???? - Can you add a Taper dial to a Prop?

dlfurman ( ) posted Mon, 19 November 2007 at 9:04 PM · edited Mon, 25 November 2024 at 9:07 AM

or is this just for CHARACTERS?

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ockham ( ) posted Mon, 19 November 2007 at 9:27 PM

Yes, you can. The result doesn't always look the way you think it
should, but it does taper in the chosen direction.

I remember the original P4.0 props actually contained taper
dials that were hidden. Looking now at my P4PP, I don't
see any taper, so maybe I'm remembering falsely!

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ockham ( ) posted Mon, 19 November 2007 at 9:44 PM

Looked back on P4.0, and didn't find any of those props with built-in taper dials. Guess those must have been non-standard.

At any rate, just to prove the point, here's a P7 cylinder with a
TaperY paragraph pasted from a figure.

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dlfurman ( ) posted Mon, 19 November 2007 at 11:28 PM

Thanks!
Where'd you grab the info from? Leg? Arm?

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ockham ( ) posted Mon, 19 November 2007 at 11:31 PM · edited Mon, 19 November 2007 at 11:32 PM

It was from an inanimate figure. I don't think it really matters
where it's from ... the lines are pretty much the standard
boilerplate for any parameter.

        taperY taperY
            {
            name taperY
            initValue 0
            hidden 0
            forceLimits 0
            min -100000
            max 100000
            trackingScale 0.04
            keys
                {
                static 0
                k 0 0
                }
            interpStyleLocked 0
            }

For the other directions, just change taperY to taperX or taperZ.

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