Bongo 2.0

Getting Started:

Objects and views become animated when they are modified in Bongo’s animate mode.

Animation data is captured from object transformations and stored in keyframes at the current position of the Timeline Slider. These keyframes are displayed on the Timeline and can be edited after their creation by using the Keyframe Editor.

Properties of objects and views are interpolated between the keyframes using a process called tweening.

Object transformations, such as rotation and scaling, always act around an object’s animation pivot.

In addition to carrying out their own transformations, objects can be parents of other objects, causing the child to undergo the same transformations as the parents. Objects and views can be constrained to path curves or other objects using the constraints manager.

Object animation can include looping to repeat motion.

An animation can be output to video as images either Rhino’s viewport display or any Rhino-compatible renderer.

Starting Bongo

1. Install Bongo.
2. At the command prompt, type Bongo.
3. When you start Bongo, the Bongo toolbars appear.

To Start Using Bongo

From the Bongo menu or toolbar, choose Timeline or type in BongoTimeline on the command line. The Bongo Timeline appears. The Timeline can be docked at the edge of your Rhino screen or floating.

Bongo Basics 1: Simple Object Animation

This guide continues where the Getting Started guide ended.

Bongo animates moving, rotating, and scaling objects, layer visibility, object color, gloss, and transparency, light object properties, and many other properties including materials, and sun, plus all of this can be extended by plug-ins.

The Animate button toggles Bongo’s animate mode on and off. When in animate mode, objects and viewports remember their current location, rotation, scale, hidden state, and other changes for the current timeline slider position. When an object is first animated, a pivot is added to the object.

When the Animate button is activated, the timeline slider and border of the current viewport change color to notify you that Bongo is in animate mode.

When the timeline slider is over an existing keyframe, you can interactively edit the movement, rotation, or scaling recorded by that keyframe for the selected objects by simply changing the model.

To Start Using Bongo

• From the Bongo menu or the Bongo toolbar, select Timeline.

or

• At the Rhino Command prompt, type BongoTimeline.

The Bongo Timeline appears docked at the bottom of the Rhino window:

Using the controls on the timeline you can:

• Animate object movement, rotation, and scaling.
• Drive the animation using the timeline slider.
• Move and copy object and view keyframes.
• Control the animation preview.

Pan and Zoom the Timeline

• Bongo Timeline MouseUse the mouse wheel to zoom the timeline for a closer view.
• Use the right mouse button to pan the timeline.

To Activate Animation Mode

• On the Timeline, click the Animate button.

Animate Object Motion

Animate moving an object using Rhino’s Move command or by dragging the object.

To animate object motion:

1. In the Timeline, click the Animate button.
2. Select an object.
3. Move the Timeline Slider to the tick where you want a keyframe to be placed.
4. Drag or Move the object into position with the Rhino Move command.

Animate Object Rotation

Animate rotating an object using te BongoRotate command.

To animate object rotation:

1. In the Timeline, click the Animate button.
2. Select an object.
3. Move the Timeline Slider to the tick where you want a keyframe to be placed.
4. Rotate the object into position with the BongoRotate command or by using the boxes on the Timeline.

Animate Object Scale

Animate scaling an object using the BongoScale command.

To animate object scale:

1. In the Timeline, click the Animate button.
2. Select an object.
3. Move the Timeline Slider to the tick where you want a keyframe to be placed.
4. Scale the object with the BongoScale command or by using the scale boxes on the Timeline.