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Create a belt drive with wire deformers

Create a belt drive with wire deformers - Maya Tutorial

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Create a belt drive with wire deformers

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- We now have our gears in place, and everything's rotating the way that we want. So it's now time to move onto the pulley system. So I have a layer here called Pulley. Let's go ahead and make that visible. And I'm going to go ahead and hide my Gear layer, so that way we don't get that in the way. Now this layer has everything we need to create the pulley. We have three pieces of geometry. We have a belt, we have one, two pulleys. Then in addition to this, you see we have a curve here and a curve here. Now I'm going to go ahead and select these curves and hide them. Now these curves are actually exactly what we need, but let's go ahead and understand how they work before we apply them. So we need to deform this belt, or basically stretch it, around these two pulleys. And we can do that using what's called a Wire Deformer. Let's take a look at the basics of how the Wire Deformer works, and then we'll go ahead and stretch it to the pulleys. So let's understand the Wire Deformer. What we…

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