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Re: help! trying to pose mini-fig arms
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Thu, 16 Dec 1999 21:23:00 GMT
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Franklin W. Cain <fwcain@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:FMqxx1.8I3@lugnet.com...
> I'm trying to accomplish two separate effects:
>
> #1)
> I'm trying to pose the arms of a mini-fig "DAT" file
> so that its arms are "straight out (forward)"
> instead of "hanging normally", such that a rod/antenna
> being held in either of its hands would be perpendicular
> to the "ground" and parallel with the mini-fig's body.
>
> #2)
> I'm also trying to rotate another mini-fig's hands
> along the central axis of the hand --
> WITHOUT moving its arms --
> such that the mini-fig will be able to hold
> a rod/antenna parallel to the "ground"
> and perpendicular to the mini-fig's body.
>
> Please help!
Since you are having such a hard time with LDLite, may I offer suggestions
for the "old fashioned" way of doing this in LEdit and LDAO. The same thing
should probably work in MLCad, too, but I don't know the actual commands.
Start with the minifig shortcut file, and use LDAO to inline it. Then open
the file in LEdit, pgdown to the arm piece, then set the center of rotation
with /tc. To have the hand hold a verticle rod, turn the arm -45 degrees on
the x-axis with /tx-45. Then pgdown to the hand on the same arm, and repeat
the /tx-45.
To have the hand hold a horizontal rod, use /tx45 to rotate the arm and hand
45 degrees on the x-axis.
The key to this is setting the center of rotation with /tc. Any part you
rotate after that will rotate around that center, until you set the center of
rotation again.
Hope this helps.
-John Van
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