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# 1 15-07-2003 , 12:08 PM
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Antenna nodding

Hi there,

I guess this is kind of trivial but I can't get it right ... I have a robot character walking and want to add a natural looking antenna nodding as he walks along. OK, I can give it some bones and keyframe it, but is there a way to use dynamics for it? Softbody maybe?

Any help is appreciated and I will post the result afterwards user added image
 
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# 2 16-07-2003 , 10:33 AM
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you name it - softbody is the way to go if you ask me. but you have to paint the weights - the default weights are likely to look not like an antenna. and possibly adding springs to your soft body, so it stays stiff and connected ..
 
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# 3 16-07-2003 , 11:41 AM
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Pretty hard to control if you have a detailed geometry with all the resulting particles and springs ... but I found a way: I create a rough approximation of my antenna, make it a soft body (no springs) and use the soft body as a smooth proxy for the real antenna. If I animate the original (non soft, non smoothed) object, the smoothed geometry does pretty much what I want.

Thanks duck user added image
 
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