Car Animation Suspension Wheel Turn Using 3ds Max

This tutorial walks you through the process of setting keyframes on a car with a suspension so it appears to have body lean while going around corners. Also shows how to turn wheels with an equation. This video tutorial is meant to be a companion to the existing HTML tutorial at www.3dcognition.com on the Tutorials page. The video clarifies how to keyframe the car body lean - whereas the rest of the information is better described in the HTML version.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• 3dcognition
• tutorial
• car
• animation
• keyframes
• html
• equations
• path
• following
• 3ds

[meerdark]

what program are you using?

[3dcognition]

@meerdark -

3DS Max 8 was used for this one.

[pepe220987]

Great Tutorial

I have a problem though.

When I try to rotate the wheels on the y axis. the shape of the wheel changes from round into a oval.

Its round at 0 and 180 degrees and most oval at 90 and 270 degrees.

This also happens when I insert the Float expression function... and it looks weird

[3dcognition]

@pepe220987 -

I've seen this happen but forgot what causes it. If you do the execise from scratch it will be fine - if you are using your own data, you may want to try using xform on your models first because it is possible they were scaled unequally.

[monkehboy]

Thnx alot 4 the tutorial dude, was reli usefull... Wot is the code u hav inside the "expression controller". I couldnt make out some of the code. Message me plz.

[3dcognition]

Sorry to you also monkeh, for the late reply - but you can find an html doc on this at 3dcognition d o t  c o m.

[alhesir]

how do you make the cars wheels turn when it drives?

[fairyland007]

hi

can anyone tell me how to animate digits ? i mean i want to make countdown time in 3ds max how to do it?

[pepe220987]

Great tut.

But... my wheels turn into a oval shape when I rotate them in the y-axis??

[Elchin3d]

Sagol qaqam

[mstrlekar]

hello, my wheel is turning like a rowing boat.. help!