Monday 20th April - In Anja's group it has been organised so that me and Heba will do a little texturing in the coming weeks. Mehmet expressed that he is happy to continue modelling but wished others to help with texturing. Me and Heba now just need the required files and help with direction in order to fulfill this.
Animated Fish for Anja. Used motion paths for the fish to make it easier. The reason for this was so that theoretically I could draw a line in maya for the exact route i want the fish to go. This helps as it means i can clearly see how the fish will move and will hopefully save time rather than moving the fish almost every frame and keyframing. This is also easier because it means I only have to keyframe main points of the animation. The main body of movement is calculated automatically when you set how many frames the line lasts for. But of course you can keyframe or change this yourself to make the fish stop on route for example. Using motion paths is also helps a lot for teh animated body parts. As the body movement sets itself up first, it
I also only animated the referenced fish so that... in theory... opening the scene maya file should automatically import the referenced fish WITH animation in each position so each fish will animate exactly the same in sync with each other. As shown this was NOT the case.
Unfortunately there were many problems although it partially worked. The files were in fact replaced with the referenced animated fish although for some odd reason unknown to me, the position of the referenced objects were reset to the center of the screen. (oddly enough except one fish). In the picture above I have moved the fish away from the center so you can see that they all did in fact import with their animations, just in the wrong places. This meant I had to move and replace each fish back into their original (or close to) positions. I don't think the end result looks too bad and for my first proper maya animation attempt I am quite proud.
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