Animating a Card Deck with WireParameters bend offset

pedmod1

Hi,  I'm animating a Deck of cards for a client and trying to use WireParameters to bend the deck in a way in which, by the time the card reaches it's maximum bend the the other cards behind bend slightly more as they push each other back.

The problem I have as I'm not great with expression etc, is that if I set up the wire to a, let say Bend+5 of the next card the wired card has this bend already at frame 0.  But I want it only when it reached its maximum bend.

so at frame 0

Card 1 is Bend =0 at frame 0

Card 2 is Bend =0 at frame 0

and when

Card 1 is Bend =250 at frame 200

Card 2 is Bend =255 at frame 200

for example.

 Any help would be so very well appreciated.

Thank you

pedmod1

Ok so i figured out that if i do times by 1.something it does what I wanted it to do.  But now if I wanted to go back to 0 Bend but offset all the cards by 5 or so frames, how would I do that??

Eric Chadwick

You can use Frames as a variable.
http://help.autodesk.com/view/3DSMAX/2019/ENU/?guid=GUID-63624405-E55C-4E7C-825D-747D710DB262

coven

Just to add a different way to do this, you could animate all the cards the same, then add an offset controller to all the objects and offset the animation by whatever you like. 

pedmod1

coven said:

Just to add a different way to do this, you could animate all the cards the same, then add an offset controller to all the objects and offset the animation by whatever you like. 

Thank you coven.. At the time I was using Max 2014 which does not have offset controller option.

pedmod1

Eric Chadwick said:

You can use Frames as a variable.
http://help.autodesk.com/view/3DSMAX/2019/ENU/?guid=GUID-63624405-E55C-4E7C-825D-747D710DB262

Thank you Eric.  Will try this..