Imagine's IK
>> Your flc is perfect. I'm psyched. Thanks a lot.
Dan,
Thanks, glad I came close to portraying what you depicted.
>> How long did you spend on that, start of modeling to completed flc?
Oye….couldn't tell ya. I modelled it very quickly in order to try out the
IK…maybe 10 minutes of creating one rivot, and one piece of metal and cutting
and pasting the rest in with some additional editing to change the length of
some of the armatures.
After that I messed with defining the contraints to the fixed pivot points, and
creating the STATES (key poses) in order to animate it. Then I set up the
animation frames. Say about 20 minutes or so.
But please, don't go by me and my times. I'm very familiar with Imagine and
get around very quickly. However, I am around to help you when you need it
over in GUGRPA as well as here. <g>
The rendering time was minimal…maybe 15-20 minutes for the 40 frame anim…it
was not ray-traced.
IK is available in Imagine 3.0 and on. It is not however in Imagine LT (lite).
-GreG