Forum - Tips & Tricks - Wheels animation tricks - Messages http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic6227-wheels-animation-tricks.aspx Forum - Tips & Tricks - Wheels animation tricks - Messages en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Jitbit AspNetForum Mon, 27 Feb 2017 00:40:18 GMT Mon, 27 Feb 2017 00:40:18 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic6227-wheels-animation-tricks.aspx Message from PatMarrNC ikes wrote:
PatMarrNC wrote:
I don't understand how you unwrapped the round shape into a rectangular shape that could be scrolled sideways... is that a setting in Blender?

(I understand how to make the tread part rectangular, it's the wheel's hub that remains a mystery to me...
edited by PatMarrNC on 26/02/2017


Very nice thinking out of the box Rod! Good find!

Pat, if I understand correctly you need to make seams like the lines in this image if that is your 3d wheel object. The straight lines out from the center are the two short sides of the rectangle like seen on the right. The inner seam becomes the top and the outer seam the bottom.

thanks Ikes.. that's a very good way of explaining the procedure! Not what I originally imagined, but certainly better than what I would have tried on my own!]]> Mon, 27 Feb 2017 00:40:18 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic6227-wheels-animation-tricks.aspx Message from PatMarrNC
I think I understand now that I'll have to manually convert the circular UV to a rectangle... (I never would have thought of that in a million years!)

I experimented with your pigeon wing animation idea and tried to use it to animate the legs of a quadraped, but I must not be creating the right file format... it almost works, but I don't get a good solid texture like yours. At first I wondered if my computer can't handle the overhead; But your pigeons work on my computer, so it must not be the computer. Must be my ongoing inability to create an AVI that plays in Muvizu...

(added to the WIKI page "USER CREATED TUTORIALS")

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edited by PatMarrNC on 27/02/2017]]> Mon, 27 Feb 2017 00:35:46 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic6227-wheels-animation-tricks.aspx Message from Rodrisilva The end result is here:


edited by Rodrisilva on 27/02/2017]]> Sun, 26 Feb 2017 23:31:09 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic6227-wheels-animation-tricks.aspx Message from Rodrisilva PatMarrNC wrote:
I don't understand how you unwrapped the round shape into a rectangular shape that could be scrolled sideways... is that a setting in Blender?

(I understand how to make the tread part rectangular, it's the wheel's hub that remains a mystery to me...
edited by PatMarrNC on 26/02/2017



No special setting in Blender. All hand made. The trick is to have a small discrete circle in the center. See pictures below.
Seams are in red. The rectangular shape has been perfected by hand.


]]> Sun, 26 Feb 2017 23:19:46 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic6227-wheels-animation-tricks.aspx Message from ikes PatMarrNC wrote:
I don't understand how you unwrapped the round shape into a rectangular shape that could be scrolled sideways... is that a setting in Blender?

(I understand how to make the tread part rectangular, it's the wheel's hub that remains a mystery to me...
edited by PatMarrNC on 26/02/2017


Very nice thinking out of the box Rod! Good find!

Pat, if I understand correctly you need to make seams like the lines in this image if that is your 3d wheel object. The straight lines out from the center are the two short sides of the rectangle like seen on the right. The inner seam becomes the top and the outer seam the bottom.
]]> Sun, 26 Feb 2017 23:12:08 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic6227-wheels-animation-tricks.aspx Message from Speedking5 Sun, 26 Feb 2017 22:31:32 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic6227-wheels-animation-tricks.aspx Message from PatMarrNC
(I understand how to make the tread part rectangular, it's the wheel's hub that remains a mystery to me...
edited by PatMarrNC on 26/02/2017]]> Sun, 26 Feb 2017 16:32:44 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic6227-wheels-animation-tricks.aspx Message from ukBerty Sun, 26 Feb 2017 07:15:52 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic6227-wheels-animation-tricks.aspx Message from PatMarrNC
(I just added this to the WIKI on the USER CREATED TUTORIALS page)

I especially like the FLEXIBILITY This approach gives the director... you can programmatically change the speed of rotation as the car changes gears! Your other solution would require a separate video for each speed... but this approach doesn't require the overhead of any video at all!

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edited by PatMarrNC on 26/02/2017]]> Sun, 26 Feb 2017 00:24:54 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic6227-wheels-animation-tricks.aspx Message from Rodrisilva
Some time ago I revealed my personal approach to bypass muvizu limitation on wheels animation. As many of you know the trick was a sort of simulation using animated textures.
Today I present you a more flexible way of doing wheels animation without the need of AVI file or any other kind of movie.

The tuto is on my youtube channel and soon in Muvizu gallery:

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