Curved motion

greedygoblins

I'm a bit stuck with this one.

How would I be able to create a smooth curved motion for a ball bouncing along the ground, or a stone skimming water for example? Do I just have to use lots of keyframes and try to get it as smooth as possible or is there a better way?

Thanks.

Søren

Since we combine X,Y movement on the graph (something we will look into separating at some point) you can create two bones, one for X movement and one for Y movement, the one you use for Y movement will also be used for rotation. Take a look at http://blog.deepworldgame.com/post/5335 ... all-part-3 and then combine that with separating X and Y movement to two different bones and you should be good to go 🙂

greedygoblins

Thanks!

I'm actually doing two characters playing ping-pong but I've managed to adapt that method and use multiple copies of the ball (switching visibility where necessary) attached to multiple bones to get the desired effect.

Actually works pretty well. 🙂

greedygoblins

So this is what it looks like in Spine...

http://youtu.be/_EtzpLXL_94