Rotary cannons

leilei

What technique do you use to make perfect rotary gun barrels (i.e. 3, 4, 6, chain/vulcan/gatling gun)?

right now I painfully duplicate, and rotate to all my might all by hand hoping it'd be precisely round and even trying for no visible irregular gaps between the space of a barrel. It's tougher since these barrels aren't even seperate pipes but unified together.

HEx

Place them all in a group, and only animate the group?

Tumerboy

uh. . . what's so hard about this? make one barrel, offset the pivot, duplicate and rotate at appropriate degrees (60 for 6 barrels, 72 for 5 barrels, 90 for 4 barrels and 120 for 3 barrels)
weld all barrels together. . .

Am I missing something here?

dejawolf

you also have array and spacing tools that'll work fine for this.

MoP

Yeah, I'd probably offset the pivot to the centre of the "barrel holder", then Array the single barrel to rotate around that with however many copies I want. Very easy.