Driver Animation

Discussion in 'Car Modding' started by Marc Danisch, May 29, 2015.

  1. Marc Danisch

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    Are you using 3DSMax to create the animation?
     
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    Try making your first and last frame the same as your middle one. So 0 and 200 or whatever.
     
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    Sorry for using this thread but I have a question which fits to the topic: In principle it should work but would it be possible to animate two drivers!?

    I'm asking because of sidecar racing...just came to my mind and I remember a rFactor mod with these. Maybe one could do an animation with both drivers to give the whole thing a bit more of life :D
     
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    Coutie Moderator Staff Member

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    Yes, you could animate as many as you want. I would imagine that the DRIVER instance is the only one that would follow the steering wheel though. But maybe you could have two animations in that instance.
     
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    Hm...maybe the number of armatures are limited too!? Would be really interesting to see if this works :D
    Anyhow I see some problems with the second driver's behaviour: In real they lean on the rear wheel during acceleration but on longer straights they sit down to get a better/lower profile...could be tricky to animate that!
     
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    Mah...first test simply failed because 3DSimEd currently just supports 40 bones and Blender basic armature has 63 bones...maybe the transformation/rotation is in wrong format too but I will have a closer look later :)
     
  8. Coutie

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    Karts have an animation on the feet/pedals, maybe you can figure out how that was done, and make the co-driver move like that. Gas he crouches, brakes he sits up.
     

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