I Think I'm Turning Japanese

[woodfyr]

Scott,

As smooth as a fine Swiss watch.

Lovely

[bobwdude]

Beautiful stuff! If only I was better at driving steam engines...

[scottb613]

Scott,

As smooth as a fine Swiss watch.

Lovely

Hi Russ,

Thanks - I animate at sixteen frames so each and every part needs to be placed in sixteen precise positions to complete one revolution... There's a great deal of alignment work to get all the rods to line up in their proper positions... It takes some time to build and animate a set of running gear properly...

Regards,
Scott

[scottb613]

Beautiful stuff! If only I was better at driving steam engines...

Hi Bob,

Thanks - it's not so hard - the Reverser is basically your gear shift - start full on pulling back as you get moving - and the Regulator is your throttle... I recall reading something where real steam locomotives usually ran with the Regulator wide open as much as possible using the Reverser to control speed...

Regards,
Scott

[scottb613]

Hi Folks,

After about 30 hours working on the running gear - I have most of it done (major milestone) - also my first export from 3DC to really check the animations....





Regards,
Scott

[scottb613]

Hi Folks,

This week - finished off all the rod animations - started on the plumbing and other details - working fore to aft:

POV9 by Scott B, on Flickr


Regards,
Scott

[woodfyr]

Absolutely Awesome -- Nose to Tail !

[scottb613]

Hi Russ,

Thanks - as always - she’s coming together pretty quick - I’m trying to be a tad less stingy with polys - I just loaded her in the sim today for the first time - looks pretty good...

Regards,
Scott


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[demando]

Russ, isn't the tender the tail? For now I think we can just settle on nose to belly button.

[woodfyr]

Can't argue with that one. LOL