Flying through the Rhinoceros Fractal

[KRAFTWERK]

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/0lU-4pg-rgk&rel=1&fs=1&hd=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/0lU-4pg-rgk&rel=1&fs=1&hd=1</a>

Sadly I keep flying into things, even where I know I had a keyframe "clear of objects" like 0:28 - 0:30 into the movie I had a keyframe UNDER the "tree bridges". 

I guess it has something to do with the bezier camera paths "smoothing out" the path? 

Anyways, hope you like!

[Jesse]

Hi KRAFTWERK,

with bezier interpolation the keyframes will not be reached, but the midpoints between two keyframes.

So if you want to pass a specific point, you might make a keyframe in front of it and one behind it.

And if you want to include the starting or ending keyframe, duplicate them and set the subframe count of the first and last keyframe to zero.


Beside the missing bridges it looks really great, awesome box!

And thanks for all the other great work!

[reallybigname]

Awesome werk, as always, Kraftwerk!

Jesse, maybe this would be better on the Mandelbulb 3D thread, but it seemed to fit the conversation...  You do so much work on this thing, I hate to even ask about stuff like this!  Thanks, Jesse!   And, I understand that what I'm asking may be way more difficult than it sounds:

It would be great if you could send a frame from the animation window to the 3D nav view, and display the current motion spline, based on the setting in animation window (linear/bezier).  So, you could use the 3D nav to look around and see if the spline is bending through an object without messing with your current view or anything.

Another really awesome feature would be to see tick-marks on the spline which represent frames, so you could tell how smooth the speed would be from one segment to the next.

I know, my head is in the clouds...   

[Jesse]

The idea is very cool, whether i can implement it or not 

You can always give suggestions or whatever, i shut down automatically if its getting to much 
But most ideas are still on the list and maybe sometimes they can be realized.

[reallybigname]

Well, I'm full of ideas, I just don't want to inundate you with them!

For instance, ever since you put in the "first step random", I keep wondering what you could do if you could control the randomness of different steps (like a randomness curve through the steps).   Of course, if everything was random, you wouldn't be able to save the formula and render the same thing again.  So, it would have to be some sort of quasi-randomness that is actually seeded by a number and repeatable.

I also think that Mandelbulb 3D would be way cooler if it made coffee for me. 

[KRAFTWERK]

Hi KRAFTWERK,

with bezier interpolation the keyframes will not be reached, but the midpoints between two keyframes.

So if you want to pass a specific point, you might make a keyframe in front of it and one behind it.

And if you want to include the starting or ending keyframe, duplicate them and set the subframe count of the first and last keyframe to zero.


Beside the missing bridges it looks really great, awesome box!

And thanks for all the other great work!

And thank YOU Jesse for providing an excellent tool!

OK I get it, would it be help to make two keyframes of the same spot under the bridge with frame count set to zero?

Thanks for the good explaining J, now I can fly around without my helmet 

[Jesse]

OK I get it, would it be help to make two keyframes of the same spot under the bridge with frame count set to zero?

The first keyframe should only be zero, yes that should work.

To be sure i would use the preview function letting it start before the specific keyframes to speed this up.

Greets

[KRAFTWERK]

Thanks again Jesse! I will try this approach next time!

[zongo]

Somptuous ! Except for those path accident this animation is splendid. I love every part of it, from the color palette to the light and of course this incredible sci-fi looking valley.

[KRAFTWERK]

Thank you Zongo, glad you like it, next time I might be able to avoid the crashes