CGTalk - making a bike chain

mihkeltt

10-04-2003, 09:28 PM

anyone have an idea, how to make a bike chain and maybe even animate it when the sprocket rotates? i know that much that i'll have to model all the pieces of the chain and align them to the path but they are all not the same so how do i get them aligned one after another so that no similar ones are side by side. i hope i made myself clear. anyways, here's a picture too...
http://www.hot.ee/mihkeltt/chainsample.jpg

all ideas are welcome. anything to do with xpresso or smth?

so far i've managed to build most of the parts:
http://www.hot.ee/mihkeltt/ratas001.jpg

JamesMK

10-04-2003, 09:36 PM

Maybe this could get you started: http://www.maxoncomputer.com/tutorial_detail.asp?tutorialID=256&site=

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