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The car doesn't ride on the surface, starts from the Grid & moves along the grid path . I have parent constrained the surface to gravity tool & have followed accurately as told in tutorials nevertheless, pressing record the craft car & the model comes on to the grid.
I am not able to animate the car on my respective surface.

> I am using Maya 2008, tried in Maya 2009 also same problem
> Surface is a Polygon
> I am using the latest updated craft plug-in.

Any Suggestions ............... pl......ease.

Please help

Thank ya

MRaaJ3D wrote:The car doesn't ride on the surface, starts from the Grid & moves along the grid path . I have parent constrained the surface to gravity tool & have followed accurately as told in tutorials nevertheless, pressing record the craft car & the model comes on to the grid.
I am not able to animate the car on my respective surface.

> I am using Maya 2008, tried in Maya 2009 also same problem
> Surface is a Polygon
> I am using the latest updated craft plug-in.

Any Suggestions ............... pl......ease.

Please help

Thank ya

Hello MRaaJ3D,

My guess would be that you've used a Parent Constraint instead of a regular parenting. Here's one way of doing this:

First select _GravityDirectionMesh (the red arrow) then hold down the Shift-key and click on the ground object to add it to your selection.
Now either through the menus, select Edit -> Parent, or use the keyboard shortcut: p .

Hopefully this is what went wrong and solves the problem.

This might help:
http://www.craftanimations.com/files/fo ... r_Free.htm