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@gianmichele
this looks great! Exactly what I wished for blender and suggested some time ago to aligorithâŠ
I wonder how hard this is to implement. Because Motionpaths can be calculated in Blender. Now we âjustâ need some handles to adjust them!!! This would be awsome!! 
What I see here is a great way to adjust speed movements and âsmoothnessâ :yes:
this is sweet. i donât see any reason this couldnât be outdone in blender.
Thereâs nothing in blenderâs system stopping this from being written is what i mean, so iâm glad this was posted so hopefully some coder might get inspired.
I donât get it. what is so special about this you can already do this in blender.
clamp a cube to a nurbs path set frames at 0,30,and 60 and use the x location curve in the graph editor to drive the speed. Or am I missing something here.
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no graph editors were harmedï»ż in the making of this video
That actually looks really nice for the more non-technical among us (me).
@sx-1
You wonât create a path for each bone you want to animate 
This a auto generated paths from keyframing, and instead manipulating the f-curves you can manipulate the motion in 3d view itself!!! This would be much more intuitive and comprehensive I think!
Thatâll make our lives so much easier! What an intuitive way to adjust timing and arcs D:
@sago
isnât it standard practice to use the x-curve to drive the speed and the y-curve ( for blender, read z-curve ) to drive the height.
Looks to me like they took an existing technology and dressed it up with an interface which appeals to children.
P.S. whatâs the point of the yellow dots?. you can tell the speed by watching the sphere. what if, instead of yellow dots they displayed real values like vector output and input speeds?.
@ndee
I didnât see any bones in this demo. can you post a link to the demo where they âcreate a path for each boneâ.
In the video he keyframes the sphere, selects the sphere and adds a path. In blender you key frame the sphere add path select the sphere and in the modifiers panel clamp the sphere to the path. It may be a different work flow but the number of required inputs is roughly the same. Is there a significant difference between dragging the mouse in a 2d view or dragging the mouse in the 3d view? I mean itâs not rocket science. I donât know what you mean by more comprehensive what they demonstrate here is very basic
This are in 3d space adjustable and keyframe âgeneratedâ motioncurves. They donât need to be set up before. This will work the same for a character rig with lots of bones. Sorry it isntât that easy to explain for me. But Blender doesnât have this feature.
The method you described will definitely not work for a character rig!
@ndee
I think weâre coming at this from different angles, because Iâm looking at whatâs being presented and thinking maya doesnât have this feature and there are no bones, itâs a preview with a disclaimer stating that what is demonstrated may not be delivered .
I think youâre looking at it in terms of what may be possible for blender or maya.
If you look again at the preview you will see that the sphere already has animation applied before the curve is added. so I donât see where the idea that you donât need to set it up first comes from also there are no bones in the demo. I can only conclude that youâre not actually referring to the video but are actually talking about some idea you had some time ago. and it would seem that this idea you had, covered a lot more ground than is actually being demonstrated in this video.
I hold to my original point what is being demoed here can easily be done in blender, I will concede however that to do it in blender requires that you have two views open, but I donât see that as a major drawback.
P.S.
Itâs just hit me, what youâre refering to: they have it in lightwave where the bone curves are drawn on screen along with their keyframes and can be directly edited in the 3d view. If that is what you mean then weâre talking about two completely different things.
I think in lightwave you would change speed by changing keyframes but I believe what theyâre doing here is changing the vector speed of the animation curve (in which case the keyframes remain in place).
of course you need to have an animation first. thats what I mean with keyframe generated motioncurves. If you have a motion from a to b, you also have a motion path for that movement. blender is able to calculate such a motionpath, BUT in blender you are not able to manipulate such a motion path, you need to manipulate keyframes. and thats exactly what is possible in maya now. I donât know if you have used after effects yet. After Effects does exact the same thing, just in 2D(and without the timing possibility). This is a great and intuitive way to animate.
It doesnât matter if it is an object or a bone for the calculation of an motion path 
And yes, I am referring to the exact same video as is shown above. I hope I am a bit clearer this time
Looks like very intuitive, wonder how/if it handles rotation an scaling?..
I wasnât really impressed at first, but then I had some time to think⊠it actually would be amazing addition to Blender animation toolkit.
Basically itâs just a different user interface for the motion speed. This can be done in Blender as well. Hereâs the functionality implemented as a python script.
Note that this is just a proof of concept, and is easy to crash. It could also be expanded to work on bones, etc. or have the time beads (green points in video) behave differently, but I just wanted to show this is actually possible in Blender.
Hereâs a .blend file to play with. It needs a current SVN version of Blender (grab one at graphicall).
Some notes:
yellow dots = keyframes
green dots = time beads
Right-mouse button to select a time bead (doesnât work if time bead is too close to an object).
Q-key to move a time bead and Q-key again to confirm movement. Escape to cancel movement.
The code is GPL licensed. Personally Iâm too busy with other scripts to properly implement this, but perhaps someone else gets inspired by it :).
What i miss from the other programs to Blender is that using the other programs is more graphical. âWhat you see is what you get.â But using Blender is often: âGuess what happens if you change this valueâ
edit: Crouch, this looks amazing what you made
trust crouch to come up with a blender poc, good on ya crouchâŠyou continually amaze me with your talents in coding.
but yes this would be a great idea for loads of stuff
Crouch, you are genius! I mean, I already knew that. but⊠this was very fat and right on the subject. I hope that something good would came out of this.