mrsparky opened this issue on Jan 26, 2014 ยท 15 posts
EnglishBob posted Tue, 28 January 2014 at 4:06 AM
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.