tool, but it would not work, it did not bend anything. Maybe I was using it wrong. so I decided just to rotate the blades slightly

JohnO wrote:Very nicely done. One minor point - if you watch a butterfly, you'll notice that as the wings beat downwards the body moves upwards and vice versa, giving the strangely 'fluttery' flight motion they have. Get that included and you've cracked it.

Thank you. That is a very good point. It should not be hard to add some up and down movement as the wings flap. I will give it a try.

I added some up and down fluttering to the animation cycle. It is pretty subtle, but it does look better. Copy and paste the following link to your browser:

[EDIT: Warning , dont bother following the link below, it just gives you a terms of service violation page. ]
http://www.angelfire.com/mac2/scmxyzzy/flutterby.mov

Stephen

stephen wrote:I added some up and down fluttering to the animation cycle. It is pretty subtle, but it does look better. Copy and paste the following link to your browser:

http://www.angelfire.com/mac2/scmxyzzy/flutterby.mov

Stephen

Uh oh!

The page you are attempting to access has been removed because it violated Angelfire's Terms of Service.

Got to see it before it went down. Nicely done.

jorgy wrote:

stephen wrote:I added some up and down fluttering to the animation cycle. It is pretty subtle, but it does look better. Copy and paste the following link to your browser:

http://www.angelfire.com/mac2/scmxyzzy/flutterby.mov

Stephen

Uh oh!

The page you are attempting to access has been removed because it violated Angelfire's Terms of Service.

Apparently I violated Angelfires terms of service agreement by posting a file that is loaded directly without going through a web page that contains their ads. Also it looks like they forbid mpeg files anyways.

In the next few days I will come up with a better way to post my stuff

In the mean time I will delete the references to angelfire in my previous posts to prevent more people wasting time hiting their denial page.

Sorry for all the trouble.

In the mean time it looks like the geocities one still works, but not all the time because they limit the downloads to about 2 per hour.

Stephen