Gear Simulation Problem....

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Diurno
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Gear Simulation Problem....

Post by Diurno » 21 Jul 2009, 14:07

Hi all, i'm trying to simulate an animated gear that move another one: the first is a Passive Rigid Body and has an animation, and the secondo is an Active Rigid body, i've tried some setting but even the Accuracy set to high i've something like that:


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Re: Gear Simulation Problem....

Post by Firebird » 21 Jul 2009, 14:43

They are very very low res :)
Try to add a few more egde loops on the gears.
That should help.

Edit:
If you don't really need the rigid body sim for anything else than the rotating of the gears than you could use expressions.
http://caffeineabuse.blogspot.com/2008/ ... heels.html

edit:2 fixed the link :ymblushing:
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Re: Gear Simulation Problem....

Post by Diurno » 21 Jul 2009, 14:55

Firebird wrote:They are very very low res :)
Try to add a few more egde loops on the gears.
That should help.

Edit:
If you don't really need the rigid body sim for anything else than the rotating of the gears than you could use expressions.
http://caffeineabuse.blogspot.com/2008/ ... heels.html
ok i'll try.

i don't need at all, it's just spare time training, in this case just for simulation ^^

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