DP Animation Maker

DP Animation Maker

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Custom Fish Import Animation
By NorkDorf Entertainment
This guide will explain in detail how to tune animation settings to implement fish motion in a scene.

   
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Meet Flipper
It is Flipper, and I am going to settle it in my new aquarium scene:



Change Background
Load our background by clicking the “Change background” button on the top.

Add Animation & Load Flipper
Add Animation dialog and load Flipper into the scene by double-clicking the “Import Image…” line in the first column of the dialog.

Change Animation Settings
1. Go to the “Motion properties” and change the following parameters: “Change only horizontal orientation”, Amplitude = 14, Frequency=5.
















2. On “Boundaries properties” click one of the “Options…” buttons. It will open the “Interaction Options” dialog. Activate the first tab (Top Edge) and change the “Interaction behavior” to “Reflect”. Repeat for this for the Bottom Edge too.






















3. Activate third tab (Left Edge) and set the “Interaction behavior” to “Pass and reflect” and “Delay” from 1000 ms to 1000 ms. Repeat for this for the Right Edge too.




Final Result
Now the animation should look like this video.

Extra Explanations
Some Explanations
  • Changing Amplitude and Frequency parameters, we make Flipper move randomly up and down. You can play with these parameters to tune the motion speed and frequency.

  • Setting the “Interaction behavior” for top and bottom edge to Reflect restricts Flipper in the live scene in up and down directions.

  • Setting parameters for Left and Right Edge, we tell Flipper to return into the scene from the same side it left it. Flipper does it with some delay defined in the same tab (1000 ms = 1 second).

  • And finally, the “Change only horizontal orientation” option makes Flipper turn when it crosses the edges.

Tip: If you import your own fish and it swims back to front, check the “flip horizontal” option on the motion properties tab to reverse the picture.