objuan
05-05-2005, 06:15 PM
Hola mi hopefully soon to be amigos, just went treking through Costa Rica for almost a month, and wouldn't you know it, I was struck with an image of digital demon snakes.
This is just a very basic mock up of some crazy animations I'd like to do. I want to have several cubic snake creatures slithering around and expanding out of a Qbert like enviroment. I know how to pimp out their modeling and textures, but I would very much like some help on making them move.
Ideally, I would like an animatable curve with the head attached to the end, and dynamic controls on all the links of the body.
I would like universal sliders to control:
the space between links
bank between links
scale of the links
morphing of links
and possibly textures
In a dream world you could easily send waves of these changes down the length of slinkys body.
I'm pretty proficent with LW, but I don't know a lot about sliders, expressions, or animating curves. If someone could point me in the right direction for setting a sytem like this up, I'd be grateful. Better yet, perhaps some good semaritan would like to make a scene with a "dynamic nodes on curve" system allready rigged, and give it out to all those of us who I'm sure could put it to good use.
BTW i'll be breathing on this in the desert until tuesday, so please, take your time...
(How do I attach an image to a post on this forum? In the meantime you can see my ruff idea at this link: http://www.spinquad.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6249 )
This is just a very basic mock up of some crazy animations I'd like to do. I want to have several cubic snake creatures slithering around and expanding out of a Qbert like enviroment. I know how to pimp out their modeling and textures, but I would very much like some help on making them move.
Ideally, I would like an animatable curve with the head attached to the end, and dynamic controls on all the links of the body.
I would like universal sliders to control:
the space between links
bank between links
scale of the links
morphing of links
and possibly textures
In a dream world you could easily send waves of these changes down the length of slinkys body.
I'm pretty proficent with LW, but I don't know a lot about sliders, expressions, or animating curves. If someone could point me in the right direction for setting a sytem like this up, I'd be grateful. Better yet, perhaps some good semaritan would like to make a scene with a "dynamic nodes on curve" system allready rigged, and give it out to all those of us who I'm sure could put it to good use.
BTW i'll be breathing on this in the desert until tuesday, so please, take your time...
(How do I attach an image to a post on this forum? In the meantime you can see my ruff idea at this link: http://www.spinquad.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6249 )