GMax help for a steam newbie
Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 1:23 am
Hi everyone,
First of all, please accept my apologies if my query has already been covered elsewhere! I did a search but not much appeared.
Having been a diesel/electric nutter for years, I'm now getting into the steam thing. I've been trying to make a basic model of my 'Hornby' Class 0F 0-4-0. The only problem is -
How do I animate the 'con-rods',etc?
Basing my animation on a 'Trainz' tutorial, I used a 'Look At' constraint with the con-rods 'looking' at the pistons, which works fine in GMax, but when I export the model, only the coupling rods between the wheels rotate properly when I look at the model in 'Shapeviewer'!
I'm probably doing something wrong which is blindingly obvious, as animations work fine on my diesel models (including rods), but any help would be gratefully received, before I'm driven (even further) to drink!
Cheers, take care,
Stig
First of all, please accept my apologies if my query has already been covered elsewhere! I did a search but not much appeared.
Having been a diesel/electric nutter for years, I'm now getting into the steam thing. I've been trying to make a basic model of my 'Hornby' Class 0F 0-4-0. The only problem is -
How do I animate the 'con-rods',etc?
Basing my animation on a 'Trainz' tutorial, I used a 'Look At' constraint with the con-rods 'looking' at the pistons, which works fine in GMax, but when I export the model, only the coupling rods between the wheels rotate properly when I look at the model in 'Shapeviewer'!
I'm probably doing something wrong which is blindingly obvious, as animations work fine on my diesel models (including rods), but any help would be gratefully received, before I'm driven (even further) to drink!
Cheers, take care,
Stig
