Truck & Trailer

[Ernest Burden]

The truck can be animated quite realisticly with the Drive! plugin. It's not free, but it does amazing things and will save you a lot of time. Or you can hand keyframe the truck.

The trailer could be animated by rigging it with character bones. There may be some xpresso code that people have written to handle that task, also. Hopefully they will post here to tell you more than I just did.

If you had the Drive! plug I wonder if you could use it for the trailer also, just making the 'engine' have zero power, just use the suspension parts. I don't know, but it might work.

[3dnow!]

Thanks to @Ernest Burden. I haven't Drive plug-in. But i was examine it. It's very interesting plug-in, but not support "trailer". Trying other methods for this animation.

[gildattack]

you could do it with constraints, i think there is a free tutorial at cineversity that uses something like this

[Rantin Al]

Yes, Cineversity has a Tractor & Trailer tutorial which describes how to do this very easily.

Join up and search the titles for "Articulation Rig using Constraints".
(It's one of the free tutorials.)

Cheers, Alan.

[3dnow!]

Thanks for yours favors. It's ok. And thanks to Jon Ware for superior tutorial on Cineversity.

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