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how to make the car follow the line?

Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 9:40 pm
by fernandosc3d
How do I get the car to follow the path plotted with the LINE?

As the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuSeLwMiFyU


Thanks

Re: how to make the car follow the line?

Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 1:39 pm
by Micael Belin
The car only follows the targetmesh (the green cross), waht you need to do is to animate the targetmesh. What we did with this particular movie was to parent the targetmesh onto a Craft DirectInputLink node (invisible in the render) and use it to animate the targetmesh.

You can also link it to a spline and animate movement as you normally do, or use Craft SplineSpeedController for advanced usage.

Re: how to make the car follow the line?

Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 1:46 pm
by fernandosc3d
Yes, more how can i animate the green cross?

Re: how to make the car follow the line?

Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 2:15 pm
by Patrik Martin
fernandosc3d wrote:Yes, more how can i animate the green cross?
Witch 3d program are you using?

Re: how to make the car follow the line?

Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 2:27 pm
by fernandosc3d
3d max 2009 64-bit

Re: how to make the car follow the line?

Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 2:09 pm
by fernandosc3d
I managed to take my doubts, I was forgetting to apply the path constraint