How to edit effect curve to slow down movement on X / Y axis ??

ovisopa wrote on 1/18/2016, 4:06 AM

Hello guys,

anyone around to help me with this issue, I want to move a text and have it slowing down progresivly while reaching the next keyframe position. If I enable the curve by pressing the small button in the beggining of the track it only starts slow, but ends the movement  in high speed, I want to also end the movement in slow speed.

How can I do this ? 

Why for position I can't see the curve on the main track ? 

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terrypin wrote on 1/18/2016, 4:47 AM

Hi,

If I've understood you correctly, then I cannot reproduce that.

Using the 'soft curves' mode does slow down movement as the object approaches the next KF. Here's what my simple test looks like in MEP 2014 Premium.

Higher resolution: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4019461/MEP-DeceleratingText.jpg

Please explain further if you actually want slightly more complex behaviour. Such as the text moving linearly at the start and then slowing down. If so, one easy method woud be to export a suitable animation and then trim it after import.

Result: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4019461/Decelerate-Text-Demo.mp4

Or on YT:

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ovisopa wrote on 1/18/2016, 6:51 AM

Thank yuo Terry, that's what I wanted but can I have the curve even longer ? I meant to start slowing the speed imediately after the movement starts .

 

You can see the texts I try to apply a deceleration too , all the black texts that move from left to right in the beggining and than from right to left 

terrypin wrote on 1/18/2016, 9:03 AM

That video has such fast text movements that I dont think it makes much difference whether you use linear or smoothed mode.

Here are my crude versions, both including a slowed down repetition. (Note that, unlike the original, which probably uses a mask to constrain the text when moving left, I've just faded it.)

Linear:

Smooth:

Here's what my MEP project timeline looks like for the smoothed version:

Higher resolution: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4019461/MEP-Text-Demo-2.jpg

 

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