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jasonjam
Inspiring
December 5, 2016
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Sensor Animation

  • December 5, 2016
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Hello,

I'm hoping someone can guide me on the best way to animate an adaptive cruise control sensor.

Please take a look at this 3-D video for the animation reference- Adaptive Cruise Control Audi - YouTube

The final animation won't be in 3-D.

I need to animate the bars from the attached reference.

Thanks.

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    Correct answer Mylenium

    That is starting to look like what I need but the pulse starts from the middle. I need the pulse to start from right to left. Attached is a shot of my desktop.


    You can move the producer point, can you not? You need to spend some time with the plug-in and learn how it works. Even if the producer point was static, you could still pre-compose the whole layer and mask it, so only one side remains, which is what I would do, anyway - create a large square comp, tweak the wave parameters, use the pre-comp as a layer in the parent comp and mask out the "cone" using a mask or a symetrrical radial wipe. And again, that also takes care of any alignment and orientation issues because you can simply rotate and move the layer as a whole.

    Mylenium

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    Mylenium
    Legend
    December 6, 2016

    Effects --> Generate --> Radio Waves and a bit of masking and pre-comping.

    Mylenium

    jasonjam
    jasonjamAuthor
    Inspiring
    December 6, 2016

    Cool. This might work. Can you help me on how do rotate the radio wave so looks like my graphic? I can't seem to figure that out.

    Mylenium
    Legend
    December 6, 2016

    No need to rotate anything. Just set a suitably low side count on the polygon shape or create a rectangular mask with the right orientation and feed it into the effect. Of course you can always rotate the pre-comp layer just as well, since you will have to mask it anyway.

    Mylenium