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The task at hand is an array of cards that should be flipped by 180 degrees. The solution should be as flexible and as easy to setup as possible.

Creating the array is pretty easy. Create a new box object, scale it down a little and for the looks apply two different shaders to each side. Duplicate this card like 9 times in X direction and the resulting 10 objects again 9 times in Y direction.

Select the cards and run RampRotate.

If everything went fine you should now have 100 cards attached to 100 ramps and one called masterRamp. All ramps get their info from this master ramp. Animating the masterRamp drives all others as well. The rotation around Z is attached to the red value of the ramp. The higher the red the bigger the rotation.

If you want the rotation to be different than Z just edit the script at the location before the ROTATION AXIS comment.

Since version 1.52 there’s support for an “Attractor” in the Generizer. So, what’s it actually? You could think of it as a magnet with the ability to control the flow of the field with a curve ramp. The videos below should make it a bit clearer what you can do with it.

[VIDEO 1: using a hemisphere as Attractor]

[VIDEO 2: using a NURBS cylinder as Attractor, twisting the generized templates]

I’ve added another tutorial video with a commentary track. This time you’re going to learn how easily Wire and Maya Dynamics can be connected. I hope you’ll enjoy this little demonstration.

Today I also created my first tutorial video with a commentary soundtrack using the OSX version of Wire. It covers some of the brand new features of Wire and should actually give a very good first impression what Wire is capable. You can find it here. I’ve got lots of ideas but at the moment I’m a litte too short in time. But I’m giving my best.

Another thing that has also been updated very recently is the Gallery and guess what, the new images cover certain aspects of Wire’s and SmartDuplicate’s features. The Generizer objectes have been sent to my by sjo and the raw models of the knots came from Michael Spreu. Thanks a lot guys! I hope I can come up with some tutorial videos for the Generizer in the next few days as well since I think that now it’s really time to promote this thing.