gmax animation help!!!!!

[class1987]

does anybody know how to work the animation feature in gmax because i want to animation my wheels and not sure how the animation feature works

thanks

 

[leeferr]

I would look at these tutorials. The one on the locomotive fan animation is a good place to start on setting up animation.
Mike
Edit: sorry, wrong link. I'll find the correct link and post.
try this one

http://www.worldoftrainz.com/

 

[bnsf50]

This one at World of trainz is a good one. look at the truck tutorial.
http://www.worldoftrainz.com/Pages/Tutorials.htm#TRS2006

Ha Ha we both posted that at the same time Leefer. Must be an excellent tutorial.

 

[class1987]

thanks alot guys bet its so easy once you know how to do it :hehe:
(always something simple when you cant fathum sumething out init lmao)

 

[johnwhelan]

does anybody know how to work the animation feature in gmax because i want to animation my wheels and not sure how the animation feature works

thanks

Paul Hobbs has a GMAX macro for wheels just feed in the numbers. His tutorials are fairly good as well.

Cheerio John

 

[leeferr]

thanks alot guys bet its so easy once you know how to do it :hehe:
(always something simple when you cant fathum sumething out init lmao)

A simple wheelset / bogie animation is fairly simple. If you're wanting to do some steam bogie / valve gear animation, then the process becomes a little more complicated, but can be mastered with a little bit of practice.
Good luck
Mike

 

[class1987]

im doing rollingstock bogeys
the JHA ELC truck im working on at the moment
ive had a look at the worldoftrainz tutorial site but that isn't the one that im after i need a bogey animation tutorial

 

[leeferr]

the setup and the animation of the bogeys is the same process. If you'd like, you can send me the gmax file and I can do the animation for you, but I wouldn't be able to wok on it until tomorrow night. I've sent you a PM with my email if you want to send it to me.
Mike

 

[Davido]

A movie may help

I did a little movie of how I animate a bogey to help a guy out a while ago.
There's no commentary but if you follow the movie you may get the gist of it.
You can download it here (link removed).....you'll need winrar to unpack it.

It may be of help.
Davido

 

[Johnk]

Just about every gmaz tutorial known to man is listed in my directory (link below). You will need to find your way to Tutorials/gMax.

Hope you enjoy them.

 

[class1987]

thanks leeferr
il send you the my bogey later once you've done it can you tell me what you did so i can do it myself in the future

thanks

 

[leeferr]

I've sent the animated file back to you with an explanation of how I did it. I hope it helps.
Mike

 

[class1987]

ive sent you an email of my updated bogey where do i put the links to the dummy boxes to get the animation to work
it said nothing about that on the tutorial you gave me???

 

[leeferr]

ive sent you an email of my updated bogey where do i put the links to the dummy boxes to get the animation to work
it said nothing about that on the tutorial you gave me???

I sent you an email, but for reference here, your element links should look like this. It's in the third screenshot of the tutorial that I sent you

b.r.main
b.r.axle02
cylinder02
b.r.axle03
cylinder03


Mike

Edit, for some reason, the listing above is not indenting properly, so as an exlanation,
b.r.axle02 is linked to b.r.main
cylinder02 is linked to b.r.axle02
b.r.axle03 is linked to b.r.main
cylinder03 is linked to b.r.axle03

 

[class1987]

thanks alot mike
il sort it out tomorrow
after college (Y)