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Animating the pie chart

Animating the pie chart - CINEMA 4D Tutorial

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Animating the pie chart

- The various effectors in MoGraph offer a way to animate with large brush strokes across several objects. In this video, we'll take a look at plain, target, and delay effectors. So, previously, we had set this up to have our pie slices animate on with our percent control. Our imported Illustrator file still has these as static objects, so I'm just going to select them and get rid of them. So we can take these individual slices now and animate them through the use of a MoGraph Fracture object. Let's grab a Fracture object and make these guys children of the fracture. This allows MoGraph to see these individual pieces as clones, which means we can use the effectors on them. So let's add in a Plain effector. So with the Fracture object selected, I'll come over here and select Plain. You'll notice it jumps up. That parameter inside the Plain effector has this default of 100 on the Y. I actually want it to be 100 or maybe 150 on the Z. So as this Plain effector comes in, It's going to…

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