JonEvangelist In reply to dlredscorpion [2014-11-28 11:42:00 +0000 UTC]

Haha seems like you've already forgotten about me

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dlredscorpion In reply to JonEvangelist [2014-11-28 15:15:56 +0000 UTC]

or possibly your skills improve so much i thought i was watching someone new hahaha

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dlredscorpion In reply to JonEvangelist [2014-11-28 15:14:19 +0000 UTC]

LOL my bad if i did bro. Was really away from DA too long and work and life sort of make me a person with a memory of and old man. I apologize if it offended yah.

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JonEvangelist In reply to dlredscorpion [2014-11-29 11:50:24 +0000 UTC]

haha no worries man. Anyway nice to see you active once again. I haven't been very active myself, even tried closing this account a few times(I just didn't have the guts to pull the plug).

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dlredscorpion In reply to JonEvangelist [2014-11-29 16:57:14 +0000 UTC]

Haha i know that feeling. I was almost there too. I already mention my time issues too in my other artwork comments so welcome to the club of getting old and limited free time XD. For me not closing the account was simple. Just wanna inspire ppl more to draw mechs and to show how others that inspire me improve my works. It's pretty much both ways.

Just dont give up bro, the little bit of time doing that one piece of work will add up in due time. Lots of my art are hanging but i do finish them if you push on. 

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JonEvangelist In reply to Cleitus2012 [2014-05-03 02:53:39 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome. Your work with3d-coat is very inspirational

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Cleitus2012 In reply to JonEvangelist [2014-05-04 20:08:43 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much!

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JonEvangelist In reply to EverlastingAbyss [2014-05-02 14:08:51 +0000 UTC]

aaand scroll down to fig.66 to get to the hose part.

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JonEvangelist In reply to EverlastingAbyss [2014-05-02 14:07:18 +0000 UTC]

Have you tried creating IK chains before? That's pretty much what I'd use since I'm not too familiar with other deformers in blender. It's similar how you'd do an IK chain for an arm or a leg, the only difference is that, since it's a hose, you'll probably need to put more bones in it, depending on the length and how much deforming it needs. This is one of the tutorials that I really found useful for pistons and hoses www.blender.org/documentation/… , it's for the old versions of blender but the same rules apply.

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EverlastingAbyss In reply to JonEvangelist [2014-05-02 19:13:32 +0000 UTC]

I've never used IK chains so you got a tut for that too? >.< I know most advanced rig's use IK but I haven't gotten that far yet.

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JonEvangelist In reply to EverlastingAbyss [2014-05-02 22:57:18 +0000 UTC]

Here's the tutorial that I find the most useful for rigging cgcookie.com/blender/2011/12/1…

And here's an alternative if you don't want to mess with armatures yet. It uses curves instead of bones. www.rab3d.com/tut_blen_2-63_ho…

If you've got more questions just send them via pm.

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EverlastingAbyss In reply to JonEvangelist [2014-05-02 23:08:53 +0000 UTC]

Thanks. I saved the tut link and I'll look at them in a bit. I actually know how to rig mechanical objects fine. Since the parts don't flex or distort like an organic character does. That's why I'm trying to learn how to do the hydraulic line since it's a way to intrigrate organic rigging into my mechanical pieces and add another layer of detail, since I already know how to rig a piston with the track to function.

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JonEvangelist In reply to EverlastingAbyss [2014-04-23 19:23:22 +0000 UTC]

Yeah I kinda closed this account and started using CGhub, but they closed it down recently so I found myself crawling back here

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EverlastingAbyss In reply to JonEvangelist [2014-04-23 19:25:25 +0000 UTC]

I don't have a Tumblr but I've been keeping up with your stuff on there. It's sometimes rather hard to actually get ahold of you to talk at times man xD [I refuse to integrate google+ with my youtube so I can't use youtube messaging/comments now]

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JonEvangelist In reply to EverlastingAbyss [2014-04-23 19:34:51 +0000 UTC]

Why not try tumblr? I find it more interesting than DA and a lot more flexible than DA. And yeah I really hate what they've done with YouTube. I never was interested in Google+ but they keep forcing it on everyone.

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EverlastingAbyss In reply to JonEvangelist [2014-04-23 19:37:20 +0000 UTC]

I don't mind Tumblr but I don't really feel I have enough content to really provide for it to be worth it. You and Tofu are on Tumblr but I'm not sure I want to drag my ass to a website just for one or two people [no offense intended]

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JonEvangelist In reply to EverlastingAbyss [2014-04-23 20:02:51 +0000 UTC]

Don't think of it as a gallery, it's more of a blog/  reblogging site where you can share your interests to anyone(via tagging which works a lot better than DA). Some of the stuff don't have to be yours so long as you give credit to the owner and not claim it as your own. If you've noticed I've already made a lot of AC-related photo sets over there, most of it are not even mine. 

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EverlastingAbyss In reply to JonEvangelist [2014-04-23 20:05:43 +0000 UTC]

How good is it's private messaging system however? And would you even want to deal with someone like me who's so adamant on talking, on Tumblr.

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JonEvangelist In reply to EverlastingAbyss [2014-04-23 20:16:27 +0000 UTC]

There's an option where you can answer stuff privately, but the downside is you can't read any sent messages unless it was posted publicly. 

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EverlastingAbyss In reply to JonEvangelist [2014-04-23 20:22:36 +0000 UTC]

That seems like a rather strange choice when it comes to handeling messages. I know there's the whole Anon' thing you can use without being signed in and I've used that a few times to leave messages on Tofu's Tumblr [a friend of mine]

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