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capellan
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Car Animation

Post by capellan » Thu Sep 06, 2018 5:38 am

Hi All,

Take a look at this car animation. How could we make
car steering more smooth in every kind of track (X,Y,Z)?

Thanks in advance!

Al
Car Animation v01 stack screenshot.JPG
Car_Animation_01.zip

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Re: Car Animation

Post by capellan » Thu Sep 06, 2018 4:24 pm

Check this updated stack with options
to draw a center line on the road and
change road width.

Al
Car Animation v02 stack screenshot.JPG
Car_Animation_02.zip

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Re: Car Animation

Post by sphere » Fri Sep 07, 2018 12:07 pm

This looks like fun, i'm gonna try it out. :D :lol:

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Re: Car Animation

Post by richmond62 » Fri Sep 07, 2018 6:41 pm

move to the points of grc "XYZ"

The main problem is how to get a "track" with evenly spaced points.

Hand-drawing a multi-point graphic is useless.

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Re: Car Animation

Post by sphere » Fri Sep 07, 2018 9:01 pm

you need something like bezier-interpolation, some info:https://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/10 ... olygon.htm

Maybe Herman (-hh) can help with this as he is the expert seeing his fantastic graphical work.

Another nice info: https://bost.ocks.org/mike/simplify/ move your mouse over the image

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Re: Car Animation

Post by richmond62 » Fri Sep 07, 2018 9:25 pm

Just to be bloody-minded I started messing around with Turtle blocks:

http://ppa.launchpad.net/alanjas/turtle ... tleblocks/
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turtleY.png
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and, as you can see, things were not really that difficult.
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Traced that shape using Inkscape to make an SVG file

and imported the SVG file as a widget:
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SVG Importer.livecode.zip
Richmond's SVG chewer
(74.84 KiB) Downloaded 316 times
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and then got STUCK, as have no idea how to turn an SVG widget into a Polygon Graphic.
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why.svg.zip
SVG track
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Re: Car Animation

Post by richmond62 » Fri Sep 07, 2018 9:41 pm

Thoughts . . .

http://andregarzia.on-rev.com/alejandro ... t_V05C.zip

Pity it is tied to the proprietary Illustrator format" all "very awkward" when one does not have money for expensive Adobe stuff, especially, given GIMP and INKSCAPE, it seems unnecessary.

Oh, well, "ask no questions, tell no lies" . . .
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Ouch:
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prob.png

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Re: Car Animation

Post by richmond62 » Sat Sep 08, 2018 3:43 pm

It would be VERY USEFUL if one could plot out a polygon graphic's shape
(points) in the way I did using Turtle graphics inwith LiveCode.

Another way of going about things would be if there were some software that could
analyse a shape and extract a point list.
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Re: Car Animation

Post by bogs » Sat Sep 08, 2018 4:43 pm

richmond62 wrote:
Sat Sep 08, 2018 3:43 pm
Another way of going about things would be if there were some software that could
analyse a shape and extract a point list.
Well, Inkscape, GIMP, or any other number of programs do that, but, you *could* use the plugin ClipArtGuy wrote in the newer versions of Lc and that gives you a great point list setup. I really should experiment and see if it could be transported backwards. Hmmmmm :roll:
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Re: Car Animation

Post by [-hh] » Sat Sep 08, 2018 5:07 pm

Here one way to draw your graphic with as few points as needed using LC 6/7/8/9:

[1] Draw a graphic with the graphics curve tool.
[2] Simplify the points (raspi-stacks-collection #103).
     http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.ph ... 49#p157049
[3] Fine-tune the points manually.
     set selectionHandleColor to "cyan" (so that you can see the handles)
     ON: set editmode of grc RM to "polygon"
     OFF: set editmode of grc RM to "none"

The simplify-algorithm yields few points on straight way parts and more points on curved way parts so that the car moves faster along the few points and slower going through the bends.
shiftLock happens

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Re: Car Animation

Post by bogs » Sat Sep 08, 2018 7:19 pm

That is pretty awesome -hh!
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Re: Car Animation

Post by capellan » Sun Sep 09, 2018 6:30 am

Many, many thanks to all!

After asking a Highway engineer, I learned many great
things about roads and their design.

Looks like every round corner requires a different number
of points with different spacing between them, just to
produce the visual illusion of a smooth steering.

Hermann stack is really useful to demonstrate this.

If we replace the Car with a completely circular figure,
like the Pacman, an umbrella or a Round Table then
a smooth steering effect is achieved automatically.
Check the attached stack. Click the animated gif.

So there is no general solution, but an optimal design
for each unique road figure.

Al
Car_Animation_03.zip

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Re: Car Animation

Post by capellan » Mon Sep 10, 2018 2:03 am

By the way, the Adobe Ilustrator file posted by Richmond,
it´s a pdf file (version 1.5)

The stack "EPS Import v05C" only could import
Adobe Ilustrator files saved as version 5, 6 or 7.

Xara is my current Design software.

Al

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Re: Car Animation

Post by capellan » Mon Sep 10, 2018 11:44 pm

I was wrong. It's possible to create a General Solution.
We just have to find data that is meaningful.
Take a look at this log data.

Numbers 1 to 4 are two coordinates.
The most important is the last number.
That is the image angle.

Could you find a pattern in
the image angle?

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If my guess is correct, 1 or 2 lines of code
(and 2 or 3 functions) solve this problem. :D

Al

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