Forum - Craft Animations - 3d animation tools

HI Patrik: You guys had a good run in an extremely difficult market. Your software was great and helped me to pay my bills. I never lost money by buying your stuff, even though your prices were probably too high. If you get rested up, put another team together, and throw CDS back into the arena, I'l...

I'm moving all of my Max stuff to a new workstation. How do I get the new licenses to authorize my Craft Animation plugins? Thanks.

Thanks to both of you. Now, I understand.

"However, it's only your first post that needs manual authentication by us. After you have been authenticated a valid user, you are free to post as you wish."

Micael, if you look to the right of my previous post, you'll see that this was my 14th post.

Is there another forum somewhere on the Internet where Craft Animation plugin users communicate freely with each other, share information and problems without having to be approved by some unknown authority?

As a forensic animator, I want to have complete control over the speeds of objects in my scenes. The name, "Spline Speed Controller" seems to indicate that it can be done with this tool. I have tried unsuccessfully, over the last few months, to harness that control. I have tried using, both, Max spl...

I've been using CDS plugins for over 2 years. I haven't found a solution to the initial jittering that takes place. It's a minor irritation, but an irritation, none the less. I would rather that my clients didn't see it; but, sometimes they do. The best solution that I've come up with is to start th...

I was using a motion path with keyframes added at the end of the path; but, you're correct, I failed to uncheck the key-framing icons for everything except the new 4WE. It's been so long since I've had to do that, that I completely forgot about it. Thank you.

I have a scene requiring 3 vehicles. One of the vehicles is an 18 wheeler which I have rigged with "4WE" and "Trailer." The second vehicle is a sedan rigged with 4WE. The 3rd is a box truck (6 wheeler), rigged with 4WE. I animated the 1st two vehicles in Autonomous mode. After that, I merged the 3rd...

Okay! A fresh install has fixed it. Thanks.

I am still unable to access the free utilities. They are installed along with all of the other plugins; but, when I try to open any of the utlities, I get a message that the plugin has no license and I need to purchase it. If I click on "Create," I receive a message that the utility will not be able...

You're correct. All of the utilities are unavailable. My first thought was that a browser was to blame. Since the browser wars began, I've had to bounce around from one browser to another in order to get some things to work. I tried all of my browsers with this issue but, nothing worked. It's 3:45 A...

Can anybody tell me how to access the "Free" utilities in Craft Director Studio v9.4.1? Purchasing this new fractional upgrade has not been a happy experience for me. I've been using CA plugins for a couple of years: 2WE, 4WE, Spline Speed-control, and trailer. I've depended on "ExtraWheel" for many...

Carl: One more thing: If you do want to go to the Web site and pick up a copy of the Max file, you need to know that it contains photos from the accident scene. Two children, ages 3 and 8, were crushed to death in the accident. I've removed most of the unpleasant photos; but, some remain. Some peopl...

I tried that. I, also, tried linking to the high poly model. I was probably sloppy in my setup. I'm behind schedual on this project; so, I'm reluctant to spend any more time with the problem. I'll get back to this issue when I have time, so I can see where I made the mistake. If you would like to lo...

I need to roll a 10 wheel vehicle with 4WExt. The vehicle has 6 Extra Wheels. The ChassisRelocationMesh seems to be doing everything that it should; but, I can't get the Extra Wheels to follow it. I've tried attaching them to everything (except the correct thing) and when the ChassisRelocationMesh d...

Previously, I started a thread about scaling the "4Wheeler Ext" dummy to an odd shaped vehicle that I have to work with. I tried to solve that problem by using only the unform scale option and moving and scaling the CA dummy tires to match those on my scene vehicle. That left me with a strange looki...

I need to animate a mobile drilling rig. It is about 57 feet (17.4 meters) long and 8.8 feet (2.67 meters) wide. This is a large vehicle; but, has no 5th wheel. It's kind of like a bus but very top heavy. I uniformly scaled the 4Wheeler ext. rig up to match the length of the vehicle. Then, I scaled ...