This week we had self study due to Nick being sick. During this time I worked on my Rude Goldberg machine, I searched some inspiration to make in one cohesive thing, so I looked for how I wanted to do my background. I decided to go with moving gears and a clock in the middle. This clock will add to the Rude Goldberg machine at the end of my simulation. I searched for references for my clock and gears and tried to shape these objects by these references.
For the clock I also followed a tutorial. In this tutorial I tried to recreate a basic but interesting shape and get the seconds, minutes, and hour marks and the numbers. This tutorial was a bit fast but in the end I was able to follow it quite a good amount.
See below a few of the references I used to create the different gears and the clock as well (the mixture of the gears and the clock). I decided to create 3 types of gears so that it does not all look the same. Then I copied and pasted these gears to create a wall like pattern for my background. Then I grabbed every individual gear and rotated these as close as I could to make them look aligned, I did this by using the Z rotate key.
After this I decided to create a little bit more realism by adding some pillars to my build to hold up a few of my bullet rails and such. I google searched some images as reference to a stable metal pillar and placed these under my platform and under my first slider rails. Below you will see 2 of the reference images I used to create the pillars on my build.
I also decided to replace my ramp idea I had last week by doing a funnel slide, This slide will give more direction and will give the machine a little bit of a twist. This slide will be textured transparent so you will be able to see through it and see the sphere roll down the tube. Also for this part I needed some kind of support beams otherwise the slide would just be floating. I added these spy glass looking things to create the support beams for the slide.
At the end of my Rude Goldberg Machine there will be this button that gets pressed by the newtons cradle that I made last week. When this button gets pushed the time will start going really fast on the clock. this will be the end frame of my Rude Goldberg Machine.
I’m still having a little bit of problems connecting all these different parts. One of the spheres of Newtons cradle is suppose to get hold up by this tube until the ball will smash this tube in to pieces and lets go of this sphere. I have not yet figured out how to do this. the tube I made with the shatter effect will shatter from the start of the video due to the force of the sphere of Newtons cradle pulling downwards. In the video below you can see a small example of how far I am with this part but yet to get the timing right.