Forum - Craft Animations - 3d animation tools

Yeah. Temp fix for us. Unique name for each car. Then merging. Then saving and closing 3ds max. Then reopening the scene with a merged craft car. This approach didn't work for me. After merging second rig, saving file, loading again and checking rig I had a situation with all links broken in one of...

I have similar problems. What I do, I link terrain and all objects in the scene to master Point helper or Dummy. And for each scene I move this master point object such way that my scene on terrain was about origin of coordinates 0,0,0. Then I animate CA vehicles on terrain. CA vehicles are not link...

CraftAnimation merge function is completely broken in 3ds Max since version 2021. I recently had to animate a few tanks. I created rig in Max2022. I tried to merge this rig to another Max2022 file to have a few copies of the tanks and all my attempts were not successful. I tried to rename CA rig bef...

I just want to confirm that we still have a problem to merge CA objects in newer versions of 3ds Max.
3ds Max 2021 - Works fine
3ds Max 2022 - Doesn't work
3ds Max 2024 - Doesn't work

Here is .max file with CA missile animation where I have problem with missile orientation during flight.
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/8yhru70c ... 3e6oa&dl=0

The target is behind the image frame at left top corner, about few hundred meters away.

The world is small. I am glad people find it useful. The original script was written by Bobo. But when I started to use it I found an error in script, so I had to fix it. While I was fixing it I decided to improve it by adding more options.

I am trying to use Missile operator to simulate missile launch from ground launcher. I am having a problem with missile orientation during initial missile flight path. The problem is that even missile moves up the missile orientation is with nose down. I tried to tweak various parameters but I canno...

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.

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

I had already created couple of tank rigs using Craft Animation plugin following the tutorial in documentation. There are two things I wish were improved in plugin regarding tank rig though. First, current simulation is done based on 4 wheel vehicle rig. What is fine if tank is moving above about fl...

Thank you for the work around solution. I will use this trick until the fix released.

I am having a problem with the Craft Director Studio v21.1.3 in 3ds Max 2022.3.3. The problem is that I cannot merge created rig to the new file. I previously worked with this plugin in 3ds Max 2021, and everything worked fine, but it doesn’t work in 3ds Max 2022. There are steps to reproduce: 1. Op...

I am having a big problem with the thing that if you open a second version of 3ds max then it takes a second floating license. We have two floating licenses and have plugin installed on two workstations. If one of the workstations opens second copy of 3ds max then it takes the second CraftAnimation ...

Hi Patrick. Is there a way to get tech support ASAP?

I use Craft Director Studio v19.1.4 in 3ds Max 2018 on Windows 10. I am having a problem with the restoring saved profile. I have created a tank rig with extra wheels. I adjusted Input Property Parameters in CrawlerExt tool. Then I created a new profile for this tank rig and saved whole rig as a tem...