Alan Fregtman demonstrates how to set up and rig a working bike chain in Softimage without any slipping between the gears, chain pieces and rotations, creating a rig that will adjust itself even when it is scaled.
In this 40min tutorial Alan shows us how to cleverly rig a bike chain that shifts over scale-aware gears without slipping.
Alan shows how to do some basic modeling on a chain link and how to figure out the gear to chain link ratios for creating the entire setup. There are also some good parts covering how to offset the chain and finding the correct offset values, and creating the driven gears.
