From the course: Rigging Mechanical Objects in Maya

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- So now we have the first panel working, so when I go through the entire system it rotates around, matches the motion of the drums, and we can do as many rotations as we want. So now that we have the fundamental theory in place, all we have to do is distribute this over multiple panels to make the entire conveyor belt. So we can do this by selecting the first panel, and let's go into our Outliner here. And we have our first panel, it's called Conveyor_Panel_01. All we have to do is duplicate that to create a second panel. In fact I'm going to go ahead and move this down so these are all together. In fact we can group these, might make it easier. So now I have Conveyor_Panel_01 and 02, and if I run this you'll see that Conveyor_Panel_02 isn't moving. Well, that's because it's not attached to a motion path and it doesn't have an expression on it. So what we have to do is repeat the process for each panel. Now I'm going to do this manually so you can understand it, but once you…

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