car wheel animation

[varak]

Hi,
I'm looking for 3ds max plugin for car wheel animation.
I found Mdcar but just not sure of the mouse controller to run the car and still exploring.
anyone has link to other plugin option or tutorial.

thank in advance for the your time

regards
vara

[vasilescu_anton]

There are a few threads on CGTalk about car rigging where you can find a lot of good info. Also search on http://tech-artists.org/ as there was a discussion there too.

Here are a couple of tutorials I found online:
http://www.maxforums.org/thread.aspx?tid=528820&lp=true
http://laurent.renaud.free.fr/loran-tutorial05-uk.html - this one is pretty complete
http://www.cuneytozdas.com/tutorials/maxscript/ - scripting tutorial that can be used for wheel rotation
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=40382
http://area.autodesk.com/index.php/t...visualization/ - general rigging techniques

Hope these links will help!

[duke2]

I was really reluctant to try out Madcar too - but i'm glad I did. It's actually really easy and you can tell it to use keyboard rather than mouse. What I usually do is tell it be less sensitive to acceleration input so I'm effectively driving it in slow motion, but when you play it back it's in correct motion and looks perfect. You don't have to bake the motion down or anything either, and my limited testing has it working fine over Backburner.

[stilgarna]

More easy way :

http://laurent.renaud.free.fr/ezcarrig-UK.html

[varak]

Thanks for all the support and link.
Well the ezcarrig is can work with max 2008 and 2009?
Becouse i can only see download for max 9.

regards
vara

[mohment]

www.craftanimation.com

4wheeler extended....Its a little pricey but works great.

[jonahhawk]

oops nm

[duke2]

oops nm

What's all this then - VRayStorm?

[KVMaster]

Rigging

Elf has a good tutorial on controllers and wire parameters for rigging:
http://www.elfpro3d.com/indexviz.html

[Da_elf]

well. my tutorial is mainly for the transfer rods on a 4x4 and the suspension system for a suzuki samurai. the tutorial for the dampener actually has a video part to it now (2nd video tutorial) im going to do a video tutorial for the leaf spring suspension as well.