3ds Max Animation :: Animating Series Of Boxes - Changing Height When Intersect Another Geometry
Feb 27, 2013
I amm trying to animate a series of boxes... I want to change their height when they intersect another geometry... but I have a problem... I'm trying to calculate the distance of top face of the boxes and the other geometry with tape helper, but I can calculate only from center of the geomtery instead of the surface, that is was I searching...
Autodesk 3ds Max 2013
Windows 7 Home Premiuml 64-bit
Intel i7-2600K 3.40 Ghz - 16Gb RAM
Ati Fire Pro V5800 - NVIDIA Geforce GTX 580
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Imagine a flat box or cube (20 x 20 x 2) with many subD's so that it look like more a 3D plane rather than a cube. Is it possible to "pinch" off a peice off a piece of geometry off of the cube corner by using a mod so that the pinched piece literally breaks away from the parent piece? It can stay as the same object or a new object piece can be created..it doesn't matter, as long as I can animate the pinched off peice separately.
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here an example done with cinema 4d
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