Darkginger opened this issue on Jan 02, 2003 ยท 19 posts
Valandar posted Thu, 02 January 2003 at 2:00 PM
Note that "Point At" has dozens of other uses.. Pistons, for example. Questor's Terminator is a perfect example of this. Let us examine a leg with a piston: The large, outside tube of the piston has a ball and socket joint on the underside of the thigh. The inner "ramrod" has a ball and socket joint on the underside of the calf, near the knee. When setting it up, we make sure it does not "bend" either the thigh or the calf, and then turn off "bend" for these parts, and put their pivots right at the center of the ball and socket, with the terminating center at the end of the piston part. Once that is all set up, we take the outer piston and "point at" the smaller one. This points it at it's "center", the pivot point. We do the reverse with the smaller one. Now, no matter how we twist, bend, or pivot the calf, the piston remains perfectly aligned as if it was one single unit. That is, as long as the inner piston is long enough for th more extremly stretched poses, and doesn't "slip out"... but even then, it's still pointing at the housing.
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