Attached Link: http://www.sparkyworld.co.uk/3d10own.htm

Inspired by the towers seen in New York and other US cities, you get to decide is this.. State spying? Public Protection? A quiet place to eat doughnuts? As it's an unrigged poser prop, it comes as 2 models. 1 in "operational" mode and 1 "in transit" version. Plus if you wish to create your own textures, the zip contains coloured templates. If anyone could help by rigging this it would be really appreciated. Sure I could find a few goodies in return :) This isn't the Eagle Sci-Fi Freebie Project mentioned last week. Thats being worked on now and will be seriously detailed, meaning there might not be the usual freebie next weekend, so don't panic! Download (1.65mb) via link above

BTW - It's been pointed out to me that most police logos are copyrighted and not "publicly usable" like NASA and some military stuff is, so theres no "real world" cop logos on this one. You'll have to add your own. Thanks to Mr G and for helping with a licence suitable for Look-A-Like/Fan Arts models.

Thank You we have those all over the parking lots here in South Texas

Thank you!  Dani

Working on a rig. Going to need some ERC, I think!

RFreise - We don't have anythings like these towers, instead here in the UK the culture is to put cameras everywhere. Often on cop vans which usually come with "smile you're on CCTV" stickers - hence the smiley on this freebie. Though the weirdest thing I've seen is inside some of the buses they use in Manchester a video advertising screen alternating time-table info, and mugshots saying "shop a rioter"! Felt like I was in a real life episode of RoboCop:) EB- thanks for that! As well as the ERC think you might need to adjust the length of at least one of the bars to make it work. Thats because I don't know what the bars rotate on at the top by the cab.

We've got cameras as well more and more of'em showing up on light posts and buildings

In fact some of the towers have video survellance capabilities as well for unmanned use or as an aid for evidence

Quote - As well as the ERC think you might need to adjust the length of at least one of the bars to make it work. Thats because I don't know what the bars rotate on at the top by the cab.

I couldn't work out where the pivots ought to be either, or if there was some sort of sliding mechanism involved as well. I faked it using the "up in the air" prop as a guide to where everything should end up. The rig I ended up with involves the two struts moving at slightly different rates, and also some Y and Z translation of the pod as it raises. I have no idea if it's realistic or not, but the movement looks smooth anyway.

There are also dials to rotate all four wheels together, pivot the supports out, and lower the pads so they all touch the ground together. I couldn't work out how to rig the doughnuts so I had to leave those as static props. :D

I won't be able to work on it for most of today, but most of the heavy lifting is done (pun intended). I just have some limit setting, dial hiding and renaming left to do. If it's ok with you, I'll post an add-on CR2 in this thread when I'm done. The rig uses the existing "lowered" geometry and the same materials, so I won't need to distribute anything else.

RFreise - we've got ones here that can "speak" - a operator talks through a speaker. Though I wonder how long before cameras will come with something that can read the NFC/bluetooth on a phone to ID someone. Or maybe even something like mini tasers in city centres. Reckon it wouldn't be that hard to make either. Indeed just playing around with every day techie junk it's possible to make "armed CCTV". Just use a USB rocket launcher, an old webcam/video camera, bit of lego and lot of gaffa tape:) Similar if you mix a media player with IR/motion sensor, a triggertrap and some audio cables to make a switch, you can activate things just by walking past the sensor. Though there is a few seconds lag before firing something like a camera, so the sensor needs to be placed a bit ahead of any device. IR beams can have a wide range as well, so to avoid "misfires", stick the sensor in an fag packet and use a bit of masking tape to narrow the beam. ---------------------- EnglishBob - I think the original might work like the forks on a tractor do. On some images of the real thing there is a small hydraulic strut at the trailer end of the top bar. Which looks like it lifts that bar. But I didn't model that as I recall from helping design one of the models for the P6 disc, getting that to move in time with the top bar would be fiddly. But thats kinda academic really, I'm just really pleased to see you've been kind to rig this, especially as it sounds like it took some time to figure out how to best do it. So I wouldn't call faking it. I couldn't work out how to rig the doughnuts so I had to leave those as static props. Probably because the poser cops ate them all :) No worries about time on this either, what you've done is more than enough. Also no probs with you posting a CR2 either, indeed if you wanna post a full version thats cool with me as well. Not concerned about distribution.

Attached Link: CopSpyPodRig.zip (24KB)

Here's the rig as an add-on CR2, for which you'll need the original download to be installed. I may package the whole thing together at some point, thanks for the offer Mr. S!

Remember that you're being watched, so anybody not having fun with this will be reported to the appropriate authorities. Or if you've been really naughty, inappropriate authorities. :)

Bob and MrSparky, thanks for your great work! :-D

ice work sir, tvm :)

Quote - Here's the rig as an add-on CR2, for which you'll need the original download to be installed. I may package the whole thing together at some point, thanks for the offer Mr. S!

Remember that you're being watched, so anybody not having fun with this will be reported to the appropriate authorities. Or if you've been really naughty, inappropriate authorities. :)

 

Thanks

Or if you've been really naughty, inappropriate authorities. :) LOL. Seriously grand work there Sir! BTW - sent you an email.

Thanks for the thanks, everybody! 

Quote - BTW - sent you an email.

I have it. E-mail is working today. ;-)