Easy Blender Piston Rig!

Sometimes rigging in Blender can be a hassle. But not this time! Learn how to use bone constraints to rig a piston rig that can be used for epic machines and giant robots!

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[cyqry]

At the end when you mention rotation constraints, I believe you can set a degree of rotation constraint as well as completely locking it down. For pistons, it would be good to limit but not completely lock out the X rotation so your piston doesn't pop out of the cylinder by accident.

[VelocityVFX]

This was a perfect tutorial, easy to understand, and to the point. Thank you.

[MuslimNow]

New Subscriber here! Great tutorial, easy to understand for newbies like me.

[johnlarsson]

another video for my blender tutorial folder.
good jobb :)

[havenonamei]

Great tutorial, really useful, thank you！

[Phoenix_VR]

It helps with you print shortcut keys you are using.

[MoonifyStudio]

how do you do it with weight painting?

[chensiheng]

I tried to bone, but my mesh dissaperaed afterward. Any idea what caused this?

[WesleyOverdijk]

Cool.

Instead of rotating by 180 degrees, you can use alt+f in edit mode to flip the bone's orientation. okay bye

[Gelly-yqxr]

Why when I click one armature, it selects all of the armature?

[indianeinstein]

HI, I have applied damped constraints for pistons.
they are behaving like simulation i.e, when I move the
frames in timeline, the pistons are coming out and again settling in.
I thought its going to ok while in render.
But No ! even in seq render its behaving sameway…,
‘pistons are coming out and again settling in’ !

any solutions plz help
thank you

[mango]

What buttons or commands are you pressing to move and change the size, rotation of the bones?

[notoriouswhitemoth]

I reproduced the setup in the video, but the arm isn't moving with the plate.

Okay, I found the problem - a minute and a half in

[winsonlee]

Hi, after I set the constraint track for both sides, they no longer match each other with sightly move away. How come?

[Sushanth-mo]

I have a doubt how to pull this exact thing into unity??

[LiterallyJumble]

sorry I zoned out can you start again?