3ds Max | MCG

So Mythbusters proved you can't physically fold anything on itself more than 7 times...well you can use this MCG and fold stuff however many times you want...as long as you've got enough verts !!!

A picture won't do jack...as what does a flatpack look like.....? a flat box....so you'll have to watch the video to see the effect.

Iterations is how many times you've folded it. Why is it not an integer ?...so you could animate 'fraction' of a fold, that's why.

Installation:

This MCG finds the gap between 2 objects. This is the minimum distance between verts, not pivot to pivot. Hence, your geometry should have a reasonable amount of verts for accuracy. Thanks to Bob Dyce and Daniel Santana for the Vert to Vert distance compound.

This MCG allows you to create gear rotation based on a Master object that has Euler RotationController. Note: this is found in the Motion Panel.

Ver 1.01: changed Axis spinners to radio buttons X, Y, Z. Pls note: if you prefer to use this version, your current gears will have their Axis off by 1, ie. you'll have to reassign them to Z most likely.

This is a generic compound so people can call it and make use of it in their MCG. To simplify things, this assumes your mesh is pure quads (it would still work if it has tris in it, as can be seen in my ParseQuads MCG, however there can be no guarantee if it 'looks' right if you have a random mish mash of tris/quads) So because it is a compound, you can't 'install' it so I've supplied here a dummy MCG to clone on quads, those who know the rename to zip trick then drag/drop...just do so otherwise install the MCG to get the compound Vu_GetQuadInfo.