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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 ...

The reason is that there is a lot of data that is stored in memory that needs to be sorted. For example in the undo and redo memory. So when you restart the 3d program these are removed.

My suggestion is that you can try undo before you start a new simulation to mitigate.

Hi, I have made tests with both a 3ds max line (spline) and Spline Speed-Controller's own spline creation and am not experiencing any issues with the delay function for example. What spline are you using? Does all the waypoints show a yellow color instead of green once you edit WP01? (yellow = delay...

Doing some testing yesterday, I noticed that in Max, if you unlink everything from Maya, then freeze and reset transforms, then center all pivots again on the wheel/tire I would say this is the process for solving this between 3ds max and Unreal. Not sure why, but it seems like Unreal and/or Datasm...