Forum - How Do I ...? - Teleportation, or somesuch - Messages http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic1930-teleportation-or-somesuch.aspx Forum - How Do I ...? - Teleportation, or somesuch - Messages en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Jitbit AspNetForum Fri, 27 Jul 2012 12:26:51 GMT Fri, 27 Jul 2012 12:26:51 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic1930-teleportation-or-somesuch.aspx Message from hugmyster

Very many thanks Gentlemen! I shall have to give this a try...
worship]]> Fri, 27 Jul 2012 12:26:51 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic1930-teleportation-or-somesuch.aspx Message from Lev_Dynamite hugmyster wrote:
Can you make a character appear or disappear from a set?

Alternatively can a character be brought on to the set from off-side as an appearing act then made to vanish in the same way?
As previously noted by Phil7Newbie earlier in the thread, you could use teleports by creating multiple instances of character movement and then deleting the movement blocks in-between the first and the last blocks to make the character jump from one point in the scene to another!

A quick example of this:

If I direct the character in the above scene to walk from where he is to point A, and then from point A to point B, and finally from point B to point C, then this will create three "movement" blocks on the timeline for movement between each point. You can see this by going to Tools > Timeline and looking at the blocks in the "Movement" section:

The first movement block represents the character's walk from the starting point to point A, the second movement block represents the character's walk from point A to point B, and the third movement block represents the character's walk from point B to point C.
Right-click on the middle movement block (the second of the three) and then hit "Delete" in the dialogue box which will open. This will remove the second movement block, thus eliminating the character's walk from point A to point B. The third movement block should turn from blue to red to indicate that there is no longer a smooth movement to that point, and that the character will "teleport" when timeline playback reaches the third block:

Now, when I play back my video, my character will walk from his initial starting point to point A, and then will automatically teleport to the end of point B and start walking to point C because the "point A to point B" block has been removed!:

Note that in the above screenshot I also moved the red movement block forward a bit in the timeline, to make the teleportation happen earlier.

Hopefully this makes some sense! Teleportation like this isn't an exact science, but it should help you with being able to bring a character immediately out of the camera view into the camera view!
edited by Lev_Dynamite on 27/07/2012]]> Fri, 27 Jul 2012 10:50:45 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic1930-teleportation-or-somesuch.aspx Message from Phil7newbie Fri, 27 Jul 2012 02:51:13 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic1930-teleportation-or-somesuch.aspx Message from IanS
If you get round to doing a demo for this, you could upload it to the site - select 'Upload a video' and then set the type to 'How to video' and it will show up in our How to section of the site!

cheers]]> Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:00:23 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic1930-teleportation-or-somesuch.aspx Message from hugmyster
You've got me absolutely intrigued! Please could you do a tiny demo video and send it - I'd be 120% grateful!]]> Wed, 25 Jul 2012 09:03:51 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic1930-teleportation-or-somesuch.aspx Message from Phil7newbie Wed, 25 Jul 2012 02:44:12 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic1930-teleportation-or-somesuch.aspx Message from hugmyster
Alternatively can a character be brought on to the set from off-side as an appearing act then made to vanish in the same way?]]> Thu, 28 Jun 2012 20:05:46 GMT