LED eyes
Hi, I'm new to Maxscript, have 3 years c++ experience, and about 5 years of 3d studio Max experience.
I'm looking for an easy way to animate Led eyes for a robot (like EVE in WALL-E).
So I was hoping if anyone could help me with this, or if there is already a script that could be used for this.
The ideal solution would be something with a window where you have a button for each LED (sphere). Each button controls the visibility/luminosity of the LED(on or off).
Here's a visual example I made for clarity:
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/812/examplef.jpg/
It's for my graduation movie (third bachelor year in animation), so there's no budget...
Comments
another idea
i see you start with max script, good, so maybe you'll appreciate an idea (with less scripting and other benefits). this dialog with buttons for each led-object seems to me alot of clicking, a bit more visual but not very natural for animating.
what about this - make 2 circular objects (sphere or cylinder) a bit bigger than "dots"-shperes (as your "eye"-area is more than 1 shpere) to serve as "helper objects" and animate easy by hand as you like their XY movement. and at the end you'll need just 2-3 lines of code to animate the materials according to intersection btw 2 "eyes" and "dots".
if i was some free time w'd made a demo video to see how easy is and that helps to focus on animation, not on clicking frame-by-frame and dot-per-dot. but with 5 years in Max am sure you get what i mean, cheers!
[EDIT]
Ok, i spen a little time to record a video tut. Cheers!
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