My animated engine piston but one problem...

[triplej96]

So I completed that expression tutorial by Dan Ebberts at the cow and applied to my own project. My only problem is the piston (top piece). When the rod goes down and up the piston moves to the left and right a little? Any tips on how to make the piston move up and down with out swaying left and right?

Thank You

http://www.joshjohnsonfilms.com/EngineAnimationTest.html

 

[Tom Marshall]

Do you have a link to the tutorial?

 

[triplej96]

Do you have a link to the tutorial?

Here ya go Tom. This would of been a lot nicer to have create the elements in C4D but time didn't allow.

http://library.creativecow.net/articles/ebberts_dan/expressions.php

 

[Tom Marshall]

Cool. Let me take a look at it and I'll see if I can help out.

And yeah, making stuff in C4D is a blast.

How were your holidays?

 

[triplej96]

Cool. Let me take a look at it and I'll see if I can help out.

And yeah, making stuff in C4D is a blast.

How were your holidays?

Sweet Thanks Tom. Holidays were good but very busy with work and getting my letus economy in. Not to mention trying to teach myself dreamweaver and C4d . How bout you did you have a good holiday?

 

[triplej96]

Fixed thanks for the reply Tom.

http://www.joshjohnsonfilms.com/EngineAnimationTest.html

 

[Tom Marshall]

Cool. What was wrong?

I've been so busy lately... I didn't even get a chance to look at it...

 

[triplej96]

Cool. What was wrong?

I've been so busy lately... I didn't even get a chance to look at it...

It's ok I've been crazy busy too. The problem was I rescaled the piston in AE...So I just rescaled everything in Illustrator and brought everything back into AE by the "replace" method precomped the layers because the comp was huge and opened it in a 720x480.

 

[Tom Marshall]

The nice thing about AE is you can use native Illustrator files. I wonder if you can do that in Fusion...

 

[triplej96]

The nice thing about AE is you can use native Illustrator files. I wonder if you can do that in Fusion...

Yep native illustrator files rock but I'm not sure about Fusion. I have never used it.

 

[triplej96]

I added quite a bit more to the animation if anyone cares...

http://www.joshjohnsonfilms.com/EngineAnimationTest.html

 

[Tom Marshall]

Looks great.

I like the roller lifters. Looks like a 302 roller engine to me. Is it?