ABOUT
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This is a tutorial about how to correctly animate rotors and wheels in LightWave 3D. It could be used to animate objects in other 3D packages, too, but I have not tested it.

This archive contains all the scenes, objects and image files needed for this tutorial. It also contains a spreadsheet that will help calculate rotations by giving an object's radius, the scene duration and frame-per-sec count, etc.

This is particularly helpful if you want, e.g. to animate a vehicle's wheel and want its rotation to match exactly the speed of the vehicle. Relevant example scenes can be found in the "Scenes" directory.


REQUIREMENTS
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A fast Amiga with at least 16 MB of Fast Ram and a working LightWave 5.0 installation. The example scenes and objects could be working on earlier or later LW versions in other platforms, although I haven't tested it.

You will also need TurboCalc v5.0 to run the spreadsheet for rotational calculations.


INSTALLATION
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Just extract the archive into your 3D: directory. 


COPYRIGHT
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You are free to use the object or scenes for your renderings, as long as you mention me in your credits if you plan on uploading them on the internet. The archive may not be uploaded neither as a whole or in parts to any other repository other than Aminet unless you ask me first. Also feel free to mail me if you liked it or have any questions, I'd be happy to help! 



Happy renderings,

Klearchos Gourgourinis a.k.a. Muadib
muadibas25@hotmail.com

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[generic]                 4120   20076  20.5% -lh5- ffea Mar 16  1980 WheelTutorial/Images/ars-logo_bump.iff
[generic]               938595  938595 100.0% -lh0- 18d6 Oct 19  1980 WheelTutorial/Images/Road_asphalt_yellow_edges.jpg
[generic]                 8513   72622  11.7% -lh5- 609f Mar 16  1980 WheelTutorial/Images/tire-tracks_bump_br2.iff
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[generic]                  827    1566  52.8% -lh5- 870a Apr 18  1980 WheelTutorial/ReadMe.txt
[generic]                 2290   11364  20.2% -lh5- 9c91 Apr 18  1980 WheelTutorial/RepetitiveRotaryCalculator.TCD
[generic]                  264     468  56.4% -lh5- 8d49 Mar 16  1980 WheelTutorial/RepetitiveRotaryCalculator.TCD.info
[generic]                 1551    2986  51.9% -lh5- 6bff Apr 18  1980 WheelTutorial/Rotation_Tutorial.txt
[generic]                  931    2207  42.2% -lh5- 315e Apr 18  1980 WheelTutorial/Scenes/CarWheel_on_road_20m-h.scn
[generic]                  942    2208  42.7% -lh5- 17b0 Apr 18  1980 WheelTutorial/Scenes/CarWheel_on_road_40km-h.scn
[generic]                  933    2206  42.3% -lh5- 3222 Apr 18  1980 WheelTutorial/Scenes/CarWheel_on_road_5km-h.scn
[generic]                 1113    2982  37.3% -lh5- 67bb Apr 10  1980 WheelTutorial/Scenes/CarWheel_on_road_accelerating.scn
[generic]                  900    2123  42.4% -lh5- a4cb Apr  9  1980 WheelTutorial/Scenes/CarWheel_on_road_def.scn
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