Help a dummy, on linking dummy issue.

[Anonymous]

Cheers! and merry soon to be Christmas 🙂

So im working on a Wind Turbine model.



It has a main Hub, with a dummy, to rotate the entire mill front, works fine.
It also has 3 Dummies to rotate the wings on the other axis.
When i link my wings to the wing dummies, they get separated from the main mill one.

I cant really figure out how to achieve the end goal, to have the main dummy spin the entire hub, but rotate the blades with their own separate dummies without breaking the link to the main one.

[leeminardi]

You shouldn't need any dummies to rig your model.  Make sure the pivot of the "wings" (blades?) are on the center line axis that controls the pitch of the blade and then link each blade to the hub.  This should allow you to rotate the hub and all the blades will rotate appropriately with it.  You can use Wire Parameters to ensure that the pitch of all the blades is the same.