Hey Guys,
I'm attempting to create the "split-flip" effect many know of as the train terminal or airport signs from back in the day that read out the flights/times/etc using slats with characters printed on them rotating around a motor. Surprisingly the only tutorial I've found that achieves what I'm looking for is in blender:
It uses expressions plugged into the rotation of the slats, which are copied and pasted into the blender Y rot fields, via this table: http://www.otvinta.com/splitflap.html
I'm trying desperately to port this into C4D in Xpresso, but I cannot get the expression to work in the Formula node. I modify the formula to include for "a" in the expression, the input of the formula node - it always goes yellow (error) and has no effect.
Any insight on to how to get this ported into Cinema, or any other approach to this effect (preferably similar to the blender Implementation) would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks and Cheers