Walking...Physics... Has anyone done this?

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#1

Just to be clear: I am not looking for how to make a human-like object appear it is walking while moving it forward by doing something like a sprite sheet.

Rather, I’d like to know if anyone has (and can show me) how to put together objects using the physics engine to create a walking human-like object. For instance, attaching two rectangular legs to a rectangular body and walking them back and forth. I have tried a few ideas and haven’t gotten anything that good yet, so I’m hoping someone has figured this out already.

Thanks for any help!

P.S. It doesn’t have to be perfect, if you secretly place a wheel at the bottom of a leg or something clever like that to help accomplish something, that’s fine. [import]uid: 36054 topic_id: 11519 reply_id: 311519[/import]

#2

Never tried it, but a couple of links that this search turned up have tutorials on how to do this with a 3D modeling tool. Your approach would probably be similar, but in 2D. Didn’t deep dive, but it looks like they just joint together the body parts and move certain ones, the others following behind.

http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=3d+animation+walking&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 [import]uid: 58455 topic_id: 11519 reply_id: 41889[/import]