Animation in DSC-Roller conveyor and motor

[arihant]

Hi all,

I am trying to create an animation for moving conveyor and motor system.Its basically a product handling system. The animation should give a feel that rollers are moving during ON state. For this I have overlapped two belt images (found on Image Navigtor of DSC) and giving then different colours (ON state red colour; OFF state no color).But dont know how to proceed with it.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks.

 Arihant

[tst]

I'm not sure why you think that having the two images with the different colors will help you, but there are several ways you can do animation. Here are just a couple:

1. Create a few images of the belt, one for each frame. Copy them into a picture ring. When the belt is on, run a loop and wire i and N (the number of frames) into a quotient and remainder function. Read the r output and wire it into the picture ring. It will cycle through the frames, creating an animation.
2. Have a static image of the belt. On top of it place a few "boxes" (maybe booleans). Use the Position.Left property for the controls in a loop to move them, creating animation. If you put all of them inside a cluster, you can then move them past the border of the cluster and back to the beginning without the user seeing it, which will create a smooth effect.