landing gear brake line b2.49

Support Animation and Rigging
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So I’m in the process of rigging a simple landing gear component scene, and I’ve come to the realization that I have absolutely no idea how to make the brake line expand and contract as needed during the compression and extension of the gear. Here are a few pictures to see what I’m doing and hopefully you’ll get the idea at what I need to do.

I’d like for the brake line to say inside the the clips that are attached to the sub axle and the pins where the two torque links meet.

Any input and ideas would be great.

-KG

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since there only seem to be 3 rings of vertices that you have to move, the quickest fix would probably be to parent those vertices to a new bone connected to the end of the MGtorqueup. Not sure what the hierarchy of your rig is though.

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Thanks biggles1, i’m going to give it a go and report back.