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Procedural Animation question About Truespace Archives These pages are a copy of the official truespace forums prior to their removal somewhere around 2011. They are retained here for archive purposes only. Procedural Animation question // Tech Forum 1  |   Order by default Post by brotherx // Aug 6, 2008, 5:28am brotherx Total Posts: 538 I'll try and explain this first. I have taken a cylinder and copied it. Then made the copy smaller but taller and then boolean subtract it from the original to produce a ring. I then add a timer and a binary operator to multiply the timer then feed that into the roll of the expanded matrix of the boolean object. When I do this, the object rolls about an outer edge. If I take the same timer/binary op and put it on a torus, it rotates around its centre. Am I doing something wrong? I have tried flattening the history and tried the axis tool (nothing shows). Any help would be great. thanks. Post by Norm // Aug 6, 2008, 6:44am Norm Total Posts: 862 I would say it depends on where the axis of the object is. I would suggest to recreate the scene. I noticed you exported some items from the ring to outside the space. Not sure this is helpful so reason why I suggest to recreate. By default axis is in center of the object, so the torus is correct. The ring is what I believe was "customized" in the axis dept. I could not access the axis on the ring, which was second reason to suggest recreate. Post by trueBlue // Aug 6, 2008, 7:12am trueBlue Total Posts: 1761 I fixed this by switching to Model and normalizing it's Axis. Post by brotherx // Aug 6, 2008, 7:50am brotherx Total Posts: 538 I would say it depends on where the axis of the object is. I would suggest to recreate the scene. I noticed you exported some items from the ring to outside the space. Not sure this is helpful so reason why I suggest to recreate. By default axis is in center of the object, so the torus is correct. The ring is what I believe was "customized" in the axis dept. I could not access the axis on the ring, which was second reason to suggest recreate. Yeah, the export was an accident. However, I did create a new scene and was seeing exactly the same problems. Post by brotherx // Aug 6, 2008, 7:51am brotherx Total Posts: 538 I fixed this by switching to Model and normalizing it's Axis. Thanks blue. This is a simplified model of what I was trying to animate so I'll try that and see what happens. Post by brotherx // Aug 10, 2008, 10:27pm brotherx Total Posts: 538 Ok, I tried this out and I did get it working after several attempts. When I attempted to normalise the location, entering co-ordinated to reposition the objects caused them to go absolutely crazy like the points went and chose something random, increasing with every attempt. In the end it did work though. I am wondering why this happened - both the centering and also this weird co-ordinate thing. Is there a reason for it messing the centre up and also is there a way to fix it from workspace? Anyway, Thanks again blue for the fix.

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