2 comments

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   Comment by mike on March 17, 2008 at 8:56 pm

   Nice stuff. I guess the visor will be rigged to a bone
   rigged in the center of the helmet.

   Nice new WordPress blog too!

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   Comment by mark on March 18, 2008 at 12:11 pm

   Thanks Mike.
   Here’s what I was planning to do:
   Parenting the visor group (containing the visor and the grip knob – not shown) to the helmet
   For rigging the opening/closing of the visor, I am going to offset the local rotation axis for the visor group so that it rotates along the outer surface of the helmet along the X axis. I’ll lock-off the Y and Z and limit X’s angle of rotation to line up with the length of the slot in the visor cover.
   For animation controls, I’ll make a slider manipulator that is positioned above or beside the helmet.
   I’ll probably use joints for the chin strap and maybe even the ear-pieces to give them the ability to flex a bit.
   I’ll put something together for a basic rig and post here for all to see (and comment – hopefully).

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