Missing exercise?

posted to: Ball Jump (Ex 08)

These look like the instructions for exercises 6 and 7 repeated, and then in the exercise files, the ex08 file seems to be for ex 09 in the course. It looks like something got mixed up in 2023 the course update, perhaps?

  • Adrian Bellworthy replied

    Hey SScarlettOverflow,

    I think you are onto something here...
    It does look like an oversight on the exercise 08 Ball Jump instructions. I'm sure @waylow will fix this asap.

    With the naming of the exercise in the download files, this is because exercise 06 and 07 don't have a start file., because you are using the result of exercise 01 and 02. In the downloaded files exercises 06, 07, 08, 09 should really be named 08, 09, 10, 11 respectively to align with the course numbering.

    Thanks for spotting this with your eagle eye,
    What about your other eye, the animators eye?
    I expect it's gonna be just as focused.

  • CypherPoet replied

    I was about to mention the same thing. My assumption would be that this exercise (Ball Jump (Ex 08)) should correspond to the Ball Jump lecture video. (And I'm also thinking that we'd only need one loop instead of three 🙂)


  • Wayne Dixon replied

    I adjusted the language to make it clearer.
    Essentially there are no blank 'start' files for these exercises.  You can use the animation you previously created, or start fresh with any file that had the Multiball rig in it.

    Sorry for the confusion, but well done on reading the instructions.  I think you may be the first people to actually do that haha.

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  • Scarlett Hoefler(ScarlettOverflow) replied

    Hmm, I don't think I understand. The updated instructions for exercise 08 still read to me like just rendering a video that's the videos from exercises 06 and 07 put together.

    How I'm reading it is: Exercise 6 is adding squash and stretch to the vertical bounce. Exercise 7 is adding squash and stretch to the arcing bounce. And then this one, exercise 8, is adding squash and stretch to the vertical bounce and arcing bounce, which is a repeat of those two previous exercises (well, and putting it together into one video). Is that intentional?

  • Wayne Dixon replied

    Ahh - I see.  
    It was Ex 08 you were talking about.

    Sorted.