Viking Giro d'italia Racing Bicycle.

Artwork Works in Progress
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Hi everyone, Does anyone know how i might be able to mke these cables move witht he handle bars without detatching themselfs from the bike?

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Im hoping to get this finished today so any help would be really appreciated.

Thanks, Bizla.

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One option is to use curves for the cables and use hooks parented to the handlebars to move the curves
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Modifiers/Deform/Hooks

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Thanks for the reply, I have never heard of this method, I will give it a go, Since the cables are already BezierCurves it shouldn’t be too much trouble.

Thank you very much, Bizla.

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if you have multiple wire in a cable
you can use the oscuart script for ropes!

salutations

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thanks for the tip ricky :slight_smile:

and Richard Marklew, I cant thank you enough, your tip with the curves and hooks has worked better than I had imagined, took a while to figure it all out but its surprisingly simple, certainly a feature I will using more of in the future :slight_smile:

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heres the bike with the new hooks in place, there are some minor deformations in the cable but thats largely due to having the handle bars turned at such a steep angle for the render.

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Here is the Bike with all materials done, and all modelling finished.

Tomorrow morning I will finish the bike off with textures and decals.

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P.s I own this Racer which Is why I chose to model it, as I know the bike inside out and so have put in every detail and every bolt I could remember (which is ALOT).

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i assume done in cycles !

and not many spokes also look very small !

no spot light in front must be difficult to use at night! LOL

overall looking very nice

happy cycles

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thanks ricky :slight_smile:

Yup all cycles, there should be the same amount of spokes as the real one, and They are extremely thin on the real thing too :slight_smile:

Haha, Yeah I dont do night time riding, just a quick 10 mile ride in the morning to wake me up :stuck_out_tongue:

Thanks mate xD

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Great modelling! I started on a similar bike a few days ago and gave up because I couldn’t find enough reference photos. Did you find photos somewhere, or is this your bike?

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Thanks drtomtron :slight_smile:

Yeah I also found it wa\s very decent getting reference pictures, So I went outside and took photo’s of my own bike, it would also be quite easy to change the base a little to make the viking Roma too, But i’ll see how well the Giro D’italia sells first.

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how did you do the handle’s leather covering
it looks very smooth
how many verts for this detail alone?

did you looks at all new features in blender ?

thanks

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the handle wraps are 1694 verts, i have 2 levels of subsurf applied at render time though which pushing it up to about 15000 verts i think.

And i have just answered your questiong about the wraps on the finished project page to someone else, so have a look at that :slight_smile:

No i havnt, ive had trouble with the last 3 releases not installing :L so im using a slightly older compiled from source version.

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yes but did you use like a curve modifier or skin modifier to do the handles?

there was a lot of new features since last springs
it’s becoming difficult to follow all of these new things! LOL

thanks