That bothers me a little bit too. I think I can fix it, but it will require
a lot of work. The problem is that I made the head include a little of the
neck, making the pivot point back so far that while the axis is tangent to
the spline at the back of the head, the front of the head is pointing
somewhere else. If I make a few neck sections that can rotate the same as
the other body sections, moving the pivot point for the head as far forward
as possible, it should look better.
Steve

"Jamie Davison" <jam### [at] ntlworldcom> wrote in message
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> In article <3f6b0d08@news.povray.org>, ssh### [at] rexnetnet says...
> > Hi,
> > This is something I've been working on for quite a while, and I finally
got
> > it down. A lot of details to work out yet, but the hard parts are done.
I
> > used Moray 3.5 mesh editor to make the snake parts, 243 body sections
plus
> > the head, animated along a spline, using Chris Colefax's Spline Macro. I
> > will gladly provide more details, if anyone is interested.
> > Steve Shelby
>
> Try to keep the head pointing in the direction of travel if possible.  I
> don't know of any snakes whose heads move like that while they're
> travelling.
>
> Otherwise - Ooh, Pretty :)
>
> Jamie.
>

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