[Brendan Watts]

Thanks Randy. Is there anyway you could post a demo file so I can see how you rigged it up? If you cant, thank you very much for humoring me thus far!

Kind regards
Brendan Watts

[Brendan Watts]

Thanks Lennart. Unfortunatey I’m running version 9.5. Damn.

[Brendan Watts]

Thanks Randy. I don’t think that really solves my problem though – your method (as I understand it) allows you to have control over the rotation of the front and back of the phone but does not allow you to keep the ends of the phone glued to the ground, that is to say, the front of the phone has to stay where it is on the ground while the other part moves up to it.

My IK test worked? When I play it out the initial position mysteriously changes…

Ah well – thank you very much for your time. I appreciate it.

[Brendan Watts]

Thanks so much for your reply Randy. I’m in the process of testing your free form deformation suggestion.

Attached is an IK test I did with primitives and the final model of my mobile phone which I hope to get walking.

Cheers!

IK test:
https://homepage.mac.com/WebObjects/FileSharing.woa/wa/flipwalktest3.c4d.c4d-zip.zip?a=downloadFile&user=brendanwatts&path=.Public/C4D/flipwalktest3.c4d

Phone model (untextured):
https://homepage.mac.com/WebObjects/FileSharing.woa/wa/B30_-_Back_Body28.c4d.c4d-zip.zip?a=downloadFile&user=brendanwatts&path=.Public/C4D/B30%20-%20Back%20Body28.c4d

[Brendan Watts]

Thanks Graham – didn’t know about the pick whip but it works great.

I have no idea why the other method wont work. Ahh well.

Thanks again,
CB

[Brendan Watts]

Cheers randy,

I’ve done what you said and it renders in the viewer… how do I get a file that I can use in Final Cut? does C4D automatically save the render somewhere?

Forgive me – I know these are probably very silly questions.
CP.