Tire Treads Demo

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May 14, 2020 at 8:20 am #11946
spikeyxxx
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@blanchsb as promised (and everyone else that’s interested, of course) a ‘small’ video going through the principle of the Drivers and Custom Property and how I set it up. I started from scratch and didn’t make the exact one from my entry, because I thought that it would be nice to see the whole process. It’s a uncut realtime recording and I am not very good at doing more than one thing at the time (like talking and modelling), so it’s not perfect (lots of “ehhh’s” and pauses), but real;)

Have fun!

https://youtu.be/-4eKbpt_ZtM
May 14, 2020 at 9:41 am #56543
Kent Trammell
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The legend himself, in my ears!

Spikey, this is an excellent demo. Far superior to my bumbling demonstration on stream. You’ve got a clever, technical mind. A very impressive 15 minutes 👏👏

Thanks for taking the time to record this tutorial. I hope you won’t mind that I added the video embed to the bottom of your post.

@shanr It doesn’t get better than this.
May 14, 2020 at 10:29 am #56544
spikeyxxx
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Thank you Master! That means a lot to me, coming from you!

|I hope you won’t mind that I added the video embed to the bottom of your post

Of course not;)
May 14, 2020 at 10:55 am #56545
Adrian Bellworthy
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That was an excellent demo, so cool how it rotates just by moving the empty. Great how the scale changes in relation to number of treads to keep a consistent size. @shanr you really need to see this, you will never need to watch another tyre tutorial again.

@theluthier watch out, someone has got there eye on being Top Dog.
May 14, 2020 at 11:02 am #56546
Shawn Blanch
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This is, without a doubt, the coolest way I have seen a tire made.

Plus I learned about drivers, which was on my bucket list.
May 14, 2020 at 11:08 am #56547
spikeyxxx
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Thanks Adrian!

so cool how it rotates just by moving the empty

Yeah that was a fun discovery, but wouldn’t be useable as a rig the way it is now, because turning the wheel (rotating around the Z-axis) would mess everything up;)
May 14, 2020 at 11:40 am #56548
shan jay
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How long did it take for you to learn blender
May 14, 2020 at 11:54 am #56549
spikeyxxx
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@shanr if I remember correctly, I discovered Blender somewhere in 2012. I’m a slow learner, but I use Blender, like at an average of 10 hours a day.

But I still haven’t learned Blender,; there is still sooo much I don’t know..

For me Blender is like life: too big to know everything about it, but I appreciate everything I learn and don’t worry about all the things I don’t know yet and maybe will never know…
May 14, 2020 at 3:06 pm #56550
Ingmar Franz
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@spikeyxxx This is the best and cleverest way to create a tyre and keep it easily editable 👍 and it’s an excellent tutorial, too 🙂!
May 14, 2020 at 5:08 pm #56551
Shawn Blanch
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This is how I felt after I watched this video @spikeyxxx

Shock and Awe
May 14, 2020 at 5:40 pm #56552
Karen Trevino
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May 14, 2020 at 11:46 pm #56553
Shawn Blanch
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I also just noticed after watching it another time: He doesn’t delete the default cube!
May 15, 2020 at 12:02 am #56554
spikeyxxx
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@blanchsb That was an insider (Blender user) joke;)
May 15, 2020 at 1:17 am #56555
Kaj Suominen
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Great one! 🙂 Simple Deform is awesome.
May 15, 2020 at 7:25 am #56556
Shawn Blanch
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Yeah, some other funny things:

Caps lock when you meant to shift: I do that all the time. My new keyboard lets you turn caps lock off!
Rotate instead of loop cut (or vice versa): It’s like we’re brothers in Blender because this is another thing I do all the time!
Chewbacca grows while making the treads: Classic!
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