Introduction to Maya - Modeling Fundamentals Vol 1
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22-04-2004
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Bicycle...double pivot problem
I have a bike model. It will be animated doing both front and back wheel wheelies.
What I would like to be able to do is to use the back wheel pivot to lift the front of the bike and the front wheel pivot to lift the back of the bike. Also, I would like the pivot for the front wheel to actually move with the front wheel.
I have tried using, hierarchy, parent, point and orientation constraints. All of these, in thier various iterations have failed miserably. We are ending up with double transforms...which seems logical enough.
Any suggestions Maya-nation?
Thanks in advance!
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I know, it sound more complicated thatn it should.
Thanks for the reply.
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By grouping the wheels and then grouping that group you now have two different pivot points you can rotate around.
Group1
Group2
Bicyclewheels
If you move the pivit point of group1 to the middle of the back wheel and the pivot of group2 to the front wheel you will be able to pull a "wheelie" by rotating Group1 and pull an "Endo" by rotating Group2
Moving pivots is done by selecting the move too and pressing INSERT
Have a narley ride dude.
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