Aircraft Flap Track Amature

Support Animation and Rigging
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Hey guys,
I’m currentley working on an aircraft model. The wings are a hard part, but it’s going on fine.
I have problems to rig the flap tracks, so that they can moved correctley by an armature.

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The basic structure seems to be quite simple. When the actuator bone rotates (marked black), the other bone (grey) is forced to move along the green track. But I don’t know how to fix the grey bone on the one hand to the actuator bone and on the other to the linear track. I tried around with “Clamp To” and “Track To” constraints, but it doesn’t really work.

Anyone out there who has an idea?
Greetings from Germany, I’m looking forward hearing from you :slight_smile:

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Blender rigging have no slider. So slider is simulated with bone stretch asdone here.

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@SkpFX: thank you very much, that is one of the best works when talking about aircraft modelling. Unfortunatley the old planes have a very simple flap mechanic, so I couldn’t find an answer for my question.
@ridix: that’s it! Never thought of it as a slider, it works perfectley fine :slight_smile: