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Nice animation!
What type of tank is that? It looks old but also futuristic.

Keep up the good work!

Wery nice done David!
The movies really get life with real camera work. It is nice to be able to skip the modeling of the enviroment I guess, wrong?.

Look forward to see more work from you.

Best
Patrik

Good Luck, Muhahahaha

We will see about that

..lies a vast ocean. Hidden in it' murky water lies numerous differen eco-systems, each one different and unique, yet completelly dependent of each other. The eco-systems are very fragile and it takes very little effort to collapse one. And if one fall, many others will follow. If the balance is no...

...That went kind of smooth until I accidently made the computer reboot, of course without me being able to save my work first :shock: . So about 1.5 hour of work went to waste. I almost feel guilty for this one, as I'm the one who wanted to plug in a gamepad in Henrik's computer to test something ...

hi i wanna know how to rig the suspension component, such as swing arm to the vehicle body? like the car under carriage video I've seen in craft animation website?? Ok so I made a rig so that you are able to see how I would do it. The green/yellow meshes are three different instances of the Craft S...

geet wrote:ok about the disk brake problem how do u do it in bike mesh

You would do the same thing as the answer above. The Craft 2-Wheeler Extended also have a WheelCenterMesh in the front wheel and one in the rear wheel. If you are animating a bicycle you would also change the Maximum Pitch Angle to 0.

WIth this method, were the brakes grouped in the wheel group? I am just starting learning today, and see that you have to have 5 groups (4 wheels and the chasis). Thanks. Well you parent the brake(the red part) to the WheelCenterMesh and the brakedisk you group with the model wheel and link/parent ...

Just as Stefan says you do not need to edit the 4-wheelers dummy other than move and scale the body and wheels. Here is an example of a truck rigg: http://www.craftanimations.com/images/forum/truck_rigging.jpg As you probobly can see is that we have moved the rear wheels and the TurnBaseMesh to the ...

Here is the manual for the trailer:
http://www.craftanimations.com/index.cf ... AA3C1FBF49

krz9000 wrote:it works!
thanks for guiding me throught.

No problem at all!
If you have any other questions or so don't hesitate to post them as well.

If you go in to the configure for the 4-Wheeler and go down to the Suspension Parameters you should find a check box that is named Fixate Wheel Center Nodes uncheck this box and then it should work.

Hi krz9000 and welcome to the forum! There is a solution for your problem. Parent your brake setup to one the following nodes: WheelerExt_01_WheelCenterMesh_FRTransform WheelerExt_01_WheelCenterMesh_FLTransform WheelerExt_01_WheelCenterMesh_BLTransform WheelerExt_01_WheelCenterMesh_BRTransform These...

Hello and welcome to the forum mikej,

Have you had any different version of Craft Director Tools installed before on your computer?

I am suspecting that you are probobly having the same problems as trimmis had.
Path Constraints Autonomous Mode
Does this help you

Hi and welcome to our forum Fredrik! A tip is to check out the Craft Trailer manual as well. This manual is more aimed for semi truck trailers. Trailer manual I also made a picture set of how I would rig one of those trucks: http://www.craftanimations.com/images/forum/truck_rigging.jpg As you can se...

Hello Vegar and welcome to our forum! The mesh you must link/parent to the ground is the GravityDirectionMesh that is under the 4-Wheeler Extended rigg. I guess you are linking/parenting the TargetMesh to the ground. This is wrong. The TargetMesh is used when creating autonomous animations ie. using...

Hi Stefan,

I will forward your request to Lou.

If we film the workshop I don't think we would sell DVDs. We would probobly upload the workshop movie to our homepage instead so that everyone can watch it.

thanks for the tip!

Are you sure you are using the latest version of Craft Director Tools? I suggest that you download the latest one and reinstall Craft Director Tools. If you are trying to merge older files you may need to resave these before you are able to merge them. The merge functionallity was implemented about ...

Hello Pete and welcome to our Forum. Greetings, I have a vehicle that is composed of a 4WhelerExt. This is a standard car with standard car attributes. I would like to create some sort of hybrid vehicle that i can interchange functionality at a press of a button (ideally), simulating a car that can ...