Forum - Craft Animations - 3d animation tools

I was able to resolve the gravity issue but I'm still not sure if I identified the cause. Infraworks uses Open Street information and a national terrain dataset to create a scene. The scene is made up of tiled polygons that are subdivided. The roads are separate polys and they clip out the terrain w...

I created a 4 Wheet Ext to drive on a surface created from Infraworks. The surface is a Poly surface and I linked the Gravity Direction Mesh to the surface. However, when I record the scene, the vehicle slowing falls through the surface. It's confusing because I've done this numerous times with comp...

I sort of solved the issue, but I am curious why the wheel would deform. The solution was to create a Link Constraint between the high poly wheel and rig, versus linking the two.

I created a couple animations and the wheels are deforming when I play the animation in Unreal Engine. I have encountered this before in the past with the Extra Wheel for a truck and trailer animation but never with a 4Wheeler and 2Wheeler rig. Also, the only times this seems to happen is when I exp...

Hello. I figured out the issue. I adjusted the Gas Pedal response factor and the car operates correctly. Thanks!

Hello! I'm having an issue with my 4 wheeler is not keeping up with the CarriageNode. As the CarriageNode begins, the 4 wheeler jumps with the node but the Carriage continues to pull away. Looking at the Gauges, the current velocity is 35mph and it reaches 100% of max velocity. My 4 wheeler is set t...

That is what I figured. I recently finished a project that was a legal case, and the Craft Director was invaluable when it came to speed control and timing. Another question. Is Craft Animations working on a Craft Director for Unreal Engine? I think having the tools you developed inside UE along wit...

Hello! I'm looking to animate a crash between a motorcycle and vehicle and I'm not sure if Craft Director Studio can do this. I would use a spline speed controller to navigate the motorcycle, collide with a vehicle, and then fall to the ground and slide to a rest. Is this possible? Are there setting...

I was able to fix my issue. For some reason the problem continued until I restarted UE and then everything worked fine. Thanks!

Hello! I created a car animation and I followed the Youtube instructions about selecting the wheel and using the Constraints > Link Constraint when setting up the car and the rig in 3DS Max 2022. I opened the Scene Explorer and the wheels and body are not under the rig mesh like the conventional rig...

I was using a Spline Speed Controller to control the 4 Wheet Ext and the speed didn't seem correct whenever I recorded the animation. Naturally I thought it was the Speed Units set-up but it still was moving faster than it should. I thought it was some setting in the 4 Wheel Ext properties but after...

I'm not sure what is causing this effect but it only happens when I close 3DS Max and reopen the scene that my Bicyclist are what looks like a mechanical bull ride with the cyclist and bike bucking up and down. When I first create the Bike Group, the bicycle and cyclist work appropriately and they f...

I have a scene where I want the time delay to be 1350 frames and it looks like the maximum value is 1000 frames. Is there a way to change that?

Thanks!

Hi Patrik,

I'm attempting the instructions you provided, and the interface for "Key Info Rollout" is not in 3DS Max 2020. I looked up information on "Set Planted Key" and all the information is from versions prior to 2020. Any chance you know how this may work on 2020?

Thanks!

Thanks for the detailed instructions Patrik! I will give it a run and report back on the progress.

Thanks again!

Steve.

I created a CAT Bone Base Human Biped in 3DS Max 2020. I'm having a problem figuring out the parenting between the bones and the bicycle rig. The CAT Biped hierarchy is set to the following: Pelvis >Left Thigh > Left Calf > Left Foot (linked to left foot platform helper) >Right Thigh > Right Calf > ...

Another issue. I was able to create my truck and trailer animation in 3DS Max using the spline speed controller and everything worked perfect. However, I exported only the truck and trailer (3D objects) to an FBX file and baked the animation. I imported the FBX file into Lumion (another visualizatio...

Thank you! I was snooping around in the settings and I discovered that setting last night and it fixed it. Thank you for the quick response!

I'm creating a rigged tractor truck and trailer and the extra wheels on the truck and trailer rotate (jitter) in the Z Axis. Below is the hierarchy of the objects linked: 1. CarBodyMesh > TowingHookMesh > TrailerBodyMesh > ChassisSuspensionMesh > ExtraWheelMesh > 3D Model Wheel It seems the extra wh...