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<TITLE>Anachronox Editing Documentation</TITLE>
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<FONT COLOR="#0055DD"><B>Tutorial 19: Placing Entities On Paths</B>
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The moment you<6F>ve all been waiting for. Entites.
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I like to use my old friend the automap.
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Place a node in any map. Tell the director to make that node the camera.
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Drop another node on the camera path. Hit <20>7<EFBFBD>. It should place that node directly over the one before it. VERY HANDY!!!
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Drag that 2nd node on the timeline to 6 seconds.
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Goto a new path. Drop a node a little ways away from the other path.
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Shift-g down to the cmd line. Hit CTRL to drop a grey node.
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Hit the NODE button. Click on the window and type:
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Newent=ob_automap;floor=0
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Play the script. You should see a handy dandy automap. Now take the second camera node (at 6 secs) and move it away from the automap. Play script. Camera moves away from automap. BUT you are probably NOT looking at it. SO label the camera path as CAM 1 (do you remember how?). Labal the automap path as automap. Goto the cam 1 path and drop a node on it<69>s focus sub path. Hit <20>1<EFBFBD> and slecet automap.
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Now Play the script. The camera will remain focused on the automap ALWAYS.
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Goto the cmd line where it says newent=ob_automap;floor=0
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Change this to read: (NOTE: you can use Home, End, insert and delete, just like a word program and don<6F>t forget pageup is copy and pagedown is paste)
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Newent=character_boots:floor=0
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Play script. Notice you are looking at boots<74> feet. That is because that is where his ORIGIN POINT is. The automap has its<74> ORIGIN point in the center of his body. You set origin points in lightwave.
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Now change floor=0 to read: floor=1
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This will draw a trace line directly down from that node till it hits the floor and will place boots there. Play the script to see. This way you don<6F>t have to script people<6C>s origin points, skimming over the floors.
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Onto Movement
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