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Connect the drive mechanism to the end of the wheel arm. Considering how your model
will animate is an important aspect to modeling. This unit will animate in and out of the
large pump cylinder, pulling the drive arm back and forth with it.
The completed model is shown in Figure 4.95.
Figure 4.95
You built the whole thing!
Carefully go through your scene and name every-
thing. OK, maybe not everything, but at least name the
top nodes and important pieces of the model. Group items
neatly so that everything makes sense. In Chapter 8,
you'll learn how best to organize the hierarchy of the
model to suit your animation needs.
Figure 4.96 shows the Outliner view of the organization of the final scene on the CD.
Open the scene file locomotive_model_v4.mb from the Locomotive project on the CD to
compare with your work and to guide you as you complete your work. Comparing and
contrasting are valuable learning aids. Sometimes, figuring out how something was done
by starting at the end and working backward ( reverse engineering it) will give you a great
deal of information.
Figure 4.96
The Outliner view of the
organized scene
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