Gear Inspiration from Rik

In another thread, Rik created some cool gears and then later was talked into animating them to great effect.

Inspired by this, I decided to try some gears in Blender...

http://www.jamesalexander.de/Gears.gif

Peace

James

Cool, James !

Glad you liked it, Guy

At first, I tried it without the bolts spinning, but liked it better with...

To get the cloudy texture, I created a sphere, selected all vertices below the "equator" and deleted them, leaving a hemisphere. I then sphere-mapped a sky texture onto the hemisphere and surrounded the scene with it. It made the image much more interesting (imo) than just reflecting some sky blend.

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James

That really came off nice James.=D>=D>

Thanks, Larry

It was fun to make! The whole animation is only 30 frames...

James

That came out really well, and the sky dome effect is awesome. I have one question: how do you get blender to display the sky on the inside of the hemisphere? would it not be mapped to the outside?(ok I know that's actually 2 questions ;)) )

Hello Frances,

Thank you very much for the nice comments!

Re: Image on the inside of hemisphere

If you are in the Blender Renderer (ie. not the Blender Game Engine), then all faces should be double-sided. If you look from the outside or the inside, one should see the same material/texture.

When you look from inside the hemisphere is it gone?

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James