Motion Composition Tool

A program for creating simple abstract animations
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  • Rating:
  • License:
  • GPL
  • Price:
  • Free
  • Publisher Name:
  • By Niall Moody
  • Operating Systems:
  • Windows 2003, Windows 2000, Windows Vista, Windows, Windows 7, Windows XP
  • Additional Requirements:
  • None
  • File Size:
  • 498 KB
  • Total Downloads:
  • 103

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Motion Composition Tool Description

The Motion Composition Tool application was designed to be a program for creating simple abstract animations. Saves to X3D files, so as well as viewing the results in the program itself, you can also view them in an X3D browser (i.e. you can turn them into movies with Heilan). You have control over 4 polygons, each with 4 draggable points and their own colour. The polygons' points may change over time, but the colour may not. To change a polygon's colour, clicking one of the 4 colours buttons at the top will bring up a colour selector. Animation is done via 'key-frames' - to store the polygons' positions at the current time position, click the store button. To change the current time, the '' buttons will retreat or advance the current time by one second, and you can also alter the time display by hand if you want finer control. The key-frames' times are stored as relative positions rather than absolute ones - this means that you have to set your desired length before you start adding key-frames, or they won't appear where you expect. The play/stop button plays back your animation. To hide the polygons' draggable points, make sure the main canvas has focus (click it) and press F2 on your keyboard. Pressing it again will bring them back. If you want to move a polygon without changing its shape, hold down the Ctrl key while dragging a point.


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