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AlienPrey
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Hi am after some advice.
I need to model the opening of a parachute in my DBPro application but not sure on how to approach it.
I have milkshape but from my understanding a skeleton is required in order to animate and I don't think that would work very well.
Have also thought about creating an open parachute model and then modifying it using DBPro scale commands. Again not sure if this is the way to do it.
Also how to do the rigging lines connecting my parachute model to my parachutist model? DBPro doesn't seem to have a 3D line command so am unclear how to do it
Any help appreciated
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Using bones will help you. Here is a little parachute i made to demonstrate. Firstly i rigged the paractute along the middle with bones. Then i folded it up and scaled it to fit inside the pack. I then scaled it to its original size and unfolded it by animating the bones. hope this helps.




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John H
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Posted: 2nd Oct 2005 17:04
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Biggadd thats really good


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Posted: 2nd Oct 2005 17:17
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Why thankyou.


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Sod modelling it. Just let some basic cloth physics do the animation for you.. it's pretty simple.

That's what I'd do in Maya anyways. Leave it to the dynamics engine to fill it with wind as it fell, if it's anchored then bam! you have your animation.

Newton should do this really nicely.

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that would eat into the proccessor though. Animation would make the game quicker. Having the CPU calculate the effect on cloth due to wind would make the FPS drop.


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Peter H
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Posted: 2nd Oct 2005 23:19
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or if you have the DBPro expansion pack (the cloth one) then you could use that instead of newton

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BIGGADD,
sorry for not replying sooner but my PC decided to crash!!!
Your parachute is awesome, really awesome
How long did it take you to do that???
What package did you use???
I thought using a skeleton was the way to go but haven't had a chance to do anything yet due to the crash.
I'm looking at using Milkshape for the animation.
It is going to be a round parachute rather than a square but the principle is going to be the same
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woa... diddn't know u posted sorry..... I used cinema 4D. Took about 30 mins.


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wow.. nice. a lot work.. (mucho trabajo=bueno)

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Posted: 25th Oct 2005 17:17
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lol, really really nice animation bigadd
I'm allways amazed when something looking complex is performed with a simple solution
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For lines, perhaps just single polygons would work - like when rigging you'd stick them between the chute and pack - so you'd have 2 verts stuck onto the chute, and the other one on the pack - them when animating you just forget your lines because they're already taken care off - they're just unrealistically stretchy - but you'd never notice, you'd just see these nice thin wires on your parachute when it's opened up.

Doing what BigAdd did is a good idea - like make your parachute all opened up, then rig it and fold it up with the animation, playing that in reverse would be your basic opening animation.


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