New SP project
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Originally designed to be operated by a human on board in a cab. Because of some issues with SP trying to make it all stay together.
I changed the concept to a remotely operated, perhaps autonomous,perhaps maybe a "follow me" control system. With which the operator, would walk along side and the machine would follow the operator where possible.
One thing I learned while making this. Mass of the groups, to which the joints are connected, becomes very important to keep things together. I started out with two groups on the front part, a frame and a cab. first time animated the front part fell apart from the back part.
I changed the cab/frame to a one group affair, modified the cab assembly and re-connected the joints involved. It held together.
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I like the design on the wheel assembly. Seems to work well.
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It does seem to work, well, as usual I learned some things with this project, mainly to do with groups, the biggest thing is , like in this case use one group for the front and one group for the back, then of course the wheel/axle groups. I found that the axle assemblies work better (more responsive) is only "connected" to one group, not a group of two groups.
Now if the animation record part of SketchyPhysics, would track and follow like I would expect them to do, the video quality would be much better. Screen capture programs just don't work that good, for this application.
Here is it issue I am having. If the track or follow is applied, the resulting sequence of images, show only the initial screen, if you drive out of that screen area, when running the animation, as you are seeing it it works great. But the image sequence doesn't, show what you see while recording. Perhaps there is a setting I haven't found yet.
Thanks for your comments!
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