WIP: dustbuggy

[DrDave]

Hi !
:beer: I love your work =) :beer:
:rolleyes:

I think that the bestway to make the wheels is to use xpresso.

Please post again :drool:

[pixelbot]

:bounce:

dang Squidinc - that is very nice - love your style.

as for wheels give expresso a try my first attempt at expresso (for a Piston head) went very smoothly

timt

[JIII]

it souldnt be to hard to do that I dont have an exact formula but with maybe 10-20 mins of futzing around with it you should have a decent wheel spin thingy.


nice work squid.

[Mentat7]

Ahhh...a super duper extrusion powered squid-mobile!! :) Inspiring as always. Could we see a wireframe of that lil' puppy? :beer:

[randyrives]

Excellent as always! Seem like I remember somebody working up an Expression to do the Wheel Calc thing. I will try and remember where I saw it and try to get it for you.

[ThirdEye]

hahaha too cool, you kick ass Mike!!! :scream:

[S3D]

Now this is a treat :beer: :thumbsup:

*note to those with long hair, hairnets advisable... :scream: :scream:

nice buggy

:applause:

[flingster]

as usual goes without saying really it kicks!

now i wanna see it kickin up some dust......:thumbsup:

[Brucie Rosch]

love your style

gotta agree with this... your stuff is so unique and fun... would be a great line of toys

[Kotayus]

you know squid...ATV's were taken off the market because of instability! Im sure a rocket engine doesnt help it out. lol grea work squid, very awesome.

[squidinc]

here it is again in the environment that it'll be racing around in

http://www.m1k3.com/cgremote/wip-dustbuggy2.jpg

and a couple of wires

http://www.m1k3.com/cgremote/dustwire1.gif

http://www.m1k3.com/cgremote/dustwire2.gif

[JIII]

Like that enviorment it looks like the porr guys head is gonna get sucked off when the jet unding starts up lol

nice work.

[S3D]

Yea, may not be too too stable on corners, but still... it has the makings of a product... fit in any toy box around these parts just nicely... in fact using the back of the seat as a sort of handle, allowing that part to flip up to open to empty compart... and sticking a blade into the turbine area, this would make a mean pencil sharpener sitting on any school desk...

Uh, let's see... X number units per store times X thousands of stores... a few of these and a guy could retire...

The way I see it, if a guy like Chip Foose can design his cars in minature for the "HotWheels" line, then hell yea... make this thing a pencil sharpener... the wheels as erasers and yes, they can buy new "tires" ... gotta keep the change coming in somehgow huh?

haha, looking cool man.... perhaps some sort of spring and torsion system from the pivot to the undercarriage, I dunno, but it really has that product ready look to it...



:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :applause:

[handige_harrie]

Happyships 'The Joust' :applause:

Very nice as always :).

I really like the sand/haze. I haven't found out yet how to get nice haze.

Oh and if you are doing car-control in expresso I would really like to know how. It would be excellent if the whole car could automaticly accelerate, decelerate, bank, bounce and spin its wheels by just using expresso, paths and a surface.
Combined with a tp-emmiter to the bottom of the tires, emmiting sand (of course depending on speed, turning and sliding).

I don't know if all that is possible (and I have no experience using expresso) would it would just be great :drool::D.

[randyrives]

Link to wheel/track expression (http://www.c4djug.com/expression/ex.html)

This is the expression I remember somebody using. I have not used it so I don't know how well it works but maybe it will at least give you a starting point.

(scroll down the page till you see the tank tracks)



Love the lastest version, How did you create the sand storm in the background?

[Halogen]

Wow i love it mate, how do you go about thinking up such creative designs?!

Like that enviorment it looks like the porr guys head is gonna get sucked off when the jet unding starts up lol

Haha true, that was my first impression, but its still awsome.

Keep up the good work :)

:bounce: :p

[kiwi]

Very cool :thumbsup:


Any room for some flames on the paintjob? :D



Stu.

[mimo8]

keep on rocking!

great style!
the mixture between blown up cartoon and tech-mech is candy to my eyes

the seat could be a little more elaborated!
http://www.recaro.com/
;)

[flingster]

thats why this forum is good...the willingness to exchange info freely...well done mimo8 & randyrives...both links i've not seen before.:applause: :applause:

[That Adrian Guy]

Good job. Squid!

At first I thought, this is too cartoony to fit in with your other models.

Then I thought, Cooooool this IS cartoony! I love the style!

Randy Rives' link for the expressions is great! you shoud use it!

[dandavis]

Lookin good there Mike, so, that haze, hmmmm..... I might want to do something similar on a less grand scale. hmmmmm....I wonder how someone might do that......

[squidinc]

I couldn't get that tank thing to behave properly :shrug:
but I've managed to get decent wheel setup working with help from Mikael Sterner

download this file this file (http://www.m1k3.com/cgremote/wheel-test.c4d) to see what I mean

select the box and move it forwards and backwards, the wheels should rotate correctly ( the bulk of the work on this is by Mikael, I just added a couple of expresso bits so that wheels turned when they are a child of an object )

[squidinc]

Originally posted by dandavis
Lookin good there Mike, so, that haze, hmmmm..... I might want to do something similar on a less grand scale. hmmmmm....I wonder how someone might do that......


download these :)
pelham design shaders (http://www.pelhamdesign.com/shaders/c4d_shaders_v6_7.html)

use the haze texture on a huge box that surrounds the whole scene, then adjust the height of the box until the haze is at a height you like ( I assume this is the correct way of using the shaders, I didn't read the manual :D )

[handige_harrie]

Originally posted by squidinc
I couldn't get that tank thing to behave properly :shrug:
but I've managed to get decent wheel setup working with help from Mikael Sterner

download this file this file (http://www.m1k3.com/cgremote/wheel-test.c4d) to see what I mean

select the box and move it forwards and backwards, the wheels should rotate correctly ( the bulk of the work on this is by Mikael, I just added a couple of expresso bits so that wheels turned when they are a child of an object )

That's funny, I just started doing some little tests on this with expresso. I got the wheels to spin when the (4-wheel) car moves (yay :p), that was easy, but now I want the car to make a turn and let the front wheels steer with it. I can't figure out how to do this.

The file doesn't work for me, I get a message about a plugin I'm missing.
I can see the expresso, and that looks pretty complicated.

I have got a lot to learn about expresso :bounce:

The tank file does work here, but it's COFFEE and I don't know if that will help you.

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