Tim Soderman asked for some walking tutorials and was given a ton of
links. Unfortunately very few of those links dealt with POV-Ray and the
ones that did were include files, not tutorials. The walking.inc is
helpful and makes it possible to
make simple walking animations, but it doesn't explain how to do it. Tim
said it and I'd have to agree, we're looking for tutorials....I can use
the include file all day long but I don't get anything out of it if I
don't understand why (acos((B*B+C*C-A*A)/
(2*B*C))+atan2(lStride,lAnkle))-pi/2  moves the knee a certain way. I've
even made a ton of small animations wherein I move a sphere by every
imaginable variable (ie:
sin(pi*clock),sin(pi*2*clock),(clock*clock),sqrt(clock),etc.etc.etc).
but
it really didn't help me to understand the complex type of math that is
used in walking.inc. Also, downloading the source to a ton of IRTC
animations didn't help because 9 out of 10 of them had equations that
were just as daunting. If anyone knows of a tutorial that explains these
things better it would be MUCH appreciated.
 thanks.
  jason.
   www.angelfire.com/co/ug

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