Animate train wheels
Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 4:34 am
I'm going to be animating a train and was wondering- is there a way to bone-rig the wheels to come up with a motion similar to this:
http://toons.artie.com/gifs/arg-newtrain-crop.gif
See the two wheels that are connected by the "bar"- is there a way to rig that with bones where the bar stays attached to both wheels? Using angle control bones perhaps? On my train, the wheels may end up being the same size if that will work better- doesn't really matter to me. I just want to be able to turn one wheel and everything else will follow. Is it possible?
http://toons.artie.com/gifs/arg-newtrain-crop.gif
See the two wheels that are connected by the "bar"- is there a way to rig that with bones where the bar stays attached to both wheels? Using angle control bones perhaps? On my train, the wheels may end up being the same size if that will work better- doesn't really matter to me. I just want to be able to turn one wheel and everything else will follow. Is it possible?