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{-=Jaxx=-}

02-19-2003, 08:38 PM

Im currently working on a short animation and would like to know how to animate the springs which you can see at www.jaxx.8k.com i can animate everything else but the only thing is that the springs are into the sphere like shape and when i rotate the spring it looks wrong as if it is going through a part of the robot if you know what i mean? Maybe if i raise the springs out of the "Sphere-ish" part would work but is there a better way? Like being able to rotate it so it looks like its only bending half way up the spring so it looks asif the bottom is attached to the "sphere" part?

edaddy

02-19-2003, 09:33 PM

hmm i'm not sure if you did this or not but your spring should be bound to object pivots, preferably a dummy- like so ->

{-=Jaxx=-}

02-19-2003, 09:46 PM

Thanks for the reply il do that now, thanks for the pic to even more helpful.

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