Morphing Vines Tutorials is now up!

[mdunakin]

I thought I already posted this here, but I don't see it anywhere.
So, if this is a double post, then my oppologies.

I just posted up my latest tutorial.
This one is called Morphing Vines.
It makes use of the new SplineControl plugin that came with the LW 7.5c update.

There are two parts to this tutorial due to file size.
First part is:
1,977k Viewlet Flash tutorial Part One.
Second is:
Part Two is 2,754k.
http://www.md-arts.com/MorphingVines.gif
They can be found in the Tutorials section at my site:
http://www.md-arts.com
The files can be found there also.

Enjoy and let me know if you have any problems with viewing or downloading or anything else.
And feel free to email me with any and all questions or comments.

Also, I now put up links for all the Flash tutorials, so they can be downloaded for off line viewing.

.................................md :)

[HowardM]

sweet Mark!
Thanks!

[mdunakin]

Thanx howard :)

What's really good about using this method, as opposed to bones, is that it's far easier to make the spline wrap around something. Like lets say you have a building and you want vines (or snakes or whatever) to creep all around the side of the building, well it's easy to quickly move the splines around and get instant results.

I'm hoping to see someone get some real use out of this.
I also am hoping that Newtek will modify this in 8, because there is deffinately room for improvement. Like you should be able to parent anything to one of the nodes just like you can parent anything to a null. And the nodes should really wrok in the same mannor as nulls, like letting you be able to rotate them.

...............md :)