Disclaimer:
I am completely oblivious to 3ds max rigging tools or anything besides basic object linking/parenting.
Now with this out of the way I currently have to work on an animation where I need to animate some sort of hallway looking like this: http://www.icehotel.com/wp-content/u...n-1140x761.jpg
So basically I have an array of objects that I need to be able to easily affect their position and rotation (+rotation offset), so I can get an effect like the walls in the picture without deformation the objects.
Since this will be a pretty long hallway I want to avoid touching every object manually. So my goal would be to probably have some helper objects to affect the position/rotation/scale/falloff for the various parts of said hallway. (eg. Start/middle/end)
I can get the basic effect with a clone modifier but since I have to affect not only copies this sadly falls flat. I also thought about railclone but I am not 100% sure if I have to hand this off to someone else who doesn't have railclone at some point depending on an upcoming project. :/
Does anybody have an idea on how to achieve what I want? Or could point me in the right direction?
P.S I hope the way I described this isn't too confusing. :P
I am completely oblivious to 3ds max rigging tools or anything besides basic object linking/parenting.
Now with this out of the way I currently have to work on an animation where I need to animate some sort of hallway looking like this: http://www.icehotel.com/wp-content/u...n-1140x761.jpg
So basically I have an array of objects that I need to be able to easily affect their position and rotation (+rotation offset), so I can get an effect like the walls in the picture without deformation the objects.
Since this will be a pretty long hallway I want to avoid touching every object manually. So my goal would be to probably have some helper objects to affect the position/rotation/scale/falloff for the various parts of said hallway. (eg. Start/middle/end)
I can get the basic effect with a clone modifier but since I have to affect not only copies this sadly falls flat. I also thought about railclone but I am not 100% sure if I have to hand this off to someone else who doesn't have railclone at some point depending on an upcoming project. :/
Does anybody have an idea on how to achieve what I want? Or could point me in the right direction?
P.S I hope the way I described this isn't too confusing. :P
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