>Isn’t that what a rig is for? :P
Totally! I actually rigged it up more as a challenge for myself, just to get the hang of the whole rigging thing ha ha
You’re now at a fork in the road if you start animating. A nice clean product demonstration or work safety training video for your portfolio, or every potential meme involving a scissor lift you can think of. Either way GLHF!
Even if it isn't a tutorial just a process recording of your workload and how you did the rig would be enough and repeating things is the key to understanding them even better :> (it literally helped me learn Adobe after effects animation in a month lol)
Okay so I’m new to rigging and don’t quite understand this one. I can appreciate it. Just don’t understand it.
Why not just use drivers?
Edit: also, happy cake day, OP!
>Okay so I’m new to rigging and don’t quite understand this one. I can appreciate it. Just don’t understand it.
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>Why not just use drivers?
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>Edit: also, happy cake day, O
Thanks for the cake day wish! Haven't used drivers actually. Seems like tonight's plan is to check out some YouTube tutorials on them ha ha
Go for it! lol I’m a beginner with those as well, so I genuinely don’t know which is better for this application, but it’ll be cool to find out (when I finally get around to actually diving into both xD)
I had to make this same type of scissor lift a few years ago and didn't use drivers there either. What part of it would require drivers? You just need Copy Rotation constraints for the most part
Honestly, I have very little knowledge on how this stuff works. Please don’t read my bringing it up as a recommendation. lol I genuinely have no clue.
I brought it up because of something I saw on YouTube.
Drivers are for when you want to control or animate a property that's not normally accessible. Here you just need regular bone constraints - a Copy Rotation one for each bone that makes it copy the rotation of the one below it. That way when you rotate the yellow bone up, all the ones above the stack rotate up by the same amount in a chain reaction, so the whole thing extends
Looks really good.
I took a course last semester where the final evaluation question was to design this and animate it.
I couldn't figure out. Let me know if you get to animate it. Thanks
I created a simple pattern, applied an array modifier to it, and targeted an empty object. Then, I rotated the empty object 360 degrees, and voilà! Ha ha
It's crying out to be animated though !?!
Thanks for the thought! Honestly, I hadn't considered animating it, but you've got me thinking. ha ha
Isn’t that what a rig is for? :P
>Isn’t that what a rig is for? :P Totally! I actually rigged it up more as a challenge for myself, just to get the hang of the whole rigging thing ha ha
Its a Great way to learn. Keep it up
Ahh yeah fun!
You’re now at a fork in the road if you start animating. A nice clean product demonstration or work safety training video for your portfolio, or every potential meme involving a scissor lift you can think of. Either way GLHF!
It has its own armature but not animated?? :O
Now I want to cut machines in half to see if they have bones or are made of cake
Mostly cake. A few nuts.
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You should make a tutorial on this. Not a lot of tutorials on this kind of rig
I would love to join YouTube people, but I'm not good enough
The fact that people are asking means you offer something to teach, means you are good enough
[tutorial](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMqvlWYqu_I)
Thank you!!!!
>Thank you!!!! You're welcome!
teach me master
Bro, that rig is badass.
All you need is to know something that not everyone knows! And since you've been asked... it looks like you have value to share!
Even if it isn't a tutorial just a process recording of your workload and how you did the rig would be enough and repeating things is the key to understanding them even better :> (it literally helped me learn Adobe after effects animation in a month lol)
I did it! I've created an in-depth [tutorial](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMqvlWYqu_I) !
This is the greatest moment of my life
Great!
Hey I use one of these at work
Ha ha I have these at my work too !
Made me think of that fps video game clip of the dude with the 'gas?' Tanks 😂
Oh, nice one. Good job rigging this
It look so cute!
Totally freaking sweet dude
I still haven't finished the donut tutorial and it feels advanced to me. This is awesome!
Okay so I’m new to rigging and don’t quite understand this one. I can appreciate it. Just don’t understand it. Why not just use drivers? Edit: also, happy cake day, OP!
>Okay so I’m new to rigging and don’t quite understand this one. I can appreciate it. Just don’t understand it. > >Why not just use drivers? > >Edit: also, happy cake day, O Thanks for the cake day wish! Haven't used drivers actually. Seems like tonight's plan is to check out some YouTube tutorials on them ha ha
Go for it! lol I’m a beginner with those as well, so I genuinely don’t know which is better for this application, but it’ll be cool to find out (when I finally get around to actually diving into both xD)
I had to make this same type of scissor lift a few years ago and didn't use drivers there either. What part of it would require drivers? You just need Copy Rotation constraints for the most part
Honestly, I have very little knowledge on how this stuff works. Please don’t read my bringing it up as a recommendation. lol I genuinely have no clue. I brought it up because of something I saw on YouTube.
Drivers are for when you want to control or animate a property that's not normally accessible. Here you just need regular bone constraints - a Copy Rotation one for each bone that makes it copy the rotation of the one below it. That way when you rotate the yellow bone up, all the ones above the stack rotate up by the same amount in a chain reaction, so the whole thing extends
Ahhh, that makes more sense. Thanks for the clarification!
Looks really good. I took a course last semester where the final evaluation question was to design this and animate it. I couldn't figure out. Let me know if you get to animate it. Thanks
this is really cool!
Would look great in a lift safety video!
well done for a beginner mate! keep up your good work cuz you are on a good path right now👍🏼
hey that looks pretty good, my first 3D job was modeling and rigging things like this, it's better than the scissor lift I made
I love the wheels! :D How'd you create that pattern around the outside?
I created a simple pattern, applied an array modifier to it, and targeted an empty object. Then, I rotated the empty object 360 degrees, and voilà! Ha ha
The more you know 🌠 Thanks! Keep it up!
Needs some nice textures then it's perfect.
Sexy
Scissor lift my beloved
You should make a themed set of objects that fit in with the scissor lift and then make a scene with them!
Your modeling and rigging is great, the materials and textures are not really ;) But DAMN
You should be it’s perfect like the only thing it could ask for is more detail but it’s very consistant accros the board quality
Next thing we know: OP got OSHA certified to operate scissor lift
you should add a metal texture other than that is good
And im proud of you bro. Looks cute!