Didnt know where to put this so i will put it here.

Jason has kindly (electric) given me his digger to rig so this is a placeholder for that
Busy week ahead so i will dump picks as i get stuff working or need help.

Jason and shuxx should be posting new projects up soon as well

placeholder for now

I'm excited for this!

short moment of the stupids i guess.

I just assumed other was... clay and papercraft.

Thanks for moving it.
Now to moan at jason and shux for not posting up


Edit :
And, so i dont waste this wonderful post here is todays progress !

some more progress, managed to get the scoop and arm to rotate smoothly with the main body of the digger (finally)


I had some issues with the scoop rotating on its yaw which i locked out, i dont think it will happen anymore anyway because i changed some stuff.
And the piece that attaches to the scoop and the piston to control the scoops angle would rotate inwards as i rotated everything.. but i fixed that by putting it into a group.
Dont know why it was happening :\

Pistons next i think.. because they just look cool

For an added challenge, set up an IK/FK swap rig!

Looking pretty smooth so far.

Thanks Eddie but Christ man, this simple rig is giving me headaches enough already!

Had to rebuild the rig because i was all messy with it and it broke.. so it works again but one of the fixes i had to stop something is gone and i cant remember how i did it :\

pneumatics done on the arm, i think those.. .cables.. are next so no more easy mode :\

Here be the progress!

cables are easier than you think. ikSpline + clusters = done

I have a potential job coming up I really really should be getting some animation done for so this is getting put on hold!

Having said that there is some happy news

http://shivmoo.com/ !

For the last few weeks (since just before Christmas) I've been working with my old demolition team versus a few college buildings. I remembered your thread here and thought to shoot some handheld reference for your rig.



I know your project is hold, but there it is all the same. The footage is mainly to show the manoeuverability of the medium sized digger, and also a large 20 tonne model... I think your version looks to be considerably larger.