Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Animated Tank Treads - How?

hamiltonpl opened this issue on Oct 20, 2016 ยท 17 posts


Allstereo posted Thu, 27 October 2016 at 9:12 PM

Hello HamiltonPL,

I think that you cannot use as such the model in the tutorial as a basis for your design. For me, the simple approach is to model the track in Blender taking care to define one group for each thread element of the track. To facilitate the rigging in Poser, it is better to model an unwrapped model of the track. You import the object file (Wavefront format) in Poser and you create a figure (Set up room) with each group assigned to a bone. Now, you will be able to bend the track as you want to have the original position of the track and the one step forward position (morph version). To create the morph version, you export the the modified track as a Wavefront object and after import the same as a morph target.

Take a look to my folding paper model in the tutorial (Section on SEQUENTIAL ROTATION, p 17). The unwrapped version of your track is like the form of the top upper left part of the figure 15, the morph version is like the the hexagonal form in the lower right part of the figure. Hope that you understand my explanation. I don't know your level of experience with Poser.

Allstereo