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Offline Havock

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need help on modelling tank treads.
since quite some people use truespace here, i might just have a good chance here :p

how do I model tank treads in truespace?
until i can make decent treads, that tank i made will remain a hovertank instead of a normal tank :p

THIS hovertank

 

Offline Stryke 9

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need help on modelling tank treads.
You can do IK linking, yes? Just make a long line of simple tread links, connect 'em and shape 'em the way you want. Doesn't animate unless you really wanna go in every frame and push the objects into shape, but animating tank treads via geometry is bloody impossible with any software I've seen anyway.

 

Offline Nico

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need help on modelling tank treads.
mmh? It's rather easy with max, you animate them along a spline, and it's the spline you deform to follow the ground shape. I' pretty sure most aniamtion packages can do the same anyway.
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Offline Havock

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need help on modelling tank treads.
i'll try IK linking
if i can find out how the bloody thing works

 

Offline karajorma

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need help on modelling tank treads.
*Looks at Singh's comic and this thread* Why do I get a sudden feeling I'm not giving out enough work on the MG internal :D

Seriously though. Lets have a look at what you have so far. :)
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Offline Havock

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need help on modelling tank treads.
IK linking didn't get me any wiser, i just used collision detecting to fir the tread-pieces in place, a bit tedious, but if you get the hang of it it's just copy-move-repeat, if necessary rotate around wheel.
here are the pics with treads, and it's up to you guys to figure out what vehicle i used for example :p







it was really rainy here for the past days, and now it's worse.
moddeling kills time.

 

Offline Anaz

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need help on modelling tank treads.
reminds me of one of the WH40K space marine tanks...
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Offline Taristin

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need help on modelling tank treads.
Can someone tell me why a hovertank needs treads?
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Offline Nico

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Originally posted by Anaz
reminds me of one of the WH40K space marine tanks...


Without a doubt :p (tho it's IG, not space marines )
that's the dual plasma shadowsword or I don't know my 40k anymore :p
edit: it's called a stormblade, btw ( Ryza shadowsword varient, according to forgeworld ):
« Last Edit: July 19, 2004, 03:35:03 am by 83 »
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Offline Nico

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Originally posted by Raa
Can someone tell me why a hovertank needs treads?


I can somehow answer: you didn't read the thread ( bwhahaha, the thread. Herm, whatever ).
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Offline Havock

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need help on modelling tank treads.
i used that as an example, yes.