Free Car Dynamics Plugin

[trick]

I can't believe I read this on a Lightwave forum first. All the trees you see were generated by a plugin he wrote himself too, but is not production ready yet. Amazing !! You may need to login to Evermotion for this first.

[percydaman]

I haven't been able to get it to work. Neither from scratch or even the sample scene he provided.

[bardo]

tested and it's really good in my opinion.

I test the samplescene and the real-time driving with keyboard.
As free plugin i think it's good for my little test.

[percydaman]

how did you get it to work? nothing I click on does anything. I tried the realtime driving and the speed always says 0, regardless of the amount of throttle it says I have.

[bardo]

percydaman,
select the dummy of the car.
select the keyboard mode of realtime driving
click update surface e select the modeled plane.
click reset animation
click OnRunDriving

with keyboard you must use AWSD like FPS game.

Good racing!!!

[percydaman]

that worked great. thanks a bunch

[dellis]

Still need to spend a bit of time on it....good fun driving! Not really clear on how to attach a car mesh to the rig though.

Can't wait to see that tree plugin!

[RErender]

I was having fun with it, linked a camera for a drivers view

[pixelstudio]

Have you seens the nicely rendered animation? i love the tree's. think i have read somehwere thats these trees are also of a plugin he wrote. but that one is not yet available....

[marcoos]

yeah how do you link objects to the rig, nothing seems selectable.

[percydaman]

you need to add the madcar controller to your different meshes that correspond to the helper object.