How can I animate an object to follow a 360 path?

Whizkid105 18. April 2019 16:56

I’m working on a small island scene, and I’d like to have a shark fin constantly circling the island. Unfortunately, I have no idea how to do so! Any suggestions or ideas? Help is greatly appreciate :D

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  Supposer

  • 19. April 2019 07:54

  Two methods I can think of:
  
  Keyframes--Add keyframes that place the shark fin at different positions, at the correct rotation. Put all those in a timeline on the same row, with gaps between them. Make them "tween" by hovering in the gaps and pressing L1 + X (this cycles through different tweening "shapes" but you don't have to worry about that). Make sure "smoothing" is enabled in all keyframes, which will make a smooth line linking them together--making it a circle instead of straight lines between each position.
  
  Or if you want a perfect circle, use a rotator. Make an invisible sculpt in the centre of the circle. Group it with the fin. Add a rotator to the central sculpt and fiddle with the settings to get it to rotate correctly. Now the entire group should rotate?
  
  If not, try adding a motor bolt from the central sculpt to the shark.

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  Whizkid105

  • 19. April 2019 15:59

  Oh my goodness, never in a million years would I have thought of that rotator trick! Just tried it, and it’s exactly the effect I was aiming for. Thank you so much, Supposer!

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