Automatic wheel rotation with ICE

[jgjones]

Here's a compound which uses deformation to automatically rotate a wheel as it moves around, turns, etc.

Yes, sort of a lame thing to be using ICE for, when I could be flocking or stranding... :)
But anyway, it works, and it was fun to do as my first ICE compound thingy.

Here's the compound, and an example scene:

EDIT (8/12): I've uploaded it to the ICE Compound exchange:
http://community.softimage.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=121

And a screen capture movie showing it in operation:
http://home.comcast.net/~jgj252/Temp/AutoWheelRotate.wmv

Usage notes in the Compound Properties panel.

Hope some might find it useful, and if anyone sees any room for improvement, or (eek!) finds a problem, please sound off. :)

-Jim

[mechis]

That looks cool! Why don't you submit this to the ICE compound exchange?
http://community.softimage.com/downloads.php?

~Mechis

[scaron]

very cool.. ya add it to the compounds database

[camer]

it's amazing
what you thing about this (http://www.xsibase.com/forum/attached/BALL_RIG.emdl.txt)
how to do it in ICE

[Photon]

Thanks James

[ajcgi]

You say it's a lame thing to use ICE for but imo that's a pretty useful thing. I needed something like that ages ago and just ended up animating wheels until they looked nice. The scripted answers seemed too much effort but this... could be handy in future. :yes:

[Death_By_NURBS]

Thats not lame, it's damn usefull!