Forum - Craft Animations - 3d animation tools

Do you know if anyone has had any success with proxy objects (vray or mental ray) and the craft 4 wheeler plugin? With so many cars in my scene I am wondering if I could use proxy objects and how that would work, and also how to set it up.

I've placed 11 cars all linked together and following a carriage along the 5 mile stretch of highway I mentioned earlier and the recording speed has dropped dramatically. Is there anything I can do to speed up this process? My plan was to have hundreds of cars driving through the scene, but if its t...

Thanks for the help, I've got it all figured out and have setup a configuration profile for the cars the follow and it seems to work. I'll share the settings and results when we are all done. One other question I had was if you could have a carriage start at a location other than the start of a path...

I loaded the profile and did a little tweaking and it seems to work better, but its not as easy to navigate as it is outside of the observercam recording mode. I'll keep playing around with the settings, but at least its working on all axis' now. I might try putting the camera on a spline speed cont...

I recently purchased a space pilot 3d mouse from 3dconnexion (subsidiary of logitech) It works great in my view ports in 3ds max and is very easy to use, but when I try to use it in conjunction with the observer cam plug in It doesn't allow me to control the camera. It shows up in the devices and I ...

I'm trying to figure out a workflow for creating traffic using the 4wheeler extended and spline speed controller plugins. So far I have one car rigged and following a path with some waypoints that stop it for a couple of seconds and some that speed it up from approx 30mph to 45mph. Here are a few th...