Motion paths

I am trying to create a solar system type of animation using
PowerPoint. I can get the moon to rotate the earth and the earth to
rotate the sun, but not the moon rotating the earth at the same time
that the earth is rotating around the sun. Any ideas to accomplish
this custom animation or other suggestions about software to use
(Camtasia, etc.)

Therm

SandyJohnson
Fri Oct 03 10:00:01 CDT 2008

Set your effects to start With Previous.

"Therm" wrote:

> I am trying to create a solar system type of animation using
> PowerPoint. I can get the moon to rotate the earth and the earth to
> rotate the sun, but not the moon rotating the earth at the same time
> that the earth is rotating around the sun. Any ideas to accomplish
> this custom animation or other suggestions about software to use
> (Camtasia, etc.)
>
> Therm
>

Therm
Fri Oct 03 11:21:42 CDT 2008

On Oct 3, 11:00=A0am, Sandy Johnson
<SandyJohn...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> Set your effects to start With Previous.
>
>
>
> "Therm" wrote:
> > I am trying to create a solar system type of animation using
> > PowerPoint. =A0I can get the moon to rotate the earth and the earth to
> > rotate the sun, but not the moon rotating the earth at the same time
> > that the earth is rotating around the sun. =A0Any ideas to accomplish
> > this custom animation or other suggestions about software to use
> > (Camtasia, etc.)
>
> > Therm- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Not a bad idea, but the problem then becomes that the "moon" rotates
in place and not around the earth as the earth rotates around the
sun. Maybe PP cannot do it.

Ute
Fri Oct 03 18:55:46 CDT 2008

>I am trying to create a solar system type of animation using
> PowerPoint. I can get the moon to rotate the earth and the earth to
> rotate the sun, but not the moon rotating the earth at the same time
> that the earth is rotating around the sun. Any ideas to accomplish
> this custom animation or other suggestions about software to use

Difficult to explain (English is not my native language) ... Imaging you
take a spring (as in a ballpoint pen), stretch it and form a circle and
press it flat, then connect beginning and end. You get one big circle which
consists of many loops. That is the shape you need to draw as an animation
path for the moon. The earth rotates on a circle and the moon animation is
set "With previous" to the same speed as the earth. But you cannot have the
moon disappear "behind" the earth. It will rotate around it and be visible
all the time.

Best regards,
Ute



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Steve
Fri Oct 03 20:22:56 CDT 2008


Another possibility (based on just a couple quick halfwit tests ... YMMV)

Draw the earth and the moon and group them.

Apply a motion path to make the group orbit around the sun

Apply a rotation to the group and have it start with previous.



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Glen
Sat Oct 04 00:13:47 CDT 2008

Hi,

In addition to a motion path, add an Emphasis animation of Spin, and allow
the animation to loop (or repeat).

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"Therm" <thermometer98@gmail.com> wrote in message
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On Oct 3, 11:00 am, Sandy Johnson
<SandyJohn...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> Set your effects to start With Previous.
>
>
>
> "Therm" wrote:
> > I am trying to create a solar system type of animation using
> > PowerPoint. I can get the moon to rotate the earth and the earth to
> > rotate the sun, but not the moon rotating the earth at the same time
> > that the earth is rotating around the sun. Any ideas to accomplish
> > this custom animation or other suggestions about software to use
> > (Camtasia, etc.)
>
> > Therm- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Not a bad idea, but the problem then becomes that the "moon" rotates
in place and not around the earth as the earth rotates around the
sun. Maybe PP cannot do it.

Bill
Sun Oct 05 09:47:04 CDT 2008

Provided you are doing a look down on the solar system perspective. You
could do a perspective view, but that would require VBA and a lot of code
foolery.

However, using the top down view, you'll need to balance the moon with an
object equal and opposite (or it will wobble). Use the 'hidden pivot'
method shown on Glen's PowerPoint Workbench site.

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"Steve Rindsberg" <abuse@localhost.com> wrote in message
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>
> Another possibility (based on just a couple quick halfwit tests ... YMMV)
>
> Draw the earth and the moon and group them.
>
> Apply a motion path to make the group orbit around the sun
>
> Apply a rotation to the group and have it start with previous.
>
>
>
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>

Steve
Sun Oct 05 12:17:12 CDT 2008

In article <#j1jykvJJHA.3444@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl>, Bill Dilworth wrote:
> Provided you are doing a look down on the solar system perspective.

Yes, good point.

> You
> could do a perspective view, but that would require VBA and a lot of code
> foolery.

No, YOU could do it. I'd be passing Pluto and pumping hard for Aldebaran by
now if I had to do it. ;-)

> However, using the top down view, you'll need to balance the moon with an
> object equal and opposite (or it will wobble). Use the 'hidden pivot'
> method shown on Glen's PowerPoint Workbench site.

Another good point. Thanks!

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