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Hi I manage to get the suspension to work. However, when starting the simulation, the wheel drops at the first frame and the suspension is stretched (the car is not moving). I am trying to get the suspension in rest position to stay as it is. Then get stretch or compress when the car is moving. Any...

version 9.3.1 build 1458. It is a very strange issue indeed, i left my computer on overnight for 3 days just so i could keep max open, i have finished my animation now, and edited my waypoints. but the issue still remains.. Try installing 9.4.1 and see if the problem remains. I know 9.4.1 includes ...

I was trying to add in some of the steering noise and was wondering if there is a way to adjust the frequency of the noise so it looks less jerky. Are you using the latest version? Because we updated the Autonomous Mode recently (I believe the update was included in version 9.3.1 or 9.4.1) to work ...

Hi im wondering if anyone can help me, i am using the spline speed controller, it works great the first time i put it to a scene and i can play with it and edit it as much as i like, i save the max file but when i re-open it i lose the abily to edit the waypoints, i can still see my animation worki...

I was also noticing in a couple of my scenes it would have problems when I had a subdivision modifier on my ground object, such as a Turbosmooth or a Subdivide in Max. When I collapsed them into Editable Poly it worked fine. Strange In order for Craft Director Studio's tools to be able to interact ...

Hello! I have a problem with Craft 4-Wheeler Ext. in Cinema 4D R11.5 I follow step by step this tutorial but nothing works, car do not move, I tried 100 times but nothing works. Is there a difference between Cinema 4D R11 and Cinema 4D R11.5? Is it possible to get a video tutorial how to rig a car ...

I'm afraid that's how the cameras of the camera tools are created. It might be changed in the future but since the camera tools was built to work in this scale, they will have to be re-written in order for the scale to be adjusted.

I just checked the video and besides the fact that Luigi sounds like he had some helium before making this video :) I have a question. Is this just a simple, quick way to demonstrate how to set up Crawler Tracks? I ask this because there is no use of the Cog Wheels or Extra Wheel tools. Has the wor...

Carl, I finally got back to this and opened the file. Will this only work if the wheels are not turning like in the max file? If you want the wheels to turn I would recommend using Craft CogWheels (with reverse direction check in its config). You can combine it with a 1DRotator which is using the s...

I am currently trying out Craft Director Studio for the first time and have run into a problem with 4 Wheeler Extended. When scaling WheelerExt_01_CarBodyMeshTransform to the size of the high-poly car everything works fine. However, when I start aligning and scaling the wheels individually I run in...

hmm, I thought I needed to record first, then if I made changes to the settings I could resimulate. What would be the difference between the two buttons? Is the record button just for recording the live inputs, when you take control of the rig? Correct. Record is for recording new input data. Resim...

Yes, that is the best way I have found so far. It seems like about 5 cars at a time is the most you want to do at one time. With 100 cars or so though it gets tedious, and I was wondering if there was an easier method or perhaps I was setting it up wrong. Thanks for your help. Aren't you able to Re...

Hello, I am doing a scene with a large amount of cars in it. The rigs all seem to work properly however when I am ready to record the animation it often locks up. I have tried breaking up the scene into smaller segments with varied results. Sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't. I was wondering i...

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Hello! I have a problem with my craft director studio 9.3. When I do 4 wheel extended or free and when I linked the graviry to the ground everything is good but when the car cross the ground instead of falling down it become to fly up. HOW can I turn this action so when the ground is over the car t...

Hmm, it has to do with parenting. Creating a "fresh" Craft 4-Wheeler Extended, if you try and move 4WheelerExt_01_CarBodyMesh it moves OK but if you try to move 4WheelerExt_01_ChassisRelocatorMesh it moves in hyper speed. But if you move 4WheelerExt_01_ChassisRelocatorMesh to the root of the scene i...

When I go to move My dummy wheels (highlighting all dummy parts for 1 wheel) it takes off at warp speed :evil: When I select one of the wheel meshes for 4wheeler extended and try to place the object in the correct position it starts to take off in warp speed across the view portal, the only way to ...

Hey Carl I origianally posted this in a different thread but i was wondering if You might have a remedy for this TITLED: Moving Object breaks the sound barrier? When I select one of the wheel meshes for 4wheeler extended and try to place the object in the correct position it starts to take off in w...

Yeah it recognizes everything correctly except for my combination peddles, it recognizes them but the accelerator makes the car go in reverse and it dont automatically generate the second input, ive tried playin around with it to get it to work correctly but not luck yet, ive just been using the ke...