Universal Joint

[Soquili]

Looking good Gidgit. I see you remembered to make the shafts with angles. Mine would simply stay in place and slip, nothing to get a grip on

I've been playing around with animation, and it's a lot harder than I thought.

[gidgit]

Bill... keep at er Bill, you will be kicking butt in no time...

Well, the splines have been fabricated, and one of the yokes has been rotated down, as well to the side... just using axis constraining along with object rotate... of course ya have to set hotspot for rotation center...

Stay tuned

[s.winders]

very nice work there Gidge


Bill you are doing really well,there was no way I could model a joint like that when I was new to C4D....


A quick .mov example of my joint and its rotations.Quick and nasty for small file size.

[s.winders]

Ooh forgot,nice circlips [thumbsup]....I aint doing any though

[gidgit]

hey, thanks Stu...

and whoa... very smooth ani there buddy boy... covered all the criteria of movement very nicely... so [thumbs up] back at ya... good job Stu...

[gidgit]

here's mine... not sure if this will be read by you mac user's or not... if so then great, if not then tell me what I need to do in order for you to be able to read/view this here file...

[Mike Bailey]

Wow, all these U-joints are great.
Gidgit, nice modeling job.
I made a quick animation to illustrate the rotation.

[Grafixman]

Quite a challenge. Sorry I spoke too soon. True, it was harder than I thought. But I learned a lot from this, too. Thanks for the push Mike.

[Soquili]

Wow, some great animations. I've never used the C4D animation features, and finding there is a lot more to it than working with animated gifs. Back to more reading and playing, maybe I'll have a working C4D animation sometime in the forseable furture

[Mike Bailey]

Nice going G-man,

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR> I'm curious why you chose to use Poser to rig this one. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Rigging a model with bones is initially more work but animating a rigged model is rather easy. Poser has nice dials that move the model, I can set the sensitivity to fractions of a degree.

Take your time Bill, once you get the hang of it you can use 3D animation to make the images for Xara animated .gif