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ferris wheel animation help
i have a model of a ferris wheel and im tring to animate it using driven keys any help
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the ferris wheel has a wheel and has the cars where people would sit in i think i need to set the wheel as the driver and the cars as driven but im not sure how to make it rotate i need to have the wheel moving in an anti clockwise direction and the cars moving in a clockwise direction?You'll have to be more specific. We can't do the animation for you.
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Also key the cars 0 to negative 360 using the same driver. I think that should work, if that makes sense. Best thing to do is to experiment. If you have a question about how set driven keys works, feel free to ask.
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thanks i will try it outOkay, if you parent your cars to the wheel, I would create a control to act as your driver. Then key the wheel 0-360 degrees and using the driver control, say 0-360 as a new "wheel rotation" attribute.
Also key the cars 0 to negative 360 using the same driver. I think that should work, if that makes sense. Best thing to do is to experiment. If you have a question about how set driven keys works, feel free to ask.
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i have to use driven keys its for an assignmentI would point constrain the cars to the wheel, then aim constrain them to the ground, instead of using set driven keys.
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this is what i triedOkay, if you parent your cars to the wheel, I would create a control to act as your driver. Then key the wheel 0-360 degrees and using the driver control, say 0-360 as a new "wheel rotation" attribute.
Also key the cars 0 to negative 360 using the same driver. I think that should work, if that makes sense. Best thing to do is to experiment. If you have a question about how set driven keys works, feel free to ask.
select each individual cart and load as driven + select the wheel as driver and both on rotate x
i then pressed key in the driven key window at the first and last frame
i selected the carts on first frame on timeline set a key and rotatation at 0 on last frame set keyframe and rotation at -360
the same was done with the wheel but with +360
when i play the animation there's no movement Im doing something wrong somewhere sorry im a newbie
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I managed to get some movement i have the wheel rotating 360 but the cars stay in the same position and just rotate 360 fixed.this is what i tried
select each individual cart and load as driven + select the wheel as driver and both on rotate x
i then pressed key in the driven key window at the first and last frame
i selected the carts on first frame on timeline set a key and rotatation at 0 on last frame set keyframe and rotation at -360
the same was done with the wheel but with +360
when i play the animation there's no movement Im doing something wrong somewhere sorry im a newbie
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