Blender Secrets - Easy Piston Rigging

Set the Armature to In Front.   Duplicate a bone in Edit Mode  and align it with a piston.   Press Shift+S and alternate between Cursor  to Selected... and Selection to Cursor.   Repeat for the other piston. In Object Mode select a piston,   hold Shift and select the Armature. In Pose mode, select the bone.   Press Ctrl+P and parent the piston to the bone.   Repeat for the other piston. Give both bones a Damped Track bone constraint.   As the Target choose the Armature and as the  Bone choose the bone of the other piston.   Now the pistons will always  point at each other.   In Edit Mode you can parent  the piston bones to any other   bones by pressing Ctrl+P and choosing Keep Offset.

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Published: Tue Mar 29 2022