hydraulics. tips, advice and ideas.

Joppa · Post by **Joppa** » Sun Jun 28, 2009 4:33 pm

Hi.
I working on a robotic arm and wonder how to animte it in the best way.
Here is an sample.

http://www.linslusenfilm.se/exempel/robot.mov

slowtiger · Post by **slowtiger** » Sun Jun 28, 2009 6:21 pm

Looks OK.

Some tips for machinery:
Always set interpolation to linear before animationg any rotation.
For pistons and levers smooth interpolation is OK.
I find it useful to carefully place any layer's origin exactly on its pivot point.

rogermate · Post by **rogermate** » Wed Jul 01, 2009 7:49 pm

Joppa wrote: http://www.linslusenfilm.se/exempel/robot.mov

Hi Joppa,
I was unable to view your robot.mov - have Quicktime 7 but I just see black. Is there a special codec?

Joppa · Post by **Joppa** » Wed Jul 01, 2009 8:50 pm

hi i dont think it is any special codec but im working on a new robotarm.

Joppa · Post by **Joppa** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 9:00 pm

here is the new one. hope it work

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAFwmR0nGvI

rogermate · Post by **rogermate** » Mon Jul 06, 2009 10:24 pm

Joppa wrote:here is the new one. hope it work

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAFwmR0nGvI

Yes. And it looks pretty good.

Just wondering, Would it be possible to have an external
data stream control the robot arm?

Can a lua script receive data through an API?
Or is it limited to within the .anme file or an external data file?

hydraulics. tips, advice and ideas.

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