Simon Edmondson Posted February 24, 2014 Posted February 24, 2014 Proving my modeling skills have room for improvement I am making a unicycle and wondered if anyone had suggestions as to how to set it up for animation afterwards ?. Still over producing splines at the moment but hope to try it out tomorrow. I was thinking of constraining the characters feet to the pedals and their bottom to the saddle then perhaps using Eular for the wheel ? Any help gratefully received. Thank you. simon Quote
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted February 25, 2014 Hash Fellow Posted February 25, 2014 Simon Edmondson said: I was thinking of constraining the characters feet to the pedals and their bottom to the saddle then perhaps using Eular for the wheel ? That sounds like a plausible gambit. You may need to devise a way for the pedals to stay fairly horizontal, perhaps an orient-like constraint to the frame of the unicycle, or may be an aim-at constraint to some point above them. Quote
Admin Rodney Posted February 25, 2014 Admin Posted February 25, 2014 Here's a Proof of Concept that cheats a little. Technically I could have gotten away with one bone in the unicycle (or even no bones if you don't count the root bone). There are additional bones and a null in the unicycle to facilitate aiming, turning etc. but at present they aren't serving any purpose. Stand by for Project file. The trick in this case being to actually add the pedals to Rabbit's feet. unicyclePOC1.movFetching info... Unicycle1.zipFetching info... Quote
Simon Edmondson Posted February 25, 2014 Author Posted February 25, 2014 Rodney said: Here's a Proof of Concept that cheats a little. Technically I could have gotten away with one bone in the unicycle (or even no bones if you don't count the root bone). There are additional bones and a null in the unicycle to facilitate aiming, turning etc. but at present they aren't serving any purpose. Stand by for Project file. The trick in this case being to actually add the pedals to Rabbit's feet. Rodney Thank you very much indeed for your help. This morning will be busy... regards simon Quote
Bobby Posted February 26, 2014 Posted February 26, 2014 My idea, created Action for the Unicycle and the Rabbit as Action Object. Unicycle2.zipFetching info... Quote
Wildsided Posted February 26, 2014 Posted February 26, 2014 Bobby said: My idea, created Action for the Unicycle and the Rabbit as Action Object. Unicycle2.zipFetching info... That looks pretty cool Tawan Quote
Simon Edmondson Posted February 26, 2014 Author Posted February 26, 2014 Bobby said: My idea, created Action for the Unicycle and the Rabbit as Action Object. Unicycle2.zipFetching info... Thank you very Much for your Help Tawan. Nicely done. regards simon PS I had been thinking towards doing a jousting competition with the Knights on Unicycles rather than horses... Quote
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