Wykan wrote:

> Greetings -
>
> I've created a model of a six-legged robot, with a distinctly "insectoid"
> look to it. I'd like to animate it now, but I'm having difficulty planning
> the motion of the legs.
>
> If anyone has an animation of a six-legged creature in motion (or better
> yet, the source code for the motions of those legs), or a tutorial on the
> subject, I'd love to see it.

I remember seing something a while back on research being done. In most
cases, it was elegantly simple. You just have two tripods walking. Two legs
on one side, and one on the other.


1    4
 \  /
  \/
2----5
  /\
 /  \
3   6


Just animate 1,5 & 3 as a synchronized set, and 4,2 &6 as another.

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