Motor Rigging Turorial??

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Does anyone know of a tutorial that goes over the rigging of a motor; basically the crank, rod, and piston? I know there are ways to rig this thing so that all you need to do is spin the crank to get all of the pistons to fire.

I have checked out Elf’s rigging/wire parameter tutorials and a few others but just can’t get it all rigged up to work correctly :frowning:

http://www.elfpro3d.com/indexviz.html

If anyone is up to the challenge (probably something simple to most rigging folks out there) and/or would like to help out let me know and I will send you a link to the motor.

Thanx in advance,

Brian

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ill give it a go. shouldnt be too hard

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wasnt tooooo hard i guess
here is my best guess

http://www.elfpro3d.com/pistons.avi
http://www.elfpro3d.com/pistons.max

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i could probably even get the valves and cams working all off of the 1 dummy

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Elf is the BOMB!!

Elf - You’re the BOMB!!! I don’t know what the hell my problem is, guess just inexperience at rigging :frowning: Everything you have here is PERFECT, but I can’t seem to figure out how you have it all wired/rigged up. I can see how you have it all linked, but what is the correct way to see the wire parameters? It doesn’t look like any Animation Constraints are used in this, correct?

Thanks again!!!

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no real wiring, just linking really. and a look at controler

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would you need a video tutorial to go along with this?

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A video tutorial would be SUPER HELPFUL!!!

Thanks a bunch!

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i dont know why but when i put on cam studio it screws up alot of stuff on my computer which doesnt end even with an uninstall and usually leads to a reformat.

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Are you using the old 2.0 version or the newer 2.01 version? The newer 2.01 version has less features and is crappy apparently. Stick to the 2.0 version.

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camtasia studio 6

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Camtasia 6 is messing up your computer? Would have figured it was CamStudio, freebie and open source…

Always the simple things that turn into a complicated mess :frowning:

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i dont know if its camtasia or not but twice now on installing it my computer went wonky

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No good :frowning: Would say give CamStudio a try but seems like you’re playing with fire on that PC.

How about a simple text tutorial? Think I have it almost figured out but parts keep going wacky when I put on Look At controllers.