So I bought a pretty cool steampunk loco from Daz3d and while, in general, I'm not a locomotive sort of guy it looked so cool I had to have it.  Getting it into iClone I realize it has the rather common (but somewhat complicated) piston and bar arm thingee that moves the three wheels and drives the piston (for what I assume is where the power comes from -- again, not really a locomotive sort of person).  My first thought was I could go into Max with this and set up the linkage and animation (and, indeed, I even found a video from Warlord here, who talks about doing just that and then importing the resultant animation back into iClone) but I kind of hate Max on my laptop (the only place it resides nowadays) because at my old age I can barely make out the interface.

But I got to thinking -- we have all kinds of physics in Max, and I even have the physics toolbox.  Surely there must be SOME way to do the same thing in iClone?  I can't possibly have been the only person in the world who thought about it, right?  Except I seem to have been, or at least no one else has ever written or asked about it.  So I'm asking now -- anyone have any experience or thoughts in doing this?  Am I wasting my (precious left) time?  Because this is definitely one case I do NOT want to reinvent the wheel (pun completely intended).  

If it's just impossible in iClone I'll bite the bullet and rig it in Max, but before I give up I'd like to hear others' thoughts on this (because there are a lot of folks without Max out there who could probably benefit from it).

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Mike "ex-genius" Kelley