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Blender

Coasters can have blender animations along the track.

Prerequisites

  • Installed Blender version >2.80
  • Downloaded a copy of the jrides Blender export tool tools/jrides_blender_export_anim_plugin.py

How to

  1. Create a Blender animations using object animations. (do not use rigging)

  2. Name the animated object the same as your animation name, i.e. main-animation.

  3. Select the object and export the Blender animation using the custom jrides export tool. (check the tools folder on GitHub: https://github.com/JVerbruggen/jrides)

    1. tools/jrides_blender_export_anim_plugin.py

  4. Name the file in the format of <coaster_identifier>.<animation_name>.csv, i.e. mycoaster.main_animation.csv.

  5. Paste the file in the jrides folder jrides/coasters/<coaster_identifier>/animations.

  6. Create a trigger file in jrides/coasters/<coaster_identifier>/triggers/<my-trigger.yml>

    trigger:
    type: blender-animation
    location: [50.0, 10.0, 50.0]                        # [x, y, z]
    animationName: my-cool-animation                    # Animation identifier
    reuseEntity: my-coaster-my-cool-animation-entity    # A unique identifier for an entity so that it can be used for multiple animations
    preloadAnim: true                                   # Whether to load the first frame of the animation when loading the plugin
    item:                                               # Item that is animated
        material: YELLOW_WOOL

  7. Use the trigger in either effect triggers for certain sections (i.e. the station section), or in the track trigger file. See docs/triggers.md.

    1. Your folder structure should now look something like this.

      plugins/
├─ jrides/
│  ├─ rides.yml
│  ├─ coasters/
│  │  ├─ mycoaster/
│  │  │  ├─ mycoaster.coaster.yml
│  │  │  ├─ mycoaster.default.trigger.yml
│  │  │  ├─ animations/
│  │  │  │  ├─ mycoaster.main_animation.csv
│  │  │  ├─ triggers/
│  │  │  │  ├─ my-trigger.yml

And you're done.