Garage Door Rigging Tutorial?

pfunkyfize

Hi all,

I am learning about rigging for DAZ and found some good tutorials but can anyone explain how I would go about rigging a sliding electric garage door that slides along inner guide rails inside the garage? Not the lateral sliding kind on the garage's exterior. That would be easy to make though...

Basically I need to rig a 3d model of this so the door slides along the rail.

Thanks!

DarkEdgeDesign

I think I would probably used Keyed ERC with those controls set to Linear.

pfunkyfize

DarkEdgeDesign said:

I think I would probably used Keyed ERC with those controls set to Linear.

Thanks I will have to look up what all that means

maclean

I did something similar in Room Creator Exteriors. The garage door moves up on a rail and simulataneously rotates outward.

And yes, it can only be done with ERC. ERC (Enhanced Remote Control) is a way to combine multiple parameters into 1 slider - in this case Ytrans + Xrot. You can also do all sorts of other clever things with it, like setting multiple delays to turn the pages of a book in sequence. (I did that in my Model Agency).

Of course, the snag is that it takes quite a bit of learning. I've always done it manually - hacking the .cr2 in Poser - but DAZ Studio has some new simpler ways of doing it. To be honest, I've never bothered learning ERC in DS, since I haven't needed to use it in a long time, so I'm afraid I can't help you there.

All I can tell you is that if you want a sectioned door that follows the rail - as opposed to a single flat door - you'll need to build it in.... umm.... 40 -50 sections and ERC them all with Ytrans, Ztrans and Xrot. It would be quite an undertaking!

mac

pfunkyfize

maclean said:

I did something similar in Room Creator Exteriors. The garage door moves up on a rail and simulataneously rotates outward.

And yes, it can only be done with ERC. ERC (Enhanced Remote Control) is a way to combine multiple parameters into 1 slider - in this case Ytrans + Xrot. You can also do all sorts of other clever things with it, like setting multiple delays to turn the pages of a book in sequence. (I did that in my Model Agency).

Of course, the snag is that it takes quite a bit of learning. I've always done it manually - hacking the .cr2 in Poser - but DAZ Studio has some new simpler ways of doing it. To be honest, I've never bothered learning ERC in DS, since I haven't needed to use it in a long time, so I'm afraid I can't help you there.

All I can tell you is that if you want a sectioned door that follows the rail - as opposed to a single flat door - you'll need to build it in.... umm.... 40 -50 sections and ERC them all with Ytrans, Ztrans and Xrot. It would be quite an undertaking!

mac

Ah no wonder I don't see any garage doors that follow a rail! And  my version would actually be a rail and the door wouldn't swing outward at all as it dragss upward. Thanks for the insight on that!