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Re: Using Blender to animate Ldraw models
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lugnet.cad
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Sun, 2 Jul 2006 03:13:21 GMT
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do a search for Greybeards video tutorials. they're free and they helped
me a ton in animating my robotic creations...
Brian Durney wrote:
> Hello,
> I have been working on using Blender to animate Ldraw models. Using Yann
> Vernier's import scripts and suggestions, and with additional suggestions from
> Carsten Mueller, I have been able to import models, but I am seeing a few
> strange things and am having some problems with armatures and animations. I am
> currently using Blender 2.41, but a lot of the documentation I read refers to
> 2.3x versions.
>
> With the import scripts, when I import an Ldraw model, the figure seems to be
> very large and has a different orientation. The top view in Blender shows the
> back of the model. I have been scaling and rotating the models, but then when I
> try to work with armatures I sometimes get parts of a minifig that lose those
> transformations and don't fit with the rest of the body. I suppose this could
> be a left-handed versus right-handed coordinate system issue.
>
> The main problem I am having, though, has to do with controlling parts of the
> minifig with bones in the armature. What I have been trying to do is start out
> with something simple and add a bone to a leg. I read about making a vertex
> group with the same name as the bone that it goes with, but haven't been able to
> get the connection right. When I go into Pose Mode and rotate the leg bone, the
> mesh for the leg doesn't go with it.
>
> I looked at Carsten Mueller's example of NLA for a minifig, which is helpful,
> but I'm not sure how he made it. In particular, I'm not sure how he made the
> vertex groups. In his post he mentioned a "joined mifi-mesh", but I'm not sure
> how the meshes for the Ldraw parts were joined, or how the vertex groups were
> created.
>
> I've looked at the manual and the Noob to Pro wiki book, but haven't found them
> very helpful. If Carsten or Yann or anyone else has some suggestions I would
> appreciate it.
> Thanks,
> Brian Durney
>
>
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