Gears wiring parameters

[remilanza]

Hi!

 

I am trying to learn about wiring parameters, and playing around with some gears. So in my case I have 3 gears with different sizes, gear1, gear2, gear3.

 

If I wire Gear 2 to Gear 1, it works well (Gear 2 turns when I turn Gear 1). But if I wire Gear 3 to Gear 2, then when I turn Gear 1 nothing happens to Gear 3. Even though Gear 2 turns.

 

Is it possible to change that, or do I have to link gears to one "main" gear?

 

I hope you understood my question, a bit difficult to explain:)

Thanks

[CGeist]

Is it possible, that you connected the wrong parameters or maybe the wrong control direction?

Because this should work as you described.

[remilanza]

Thanks.

I don't think I did it wrong, I tried a few times. Maybe I'll try again later. But I ended up riging everything by just wireing all gears to one main gear.

But you mean that if I have gear 2 wired to gear 1, and then wire gear 3 to gear 2, gear 3 should rotate when I rotate gear 1?

 

Because what happened was that, gear 3 rotated if I manualy rotated gear 2, but not when I rotated gear 1 which made gear 2 rotate.

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I have one more question regarding this topic.

Let's say I rig a setup with many gears, belts ect. Maybe a motor or something. How can I make that set up or motor rotate for itself in space in any direction? I haven't look deeply into this, but if I just group it, and then move it around, everything messes up.

[CGeist]

Hi

I just tested it myself. Works perfectly.

Are you sure you´ve got the right control direction? You shouldn´t be able to rotate gear2 after you wired it to gear1 (except you choose a two-way connection).

 

Here is my simple scene with 3 cubes wired together.

wireTest.zip

 

If you want to rotate the engine in space you could link everything to a dummy object and then rotate and move this object.

[remilanza]

I couldn't open your file for some reason. But I tried again in a new scene, and it worked! Not sure what was wrong before, I'll check that out when I have time. And linking to a dumby worked perfectly!

Thanks Gerald.