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Nicely found with the DistanceRuler and linking it to the Input for the 4-wheeler. I was going to write about the DistanceRuler as an option, however, it is slighly more complicated to set up. The issue is that the distant ruler only outputs positive numbers. So first when you connect you will notic...

Hi and welcome to the forum. Slightly confused to how you like this to function. But there are a couple of different solutions to do this. Option 1: Configure the input for steering. Then hit record and press the button to turn the wheel and release after desired time. If you need this to be exact y...

I can think of a couple of things that might be an issue. Terrain is not a mesh or a polygon. Mesh has overlapping faces which makes the model "confused". To many polygons used in the terrain (too heavy). Our usual suggestion is to make a copy of the terrain and cut out the terrain part that is need...

The 4-Wheeler does not support other than round wheels. Only the scale of the mesh is taken in to consideration and thus the dummy mesh is only a representation of that and not used for the animation itself.

We are very close to release a version using a totally different license solution. This will solve this issue for you.

You can, however not with the model itself by using "Save slected..." from the Main menu of CDS and save it as a .prm. This can then be loaded in on Maya to be rigged with the model.

Have you tried to reset the scale of the mesh before exporting?

Hi I can't seem to link the Craft car rig to so that it works with the carriage node? Can someone help with how to get it linked please. 1. The 4-Wheeler Extended has a mesh called TargetMesh this mesh is what you link to the CarrigeNode. 2. In order for the 4-Wheeler Extended to follow the TargetM...

Thank you for your suggestion.

Vipera wrote: ↑

Fri Aug 11, 2023 12:47 am

+1 for that. In a mean time you could use my script for speedometer and altimeter. https://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scri ... peedometer

Ah so that your script. Actually a script I recommend to those asking for a speedometer

Vipera wrote: ↑

Fri Aug 11, 2023 12:56 am

When you make your simulations make sure simulated object is not far way from origin of coordinates 0,0,0. Otherwise you will have some jerkiness in animations.

Ok thank you for letting us know. We will test it out.

Yes, that looks a bit odd. The target where is it? on the ground?

1. So you move the trailer (no keyframes?) and then it is tilted? 2. Yes, a known issue. 3. Understood. We did have a 4-wheeler that could jump quite well early. However, it had issues that made it jump differently on each resimulate. We have been looking to bring this back as an option even if it ...

Ah, no Craft Director Studio does not have this functionality. Thank you for the suggestion.

Sorry, the Crawler does not have a ground release option unfortunately.

Hi Dave,

We have not received that much response to this issue but we would be happy to have a look at a scene you have issues with.
Please send us a scene you are having issues with (I will contact you via email) so that we can have a look.

Best Regards,
Patrik

1. So you move the trailer (no keyframes?) and then it is tilted? 2. Yes, a known issue. 3. Understood. We did have a 4-wheeler that could jump quite well early. However, it had issues that made it jump differently on each resimulate. We have been looking to bring this back as an option even if it i...

Turn? You can always attach any camera to the cameras of CDS and if you need to transfer other movements, like zoom or focus etc you can use Parameter Wiring. Here is for example a guide on this.
https://craftanimations.com/manual/cds- ... yOptionOne

It is possible but it is going to be very hard. Parking goes faster by doing manual driving. Yes, it can take a couple of takes before you are satisfied. What you can do is record using autonomous mode up until the point where you would like to "park" and then switch over to manual control instead a...

We do not store our data in GC we allocate our own instead. So, trying to truncate the GC does not affect our tool. Do you have a very high poly ground? The more polygons the ground have that the 4-Wheeler is driving on the slower the simulation gets. So, if this is the case I suggest that you make ...