Darkwing Posted August 31, 2010 Share Posted August 31, 2010 Just as a quick break from modeling the Daedalus, I decided to model a somewhat simpler model, any guesses? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thefreshestever Posted August 31, 2010 Share Posted August 31, 2010 hookah? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkwing Posted August 31, 2010 Author Share Posted August 31, 2010 nope...I don't even know what hookah is. To Google I go! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkwing Posted August 31, 2010 Author Share Posted August 31, 2010 It occurs to me that this basic exercise is going to have it's difficult spot, namely his arms are made of Slinkies and I can't say I have the foggiest idea on how to make slinkies Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meowx Posted August 31, 2010 Share Posted August 31, 2010 Why hello there, Tom! edit: I would think his arms would be rather simple to create with a transparent spring texture on a regular ol' cylinder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkwing Posted August 31, 2010 Author Share Posted August 31, 2010 Yay, you win! I've never made springs or anything before and I'd like for them to bounce around and stuff like they would. Though I dunno why, it's only a model, but you never know if for some reason it gets animated Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixelplucker Posted August 31, 2010 Share Posted August 31, 2010 Trouble with a texture or deformed shape on a path is they would distort when stretched. Not quite sure how you would go about doing this in AM but if you could animate the path of an extrusion it would look better. At least that is how I had done that in other programs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkwing Posted August 31, 2010 Author Share Posted August 31, 2010 well doesn't AM have some sort of spring simulator/physics/thingy or something? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkwing Posted August 31, 2010 Author Share Posted August 31, 2010 And here's a new pic: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixelplucker Posted August 31, 2010 Share Posted August 31, 2010 How would the spring simulator work on an object without distorting it? I never tried the spring simulator in AM yet. If you could use the sweeper plug in an action and animate the path or create some sort of constraint system on just the path it would work great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted September 3, 2010 Hash Fellow Share Posted September 3, 2010 I'm watching an MST3K right now and looking at this tom servo character and thought of this thread. But where are the springs? Is it his elbows? He doesn't seem to do much with his arms. It's not like they have to extend much. A displacement texture solution like this might suffice. http://thisisonlya.blogspot.com/2010/03/robot-elbow.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HomeSlice Posted September 3, 2010 Share Posted September 3, 2010 And you could put a dynamic constraint on his arms so they move around a little when he rotates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted September 3, 2010 Hash Fellow Share Posted September 3, 2010 It's not hard to rig a spring shape that deforms properly. I used the duplicator wizard to extrude this spiral shape and used "Bone Falloff" to quickly fade the weighting of the CPs from one bone to the other. If I left it at that the cross section of the springs would have flattened as the spring was squished. So... I selected each spline ring individually and used "balance Selected" in the CP weight editor to make the CPs all identical in weight. Now the spring maintains its volume as it is compressed. springH264.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkwing Posted September 3, 2010 Author Share Posted September 3, 2010 that will probably work. His arms are made from slinkies so that's where the spring comes into play, except of course it's very thin and tightly wound. When I'm done waiting for a render (which should be by tomorrow) I'll play with Servo some more Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkwing Posted September 8, 2010 Author Share Posted September 8, 2010 ok, got a new question. monkey barrel texture. can't seem to find a texture on the interwebs, so now i'm looking at procedurals. anybody wanna chime in with some advice here...rob, this is your alley isn't it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkwing Posted September 8, 2010 Author Share Posted September 8, 2010 also, I don't appear to have this duplicator wizard, where can I find it? I should probably ask the next question too which would be how do I use it to make my spring? <--figured that one out, still need the wizard though nevermind, I overcame my own momentary stupidity Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkwing Posted September 8, 2010 Author Share Posted September 8, 2010 here he is now with some colour and a spring! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted September 8, 2010 Hash Fellow Share Posted September 8, 2010 Is he originally a gumball machine? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkwing Posted September 8, 2010 Author Share Posted September 8, 2010 his head and neck area are, his body is a monkey barrel, his arms are slinkies, his chest plate is like some rocket toys and stuff, not entirely sure about the bottom, though I believe he has a pool noodle at the very bottom plus some sort of space bus like toys going around his base. Fortunately the MST3K movie gives us some high quality close-ups of Tom so you can definitely tell it's one of those monkey barrels Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkwing Posted September 8, 2010 Author Share Posted September 8, 2010 So, if anybody has some better hands they wanna donate, I'm OK with that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkwing Posted September 8, 2010 Author Share Posted September 8, 2010 almost done!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HomeSlice Posted September 8, 2010 Share Posted September 8, 2010 That looks great. Love the retro. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJL Posted September 8, 2010 Share Posted September 8, 2010 Most likely too late, life has been keeping me away from the forum. Anyway, You are welcome to try these hands. Knuckles_Knuckles.mdl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkwing Posted September 9, 2010 Author Share Posted September 9, 2010 thanks Myron, those'll do nicely once I squish them some Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkwing Posted September 14, 2010 Author Share Posted September 14, 2010 Well, that's about all I'm gonna do on Servo TomMDL.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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