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Re: Help with Tread animation
Animated UV's are pretty easy to do: Turn on auto key, move the time slider 24-30frames, open the uvw editor move the UV's around, scrub the bar. You'll probably need to go into the curve editor and adjust the curve to be linear otherwise it will ease in and out slowly speeding up at the beginning and slowing down toward… -
Re: Help with Tread animation
Sorry to dig up this month-old thread but I have to say huge thanks to Vig for the nice breakdown of his process. I was able to use a similar process to get animated tank treads into the source engine, and with only a few hiccups it worked really great. This really was an awesome resource, I looked all over google and… -
Re: Help with Tread animation
They are one of the most difficult things to rig up but there are a few ways I've seen it done, but they really depend on the poly count, how close and how complex of a rig you're allowed to make and what kind of things can you use. What app? The easiest way I've seen it done, is with animated UV's. The most complex… -
Re: Help with Tread animation
Haha So turns out I wasn't the only one with this problem in class. Luckily the professor did know how to remedy our troubles. What we ended up doing was: - copying a single tread however many times we needed it to round the wheels. -Using a spline to get the shape of the oval around the wheels -Apply a pathdeform modifier… -
Help with Tread animation
I'm trying to model a sort of siege tank for a project. The model needs to have at least two moving parts. The first moving part is the main cannon which swivels from side to side. I wanted to make the second moving bit, the treads on which it travels. But I'm having some difficulty figuring out how to get them to move in… -
Re: Help with Tread animation
Vig-It's a 3Ds max project. We haven't learned about Animated UV's yet, but I'll be sure to ask my professor about it tomorrow. All i need the treads to do is move. They don't need to interact with an environment or anything yet. I'll check ouyt that tank tut when i get some time. Thanks for that. jocose- We're not… -
Re: Help with Tread animation
I was trying to do this the other day too. The best way I've found is to use the plugin jocose just posted. (I use maya) The only problem is I can't get the damn thing working in maya 8.5 :( -
Re: Help with Tread animation
I dont know if you are using maya or can use maya but there is a really good rig already set up for tank treads you can just download for free: http://www.highend3d.com/maya/downloads/mel_scripts/modeling/misc/2285.html -
Re: Help with Tread animation
Not sure if this is helpful. But I made an example to teach this to my students. I can share the Maya project with you if that would be helpful. [ame] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiPn6orWwFg[/ame] And here is my stunning texture flat :)
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