Realistic Car - Procedural Animation

#1

I need some huge help here…

I have a really good potential job coming up but I need to know how to rig cars on a professional level, I can do that with characters and monsters / creatures and robots, but I’ve never done cars.

He says “they have to drive like they’re driving on rocks if they’re on rocks” so it’d be a case of make the car go from point A to B and it’d just drive…

I’m not looking for someone to type up the answer, that’s impossible. But what do I even search for, can you recommend tutorials, websites, etc.?

Cheers

#2

Hi,
This is something I have come up with :-
http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/marketplace/scripts-plugins/character/c/vehicle-rig-generator
Rgds,

#3

you could also try this: http://rendering.ru/ru_en/madcar.html

#4

Hi guys,

Thanks for your responses. I can’t use automated processes, I need something I can setup myself, troubleshoot myself, expand on myself, and understand myself. No shortcuts here :slight_smile:

Hopefully you can shed some more light on how to actually do this?

#5

http://www.3dtotal.com/index_tutorial_detailed.php?id=1133#.UECvSexPHQE

The collsision detection is handled with a Conform object but I’d rather script something using intersectray

#6

That is far far too basic. The stuff I need to learn is for engineering advertising… I will look into intersectray.

I really just need a starting point, maybe a tutorial, to get into it myself. It has to be able to be used professionally so I can’t use some basic system like that.

#7

well you need to start at some point right? when you have a basic car rigged you can start adding stuff on that and get to pro level there is no straight line from basic to pro . bam in one shot :slight_smile:

#8

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