I didn’t use any math to create this (because I suk worse at math than a diver with empty tanks), so if any one of you Swish-Masters out there can figure out a way to improve on this, by all means - Please Do! I used simple staggered fades in a 4-stage loop, at the end of the last loop the only way I could figure out how to loop again was to use a hard fade and resume the movie from the beginning. You can modify the orbiting text timing, position(s) and so on, or replace the text with objects. The reason I used individual letters is because a whole word(s) string in one effect was impossible to fade in/out correctly behind the planet. One of the swish forum Masters posted a cool “orbiting plant” component effect with “balls” and a lot of complex math, the problem with that was the random staggering of the balls in the orbit.. Let me know if you can modify this effect I made, or combine it with that other one to make an awesome orbit effect to use for text or images.. Thanks!
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