Bathroom Mirror Rigging

“Bathroom Mirror Rigging in 3Ds Max ” by Michael Grote
10. If all being well you should now be able to rotate ‘master01′ and the ‘slave01′ will follow, if it doesnt check you have completed every step so far.
11. to get more bars select all four objects (‘master01′, ‘slave01′, ‘dummy01′ and ‘dummy02′) and cloe them, by holding down shift and clicking once on them, this will clone each object and increase its number by 1. Whuile they are still selected, move them exactly 90 unit down the barso the ends overlap
(note: they must be moved away from the pivot point of ‘master01′)

12. Using the link tool again, link ‘master02′ to ‘dummy02′.
13. Right click on ‘master01′ and…
select ‘Wire Parameters’ then ‘Transform’ then ‘Rotation’ then ‘Keyframe XYZ’ then ‘Z Rotation’
then click on <b>‘master02′</b> then ‘Transform’
then ‘Rotation’ then ‘Keyframe XYZ’ then ‘Z Rotation’
14. Select ‘dummy02′ and go to the hierarchy panel and uncheck all the rotate boxes under the ‘inherit’ rollout as before.
15. The set up should now work with both sets of arms just by rotating the first master object (‘master01′)

to add more arms just repeat 11-14 and change names accordingly,
When you have enough arm sections, create the mirror object (icluding the post below it) and link it to the very last dummy but uncheck all the ‘rotate’ check boxes in the link info area as in step 5, this enables the mirror to move with the dummy but not get affected when the dummy rotates.
I hope this tutorial was useful for you.
Michael
(c) Michael Grote, www.mgrote.com
     

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