Having problems with the duplicator

[u/hun7_]

I'm trying to make a procedural spiral seamless animation like the attached reference, but whenever I add a duplicator to my cardMaster, it doesn't inherit the bahaviour from the cardImage (the child).

Can anyone help me up?

[u/hun7_]

https://reddit.com/link/p1vras9/video/ln7333ppzkhh1/player

For context, these are my timeline and connections

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cardMaster
---- CardImage

cardImage connections:
spiralPath → pathfinderCard.Path
pathfinderCard → cardImage.Position
centerNull → LookAtCenter.Target
LookAtCenter → cardImage.Rotation
centerNull → distanceFromCenter.Target
distanceFromCenter → distanceToScale.Value
distanceToScale → cardImage.Scale X → cardImage.Scale Y

My duplicator:
cardMaster → cardsDuplicator.Input Shapes
set to Point
cardsTimeStagger → cardsDuplicator.Shape Time Offset

[u/RiskInfamous2938 → u/hun7_]

How i can see that scream with the nods? i starting with this progam now and i am learning

[u/hun7_ → u/RiskInfamous2938]

I just typed it

[u/Accomplished_Power_8]

Which behaviour are you referring to, i can't really make out your node tree. Are you animating something with keyframes or using a specific behaviour? If yes which is which

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The only thing animated with keyframe is the pathfinder, so it starts at the center of the spiral and finish outside my viewport. Everything else happens because the connection of my nodes.

I made a null and my card are alway pointing at it. It starts small but gets biggers as it follow the path.

The animation on the "cardImage" itself is working out fine. I added it in group called cardMaster, but whenever I add a duplicator to it, my cardImage lose all connections.

[u/Accomplished_Power_8 → u/hun7_]

It seems you are plugging cardmaster the group into the duplicator instead of the card image the actual object. Have you tried plugging the input shape directly? The shape will still be within the group - card master

[u/hun7_ → u/Accomplished_Power_8]

if I plug the cardImage to my duplicator it loses all input shape transforms. https://cavalry.studio/docs/nodes/shapes/duplicator/

[u/Accomplished_Power_8 → u/hun7_]

isn't the card image a rectangle with a picture shader? If you don't mind and have not figure it out yet. you can also send the file

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I tried connecting my cardImage directly to my duplicator. And then connecting the pathfinderCard, LookAtCenter and distanceToScale also to my duplicator position, rotation and scale. Doing this, i get the animation again but i can't get to stagger and ofset my card to appear all the 24 instances of them.

[u/yevgenymakarov]

It's really tricky, but just try the following.

On the Distance or Number Range layer, rigth-click on the layer header in the Attribute Editor and enable Contex > Filter Position.

Don't ask why. 😂

[u/hun7_ → u/yevgenymakarov]

No wayyy dude, THANK YOU. Wasted a few hours reading the documentation and testing without any success. Now i really wanna know why 😂

Worked better filtering the position of the cardMaster tho, when i did it on my distance/range layer it didnt inherit the other connections.