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> I have a few MECH type objects I want to animate.

>>Really... what kind of mechs.. :)
  Well I have three at this point. They came off of a disk set that Impulse
  sold at one time. There were three disks of objects and the Mechs were
  some of the better ones. The cars ect were pretty much incomplete and
  useless. The dolphin, killer whale, space station, space probe, and
  old fashon Rocket were also pretty nice. I used interChange Plus to
  do the conversion. Back to the mechs! There is one that can best
  be discribed as a flying type with a short but very mech looking body
  (I'm at work and can't remember waht the name is) My favorite
  is very similar to ones seen in the BattleMech game. I belive thay
  refered to it as a Locust(again sorry) It has two long thin legs
  That join into disk like joints that in turn support the body.
  the lower part of the body has movable cannon. the detail is excellent
  right down to the tips of the rockets. The last is called a Megabot,
  and is best looked at as any of the heavier class mechs with hands
  rocket pods on the shoulders ect. All three look like they are capable
  of really mixing it up. The flyer has several rocket launchers under
  the wings each with maybe 12 rocket tips showing. I just got into them
  but they render pretty nice. Problem is I have about 50 surfaces to
  deal with(which is good for detail) and I'm in the process of trying to
  rename them to something meaningfull. I have a battle Mech spec book
  that I'm reading now.

>>Well I'm not sure how the experts would do it, but in my mind, mechs aren't
>>known for being very flexible.   So bones are out as far as movement goes,
>>for the critical walking, swiviling etc.  A mechs motion should be very
>>analog, very blocky, no emotion type movement.  Right now that means step by
>>step motion.  But when 4.0 arrives with that higher ( i'm missing a word )
>>motion, it should be pretty easy.  You may use bones in other areas like
>>simulating damage.
 Good point! I will start as soon as I get critical surfaces like joints
 renamed. The things are really detailed.

>>I'm currently modeling two mechs from the Gundam series ( japanese anime )
>>with a friend.  So far they're pretty cool.  Where making really mangled
>>morph targets so we can simulate so cool combat scenes.

 I hope to model some(thats why I got the readout book) and may buy the
 actual plans to scan in as modeling aids(darn expensive plans though)

                            bill
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 Bill leimberger Nashua NH.
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