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  • V shaped rigged engine pistons

    Posted by Seth Olson on March 23, 2015 at 9:35 pm

    I am trying to constrain a piston head to move only up and down in the shaft. I have constrain to position Y only (P.Y), and that works great, but i need to rotate the whole system to a 45 degree angle.

    Is there a track that i could lock the piston head to? or maybe change the constraint space to object rather than global? Suggestions? Thanks!

    Brian Jones replied 11 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Brian Jones

    March 24, 2015 at 6:39 pm

    how is it constructed? Can you post the scene (or enough of it to illustrate)?

  • Seth Olson

    March 24, 2015 at 7:10 pm
  • Brian Jones

    March 24, 2015 at 9:33 pm

    the quickest way is to make an Instance of the workingPiston group and rotate that. I would have constructed the group a bit differently but haven’t had time to test if the constraints will work any better with a slightly different construction… if I find anything that works (other than the Instance, which does work) I’ll reply again

  • Brian Jones

    March 24, 2015 at 10:06 pm

    this way works. 8681_detailedpistontrial.c4d.zip

    it’s an R16 file but that opens in 14

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