Here's my first attempt at making the leg motion more realistic.  I took 
a look at how human beings walked, and decided that I'd use vrotate to 
track the foot position:

vrotate (<0, 0, 1>, <-360 * Step, 0, 0>) * <0, 0, StepDistance>;

where Step runs from 0 to 1 over the course of the walking cycle, and 
StepDistance is the distance the foot travels over one step.  An #if was 
used to change out the final vector to add a vertical element when needed.

Unfortunately, it looks pretty much no different from the original, and 
has the added difficulty of making it a nightmare to make the 'Mech walk 
over any terrain.  I took a look at my original again, and realized that 
with all the trig functions I was using, I was essentially already using 
vrotate.

Posting this in swf format, because it works so well with looped video.

Post a reply to this message

Attachments:
Download 'arch.swf.dat' (805 KB)