Motion Path end position

[Chris Watts]

Is there a sure-fire way of specifying the end position of an object (e.g. a
picture) when using motion paths? I need to get the object to align well
with existing obects after animation.

cheers and TIA
Chris

PPT2007 Windows XP.

 

[Luc]

Chris,
Make a duplicate of the object, put the duplicate object in the final end
position, draw your path from the duplicate to the starting position,
reverse the path by clicking next to path in the animation task pane and
choosing reverse path. Delete the duplicate.
Or maybe this add-in will be of use to you:
http://skp.mvps.org/mptools.htm

 

[Luc]

Chris,
Maybe use your guidelines to be able to position the beginning point of your
motion path dead center of the object.

 

[Chris Watts]

Luc,
Thanks - looks like that will do wjhat I need.
Chris

 

[Chris Watts]

Luc, the only trouble with that is that when you delete the duplicate object
the motion path disappears too!
If you leave the duplicate then it works but there is an extra unwanted
visble object.
cheers
Chris

 

[Luc]

Chris,
Maybe I explained it the wrong way. Here's how I do it:
Make a duplicate of the object and position it in the right ending position.
Use the guidelines and the handles to find the dead center of the duplicate
object (use alt + drag to position in the exact middle of the handles).
Use guidelines on the original object (you can ctrl+drag a guideline).
Select the original object (if the guidelines disappear when you select the
object put the object on the foreground).
Draw the path from the center of the original object to the center of the
duplicate object.
Delete the duplicate.
You can also do it like I described in my earlier post by drawing the path
from the duplicates center to the original object and reversing the path.
Just make sure the original object is selected when you start drawing the
path and the guidelines are visible on both objects.

 

[Chris Watts]

Thanks Luc, I'll try your first option here.

The second one is problematic. It does work after a fashion but the object
actually starts at the final position, disappears then appears at the
initial position and follows the motion path to its final position.

cheers
Chris