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Hi all,

I want to create a simple action to place on a treadmill model so that the treads rotate around. Unfortunately, the treads are not perfectly round so using muscle mode and rotation isn't going to work.

 

Any ideas for me?

 

Thanks,

Mike

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There is a topic on the forum about doing tank treads which would be the exact same thing. Do a search for that topic. It might help. I don't quite understand what you mean by "not perfectly round". You mean the round parts at the ends of the treadmill? That might be tricky. The tank tread technique I saw didn't use any muscle mode animation, just bones and constraints. It might have used path constraints.

 

 

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Because a treadmill track is fairly flat,

just animate the texture moving around it,

not the tread itself.

You don't even have to worry

about having a seam on the texture

because a treadmill has one.

 

You can make the track frames (including a pre blur)

in an image editing program like Photoshop.

Save the files out as sequential targas or a Quicktime Movie (animation compression)

and bring those (or it) in as a texture on your treadmill track.

 

You could have two layers,

one for the texture map,

another for a bump map.

 

Here's an old file with a moving texture applied.

 

topSpinning01.mov

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Because a treadmill track is fairly flat,

just animate the texture moving around it,

not the tread itself.

You don't even have to worry

about having a seam on the texture

because a treadmill has one.

 

You can make the track frames (including a pre blur)

in an image editing program like Photoshop.

Save the files out as sequential targas or a Quicktime Movie (animation compression)

and bring those (or it) in as a texture on your treadmill track.

 

You could have two layers,

one for the texture map,

another for a bump map.

 

Here's an old file with a moving texture applied.

 

topSpinning01.mov

 

Hey, Thanks very much all for your help! Really appreciate it! We are going to go with the sequential targas.

 

Thanks once again all!

Mike

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