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In lugnet.announce, Philippe Hurbain wrote:
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This post pushed me to complete the
hard work of Donal Sutter and Orion Pobursky and model the missing parts of
Technic Figure.
Posing the figure may be quite tricky, but thanks to the advanced rotations
features of LeoCAD, it’s manageable, see the examples below.
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This is fantastic! Thanks Philo. I anticipate that a lot more renders are
coming in my future.
Regarding posing, it would be great if we had an MLCAD “extra” like the Minifig
Generator which would allow simple posing. I’m not smart enough to write one,
but I’m sure somebody is. I know the demand for Technic figure posing is FAR
less than the demands for minifig though, so it may not be worth somebody’s
time, especially since the Technic fig is not even made any more.
Without a generator, I imagine a very nested MPD file which allow all the arm
and leg posing. I could set up a “generic” file with the right rotation points
which could then be posed.
A few questions:
Accesories: I know there are models of the skis and ski pole. What about the
helmet and visor? Are these available? Torso’s: There are many different
printed designs for the torso. I see the “dolphin” torso in your example. What
would be the best way to handle the others (assuming anyone will do them at
all)? Would we make “stickers” to put on a blank torso or would we have a
different torso part number for each design? Cyber: Besides the different
colors of hair, there is also the “cyber”..... helmet..... thing. Any plans for
that? Same for the arms. I’m not trying to be greedy, I’m just excited about
the possibilities! 
Thanks again Philo,
Eric
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Regarding posing, it would be great if we had an MLCAD “extra” like the
Minifig Generator which would allow simple posing. I’m not smart enough to
write one, but I’m sure somebody is. I know the demand for Technic figure
posing is FAR less than the demands for minifig though, so it may not be
worth somebody’s time, especially since the Technic fig is not even made any
more.
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A true Technic figure generator would be great indeed. While the maths are not
very hard, I’m not up to the task when it comes to user interface... In the
meantime, LeoCad does a great job thanks to its rotations around local axis. You
still have to do numerous selections of (say) arm segments, but you may easily
adjust their rotation.
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Without a generator, I imagine a very nested MPD file which allow all the arm
and leg posing. I could set up a “generic” file with the right rotation
points which could then be posed.
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Not sure to understand what you mean, since many rotation points move while you
pose segments higher in the hierarchy.
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A few questions:
Accesories: I know there are models of the skis and ski pole. What about
the helmet and visor?
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I am working on helmet/visor. Also missing is the diving equipment of set
8250... these are quite complex...
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Are these available? Torso’s: There are many
different printed designs for the torso. I see the “dolphin” torso in your
example. What would be the best way to handle the others (assuming anyone
will do them at all)? Would we make “stickers” to put on a blank torso or
would we have a different torso part number for each design?
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Definitely a torso per pattern. There is a subpart defining the bulk of torso.
creating pattern is easy (albeit tedious) with Quad2dat/Slicerpro.
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Cyber: Besides
the different colors of hair, there is also the “cyber”..... helmet.....
thing. Any plans for that? Same for the arms. I’m not trying to be greedy,
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Again, feasible, but tough job!
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I’m just excited about the possibilities!
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;o)
Philo
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A true Technic figure generator would be great indeed. While the maths are
not very hard, I’m not up to the task when it comes to user interface... In
the meantime, LeoCad does a great job thanks to its rotations around local
axis. You still have to do numerous selections of (say) arm segments, but you
may easily adjust their rotation.
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I don’t think it would be that hard to modify my LDDP minifig extension to
include Technic figs.
-Orion
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> Without a generator, I imagine a very nested MPD file which allow all the arm
> and leg posing. I could set up a "generic" file with the right rotation
> points which could then be posed.
Here is such a file, sent to me by J.-C. Tchang:
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Philo/TechFigure/taf_jct.mpd
and a posed figure, using this file:
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Philo/TechFigure/taf_jct_pos1.mpd
Philo
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