crazytrain
Hobo
Tyco!
GMax and 3DSMax (And any other modeling program) screenies/renders
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Indian_Railways
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Indian Railways WDM2 work in progress.
This is a HP model which will be used to bake normal map for LP.
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crazytrain
Hobo
Most of the differences are internal, but GP38-2s have an overhang on the rear of the cab, different battery box covers, and a sight glass on one of the long hood doors (short hood forward on the engineers side), to name a few. I noticed the sight glass on mine went missing somehow. Figures..
BTW, the 3 Skunks are GP38AC's to further add to the confusion.
BTW, the 3 Skunks are GP38AC's to further add to the confusion.
daylightrain
Development Purgatory.
Flexible cables for a animated dragline excavator
Hello, today I have a question how to create animated objects changing its length within the animation . I need such a function to get a dragline Northwest Excavator animated. The movement of the excavator and its bucket itself it not the problem.
The Problem is about the cables which pulles and moves the bucket do digg the gravel out of the pit and to load it into open hoppers.
My idea was to create the cables from lines or thin mesh cylinders. But I did not find a way to connect such a mesh object at both sides onto animation dummys. I also found objects called "Protractor" and "Tapes". These seems to make such an animation more easy rather than to da everything with Dummys. But I still dont kow how to organise mesh which is flexible in length. Also I dont have any experiencies how trainz can handle "Protractor" and "Tapes".
If you have any ideas it would be very nice if you could share it.
Thanks in advance!
Your's TUME
Hello, today I have a question how to create animated objects changing its length within the animation . I need such a function to get a dragline Northwest Excavator animated. The movement of the excavator and its bucket itself it not the problem.
The Problem is about the cables which pulles and moves the bucket do digg the gravel out of the pit and to load it into open hoppers.
My idea was to create the cables from lines or thin mesh cylinders. But I did not find a way to connect such a mesh object at both sides onto animation dummys. I also found objects called "Protractor" and "Tapes". These seems to make such an animation more easy rather than to da everything with Dummys. But I still dont kow how to organise mesh which is flexible in length. Also I dont have any experiencies how trainz can handle "Protractor" and "Tapes".
If you have any ideas it would be very nice if you could share it.
Thanks in advance!
Your's TUME
I don't have the explanation off-hand, but I think what you need to use in order to implement that is bones or vertex animations.
https://online.ts2009.com/mediaWiki/index.php/Skeleton
https://online.ts2009.com/mediaWiki/index.php/Skeleton
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dundun92 has the solution, use an armature.
The workflow is shown in the this video:
Tentacle Rig | Let's Build It In Blender
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw30S-Oepyo
Create a straight cable then add the armature with the IK bone at the end (1). Keep in mind that you can only change location (2), by selecting the whole armature, and rotation (3) , by selecting the IK bone. Since you cannot change the scale, that is the length of the cable, you will have to resort to some trickery. At the winch end have the cable disappear (4). You could move it behind the rig or down underground. You could also have two cables and have one slide into the other. Use whatever works.
Cayden
Hello Cayden, thank you very much for your help. As am not familiar with blender, I continued using gmax. Eventually I could get it managed to organize one cable in several different parts moving along the same axis like a teleskope divice. This of course required a lot of "b.r.dummy" objects and some of it within an extra animation. To get the cable parts moving at the same axe I used the function "look at constraint" quite a lot
Your's TUME
Your's TUME
Well its noon and it is still -24 °C (went down into the -30 °C’s again last night) so while hibernating it is a good time to work on Trainz.
I reactivated a model I started back in 2017. I had finished what I hope is the hardest part, animating the handle and gears of the handcar. The angle of the connecting rod was a challenge. Presently working on animating the man. Then will finish off turning the handcar into an animated “locomotive” and will texture the man and the car.
Cayden
I reactivated a model I started back in 2017. I had finished what I hope is the hardest part, animating the handle and gears of the handcar. The angle of the connecting rod was a challenge. Presently working on animating the man. Then will finish off turning the handcar into an animated “locomotive” and will texture the man and the car.
Cayden
Photos of the SL X60 that I commissioned Trainfan1055 (janathan):
More info available here: Trainfan1055 - YouTube
More info available here: Trainfan1055 - YouTube
Is that the finished model? Or is that the reference?
