Army movements

mike.petrie · Post by **mike.petrie** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 8:34 pm

Does anyone know how to show army movements on a map. I've just seen a TV prog about Verdun and it shows maps of the areas with lines showing the army positions. Can anyone suggest a way of showing day-by-day movement on a broad front on the map. I recently saw a demo on the Forum of drawing a line to show a route using one map virgin, a second map marked with the route and using a slider transition but this is not what I'm looking for here. Any suggestions please. I'm using VS10+ and a Toshiba Laptop.

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 2:07 am

Not quite sure what you're trying to display.
Obviously not the Indianna Jones moving line.

Perhaps you just need to use static pictures created with a photo editor and display them slideshow style. Or are you after movement a bit like
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daniel · Post by **daniel** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 8:50 am

I think Mike wants to do some kind of morphing on a position line to show movements. This would call for a rotoscoping programs. Not available in VS. Maybe using a flash animator?

mike.petrie · Post by **mike.petrie** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 5:15 pm

Thanks sjj1805 and daniel. It is what daniel is suggesting that I'm after but I can't see how to do it easily in VS10+ as you say Daniel. But I will try the method sjj1805 suggests with short (say 10 frame) stills as a slide show with no transitions. But it is laborious to do it one shot at a time, but hey, Disney made a fortune by doing that didn't he.

Thanks again for your suggestions

Mike

daniel · Post by **daniel** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 9:47 am

I think if it was me I would also try with short crossfades, that could maybe suggest a day-by-day or hour-by-hour "jumps" progression...
Like the satellite "animation" they show on weather forecasts..

mike.petrie · Post by **mike.petrie** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 11:01 am

Thanks, daniel, Good suggestion.