the tutorial states to set the animation at 150 at the begining, then make the logo, and then parent the cube to the logo. Supposedly the cube should take 150 frames to go around the logo, but mine does it in 100. How do I reset the amount of animation frames so it follows correctly?
Thanks
Short answer:
Edit the speed IPO of your path.
Long answer:
1 - Select the path, go to the IPO window (Shift-F6)
2 - Click on the Path IPO tab (the little wavy line with an arrow, in the window header)
If there’s already an IPO curve there, jump directly to 4
3 - Create a two points IPO by selecting Speed in the left bar (turned white when selected) and by Ctrl-Left clicking twice in the graph.
4 - Now, edit the IPO directly to make it fit your needs by entering Edit mode (tab), selecting each CV individually (selecting the middle CV of each point suffice) and pressing Nkey to enter precise coordinates.
The speed IPO works like this: the X coordinates is the time and the Y coordinates determines the position on the path. It is a normalised position, so 0.0 means at the start, and 1.0 means at the end. In your case, you want to place the first point at (0,0) and the second at (150,1)
Hope that was helpful,
Martin
That was great!
Thanks for the help.