Opposite turning.. Sort of..

[Razor]

Hello, It's been 4 hours of messing with grooves and I've given up..

Anyway..

I'm working on The Birdy as it wasn't finished by Twiglet & Raven-X.

My problem is the fins on the rear, I want them to do something like this:

http://screenshot.xfire.com/screenshot/ ... 1903c2.png

But instead of that it does this:

http://www.xfire.com/video/fab54/

(WARNING: TURN THE SOUND ON THE VIDEO DOWN BEFORE PLAYING IT!)

Right, the way I've set this up is that I've set up each fin as a steerable wheel.

Here are the parts of the .TXT file that correspond to these fins:

/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\

5 // Number of steerable wheels

7 // GroovyFunkRef of 1st steerable wheel

8 // GroovyFunkRef of 2nd steerable wheel

12 // GFR FOR THE TAIL FIN!

13 // GFR FOR THE RIGHT FIN!!

14 // GFR FOR THE LEFT FIN!!

/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\

NEXT GROOVE

TAILFIN

not a lollipop

constant

straight

absolute

0,0,0

0

0,1,0

rock

absolute

12

0,0,0.5954

y

0

NEXT GROOVE

RSIDEFIN

not a lollipop

constant

straight

absolute

0,0,0

0

0,1,0

rock

absolute

13

0.1186,0.0802,0.5697

x

0

NEXT GROOVE

LSIDEFIN

not a lollipop

constant

straight

absolute

0,0,0

0

0,1,0

rock

absolute

14

-0.1186,0.0802,0.5697

x

0

/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\

What I want to know is how can I get that left fin (LSIDEFIN) to rotate on the opposite direction?

I thought it would be simple as I've taught myself everything up to this point.

I've read everything and tried everything but whatever I do; it just doesn't want to rotate in the other direction.



Thanks for any help offered,

[coffeycup]

Sounds like you need to do a variation on Tosh's "How-to-get-rocking-grooves-and-such-WITH-AN-ANGLE" tutorial.

This is for a steering wheel, but same idea- different angle

[Razor]

Thanks Coffey, I'll give it a go tomorrow.

[Harmalarm]

yes, a dummy object, above the right-fin groove, which will rotate the fin in 180 degrees around the z-axis should make the steering flap go the other way. (so the flap should be inside this objects hierarchy) This means you will have to rotate it in the modeling program as well. (so, yes, same as the steering wheel trick)

[Razor]

Thanks, I'm still yet to try this as I lost internet last friday.

And for the days that I haven't had internet I've created 19 cars for C2

I'll release them when I finish the final car, I've created the entire opponent lineup from Destruction Derby RAW.

[coffeycup]

19 cars in 4 days?? I'm glad you're finally taking the time to give each one the proper attention they deserve.

[Razor]

Most cars are similar shapes, so most were just a quick model change in CarEd.