This is a Piston animation, with supplied shaders and render settings for Mental Ray. Motion blur can be added by simply turning it on, but be aware the render times increase substantially.

Scene
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- Originally modeled in CAD then imported to Maya, cleaned and shaders added to the items.
- Maya 2009 used for this file but has been tested in 2010, 2011 and 2012 and it loads and renders fine.
- No external plugins used other than the Mental Ray renderer that comes with Maya.

Topology / Modifiers
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- Topology is quads and tries
- No modifiers added
- 286,158 polys
- 165,524 verts

Rigging / Animation
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- The pistons are animated by rotating the flywheel
(RotateMaster node).

- The piston rods are constrained to the points on the engine crank.

- To move, scale or rotate the group you must use the master node to do so, otherwise the constraints break and you will need to reload the model.

Textures / Shaders / Mapping
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- Each object is textured with standard Maya shader not requiring UVs.