[Alex Last]

Nevermind, i figured it out!

I basically made the cylinder at the top (which the blades are connected to) into a single object along with the blades. Then I used “select connected” on all the points of the cylinder, then I went to Mesh > Axis Center and made sure that ‘Action’ was set to “Axis to” and Center was set to “Selected Points” then I hit execute. Now when I use the rotate tool, they all turn on that point. Perfect.

Thanks!

[Alex Last]

Thanks!

Now I just need to rotate the blades around the centre node — unfortunately selecting all three blades and just rotating them doesn’t work because they aren’t anchored to that point… any ideas?

I mean if I move them a tiny bit along with the move tool, then rotate them a tiny bit, then make a keyframe, then do that over and over, it kinda works. Just a bit painstaking. It also looks pretty terrible. If only you could designate a curved path or something…. or anchor the blades around something

[Alex Last]

Thanks!!!!

[Alex Last]

never mind i found a solution:

https://vimeo.com/9914196

[Alex Last]

this doesn’t work… i have tried the following:

a1) applied ‘hair collider” to sphere as well as a rigid body dynamics tag (because if I don’t add rigid body, it doesn’t move at all)
b1) created a landscape object, applied the architectural grass material to it. also applied ‘collider body’ tag to the landscape object (because if I don’t, then the sphere just drops straight through)

using this method, the grass is completely unaffected.

i have also tried replacing step (b1) with step (b2)

(b2) created a landscape object, applied the hair material to it. applied ‘collider body’ tag to the landscape object (because if I don’t, then the sphere just drops straight through)

so what am I doing wrong/