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Tank rig tutorial

Ok, and finally this is it!, out tank rig is done!. you can animate the Control_Main object throw the path spline and also modify this spline as you like.

FINAL NOTES:

To adapt your tank final model to this rig, you only need to align and link the model’s parts to the tank’s objects. And if you want a rig more comfortable you can create layers in the max layer manager, one for helpers, other for Control objects etc. Also you could block some position and/or rotation axis in some objects (Hierarchy panel -> Link Info Button), for example in the turret’s x and y rotation axis, to avoid movements that aren’t posible in the tank. The rig objects like the Frame or the turret are geometric objects, but if you like they could be bones, finally both are nodes. Finally like any other rig you have to be careful with scales.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial, more stuff will come soon!.

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5 comments

  1. Thank you ever so for you blog post.Thanks Again. Really Great!!!

  2. Can anyone download the file “video_tank.mov” ? I can’t download it.

  3. what a rubbish is this…….
    where is its start………….

  4. hi, please try again. i just tried to download the file and it worked.

  5. Lathander /

    would you re-upload the file: tank_rig_start.rar.

    It seems as its not longer online.

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