Motion Trail 3 Now Available

Bart · July 20, 2011

Motion Trail is a Blender add-on that allows for easy path editing in animations. As of the latest version, it also supports armatures.

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Author Bart

I have a LONG history with Blender - I wrote some of the earliest Blender tutorials, worked for Not a Number and helped run the crowdfunding campaign that open sourced Blender (the first one on the internet!). I founded BlenderNation in 2006 and have been editing it every single day since then ;-) I also run the Blender Artists forum and I'm Community Lead at n8n.

27 responses

matthew/mofx

20 July 2011 at 14:57

I’ve wanted this feature for so long in Blender, thank you, thank you Crouch. Epic addition to Blender.

ucupumar

20 July 2011 at 15:43

ohh… I need such a thing since billion years ago…
please bundle it with default blender installation

Benjy

20 July 2011 at 16:10

That is so cool.

lucky

20 July 2011 at 16:27

Excellent feature but still very buggy in pose mode… repeated crashes and strange behaviours.

Crouch

20 July 2011 at 16:37

lucky: you are right that pose mode isn’t fully stable yet. Perhaps I should have postponed the release a bit, but the problem is that I won’t be online for the next 3 weeks (summer job at a youth camp).
So development for this add-on will continue, but I won’t be able to make any changes (or even reply) the next weeks.

ike ahloe

20 July 2011 at 16:44

This is such a great day! I hope this is part of the main program for 2.59.

AlexC

20 July 2011 at 16:58

It looks great!
Thank’s a lot, can’t wait for this! =)

jordan

20 July 2011 at 17:20

freakin nice

ROUBAL

20 July 2011 at 17:21

Maybe it requires to actually use it to see it’s power… because just watching the video demo, I haven’t figured out what it actually does, and I don’t see it’s interest… All I see, is an object following a curve… What’s new ? Sorry, I’m usually very enthusiastic with new Blender features, but I don’t understand the advantage of this tool.

Jalik

20 July 2011 at 18:11

WOW ! thats what I said when I saw this great addon ! thank you Crouch, should be integrated by default, but needs stability first. keep doing excellent work man !

Thomas Eldredge

20 July 2011 at 18:22

This is such an amazing add-on already. I didn’t even know it worked with armatures. Thanks!

Tim

20 July 2011 at 18:50

WOW! This is needed and much appreciated. Real-time adjusting of animation!!!

FloridaJo

20 July 2011 at 19:50

Sweet. Be sure to check out Gottfried’s tutorial on it here:
http://blenderdiplom.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=29:tutorial-light-streaks-in-blender&Itemid=106

Patrick Boelens

20 July 2011 at 20:21

ROUBAL: The advantage is that you have easier/ more visual control over the interpolation between two keyframes. It basically sets a ‘path’ for the object to follow to get from keyframe A to B that you can edit.

str9led

20 July 2011 at 20:39

Thanks for such options

Aclariel

20 July 2011 at 20:56

Thank you soooooo Much Bart Crouch !!
Two Thumbs up for your plug-in :-)

DinoMight Pictures

20 July 2011 at 21:48

This is just like Autodesk. Blender is really stepping up there game. A faster renederer a more people would go to Blender

mformatt

20 July 2011 at 23:22

Thats a really impressive implementation – I’ve played with this feature in Messiah, but I like how you can adjust the timing right in the curve- looking forward to playing with this.

awesome work.