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anthonymcgrath

01-10-2003, 10:56 AM

Does anyone have any good approaches to animating a centipede/millipede/lots of legs thingy.

My basic thoughts on it are to create the body, then create a leg seperately - animate the leg then offset the animation proceduraly somehow but to be honest I haven't a sodding clue on how to do it all!
I'm too used to creating humanoid/quadrapedal characters so this one has me proper stumped.

thanks in advance for any advice you can give.
ant
newcastle
uk

seb4d

01-10-2003, 12:00 PM

maybe you could create some expressions to control the movement of the legs based on the movement of a reference leg...
it's just an idea ;)

Judge Drury

01-10-2003, 12:04 PM

This may be worth a shot, since it has a millipede setup as one of the presets! --> Skeletonworks! (http://www.aliaswavefront.com/en/Community/Learn/how_tos/animation_character/skeletonWorks/) :buttrock:

The Alias/Wavefront site is full of great little things like this, but takes a bit of ratting around to find them...

anthonymcgrath

01-14-2003, 10:28 AM

I'll have a shot with the skel works as soon as I can.

If anyone can suggest any other ideas, that'd be great. think attack of the clones scene with those squirmy knackers trying to kill the senator and you'll have a good idea of what I'm after.

anthonymcgrath

01-17-2003, 02:36 PM

right, had a snout over the method in skelworx and it seems like it would work but the ik creation aint doing what I'd expect. anyone any other methods?

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