Filling up holes...

[agentxi]

hey unleash, I still don't quite get what you mean, or are doing, Could you please post up some screenshots, maybe 1 "normal", 1 "during" rotation and 1 "after rotation" so i can get an idea of what is happening? Personally I would use bones or constraints to create an animation rig for the loading dock arm.

Slider up : eyes open, slider down eyes closed. is suchs a thing possible in maya? and if so, how?

Yes, abolutely. what you described is called "control rigs" they can get pretty complex but you will only need a small section of a full control rig, the tool you want to use is called "set driven key"

You can find this in the ANIMATION section of maya, under the menu ANIMATE>SET DRIVEN KEY>SET


once you go there, You will get a pop up window, "set driven key"

the DRIVER will be your "slider" and the DRIVEN will be in this case, the hangar door.

you give the driver a range of say 1-10, 1 being closed, 10 being open...
But I believe you will need to "add attributes" to your Driver/Slider first, then you can proceed with the "set driven key" procedure.

Here's a couple tutorials for you to check out , also the help files within maya explain this as well.
TUTORIAL: Set Driven Key Basics
Simply Maya - 3D Video tutorials. Basics - SDK Railtrack Example 1 tutorial (you'll need to sign up on this site to view the tutorial)

Rotating Wheels on a Car - Maya Tutorial--tutorial.jcwcn.com


if you have a hard time setting this up, let me know, and I can do a quick video tutorial for you to show you the process.

[unleash]

The problem with the rotation has been solved, it was not in an animation or such, just when I was positioning everything the rotation thing messed up. But now it works again, I think that is because of the global warming....

Thanks for the tutorials, I will definitely have a look at those!! If I understand those it should get much easier animating.

And off course an update of the pics. I assembled everything I got for the space station so far, and I put some SOS pods in there as well, well more the docks for the SOS pod, get it? And I added the hangar bays as well!!

so now it's time for maintenance paths and such and adding an biodome thing to the rear....

[supertackyman]

lookin good dude. when can i come aboard?

[unleash]

Thanks,
you can come along anytime! but you do need special pills

[unleash]

So is has been a while since the last update. This is mainly because of my school and different things that had to be done. The other thing was that I had no reall idea's about the looks of the engines...

Now I do have an idea, and therefore and update

This are the engines that will come on the rear of the station. Than I only need to add the side compartments and some additions to the model, like air ducts, turrets or docking spaces...Then I need to make textures for it all, and finally get it in an environment.

I will soon add the complete image, the one where the engines are attached to the station. And maybe with the compartments.

[gadjomatto]

very good .

[unleash]

I was thinking of adding compartments to the side of the station. Like a wing of a building....well tell me what you think of that. In the meantime, here is the overall look....

[unleash]

Okay, this is the space ship with the blocked out compartments. They will become module like things, sience, militairy, communication and so on. It will take me a while to get the concepts into 3D as I have other stuff to do the coming few days...like working

Anyway, I added some vieuws of the almost complete station. As I said before, modeling is almost done so I will have a start with texturing....and then animating and dynamics. So maybe I will add some explosions as well

Hope you like the progress....And all ideas are more than welcome right now....

[unleash]

1 module finished, 3 to go

the 2nd image is a close up of the lamps on the module....

[unleash]

Alright second module,

tell me what you guys think of it Im a bit stuck with the other 2 designs....I want to make one repair hangar thing, that one might be finished tonight. And I wanted to make a more military thing, for defense purposes and suchs.

Anyone with an idea for a module please reply!!

[agentxi]

hey unleash, are these module all going to fit together? can we see a test render of how it will all go together?

anyways have you thought of a medical module? or a cafe/restaurant/mess hall type module?

It's all looking good, keep it up! can't wait to see it finished.

[Tamlin]

I'm surprised you haven't included a McDonalds or a Starbucks...

[unleash]

Yeah I could put a starbucks/ Mcdonald/.... kind a thing in a module. The modules are really big so making one mess hall thing is a bit, well then you get a huge mess hall I will see how I can fit the mess thing into the right module(in the image) as that should be the living/ trading module....

Anyway, I finished the science module, the cylinders are the laboratories....the rest is pretty self explaining, right?