Very Computer

please help

I'm doing a medical animation, very familar with many 3D apps, but new
to LightWave. I'm needing to have a wire-like object with a sleeve to
follow an exact path through a curving artery then the sleeve has to
retract over the wire. I can't seem to get anything to even remotely
work, bones and null objects aren't working for me ( at least the way
I'm using them), any suggestions out there?

Todd Flom

You have to carefully use small bones, experiment w/ Falloff Type, Morph a
translation of the wire object to get it to move along the deformation
path, and use the Effector Displacement plugin, or a clone of the wire (w/
bones + morph), but slightly larger diameter for the sleeve.  The sleeve
would have an additional morph target in order to animate the retraction
along the deformation path.

Or, purchase and use:

Snake Charmer -- http://www.fxware.com/scharmer/index.htm

                -or-

Snake Maker -- http://www.cinegraphics.net/Products/snake.html

Steve Boyer.

Quote:> please help

> I'm doing a medical animation, very familar with many 3D apps, but new
> to LightWave. I'm needing to have a wire-like object with a sleeve to
> follow an exact path through a curving artery then the sleeve has to
> retract over the wire. I can't seem to get anything to even remotely
> work, bones and null objects aren't working for me ( at least the way
> I'm using them), any suggestions out there?

> Todd Flom

                  -or-

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