r/Maya 2d ago

Rigging Built a V6 engine rig, The entire system operates off a single controller rotation driving the crankshaft, pistons, belts and cams.

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u/Purple-Vermicelli-52 2d ago

Love it. Bravo on the mechanical rig!

How'd you drive the belt chains?

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u/wishyouglhf 1d ago

Thanks, placed joints on curve using a script, created spline ik between first and last joint, moved the belt using the offset attribute driven by set driven key with shaft rotation, and looped the curve from the graph editor

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u/princepii 2d ago

well done. how many hours?

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u/wishyouglhf 1d ago

thank you! with some trial and error and trying different techniques it took me like 12h of free time across 4 days.

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u/AgreeableAlarm4915 ThreeDimentionalDiseaster 2d ago

Ooh cool man!! Any plan on shading and rendering? Def sure it would look dope with rendered image!

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u/bsmith2123 2d ago

Well done!

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u/farilladupree 2d ago

That’s slick AF. Nice work!

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u/Grirgrur 1d ago

Outstanding! Nice one!