CGTalk - Animated Iris...

cdinic

07-28-2002, 04:14 PM

I am haveing a good deal of troubling trying to build a working iris. I have an arry of triangles and I want all of them to rotate in unison. I tried wiring but MAX keeps crashing... prolly cause I don't know what I am doing. Is there a simple script I could write? or a simple means of instancing wiring paramaters when I array.

Thanks!

-Chris

jonaz.dk

07-28-2002, 05:39 PM

think I found a solution..

wire each triangels rotation to the rotation of the triangle next to it.. all the way around.. that seems to work.

too bad the multiwiring is crappy.. well well..
disreet will never learns..

guess we are not talking organic iris here.. I've got fair solution to such one as well..

gundog

07-28-2002, 09:07 PM

change one of the blades rotation control to an orient constraint and choose another blade as an orientation target. make sure you have 'keep initial offset' checked. now just copy and paste that controller onto all the other blades in the track view.

cdinic

07-28-2002, 10:33 PM

both worked!

thanks guys

-Chris

Oderbang

05-15-2005, 07:11 PM

on the subject of irises does any one know of a tut for 3ds max 7 im trying to make an iris for the emerg hatch on the famous stargate SG-1 program on tv im a really noob and need well a step by step tut on how to do it.

iv been searching google and yahoo for about 2 weeks lol and had only a light wave tut well source files ...if anyone has a rig i could download that would be great ...my email is hendersond2004@hotmail.com

ps nice job you do here at CGtalk

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