Apolyton Archive  |  Preserved copy of the Apolyton Civilization Site and its forums as they stood in September 2005. Read-only; nothing here can be posted to or replied to.  |  Forum index |  About this archive |  The 1998–2001 UBB forums
Today on Apolyton WARDELL INTERVIEW PROMO A.C.S. HISTORY CHAPTER 4 GET CIV4 /w FREE PLUS! A.C.S. PHOTO GALLERY GET A.O.M. V1.1
Apolyton Civilization Forums
main| civ2| civ3| civ4| smac| ctp2| ron| moo3| galciv| galciv2| alt| about|
ApolytonPLUS | register | search | faq | new posts | pm (-/-) | upload | members
hall of fame new! | civgroups | civgroups news | interviews | the column | radio | chat | directory | news | store | PLUS
Apolyton Civilization Forums : Powered by vBulletin version 2.0.3 Apolyton Civilization Forums > Miscellaneous > Archive > Off-Topic-Archive > Monkspider's Fun Corner: Impersonate your favorite Poly members!
Show a Printable Version | Email This Page to Someone! | Receive updates to this thread | Report this to Apolyton news!

bottom of page
  
Author
Thread   
Pages (6): [ 1   2   3   4   5     >> ]
< Last Thread     Next Thread > Post New Thread     Post A Reply
Az is offline Az
King
MACEDONIA - It's the name of the sovereign country to the north of Greece
Apr 2000
time: 07:29
  Old Post 05-07-2003 12:51
Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
#31 Report this post to a moderator
Support Apolyton buy from Amazon

You know, UR, you'd think that after the latest glitches in the Linux BSD kernel, you would be quiet and stop criticizing WinXP's security flaws. Also, WinXP is the most adapted to the new generation of Ultra-fast Intel Processors, which are obviously way better than AMD when run on all grafics tests, esp. that new nVidia card, that... blah blah blah blah.


-Asher.

Stefu is offline Stefu
Emperor
CLOWNS WIT DA DOWNS 4 LIFE YO!
Jan 1970
time: 07:29
  Old Post 05-07-2003 13:04 Visit Stefu's homepage!
Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
#32 Report this post to a moderator
Support Apolyton or Terrorists Win

This thread impersonation is soulless establishment crap that completely lacks a groove and a good beat. Everyone who like it is a boring idiot who also must love progressive music.

- - Buck Birdseed

That's just wrong.

Because it's wrong.

Y'all don't know anything about anything do y'all boy?

- - Slowwhand

Codswallop bollocks knackered bangers rogering jobsworth. You are all arselickers and whoremongers.

- - Laz & The Gimp

Can someone explain me something I just can't understand? I live in a Philadelphia ghetto.

- Albert Speer

Last edited by Stefu on 05-07-2003 at 15:26

Urban Ranger is offline Urban Ranger
Apolyton Duke of Off-Topic

Donate to the Red Cross
The City State of Noosphere, CPA special envoy
May 1999
time: 13:29
  Old Post 05-07-2003 13:42
Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
#33 Report this post to a moderator
Re: Monkspider's Fun Corner: Impersonate your favorite Poly members! Support Apolyton buy from Amazon

Monkspider:

Comrade UR, I love you man , even though you are seriously mistaken in spiritual issues.


GP:

Finance weenie!


Rah:

My current job is excellent, I spend half my time managing and half tinkering with technology.

Rah
You think I am kidding?


monolith94:

PC users can wipe my ass!

Comrade Tassadar is offline Comrade Tassadar
Settler

Aug 2005
time: 05:29
  Old Post 05-07-2003 14:23 Visit Comrade Tassadar's homepage!
Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
#34 Report this post to a moderator
Re: Re: Monkspider's Fun Corner: Impersonate your favorite Poly members! Increase the size of your Attachments

THREAD: OMG OMG

YAVOON

lololol OMG OMG u s|_|><0RZ HAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!1111!!!!!!!!!!LOL!!!!!!!111111111
1

ZYLKA

quote:
lololol OMG OMG u s|_|><0RZ HAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!1111!!!!!!!!!!LOL!!!!!!!111111111
1


Like d00d, chill and take some ZYPREXA

FEZ

You provide no evidence......YOU PROVIDE NOTHING!!! Yet you want to destroy capitalism.....you criminal

PANAG

quote:
You provide no evidence......YOU PROVIDE NOTHING!!! Yet you want to destroy capitalism.....you criminal


hi ,

what are you talking about......

have a nice impersonation day

TASSADAR

quote:
what are you talking about......


You know exactly what hes talking about Why are Americans so stupid?

Oopsies, Panag. Tripped you at your own game

SHI

Tassadar, your simply a child. I mean, come now. Acting nationalistic?

Plus, you don't live in Pittsburg. Need I say more?

THE ISRAELI WITH THE NAME BEGINNING WITH AZ

Tass, your an anti-semite commie bastard. Nothing you say is credible here

MING

HEY.....

Drop the personal attacks right now....Or else you'll all get a free vacation to Mingapulco

Ming

AGATHON

AZ, You just say that cause you use Winblowz.

http://www.onekilotoncomputermagazi...ouslypromac.com <----See? This proves that the computational rate of the Mac when it comes to processing 64-Bit interdemonsional polar kernel shell DLLs in Photoshop 6.2090 is .294086 seconds than it takes for Windows to do the same thing.

HA!

ASHER

quote:
shell DLLs in Photoshop 6.2090


In PHOTOSHOP 6.2090? Sorry, but that program is designed SPECIFICALLY for Macs....Try something a LITTLE more balanced like MSPAINT.

http://www.microsoftspuppetnewsorga.../stevejobbsucks

See? This shows Stever Weener (haha, aren't I so clever?) trying to display Mac OSY 2906.2098406982 at the International Computer Technological Advancement Association of the Region of Kanada but if you look closely, you'll see that hes not using a 286TB Kernel Kore Komponent but a cheap java-like ripoff 296.19632 ROM Shell swapfile!!! How can one rip off the masses like this?

SPEER

quote:
286TB Kernel Kore Komponent


Whoa dude, are you racist or something? Why is it that every white is racist?! I think we should lock em all up....Hey...I should start a thread on that.

RAH

Cya in a week, Asher

PEKKA

Hahahha!! With Asher gone, our plans to finally take Karelia back will come to fruitation!!!

WORLD, LOOK OUT FOR FINLAND, 4TH BEST COUNTRY AT MATH!!!!!

SERB

Sorry Pekka, I don't think so The Russian F2906 Fighter-Bomber Jet can fly up to a distance of 2906 miles while carrying Type 2906 bombs attached to Type 1603 missiles attached to the plane and still remain undetected. Nothing Finland or even America has can ever beat the glory of Russia

And then you have to consider that Russia also has 29656 Caliber Kilovanov Machine Guns which would annihalate you if you ever even tried invading, and our Nadashadayerasa Tank can load 290 mini-level 1063 CLASS A nuclear warheads and fire them at a rate of 123 per second, which could level an entire army in a minute.

HELSINKI WILL BE OURS!!!

JohnT

Sorry to interupt, but do any of you by chance of baby pictures?

JohnT

quote:
Sorry to interupt, but do any of you by chance of baby pictures?


Well, I said I wouldn't upload any more pictures, but...

*Cute Chubby Baby Picture*

SARAS

Our genetically superior Estonian-Lithuanian babies are much cuter than yours

*Equally Cute Chubby Baby Picture*

STEFU

*Baby with 10 legs*

SLOWWY

Haha! That looks like Tass' cat!!!

UberKrux

Sorry, but JohnTs picture is better. Whites are a genetically superior ra....EDITED BY MING: Cya in a week

MichaeltheGreat

Speaking of which...Did I ever tell you guys why the South will rule all someday?

Well....One day I was out on the farm, and I saw this guy mowing my lawn for me. I yelled out to him "Hey fella!" and he yelled back "How ya'll doin?". It was then I realized..The South will someday dominate all. You silly Yanks dont follow? I'll put it in an easy to understand way: Our speech is more efficent. You guys have to put up the grammer and spellling, but we don't. We can make mistakes, we don't have to be ULTRAPORFECT. So, we'll dominate you. Want me to provide some evidence?

http://www.somedomainijustbairlyreg...outhernsuperior

Urban Ranger

I'm offended by that comment. MING!!!!

PAIKTIS

Evil Turk!!!!

MARKG

...

Urban Ranger is offline Urban Ranger
Apolyton Duke of Off-Topic

Donate to the Red Cross
The City State of Noosphere, CPA special envoy
May 1999
time: 13:29
  Old Post 05-07-2003 14:34
Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
#35 Report this post to a moderator
Support Apolyton, buy Alpha Centauri

Tassadar5000:

Down with evil ad banners! They are corrupting the morals of my 6 year old son!

Kramerman is offline Kramerman
Prince
UT, Austin - The live music capital of the world
Jun 2002
time: 23:29
  Old Post 05-07-2003 15:18
Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
#36 Report this post to a moderator
Support Apolyton or Terrorists Win

@ Tass. I like how you impersonated yourself very well how long did that impersonation thread take you?

Spiffor is offline Spiffor
Emperor
CPA - Evil Clone brigade
Nov 2001
time: 06:29
  Old Post 05-07-2003 16:48
Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
#37 Report this post to a moderator
Support Apolyton, pre-order Civilization IV

Tass. Excellent impersonation thread !

Provost Harrison is offline Provost Harrison
Emperor
The farce is strong with this one.
Feb 2000
time: 05:29
  Old Post 05-07-2003 17:47
Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
#38 Report this post to a moderator
Support Apolyton, buy Galactic Civilizations

Boddington's:

I do a degree in economics you know. All women should be put in hareems, all wogs deported back to fuzzy wuzzy land and the poor turned into glue and Soylent Green. Long live the BNP!

*End Is Forever*:

The conservatives are right, they should bring back the death penalty for criticising Margaret Thatcher...but even so I am really liberal, look, I think people should have gay, interracial relationships by law! Long live the tories, even though I don't agree with them really! It's a job isn't it?

*cry*

F**k, I'm so emo!

---

Az is offline Az
King
MACEDONIA - It's the name of the sovereign country to the north of Greece
Apr 2000
time: 07:29
  Old Post 05-07-2003 17:50
Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
#39 Report this post to a moderator
Support Apolyton, buy Galactic Civilizations: Deluxe Edition

@provost

"****, I am so emo"....

Az is offline Az
King
MACEDONIA - It's the name of the sovereign country to the north of Greece
Apr 2000
time: 07:29
  Old Post 05-07-2003 17:54
Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
#40 Report this post to a moderator
Support Apolyton buy from Amazon

quote:
THE ISRAELI WITH THE NAME BEGINNING WITH AZ

Tass, your an anti-semite commie bastard. Nothing you say is credible here




( Never called you an anti-semite, though. )

Seeker is offline Seeker
Emperor
London Ontario
Jan 1970
time: 00:29
  Old Post 05-07-2003 18:02 Visit Seeker's homepage!
Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
#41 Report this post to a moderator
Support Apolyton

"....using Wolf AP ammo in a AR-15 will cause unnecessary chamber friction and barrel droop. As a former ELINT007XXX I know this from experience. Of course as a certified AP level T1000 Commando, I always barrel sight with perfect accuracy...."
MtG

"....ELINT007XXX? What is that, some kind of ARMY designation? You know what they say about the ARMY..."
MidShipMan

"...UR, look at these obviously biased and ludicrous benchmark tests.(massive graph graphic) Then look at this graph projecting the increase in Intel processing power vs AMD (massive graph graphic). I'd make a joke about how sad it is to see AMD fall so low, but you know that I only read technical manuals".

"Russia has completely ended the Chechen conflict. Our incredible high tech air force, which is totally modern and up to date, kicked all those rebel butts. Come to Russia and try our 'pizdyvatya??'!!

"Y'all can say whatever you like, but I won't believe until a Texan says it"

"I'm really thinking of trying out for an elite international sauna commando force. Do you want hear my new techniques for shitting in the woods?

"That's just what a democrat would say. They were plainly benefiting from the results of the last Republican presidency. Look at this link www.catoinstitute.org"

"USA! USA! USA! Did you guys seem Big Bad Bushie flying that mean F-16?? He's gonna kick Iraqi AZZ!!"

"I am Hypercalafragulistic Calvinist with a Post Ante Deletia- Millenial Schatology. I am currently working with high placed Republics to bring America back to god, starting with those disobedient children you heretics love so much. If God wants you to suffer, that Good, because Good is always good"

"Back when I was a kid, we respected our elders and carried Jesus in our hearts. There was no such thing as teen pregnancy and no woman was ever beaten who didn't deserve it. After all the Man is the Head of the Woman as Jesus is the Head of the Church...you'll understand when you...grow up....get a job....get a real job....have kids....have teenagers...."

"And now some pictures of me. C'mon now....who is the cutest gay teenager?? ACKNOWLEDGE ME!! (pic pic pic) Look at those eyes....do you think I'm fat?"

"yeah, germany and france are going through some minor structural readjustments, but when you analyze real GDP vs gross US household debt, you'll see that America is in fact completely broke and will be sold off at auction sometime in the next year after the (housing, credit, debt, corp bond, energy, equity) bubble bursts"

"HELP! Support your local marijuana grow operation! You'll never believe what happened the last time I went out for promix..."

"You think I am a fascist well you are wrong and also stupid. Why? Because of all the illogical crap you post. If Franco was alive today he would be a Republican....and you stupid Communists would think that's a bad thing!!!

PS I'm gay....look at these pics of me in leather military style uniforms. Does this riding crop match my eyes? My grandfather was personally spanked with it by Benito Mussolini"

Az is offline Az
King
MACEDONIA - It's the name of the sovereign country to the north of Greece
Apr 2000
time: 07:29
  Old Post 05-07-2003 18:17
Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
#42 Report this post to a moderator
Get a bigger avatar today!

* Az chockes on Seeker's last comment.






people are banned here for dissing the close relatives of other posters.

MrFun is offline MrFun
King
of Iowa
Nov 2000
time: 23:29
  Old Post 05-07-2003 22:19 Visit MrFun's homepage!
Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
#43 Report this post to a moderator
Inflate your Upload Space

People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

--- MTG

Shi Huangdi is offline Shi Huangdi
Emperor
Pittsburgh, PA
Apr 1999
time: 00:29
  Old Post 05-07-2003 22:25
Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
#44 Report this post to a moderator
Get a bigger avatar today!

quote:
Plus, you don't live in Pittsburg. Need I say more?


What a terrible impersonation of me. I would never spell Pittsburgh incorrectly.

Agathon is offline Agathon
Prince
Leafs 4TW!! - CPA
Dec 2002
time: 00:29
  Old Post 05-07-2003 23:47
Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
#45 Report this post to a moderator
Support Apolyton, buy Civilization 2

quote:
Originally posted by GePap
Bah! Your feebleminded relativistic impersonations are clearly incorrect, as someone with so much experience travelling can tell you, and in NZ, we impersonate much better

--Agathon


Pretty good, but I don't believe I've ever said, "Bah!"

Anyway,


ACK!

Tiamat is offline Tiamat
Apolyton Legend
.....and George's daughter
Mar 2000
time: 05:29
  Old Post 05-07-2003 23:57
Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
#46 Report this post to a moderator
Full PM-box? Change here!

Blackwidow24 ~ You silly little men, you know you worship me! Lick my toes

devilmunchkin ~ So I dumped this one guy I met online for another online guy but I don't know if it's love. How do you know if it's love? I think I still love my ex and my parents treated me like crap again. ACK!

David Floyd ~ You people on welfare owe me money. And if I want to go around shooting people then that's my god given right

Provost Harrison is offline Provost Harrison
Emperor
The farce is strong with this one.
Feb 2000
time: 05:29
  Old Post 05-07-2003 23:58
Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
#47 Report this post to a moderator
Support Apolyton, buy GURPS/ Alpha Centauri

I don't know whether to feel flattered that no one would be cruel enough to do an impression of me, or offended that I must be such a bland poster

Provost Harrison is offline Provost Harrison
Emperor
The farce is strong with this one.
Feb 2000
time: 05:29
  Old Post 05-07-2003 23:58
Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
#48 Report this post to a moderator
Support Apolyton, pre-order Civilization IV

Ecthelion:

Lazarus and the Gimp is offline Lazarus and the Gimp
King
Whale-raping abomination
Aug 2000
time: 05:29
  Old Post 06-07-2003 00:00
Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
#49 Report this post to a moderator
Support Apolyton, buy Civilization: The Boardgame

Just for you, here's Provost "Muso Critic" Harrison's typical song review.

"This doesn't make me feel anything, really."

Repeat to fade.

Tiamat is offline Tiamat
Apolyton Legend
.....and George's daughter
Mar 2000
time: 05:29
  Old Post 06-07-2003 00:01
Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
#50 Report this post to a moderator
Enter the AD-FREE zone

quote:
Originally posted by Provost Harrison
I don't know whether to feel flattered that no one would be cruel enough to do an impression of me, or offended that I must be such a bland poster



Ditto.......but just so you don't feel left out

Provost ~ Bleeding Christ can't I get a job anywhere? I need resume help!

Provost Harrison is offline Provost Harrison
Emperor
The farce is strong with this one.
Feb 2000
time: 05:29
  Old Post 06-07-2003 00:01
Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
#51 Report this post to a moderator
Support Apolyton buy from Amazon

monolith94 is offline monolith94
Emperor
New England
Jan 1970
time: 00:29
  Old Post 06-07-2003 00:04 Visit monolith94's homepage!
Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
#52 Report this post to a moderator
Support Apolyton, pre-order Civilization IV

hi-larious! Although I'm emberassed that the impersonation of me is the least funny... Sadly, I do not know how to begin to impersonate Urban Ranger in return, as to impersonate a person, they must have a personality.

Stefu is offline Stefu
Emperor
CLOWNS WIT DA DOWNS 4 LIFE YO!
Jan 1970
time: 07:29
  Old Post 06-07-2003 00:05 Visit Stefu's homepage!
Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
#53 Report this post to a moderator
Get a bigger avatar today!

Boddington's impersonation can't be done in one post, as it requires two posts. In post one he throws out an offensive trollish opinion about asylum seekers, and in post two he talks about drinking beer in Aberstwhatever.

Lazarus and the Gimp is offline Lazarus and the Gimp
King
Whale-raping abomination
Aug 2000
time: 05:29
  Old Post 06-07-2003 00:06
Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
#54 Report this post to a moderator
Support Apolyton, buy Call to Power 2

For LWP5, stay off the happy pills for a couple of days and neck loads of weapons-grade espresso. I guarantee that your reviews will be works of bilious beauty that you'll treasure for years to come.

Provost Harrison is offline Provost Harrison
Emperor
The farce is strong with this one.
Feb 2000
time: 05:29
  Old Post 06-07-2003 00:09
Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
#55 Report this post to a moderator
Support Apolyton

See my problem is there is very little music (well, of the tastes of you lot which tend to be pretty refined) which I hate...there is indifference but not dislike...however if you got a few Craig David fans in I guarantee you I could spew vitriol

SlowwHand is offline SlowwHand
King
of The Cooler
Sep 1999
time: 23:29
  Old Post 06-07-2003 00:26 Visit SlowwHand's homepage!
Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
#56 Report this post to a moderator
Support Apolyton, buy Galactic Civilizations: Deluxe Edition

Damnit!

How many times do I have to tell you people!
It's spelled "y'all". A contraction of you all.
Oh, well. You got it right 2 of 3 times. No bad.






SlowwHand is offline SlowwHand
King
of The Cooler
Sep 1999
time: 23:29
  Old Post 06-07-2003 00:35 Visit SlowwHand's homepage!
Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
#57 Report this post to a moderator
Support Apolyton, buy Call to Power 2

MtG:

Michael, what time is it ?
Well, Sloww, it's like this.

Out of the many cool new features in Lightwave 6, Expressions is one that I was quite interested in. Sure, its got a severe lack of documentation, is a bit buggy, tends to crash a lot if you make mistakes and 3.29 of the Motion manual suggests it as the domain of Maths Gurus, but even a moron such as myself can use it using some simple analysis of the situation, an incling of common sense and some basic mathematics...

To prove the point, I used expressions to create a real-time analogue clock animation to test this new tool. Because of the lack of explanation for all the functions in the manual, it took me a lot more work then I had expected initially, but by the time I had managed to crash Layout 10 or so times, I realised I was going way too far with my calculations and the solution was so simple, even a 5 year old could have solved it!
Here you go. A clock comprised of 4 simple models to demonstrate how to use expressions.

There are 3 objects we will be concentrating on here - An hours, minutes and seconds hand that I will be animating. The 'hour markings' object around the edge was simply added in to check the the expressions were working

I'll leave the modelling up to you - Its fairly straight forward - Each hand is simply a long rectangular box with the pivot point at one end... The important part of this tutorial will be how we animate the objects using the Expressions tool!
The Process...
I'll have assumed that you've created your clock model by now and loaded each object into Layout. I'll start by explaining some basics like where to find the expressions modifier, and then quickly run over the calculations for each part. I'll leave the modelling and scene setup to you as part of the learning experience!

To set up an Expression, select the Graph Editor

As you can see in the image on the left here, once you have the graph editor selected, click on the channel you want to modify (for the clock, I used the Heading rotation (Rotation.H) for all hands) for the selected object and then select Modifiers / Add modifier / LW_Expressions to add in the expressions tool.

To set the expression, double-click on the modifier name to get the settings box. The Expression must appear in the top box, but you can assign 4 variables in lines A,B,C and D for more complex stuff!

Now you know the basics, I'll quickly run through the expressions I used to animate the three hands of the clock model...

Seconds are ticking...
We'll start our clock with the smallest measure of time - and that's the second. So, where do we start - well, we know a few things -
A clocks hands rotate a full circle - That's, um, yeh, 360 degrees!
There are 60 seconds per minute - And a minute is a complete rotation of 360 degrees.
So, every second, we need to rotate our second hand 1/60th of 360 degrees (which in mathematical terms is 360/60). So we select our seconds hand object, select the Rotation.H channel then add in our Expressions modifier.

Just to make things easier to understand then long mathematical equations, I've used the A,B,C & D scratch variables to break the maths up. (even though they are incredibly simple!)

First, I've placed the 360/60 calculation for the angle inside the A variable. If you wanted to be clever, you could just avoid this altogether and enter the answer 6 in the expression!

To calculate the correct rotational angle, we simply calculate the A variable (6 degrees, or 360/60) multiplied by the Time value.


The value must be multiplied by the Time - The Time acts as the value that will animate our clock hand by giving the corrrect angle at each frame. ie. Assuming that we were rendering for 30 fps, then if we were at frame 30 (Time = 1s) then 6*1 = 6 degrees, or the first 'second' on the clock face. If we were at frame 45 (Time = 1.5s) then the angle would be 6*1.5 = 9 degrees and so on.

I also set Additive to be active. Why? When Additive is off, the value in the expression will be passed as the absolute value for the rotation. Hence, at frame 0 (Time = 0s), the seconds hand would always start at the 12o'clock position (or a rotation of 0 degrees!)

Using additive, the expression value is added to the rotational value of the object. That is, we can set up the starting position of the clock hand at frame 0 ie. Setting the correct time on the clock

Well, we've got the seconds hand animated (Yep, that's it!). You can play the animation to check it out...


Minutes away...
The Minutes hand is our next object we want to animate using our newly-found expressions. For this we know a few more facts...
There are 60 seconds per minute.
There are 60 minutes per hour.
We know that our second hand rotates 1/60th of 360 degrees every second. Therefore every 60 seconds, we need to rotate the minute hand 1/60th of 360 degrees. That's quite simple....

We know that a second hand rotates 360/60 degrees every second. To move 1/60th of the clock face every 60 seconds, we need to rotate slower, or in this case adjust the angle of the Minutes hand by a smaller angle.

Easy - Since it takes 60 seconds, that means every second we only move 1/60th of the angle of the seconds hand.

Again we need to multiply it by the time to animate it, and don't forget to set additive on so that we can set our clock by keyframing the hands at the correct 'time' in our animation!


You can play the animation to check it out... Though you're gonna need a LOT of frames to see the minutes hand move (at 30 fps, that's 1800 frames per minute!)


The Hour is nigh...
W'eve conquered the seconds and minutes by using some pretty simple mathematics so far. The hour hand is no different (well, not too much anyway!). So, what do we know from looking at our real-life example?
There are 60 minutes per hour.
There are 12 hours in the 360 degrees
We know that our second hand rotates 1/60th of 360 degrees every second, our minute hand had to rotate at 1/60th of the speed of the second hand because there are 60 of them, therefore our hour hand must rotate... Can you guess?

Yep, that's right - Because we know every 60 minutes we need to move 1/12 of the 360 degrees, we can simply calculate that value by dividing the minutes angle by 12! Simple!

Again, multiply the value by the time for animation and activate the Additive option.

That's it!
Now save the scene and you're done - Your very own rendered clock that keeps theoretically perfect time! Of course, if you wanna check out the clock, I suggest setting your render options for a rate of 1fps rather then 30fps, otherwise you're looking at 108000 frames per hour!

Now that you've seen how easy Expressions can be, have a go yourself. I'd suggest if your not a keen mathematician to avoid complex ideas and try for basics like this clock project - Try to invisage situations where the relationships between values, or objects are easy to understand and you'll be on your way! There's a whole tonne of things you can do with expressions - The only limit is your imagination (oh, and mathematics plays a big part too!)

Well, hope that was of use to some of you out there!









Comprende?


Imran Siddiqui is offline Imran Siddiqui

Deity
The Potterverse
Jan 1970
time: 00:29
  Old Post 06-07-2003 00:36
Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
#58 Report this post to a moderator
Support Apolyton, buy Civilization: The Boardgame



I guess I'm unimpersonatable... or something .

--

"It is backed by new research that blacks cannot impersonate as well as whites, but why are there more black stand up comedians that do stand up impersonations? Is it some form of affirmative action for the less talented"
-Caligasta

SlowwHand is offline SlowwHand
King
of The Cooler
Sep 1999
time: 23:29
Wink  Old Post 06-07-2003 00:38 Visit SlowwHand's homepage!
Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
#59 Report this post to a moderator
Lose 30 kilos (of popups)

quote:
Originally posted by MrFun
Someone hi-jacked into my account making up these stories that I am gay!!



And this must be Fez?

Skanky Burns is offline Skanky Burns
Deity
Skanky Bastard Quartermaster
Aug 2001
time: 14:29
  Old Post 06-07-2003 00:42
Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
#60 Report this post to a moderator
Support Apolyton, buy Civilization: The Boardgame

Big Crunch: Dr Spike's post above was pure spam.
Dr Spike: Ahh, meta-spam.

Dissident: I saw a woman doing an impersonation. I would do her if I could.

 
Pages (6): [ 1   2   3   4   5     >> ]
< Last Thread     Next Thread > Post New Thread     Post A Reply
All times are GMT. The time now is 05:29.
Apolyton Time is 00:29.
    top of page
Rate This Thread:
archivepost
Forum Jump:
Forum Rules:
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is ON
vB code is ON
Smilies are ON
[IMG] code is ON
 




Contact Us - Apolyton Civilization Site - Support Us!

Building a better Apolyton through better information. Click here and take our poll!
Non-US visitors, click here!

Powered by: vBulletin Version 2.0.3
Copyright ©2000, 2001, Jelsoft Enterprises Limited.

Page generated in 0.0752 seconds (92.17% PHP - 7.83% MySQL) with 31 queries
Page Loading Time:

Support Apolyton: Amazon USA | Amazon UK | Amazon DE | Amazon FR |
Support Apolyton and get FREE PLUS, Buy from Chips&Bits: Galactic Civilizations | Galactic Civilizations: Deluxe Edition | Call to Power 2 | Civilization: The Boardgame | GURPS/ Alpha Centauri | Alpha Centauri | Civilization IV | Civilization III: Complete |


Front Page | Civilization IV | Civilization III | Civilization II | Call to Power II | Alpha Centauri | Master of Orion III
Rise of Nations | Galactic Civilizations | Galactic Civilizations II | Misc
Alt.Civs | Civ I | C:CtP I | About | News | Directory | Apolyton Store | Forums | Chat | Columns | Interviews | Newsletter
Scenario League | CSC | Clash of Civs | Spanish Site | CtP Maps | Cradle of Civ | WesW's Ctp1/2 Site | Civ3 Haven

apolyton.net | apolyton.com | civilization2.net | civilization3.net | civilization4.net | civilizationiv.info | calltopower.net | galciv.net | galciv2.net | moo3.net