Really simple! (help needed)

Beginners
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New to the program (absolutely love it!)

I’ve been using it for a couple of weeks and I have really enjoyed using it. The wealth of infomation on this forum and the wiki is really great!

Although… I have never used an environment like this before. My skills ended (before using it) at using ableton and photoshop.

So!..

I have a really basic question.

How would I animate say a rectangle for instance so that just one face extended… In other words how would I extend it in one direction but keep the other end fixed in place… giving the effect of a bar going up and down.

I can already set up audio chops to filter the parts I want and animate a rectangle so that the Y scale is effected using a transform SOP

This is not what a want though as by effecting the Y scale it extends the shape in two directions. I just want it to extend in one direction (just upwards with the bottom face not moving at all)

Am I going at this the wrong way?

would it be far easier to send my pass filter to a Top and make it that way round?

Let me know if my wording is completely off and I will describe this in a different way (lack of sleep… deadlines due… rughgh)

Thanks for your time!

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I think you can move the pivot point to the bottom edge to get what you want

[url]TouchDesigner Documentation

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Thanks! I’ll try this out. :slight_smile:

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I’ve cracked it!

for anyone thats intrested if you want to scale one edge of a rectangle use the following values.

Pivot 1/-0.5/0
Scale 1/a value above 1/1

This will scale the rectangles top edge in effect stretching it out but keeping the bottom points in place.

I hope i’ve worded this in a way people can understand.

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Might aswell continue this rather than making more threads with a similar purpose.

I can’t for the life of me figure out how to do this.

I want to transform that circle so that it moves diagonally to the left and grows as it does so (I can do this bit).

The bit I cant figure out is trying to make a trail behind the circle so that there is no negative space between its original point and its end point.

I then intend to loop the sequence but making it grow slightly larger + move a bit further (im sure I can do this in the animation editor)

can anyone explain how I would go about making that trail?

I apologise in advance if there is part of the wiki which explains this but I can’t find it.

Thanks for your time.