Car following road

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Car following road

Posted by Simon Bronson on May 4, 2005 at 5:51 am

Hi there,

as a newbie to cinema 4d I just wanted to ask how I can animate a car travelling on a bumpy road (with many ups and downs) I have created, without hand animating it. Am I entering expression land here?

thanks in advance,

simon

Base80 replied 21 years ago 4 Members · 8 Replies
8 Replies

Adam Trachtenberg
May 4, 2005 at 12:48 pm

Yes, that’s going to require some hefty expressions or else the use of a plugin. It can be done fairly easily with Paul Everett’s Spline Projector plugin; I think it comes with an example of this. https://www.tools4d.com
Base80
May 4, 2005 at 2:31 pm

I am still working on this.
Here is a car xpresso that drives the wheels alright. But it does not handle the collision (yet)
https://www.base80.com/index.php?page=xpresso
Take the “base car” xpresso.
Base80
May 4, 2005 at 4:28 pm

I have been fiddling around on the basecar and here is the result
https://www.base80.com/xpresso-files/BaseCar/basecar2/test-carSys0.4.gif

It does handle terrain but not completely (the whole car should make more rotations )

here is the file, follow the instructions written on the Nulls and set data in the UserData
https://www.base80.com/xpresso-files/BaseCar/basecar2/CarSys0.4.1beta.c4d.zip
Todd Groves
May 4, 2005 at 8:12 pm

Thanks. This looks like a cool tool.
Simon Bronson
May 4, 2005 at 10:53 pm

Wow,

that’s amazing. I didn’t expect such a thorough response including previews and project files!! Thanks alot base80, and other friendly posters for your time, energy and knowledge to solve this problem for me. The cow is certainly one of the best online communities on the web today.

awesome,

simon
Base80
May 5, 2005 at 2:59 am

Of course this is a great forum. No doubt about it. But the car xpresso is my all time favorite development. I just love to work on this xpresso!
I have have say that the first serious implementation of this expresso will be free only for the 3d attack magazine or it will be on sale on my site. This thing takes a big part of my life and therefore a lot of my time. Have fun with this preliminary result and show us your results, please.
Todd Groves
May 5, 2005 at 2:55 pm

Thanks so much for the car Xpresso technique. It’s a great tool. Is it coming in the June 2005 issue of 3DAttack?
Base80
May 5, 2005 at 4:45 pm

It is a project I am working on for more than a year. And I will not finish it any time soon.
I distribute it via my site and update it once in while.

For the June magazine I will do something but I don’t know what.

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