Building a cannon
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@julius said:
So, i'm trying to build a cannon. now it rotates with a servo joint. i wonder if it's possible to throw out the ball with a piston joint after the cannon is rotated.
Thank you in advance.
A piston would certainly push the ball out. I don't know how you would trigger it tho. Maybe a hidden object that will hold it in until its in the right position.
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so, basically, i cannot make the piston joint rotate along with the cannon and fire when i want...
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@julius said:
so, basically, i cannot make the piston joint rotate along with the cannon and fire when i want...
The piston will rotate with the cannon. But it will fling the cannon ball as soon as you play the simulation.
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thank you so much! i finally got what i wanted!
can i ask you one more thing? is it possible to make the cannon rotate on the blue axis with a wheel+servo joint?
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im not a sketchy physics user, but cant you rotate the modle to one side, apply the joint and then rotate it back? i just saw it on a vid, so mght well be wrong.
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@julius said:
thank you so much! i finally got what i wanted!
can i ask you one more thing? is it possible to make the cannon rotate on the blue axis with a wheel+servo joint?
I had to explode and re-group the wooden parts. It was messed up somehow.
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now it works perfectly! thanks!
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have a look at the completed model!
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Check out this cannon that I made. It's self moving and quite realistic. Different reloading mechanism, hope it's intuitive.
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nice! it's very powerful, though i found quite hard to understand how it fires...
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Maybe you can fire some flowers and it will be perfect
Very cool engine
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Showing hidden geometry and turning on transparency will reveal all secrets of the cannon.
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at last...
[flash=425,355:3n7imfcw]http://www.youtube.com/v/DoVzTrK3NGc[/flash:3n7imfcw]
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