Animating the Tip Operation

Many 3D Canvas Operations can have their effect animated. Any operation that supports Update Button-Operation-Update.gif (515 bytes) on the Object Layers Panel or the Operation Adjust Tool Button-Toolbar-OperationAdjustTool.gif (912 bytes) can be animated.

What follows is an explanation of how to animate a Operation-Tip.gif (529 bytes) Tip Operation. The Tip Operation is part of 3D Canvas Pro.

 

Drag and Drop a sphere on to the scene.
TutorialAnimatingOperations1.gif (21265 bytes)

 

Show the Animation Toolbar using the View Menu.

Switch to Animation Mode by selecting Button-Animation-Animate.gif (1005 bytes).

Move to time 10 with the animation slider.

Select the Sphere.

The Tip Operation is located on the Object Operations Panel. Set the parameters for the Tip Operation by right clicking on Operation-Tip.gif (529 bytes). Enter a Tip Extrusion Amount of .5.

Apply a Tip Operation  to the sphere by clicking Operation-Tip.gif (529 bytes).

 

TutorialAnimatingOperations2.gif (33520 bytes)

 

Now move to time 0 with the animation slider.

Select the Object if it is not already selected. Click Button-Operation-Update.gif (515 bytes) Update on the Object Layers Panel and enter a Tip Extrusion Amount of 0.

We now have an animated Tipping of an object starting with no tips at time 0 and .5 unit tips at time 10.

Press play Button-Play.gif (908 bytes) to preview the animation.
TutorialAnimatingOperations3.gif (22936 bytes)