Free Friday Tutorial #4: Chain by Duplication Along a Path
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This week we take a look at how you can use Maya’s animation tools in modeling to create a chain, a very useful technique which can save you a lot of time. You’ll learn how to create an individual chain link and a motion path with the CV curve tool, then use Maya’s attach to motion path and create animation snapshot options to duplicate the link along the path with twist to get a realistic looking chain. - Motion Path with CV Curve Tool - Curve Parametrization & Rebuilding Curves - Animation Tools in Modeling - Attach Objects to Motion Path - Duplication & Twist at Individual Key Frames - Animation Snapshot Options Try this one it's a handy tip that might just save you a lot of time. Thanks to Rick (ctbram) for creating the tutorial, Dave |
A useful tool to know, I used this on my tank tread........well done Rick...........dave
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I could have used this when modeling my park! Maybe I'll redo the chain with this technique since its the one thing I didn't really like about my model.
Thanks for this! |
Thanks Rick...great and informative as usual...I finally got to watch it all the way through!!!!
cheers bullet |
Thats a nice trcik. But, don't try this after you isolate the curve and the object to duplicate. It took my 1.5 hours to figure out whats wrong. The next day i opened my project and the duplicates were there ! Ofc no isolation...
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I'm having trouble with this guide. The links on my chain are bunched at the beginning and end - they aren't evenly spaced along the CV curve.
I'm presuming there is something I need to change in the graph editor, but I don't know what. |
Did you rebuild the curve like Rick said?.................dave
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Indeed I did:
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Not really sure what else I must be missing/doing wrong. I've followed the guide word for word so far.
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If it helps, here's a zip of the file
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I think I know what the problem is but I did know how to fix it till I came across this link.............dave
http://forums.cgsociety.org/archive/...t-1048324.html |
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Select the first link then go to animate/graph editor, with the graph editor open select the curve in the graph edit and go to tangents/spline..............dave
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