Sliding a set of objects?

terrypin wrote on 11/26/2014, 11:26 AM

Anyone know a neat way to do the following please, within MEP?

1. Adjust multiple objects A, B, C, etc of various shapes and sizes so that they look OK when centralised individually in the monitor. In practice my immediate requirement is for about 20 objects, but I may well try it for many more.

2. I then want to see all of them move uniformly leftwards across the screen, just as if they were joined together. Ideally with an optional narrow gap betwwen them. I think it might also look OK to have the movement in bezier mode rather than linear, so that they sort of 'shunt' across. Possibly with short pauses in between.

For still images I suspect the easiest way would be to join them all in one very wide bitmap in an external image editor. And then just pan across or ise some other simple KFA. But I'd far prefer to be able to do it from MEP, directly after sizing and positioning each image.

The only approach I can think of is to calculate the start and end positions very carefully for each object (after the preliminary sizing and positioning) and then enter them manually into the KF dialog. Probably a spreadshhet job. I aim to try it tomorrow but meanwhile would appreciate any other ideas please.

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terrypin wrote on 12/9/2014, 2:32 AM

Hi Terry

Remember this topic: http://www.magix.info/us/how-do-i-access-the-prodad-heroglyph-program-that.knowledge.1053249.html?sort=newest&limit=20

Hi Peter,

Thanks for that - I had completely forgotten about it! Just re-read the thread with great interest. Although it's re-kindled my desire to learn how to use this powerful tool, and solve some of the puzzles I left unresolved back in January, I doubt if I will. The combination of its steep learning curve (with language problems), daunting and non-intuitive UI, and quirks/bugs/inconsistencies put me off.

My only hope is that one of you guys who have persevered and created a finished project will come back with step-by-step details of it! Perhaps one candidate would be John EB's 'intro', in his post 2014-01-09 08:02 PM within that thread. Or (presumably using similar features) John CB's example in this thread

I took this up with Prodad support but gave up because they did not appear to understand some of my questions and wanted me to uninstall all my Prodad plugins and MEP versions which I was not prepared to do.

This is from one of their emails:-

Then you have installed older versions of Vitascene, Heroglyph and MAGIX (from 2011).

Please make the following now:
1. Deinstall Heroglyph completly (all installed versions), about System control/Programs and funktions.
2. deinstall MAGIX (all versions)
3. Please use the batch file (see attached) for removing all plugin files.
4. Reboot your system
5. Install MAGIX 2014 as first
6. Install Heroglyph V4 via MAGIX 2014
7. Start MAGIX 2014 and go into the title register, here is Heroglyph V4 available

Not surprised you declined!

I have been using it a little with success but it causes MEP to hang at times.

I cannot find an exe for V4.0 either.

Maybe it's intended only for integrated use?

The second part I suppose you'd use 3D Distortion and Size/Position KFA.

The distortion and movement is created from within Heroglyph and I have used V2.6 to acieve this.

Yes, but I meant using MEP.

@Carl:

Not sure if you're still reading Forum posts, but...

You were one of those leading the way on this 10 months ago. Are you using it significantly now?