Spring in AS7 using physics?

sbtamu · Post by **sbtamu** » Fri Sep 09, 2011 8:21 pm

I have been trying, with little luck, to make this but I just can not seem to figure out how to do it.

Any tips?

Thanks

Stephen

GCharb · Post by **GCharb** » Fri Sep 09, 2011 8:37 pm

Tried rigging it with dynamic bones?

sbtamu · Post by **sbtamu** » Fri Sep 09, 2011 9:13 pm

GCharb wrote:Tried rigging it with dynamic bones?

I sure haven't. I am trying to use all physics to make a machine do work of some kind. I will see if dynamics will work with physics.

Thanks for the tip.

slowtiger · Post by **slowtiger** » Fri Sep 09, 2011 11:43 pm

One way to do it:
Start from the bottom. Create one zigzag line of bones and name them: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6...
Select any odd bone and let its angle be controlled by bone #1 with "2".
Select any even bone and let its angle be controlled by bone #1 with "-2".
Repeat for the other zigzag line.

sbtamu · Post by **sbtamu** » Sat Sep 10, 2011 1:42 am

Thanks GCharb, I tried the dynamics but I can not get it to work well with the falling ball with physics.

Thanks slowtiger, I tried to do it the way you explained but It did not work. I am sure It was the way I set it up was wrong though.

What I am trying to do is use physics and drop a ball on the spring(like the one used in Mario Brothers games) to compress the spring enough to trigger a switch and then bounce back to its original uncompressed state.