rubix cube

ive done some research on the topic, but i cant seem to find any answers, is it possible to rig a rubix cube without creating costum codes?


(they are key framed already, for got to delete the keyframes)

here is a cube by the way if any of you want to try.

I’m not sure what you mean by “costum codes”
What are you having problems with?

I did an animation on a rubic’s cube a little while ago: https://youtu.be/bgcScY7CiMs
I didn’t do any rigging.
The key here was changing the rotation mode to quaternion - otherwise the animation didn’t look quite right.

doing an animation like that is very restricting, you cant rotate where ever you want,as you can easily get gimbal locked.

also, if you want to do a lot of animations, its a lot more practical to have it rigged, so you dont have to spend so long every time you wanna make a selection.

Sorry, I could not look at your dropboxxed file.

A rig like this can be used for an animated 3x3 Rubiks cube. The 26 bones radiate from the center. Parent a cube to the tip of each bone.


can you send the blend file? also how would it animate? i need to have nice controller bones, and avoid getting gimbal locked

btw you can download the blend file, look in the top corner

You could have a look here : https://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?154615-Problem-with-cube-rotations
and here https://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?54588-Rigging-rubik-cubes&highlight=rubik