Blender Secrets - Easy Piston Rigging

Rigging a piston doesn’t have to be hard! With just a couple of bones and bone constraints you’re all set.

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[cptairwolf]

This is a model of how all tutorials should be done. Succinct, to the point and very informative! Excellent stuff.

[GrandimaJ]

Hello Mister Jan Van Den Hemel,
I'm french amator modeler on Blender since several years and with your tips i can learn easely Blender. The rigging wasn't my force and with your tutorials, it's very simply easy and instructive.
Thank you so much and you've win an another suscriber.

Friendly,
Gil

[medafan]

You don't need to go in and out of pose mode to parent objects to the armature, if you are in pose mode and select an object in the outliner it will select the object, allowing you to parent to the bone faster.

[kirshak]

I'm 2 years late, but you are still teaching me amazing things, thank you so much

[AGRAk]

This is probably one of the best tutorials I have ever seen

[squiggly]

Thank you so much, this was super helpful! 😀

[jjosung]

How can I give a limit to the piston? Thanks for the awesome tutorial!

[othoapproto]

"keep offset" is "Object(Keep Transform)" in 3.0 and up. Thanks blender for changing the naming so all the tuts are confusing now.

[lostmarble]

it's like that meme with the two spidermans pointing at each other, except it's bones pointing at each other

[m.e]

I have a question (i youst stardet using Blender). In the Video, is everything "one Part" or are it seperate Parts that get animated fore mecanics? I knew that fore something organic it is all one

[sadness]

💚 Great video as always 💚 Can you teach us how to make riging for a tail?

[keiem]

what sorcery is this??

(btw, awesome tutorial, direct to the point 👍)

[leonemaschio]

Why my bone A and bone B dont have parent "keep offset"....

[riotechmod]

Than Can I report this rig with all properties in Unreal?

[pile]

Excellent. Now I expect someone to use geonodes to animate the pistons of a thermal engine with this, if it is possible.

[DevWo]

i need help, i cant target the armature so i cant select the specific bone

[random_tantrum]

I don't understand how you end up with 2 separate armature groups when originally the piston bones were duped from the first two bones. I tried to separate the bones and make two armature groups but it changes the position of the geometry.

[JonesCrimson]

I'm assuming this wouldn't export to FBX, anybody got a solution or is this a format limitation?

[ThoughtsFew]

Hello and thank you for your tutorial! I am unfortunately stumped on the set up of this armature. I am not able to give both bones a damped track constraint. In fact, when I select between the two piston bones it makes no difference the constraint popup stays on and doesn't reset the way it did for you when switching between bones. Also, if I attempt to select the armature I receive the error, "failed to set value". Like I said I'm stumped here. I created my bones using control D in edit mode as described in your video.

[toodoo]

What difference between "damped truck" and "track to"?