How would you make a kicker kick a ball for soccer or football?

dbrn20

I have the kicker lined up and I could get it to somewhat kick but it doesn't look right at all. I was wondering how you would get the person to kick the ball and make the ball go up in the air? PLEASE HELP! I've been trying to figure this out for a long time.

jediaction · 03-09-2012, 09:12 PM

Well you can make the animation of the leg kicking, but then make a dummy object at the balls starting positon and end position. If you don't know what dummy's are, go to the "advanced" options and select the ball object and click "place dummy on object." They are pretty much positioning items used for any item. It makes moving objects a lot easier.

sfunk · 03-10-2012, 02:41 AM

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Originally Posted by jediaction

Well you can make the animation of the leg kicking, but then make a dummy object at the balls starting positon and end position. If you don't know what dummy's are, go to the "advanced" options and select the ball object and click "place dummy on object." They are pretty much positioning items used for any item. It makes moving objects a lot easier.

you forgot to tell him about adding a dummy object in the air, to simulate the ball being kicked in the air, since that is what he asked for.

and if you don't know or don't want to use dummy objects, another way is to use a do in order, have the animation of the kicker kicking, then a do together statement of the ball moving forward and up, then lastly have a do together statement with the ball moving down and forward (the same amount as you had it moving forward and up in your last do together statement)

snake1 · 03-10-2012, 06:20 AM

hey i want a pirate ship model to make a pirate war story please help mee !!

dbrn20 · 03-10-2012, 12:09 PM

Another thing, how would I be able to have a 3D Text scoreboard that adds a certain amount of points after the ball goes through a field goal post

sfunk · 03-10-2012, 02:09 PM

just search the threads for help on that, there are hundreds of examples of how to do a scoreboard, I even have videos of how to do it on youtube

dakota95 · 03-10-2012, 05:05 PM

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Originally Posted by snake1

hey i want a pirate ship model to make a pirate war story please help mee !!

Ok, well then post it in the share objects section. If someone is looking to convert something for someone, this is not the place that he will look. And you are changing the topic.

dbrn20 · 03-10-2012, 07:35 PM

Ok here is what I got so far. If anybody has any recommendations or tips than I would really appreciate it because I'm getting frustrated with it.

jediaction · 03-11-2012, 05:05 PM

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Originally Posted by sfunk

and if you don't know or don't want to use dummy objects, another way is to use a do in order, have the animation of the kicker kicking, then a do together statement of the ball moving forward and up, then lastly have a do together statement with the ball moving down and forward (the same amount as you had it moving forward and up in your last do together statement)

Um, you can use dummy objects for more precision actually. Of course you can do together, but if you happen to want to have the object start in the same position every time, it's better that way. It's more precise.

Btw, long post and helpful. Good job.

sfunk · 08:42 AM

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Originally Posted by jediaction

Um, you can use dummy objects for more precision actually. Of course you can do together, but if you happen to want to have the object start in the same position every time, it's better that way. It's more precise.

Btw, long post and helpful. Good job.

You don't need dummy objects to do it though. He could just as easily use a object that is set point of view to to football, with its opacity set to zero. which gives him another option rather than using dummy objects if he is having a hard time using them. there are always more than one way to do anything in Alice. its just whatever the user prefers

But you are 100% correct about using a stand in object making it more precise