"MaxScript for Speed" Carbon ;)

[s-rajesh78]

looks lot of fun to play with..Good work :) and lot of maths involved i guess.. :) im interested in learning how you did this inside max and waiting for that tutorial..

Seems similar to one CAR plugin for max, dont remember the name though..

[rdg]

Looks like fun to code and to use.

I am looking forward to a battle of the carrigs:
500 miles of cgtalk

Georg

[davestewart]

Great stuff! I see the next MaxScript Challenge coming on...

[marciowski]

very good, man!
You should sell it or give it away to the community.

Great work

[timothyc]

Heh heh. You should equip it with machine guns, some simple AI for pursuing cars in front and eluding cars behind, then put TWO cars in the same arena and let them go at it!


TC

[Fabiomussarela]

Hi, thanks everyone, Glad you guys enjoyed. :)

A guy in the rigging forum suggested me to use a joystick controller instead of spinners, so
I will implement this control to drive the car, just don´t have the time now. :(


I´m also figuring a way of saving the car animation thru time.





http://usuarios.cmg.com.br/%7Ehp-mussarlz/NewInterface.jpg

You Tube link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3JWu9sofSQ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3JWu9sofSQ)


.mpg link

http://usuarios.cmg.com.br/~hp-mussarlz/CarRigNewInterface.zip (http://usuarios.cmg.com.br/%7Ehp-mussarlz/CarRigNewInterface.zip)

.

[oatz]

I don't want to rain on your parade but this exists in the book Mastering the Art of Production with 3ds max 4 (2001). It supplies code for controlling and baking in realtime steering of a car.

Looks like yours may have a better interface so carry on and good luck!

Khye

[Fabiomussarela]

Hi Khye, no problem :)
I did not know that book, would you describe more about it? It´s always good to see other aproachs :)

My rig is 100% driven by math formulas, theres no path, constraints or other stuff.

I´m using ray casting for the terrain orientation.

Here´s another test, now with the "joystick" interface.


http://usuarios.cmg.com.br/%7Ehp-mussarlz/RealTimeCar2.jpg

YouTube Link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9f-3hKA2kk


.mov Link:
http://usuarios.cmg.com.br/~hp-mussarlz/CarDemo3_Joystick.zip (http://usuarios.cmg.com.br/%7Ehp-mussarlz/CarDemo3_Joystick.zip)

[shahabsy]

good work man, i like ur work.
and looking for its script download link.:)..

[davestewart]

Hey Fabio,
That joystick control looks like it works well. Good choice!
I did something similar with a Flash control a while back. Is it a dot net control, or native to max?

(Now let's get some machine guns in there like timothyc suggested!)

Dave

[Fabiomussarela]

Hi shahabsy, thanks :) My script it´s very messy at the moment (my fault) and it´s not an one click solution, I´m still have a lot of work to do :)


Hi Dave :) The "joystick" i´m using it´s a kind of hack, it´s not .NET and not native to max, actualy it´s some native max stuff working togheter :)

The graph is just an image as a background of a rollout , the center quad is a checkbutton.

I´m using the mouse pos relative to the rollout to update the checkbutton and then the checkbutton position and some math behind to drive the values on the "Pos" rollout, the one that have the spinners.

The result is usable but not very acurate, it´s a little bit snappy due to the size of the checkbutton.

If I make the checkbuttun really small, it reduces the snappy problem.

I´ll keep trying some new stuff :)


Here´s the UI Control code, if someone want to use it or improve it :)


xControls = 0

rollout xValues "Pos"
(
spinner xDir "X" range:[-50,50,0]
spinner yDir "Y" range:[-50,50,0]

on xValues close do
(
destroyDialog xControls
)

)
createDialog xValues 100 70

rollout xControls "rollout"
(

checkButton btn "" checked: false width:10 height:10 pos:[45,45]

on xControls mousemove xPos do
(
mouseNewPos = xPos

if btn.checked == on do
(
lastPos = mouseNewPos - [5,5]
btn.pos = lastPos

xValues.xDir.value = (((mouseNewPos.y)-50)*-1)
xValues.yDir.value = (mouseNewPos.x)-50
)
)

on btn rightClick do
(
btn.pos = [45,45]
btn.checked = off
xValues.xDir.value = 0
xValues.yDir.value = 0
)

)
createDialog xControls 100 100

[davestewart]

I've updated the Flash AxisControl I put online (nearly 5 years ago now)! It's now much nicer ActionScript 1.0, and the source code is all available to edit on the root timeline in the .fla.

Download the attached files, and you should have a nice functional joystick, complete with mouseover effects and a gentle slowdown when you release.#

Just make sure to edit the path to the .swf file before you run the script.

Cheers,
Dave

EDIT - Just replaced the .zip: the Flash control now passes normalized values to 3dsmax (-1.0 to +1.0), as well as the coordinate system being in max's native (positive y)

[Joel Hooks]

I've updated the Flash AxisControl I put online (nearly 5 years ago now)! It's now much nicer ActionScript 1.0, and the source code is all available to edit on the root timeline in the .fla.

That is outrageously cool.

Are there any docs on ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash.9 (google. my friend (http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_12059&sliceId=1)) - I'd like to see what I can dig into. I'd be curious if I could use AS3 for this sort of operation.

Coolest thing I've seen all week!

I think you could make a lot of nice interface elements with this.

[davestewart]

Hey Joel,
You may also want to look into ExternalInterface to send commands. I didn't get round to updating the Flash for this, but may do at some point.

http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/8/main/00002200.html
http://discussion.autodesk.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5335343
http://discussion.autodesk.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5413642


To be honest, I don't think AS3 would bring anything to the party. At the end of the day you're just simply sending very simple datatypes from one app to the other. I don't think Flash or Max would care, and things are at least simpler with AS2 as you can keep everything on the timeline.

[Joel Hooks]

I entered actionscript at AS3, so it is more comfortable for me. I think you are correct in that it doesn't provide any functional advantage in this case.

*hates the flash timeline*

;)

Thanks for the inspiration and the resource links!

[davestewart]

*hates the flash timeline*

Ha, ha! Well it certainly has it's uses, and you have more flexibility if you can love both! Glad you like it anyway.

Be sure to post any coolness you come up with too :D

[Bluedude]

Is it possible to put that up for download, never mind how unfinished it is? Also, does it do realistic jumps? I would really appreciate a download, because I do 3ds max as a hobby, after school and stuff, and Toy car is getting boring because of the lack of control.

PLEASE!!!

BlueDude

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[Bluedude]

I think it'd be a good idea if you posted a downloadable version of this, even if it's not ready. I'd like to learn from it, and use it. Does it work realistically on jumps?

BlueDude

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[martinB]

Hi :)

Well, I don´t think this kind of approach is good for production, but it´s something I was thinking about how to do it and it´s a little fun to play :)

It´s a realtime car control, You animate it like on a video game.

Theres no path animation just maths going on.

I will implement a way of max saving the animation along timeline.

http://usuarios.cmg.com.br/%7Ehp-mussarlz/RealtimeCar.jpg

I´m making my personal home page, it will be online soon and I´ll make a kind of tutorial/explanation of this car rig approach.

.

Looks great, I am definitely interested in how you set up the rig.
Please let us know when you have your webpage online.

-- MartinB

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