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Maya
Cables and Wires
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Will J 215 posts19 Feb 2008Hey again folks,
My I have been posting alot haven't I? Well, thats beacause there's alot of new ground coming at me at the moment hehe. OK I have another question for you. I have modelled a number of cables and wires on my apache model (hydrolic fluid lines for the most part.) This looks great, but I'd really like to have them moving realistically when I move components around. For example, there is a cable attatched to the gun mount and it runs down and then hops onto the actual gun. When I move the gun up and down the cable will be left behind. Obviously this is undesirable. So I have a few theories involving set driven keys and parametric deformers etc but no clear plan of action. Can anyone offer a solution? You've all been super helpful and patient so far and I'd be in serious grave deep guano if it weren't for your help
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Claymation 600 posts20 Feb 2008You could make an IK spline, create clusters of the cvs, and parent one end to the gun and the other to the mount. The middle could be constrained to both, or set up dynamically.
I found a script the other day that sets up whats basically a jiggle deformer, can be used on points or controls and is super easy and fast.
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20 Feb 2008In this particular case it sounds like a simple IK setup would work fine (unless you want dynamic jiggle)
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Will J 215 posts20 Feb 2008Thanks guys, really helpful as always! I think I can set up an IK spline, but what are CV clusters? I'm still really green with animation
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Claymation 600 posts20 Feb 2008Clusters are just an easy way of controlling points. When you make your IK spline, it creates a curve. Select one or more of the points of the curve, go to Create Deformers > Cluster. Now you can use that cluster as a control for those points, or hook it up to anything else.
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20 Feb 2008you may have seen this one already, http://www.highend3d.com/maya/tutorials ... x/262.html, but that may also work for you (at least in theory
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Will J 215 posts20 Feb 2008Wow thats really neat! Thanks man! I'm really excted too, I'm nearly finished with the modelling now. I only have to finish the rotor head and blades (the rotor head being the most detailed part on the whole chopper!) and then I'll model the cockpit interior, though I may not go into super detail there, I'll just model what I can see on the plastic version as thats a happy medium. Hmm I think i'll apply the gravity driven spline to the ammo feed as that jiggles around alot on the real thing I'm guessing. I'll put up some renders when I'm done for the full effect .
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22 Feb 2008Im excited to see this model, sounds like it's going to be quite something.
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