Blender: How to rig and animate landing gear.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ม.ค. 2023
- Detailed tutorial on how to rig and animate a complex aircraft landing gear.
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One of the most complete tutorials on mechanical rigging I've seen! Thanks a lot, this is incredibly helpful!
Wow.... Nice work!!
Great rigging! Just what I was lookin for. Thx!
Thank you for this tutorial it is very helpful .
This is the best rigging tutorial I could find, it helped me so much, thanks a lot~
Thank you. I appreciate the comment!
what a gem! i am glad i found this, this is like a masterclass for me, i never did rigging in blender and this makes me wanna try it out! thanks a lot Mark, please do more of these!
Glad it was helpful. Thanks for the comment.
Awesome work .
everything I need in one tutorial, what a find ! thank you !
Glad it was helpful
Hi Mark, I'm new with the Blender animation and your tutorial is very easy to learn, I have to thank you, I can do rigging now and happy to do that.. It's all because of your tutorial.. Thanks a lot Mark.
Glad to help. Best of luck with your projects.
Thank you SOOOOOO much. This method is golden. My TSR 2 undercarriage now works properly.
I'm glad it was helpful. Good luck with your project.
What a great tutorial! Thank you so much, Mark! I'm coming to Blender from Maya and Houdini and this was extremely helpful in migrating my knowledge. You example was very thorough and covers many practical use-cases. I love that you grounded the tutorial in a real-world example of the landing gear, rather than something theoretical, since it covers many ancillary concerns such as the springs, the pistons and the hydraulic lines. Excellent work, Mark! Your attention to detail is spectacular! It shows even the the way you've modeled the parts. You've got yourself a new subscriber. I'm looking forward to more!
Thank you for such a nice comment and for subscribing. I'm really glad the video was helpful.
Thanks for a very useful tutorial! Didn't find anything like this before.
You're welcome. I'm glad it was helpful.
Very useful and informative tutorial. I wish it had come out months ago when I was rigging the landing gear on my He-162. The only mistake I could see was the pivot point of the upper piston is in the wrong place. It should be centered on the bolt hole that anchors the upper piston.
Thanks for noticing. I'll make that adjustment.
このチュートリアル本当に助かりました、ありがとうございます！
you are very welcome. I'm glad it helped.
Mark happy 2023! Another fantastic video :) I look forward to them, and I know my 460,000 fans do too!
Would you ever consider doing a patreon? I'd love to support you for all these tutorials
@@FoundAndExplained I appreciate the offer, but I just do them for fun and to help the community.
Do you make the models and animations for your channel? They're well done.
Thank you sir!
Even a beginner can understand your video. Please make more videos about rigging. Thank you for the amazing video! :)
Glad it was helpful.
Supper helpful. Thank you.
Very glad it helped.
Awesome :)
Thanks!
Great video, moving from Max to Blender and getting my head around the different constraints. I see you opt for Damped Track instead of using Track To (LookAt in Max) Trying to figure out the subtle difference. Thankfully my dampers are in alignment so the Damped track works straight off on the piston objects which saves adding bones... although I guess having bones allows greater flexibility. Thanks for introducing me to the Floor constraint... really useful to know.
Glad you found it useful. Good luck in your transition to Blender.
Fantastic work. Where do you get these detailed drawings and plans from?
This particular drawing came from someone I'm working with on this model. I'm pretty sure he got it from the Smithsonian.
Here are a couple good places to look for high quality drawings:
Drawing Database: drawingdatabase.com/
Smithsonian Air & Space: airandspace.si.edu/collection...
Avialogs: www.avialogs.com/
Aircorps Library: aircorpslibrary.com/
Deutsches Museum: www.deutsches-museum.de/
It is very good animation tutorial, thanks for it. One small thing, normal condition the nose landing gear does not retract directly. First, the shock strut should be extended fully (which shows the aircraft on weight off wheel configuration) and then nose landing gear should retracted. The animation is look like someone operate the landing gear when the aircraft on ground.
The animation wasn't supposed to represent an actual takeoff. My intent was to show how the constraints caused the oleo to react when the wheel came in contact with the ground.
Thank you for your tutorials! Maybe quick tip about modelling root shape of thise landing gear?
I will add that to the list of topics I would like to do. No guarantees when it will happen, but it's on the list now.
@@Mark_Alloway Thanks
Amazing video! Can I ask what simulator this model would be exported for? A lot of these more advanced animations techniques are amazing but MSFS2020 doesn't support many of them in regards to exporting in it's custom GLTF format.
The person I'm working with is going to use X-plane. I've never built a model for use in a simulator, so I expect there to be some issues when we move from Blender to X-plane, but I'm sure we'll be able to work them out.
tha👍nk you
Amazing video this will really help me with making a b47 mod for dcs!!! Also how would I make or add realistic textures to aircraft?
Thanks!
I have a playlist showing how I use Substance Painter for my models:
th-cam.com/play/PLoW-6Ghw9DkV0xix0aEijsPi13BF7ORW7.html
Ok thanks!
I wished to see a detailed tutorial on the upper shock absorber, which is a somewhat complicated piece.
I agree, castings and machined parts like the upper strut are complicated and kind of a pain because of the fillets and blended shapes. The basic workflow starts with a cylinder and placing simple boxes and and other primitive shapes long the cylinder until you get the big details in place. You then need to merge and blend those objects into the cylinder. Tools like Boxcutter (which I'm not familiar with) would probably be very useful in this process. I use the boolean modifier to join the objects and then clean up the topology along the joints (either manually or sometimes using sculpt tools).
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Thank you very much Mark, for this clarification, but I still hope to see this tutorial , because I have modeled the main landing gear of the Boeing 777, all parts are ok but the lower shock absorber I am not satisfied with the result.
This would Be a great addition to the MSFS2020/2024 Military jet line
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Thanks. I've had a lot of requests for this plane to be added to a variety of simulators. The person who collaborated with me on this is working on making a simulator version of it, but I'm not sure what platform it will eventually end up on.
If you don't have a precise drawing for the layout, would a better workflow be to rough out the armatures and get the linkages working to establish the pivot points before you spend all that time on detailed modeling? On my He-162 I had a heck of a time getting the angle on the main gear correct to match the down position and to swing up and fit into the fuselage.
As a general rule, even with good drawings, I like to rough things out to make sure they fit properly before I add detail. If you're making something mechanical like a landing gear, but don't have good reference material, it would definitely be a good idea to nail down the exact geometry before spending time modeling the details. I actually did rough out this landing gear before making a detailed version to make sure it fit. I just didn't include that part of the workflow in the video since I knew the video was going to be really long even if I only focused on bones.
I'm fortunate on this project since the person working on it with me seems to have an infinite supply of reference material and intimate knowledge of the aircraft. The drawings he is supplying me with have been outstanding.
wonderful tutorial mark ! i applied a similar workflow for my rear landing gear
, but the floor constarint dosent really work well for the rear landing , when the floor is rotated it dosent really affect the rig it only works when moved in xyz axis , and most aircraft while landing have some amount of tilt so one side of the wheel touches the airstrip first and obviously reacts first to the ground which i cant mimick , is there any better method you,d suggest just for the ground physics part ??
My first thought (and I haven't tried this, so I don't know if it will work...) is to make the ground-sensing bone centered on the main gear wheel like the hand on a clock. Then add a constraint to that bone so it always points directly at the ground. That way, as the aircraft rotates, that bone is always pointing straight down and will make contact with the ground as soon as the tire touches.
@@Mark_Allowaythank you . I'll give it a try
I know this is a year old, it has helped me considerably in rigging my landing gear. As soon as I add a damped track to pistons in my rig it reports cyclic errors in the system console. My rig works fine thanks to your tutorial. Should I care about the "Dependency cycle detected" Reports?
I think that error means there is some kind of circular dependency in the rig, but if it's working consistently, then I guess you can use it. It may be a little slower than a rig without that error or you might find some special instance where the rig fails.
@@Mark_Alloway Thank you for the reply. I found an old video from 3 years ago that puts a third bone as the anchor for the piston damped track that solves the cyclic loop problem. It now works the same as before but without the errors. Again, I find your videos very useful and well explained. Now working on you heat method for the liftoff of my model.
@@thomasflannery7601
Very glad you found a solution. I hate unsolved mysteries!
This is such a good and helpful video, thank you!
I'm running into issues with the Lock Pole though, as soon as i assign that, the entire Lock IK chain becomes rigid and won't bend in any direction. Any ideas?
Are you saying that adding the pole target stops the IK chain from bending?
Two things I would check/do:
1. If the IK chain is perfectly straight, try moving the "knee" joint a little bit so the IK chain is a little bent. IK rigs work better if there is a little bend in them.
2. Move the pole target bone to a different location. Perhaps it is too close to the joint?
@@Mark_Alloway Moving the knee joint just slightly in edit mode already fixed it, thank you!
@@mayena5735 awesome!
Mark could u give me some tips. Im currently facing a problem with my rigging is a baseball bat(weapon) that has some bandages in the area where the hand goes. Im actually asking in diferent channels to see if someone can give me some tips but no luck so far. The problem is i stablish a chain of bones that are almost circular shape and i want to run a wiggle simulation and here come the problem the last bone of the chain its parented to its previous bone so the simulation just falls due to the last bone not being linked to anything more than its previous bone. So i tried some shenanigans like constraint the location of the last bone to the first bone of the chain but keeping the parenting so i dont break the chain effect. But It doesnt work. Another example would be a necktie we hace all bones that goes around the neck forming a perfect circle parented the its previous bones but how df we add the part of the tie that goes down the chest? it has to be another chain of bones linked to the first groups of bone. Thats the problem im having i want to know how to properly link the end of a chain to another bone without breaking the hierarchy so i can run the wiggle addon and add dynamic movement. Btw sorry for the bible but i already asked in blender community and some other groups and they dont really understand what im trying to say or they dont know.
In one of my projects i had to rig a secondary character in a model, and use it 3 times, at first i used two different armatures for the main and the secondary and as i result i were able to just copy paste the secondary character 2 times, but then i couldn't figure out how to do an animation with multipal armatures because i couldn't parent an armature to another armature bone and have it behave nicely, how would you approach this kind of situation?
Awesome video by the way, very informative.
You could try parenting the bones you want to move to a common object and then animate that object. For example, if you had two characters and wanted their arms to move in unison, you could parent the IK handle of each of their arms to an empty and then animate the empty. When the empty moved, it would move both arms.
so essentially use a third party(object) in between the armatures?
kinda like how you use the empties with your IK setups.@@Mark_Alloway
@@lioryaari510 It's worked for me in the past. I hope it works for what you're doing.
I thought i ask you since you seem to know a lot about rigging and i can't find anything on google. Would you know how to setup a controller to animate the rotation speed of a propeller ? so i can just keyframe the controller to speed up/slow down the rotation. I tried expressions in drivers, but i am too dumb.
Hopefully this helps:
th-cam.com/video/c7UWq_jl6TI/w-d-xo.html
before the rigging video I would like to watch how is modelling step by step with good topology, can you make this sir !
That is on my list of things I want to do a video on, but I don't know when I would get to it.
@@Mark_Alloway okay I would be very happy if there is a short video about it in the future. Thank you so much
Hello, i am working on model of 787 and i have to close the landing gear door, as i am new to this stuff im not able to do it. I will really appreciate you can help me to do it. Its fine to delete the landing gear i just need the door closed
Does this video help?
th-cam.com/video/efOfwT4G7uI/w-d-xo.html
You should be able to place a bone on each hinged edge of the landing gear door and then animate those bones.
in edit mode i can not select other bone to make parent why
Are you holding the SHIFT key down when you select the second bone?