roller door in lightwave

[T4D]

model our door flat

then draw in a line of skelegons ( all straight enough or the path the door needs to take )

create a morphs that move from one end of the skelegons to the end

goto layout


convert bones,
bend the bones to the path the door will follow
( turn on "use morphed position" in the bones options panel )
and now use the morph to make the mesh follow the bone path

[deano1174]

thanks that should help me out.. is there anyway of exporting .lwo files into flash? i need to make the 3d object interactive (like rotate and zoom) or can you do that in lightwave at all?

[earwax69]

mmm... I do sometimes 360 degrees objects for the web. We dont use a lwo or a real 3D object because the render would be real crap. I render a full 360 degrees, full quality, with a camera parented to a rotating null, 360 frames long, then I render to the desired size quicktime PNG with alpha. The flash programmer take that, put a slider, and voila!

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