Wow! Impressive work, thanks for sharing this!
I have not thought about just using the native animation tool, but it might make sense to use it to simplify the process for me!
It gets a bit more complex for me because I will have to leave out exactly two racks of this system (it's for theft safety, so that in standard positioning nobody will be able to reach the lowest shelves, until you turn on the mechanism)
So I will have to animate the whole loop, while I suppose you animated exactly one position change.

Nevertheless, this helps me a lot! Thanks for your contribution

Hello! I hope people are still active here

I'm currently working on a simplified Pater Noster Shelf system that I would love to animate:
I have 10 racks and 2 empty spaces for resting position

To show and proof this system I want to animate one complete rotation of all of the racks along the loop/belt. I managed to figure out how to generally animate one component to move along the loop/belt with the Animator PlugIn by Fredo6, and I COULD just repeat that animation progress for every shelf/rack.
But I feel like there has to be a smart way of moving all of these components in this big "circle", while keeping the same distance to each other etc. WITHOUT me having to create an animantion input for every single component.

I basically need to move along the path and also keep their relative position while on the rotation and they have to stay on track of course.
Do you have any ideas/tips or tutorials for me to manage this?

@Dave-R
Oh sorry for wrongly assuming this but that's great to know, thanks!