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floating object
say i want the effect of a sphere hovering gently in the air.
in max i would have just added a noise controller to it's y position controller.
is there an easy way to do this in maya or do i need to write a mel script?
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pSphere1.ty = sin(time/4) * 0.8;
that should do it.
Right click the attribute in the channel box and select expressions then find the attribute and type that in.
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that will not be random movement though? would look a bit. . mechanical?
i'm assuming there's a 'random' command I could add in there somewhere?
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thanks!
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:pSphere1.ty += sin(time/4) * rand(0, 1);
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thanks!
I'm learning MEL at the moment, but I've only just started.
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