Forum - Craft Animations - 3d animation tools

Hi, The reason why we are having problems with moving grounds is that the tools expect them not to move. Calculating full physics is very hard, and if you have to take in consideration of external forces it gets even harder. In order for our tools to run and simulate in realtime, we take shortcuts. ...

No, a VPN should not affect it. Our licensing system may complain if you are running on a virtual machine, but in such cases you would simply get notified when creating a tool that you are missing a valid license. Can you send me some screenshots on your licensing dialog? Just in case i notice somet...

This may sound as a very stupid question, but what you describe sounds like the behaviour of cds when no valid license is available; cds lets you run with the tools in the current session without a valid license, but the tool won't be saved alongside the scene. Can you just validate that the license...

Hello firatturkel, The issue you report is an issue we have encountered before, but i'm confused that you have received it on 17.3.2. The issue indicates it is missing the Visual Studio redistributable runtime .DLL-files necessary for the plugin to run. This have happened earlier when we by mistake ...

The break caliper is missing out in the 4-Wheeler free and is only available with the commersial version. There is probably a way to set up a constraint which will make the caliper not rotate, but i'm sorry to say my Maya experience is not enough to help you with that.

Hi Vangelis, I am very sorry for this, but we simply can't motivate implementing it. This is very unfortunate as we have a very good relationship with MAXON and i personaly enjoyed working with them. However we cannot motivate it due to the lack of CINEMA 4D customers and implementing support for CD...

Beautiful! very high-quality rendering. Is the interior rendered as well or is that actual footage? (the clips where the guy is shifting gear)

Make sure all tools are active while recording. Each tool has a key next to it, which indicates wether they should be recorded or not. Are any of them disabled?

Use the 4-Wheeler and ExtaWheels as the steering wheels. Place the wheels from the 4-Wheeler on the axes which move while you steer. then place the 4-Wheeler pivot pin on one of the axes which doesn't move. Then use the ExtraWheels on the axes which doesn't move. Don't forget to fixate them! (you fi...

Working on an update!

In the meantime, please log in on our ftp:
ftp://public:craft@gbg.craftanimations. ... ist_12.1.1 and download and install the appropriate package there. That will solve the issue.

My personal favorite is actually just an ordinary gamepad with analog sticks. Just don't use it as a digital gamepad and smash the sticks all the way to the left or right once you need to turn, the gamepad can give you a very good level of detail in your steering. Otherwise any steering wheel should...

Hi Anides, Do you delete the rig by deleting the objects in the scene, or by deleting the 4-Wheeler in the CDS main window? Both of them should be fine, but if you encounter an error using one of them, please try the other approach and let me know if it makes any different. The reference issue is a ...

Have you imported the scene from another file type? We have had reports of problems with running on meshes imported from CAD-software, and your scene shows the same problem. To remedy this, create a box adjacent to the track, make it an editable mesh, then attach the track to this new object. Then r...

If your road consists of a group, or consists of something more advanced than an editable mesh, CDS may not recognize it. Try make sure you have only one editable mesh representation of the road, then try link the gravity node to it. If you wish the road to remain more complex, simply make a copy of...

Hi Andy, No, the 49322 port is something the licensing system uses internally. But the problem you describe indeed originates from a bad pointer to the server. If you are running on Windows, please download the license tool for easier troubleshooting: ftp://public:craft@gbg.craftanimations.com/tools...

Did you manage to run any older version of CDS on the computer? Maybe for Maya 2011?

Were you able to use CDS at any point prior to upgrading to 11.1.5?

Hi Qianan, Does the controller show up in the device combo box? Open the input settings on a tool and open the device combo box on any of the inputs. We depend on the SDL library for input devices on Mac, so the PS3-controller needs to be compatible with it. I am unsure if this is the case but i'm q...

Hi D,

Try see if this prelease version of 10.1.5 helps you out:

OS X - http://www.craftanimations.com/tasks/si ... 11.1.5.dmg

Simon gave us a very detailed explanation on this issue in this thread:

http://forum.craftanimations.com/viewto ... 3021#p3021

Hi Simon,

Thank you for the heads-up, and the quick solution! I'll see if we can implement it directly into the system, otherwise we'll try revise the documentation. Again thank you!