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3D Car, Scripting and fun!
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Shany 24 posts02 Mar 2008Well,
I remember hype posted some link here to adobe's convention, showing the new tools and ideas, and one thing i remember cool was the 3d car rig/model that was done by some ex ILM (?) guy.
he create, rigged and coded scripts to control the car(s).
So I thought, well, why not?
AE can do 3D (well, kinda - when it comes to modeling).
I can model (Maya) - not needed here though
I am a coder. (asm, c,c++..bla bla)
I love challenges.
so.. well, lets go!
Basic 3D Model: Audi TT
Includes:
- chassis - done
- windows - done
- headlights - done
- wheels (not needed to be 3d) - done
- Body Mass (null object) - done
Set up:
- Camera - done
Rigging:
-Body attached to a controller. - done
-wheels (front) controller - not done
Scripting (physics):
-Gravity (not coded)
-Air Resistance (not coded)
- Swinging (a lot of weight on left/right side) (not coded)
- fuel consumption(not coded)
- wheel rubber burning out (not coded)
Anyone feel free to add comments, code, help and ideas.
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02 Mar 2008haha sweet.. i'll be keeping an eye on your progress, looks like a cool project.
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Shany 24 posts04 Mar 2008Update,
Here is the tutorial, uploaded through the night, 30mb.
http://shany-golan.info/stuff/progress.zip
* Rename file to progress.avi when done downloading, server thinks the file asx for some reason when u try download with .avi hehe.
* The sound have some hick-ups, i don't know why, it seems to be from the recording app, so hope it's ok. -
06 Mar 2008Hey Shany you inspired me to have a go at this too! I'm struggling with the maths to get the car to steer correctly, but I'll get there. I've gone with a crappy old UK classic, the Vauxhall Nova, because it's easier to model than a sports car!
By the way, you can use precomps of the car and manipulate them in 3D as a normal 3D layer - just switch on the "Collapse Transformations" switch as well as the 3D layer switch and it will magically work. I used this method to make one comp with the side of the car, which I used twice in another comp to construct the rest of the body.
Christian -
Shany 24 posts06 Mar 2008very coool!
whaa, collapse transformations! I'll check it out, how did I forget about it! thanks
Christian hehe in the end we will make our cars race each other hehehehe
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ProLost 2 posts07 Mar 2008Hey all, fun to see someone taking up the challenge!
I'm that guy who for some reason thought it was a good idea to build a car simulator in After Effects. For anyone who hasn't seen it, there's a blog post about it , and you can see a glimpse of the controls I created for myself to animate the cars.
Best of luck Shany, you're a wild man!
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07 Mar 2008Hey! Stu cool to see you here! welcome
i saw your presentation and i couldnt belive it i mean all in 1 night OMG!
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Shany i frequently check your post but im afraid to write anything couse the only scripting i use in afx is the wiggler
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Shany 24 posts07 Mar 2008Hey ProLost! (Stu)
Maby thanks! This is a tough project, not because doing 3D is hard or anything, but the physic part,
especially when you haven't dealt with physic for so long
Does your animatic includes physics for steering, braking, speding up, against road friction, ar resistance..etc ?
or you have key-framed some parts to steer the car, move in space..etc ?
diemacht, be sure to tag along -
ProLost 2 posts08 Mar 2008No physics. My car is an "emulation," not a simulation. I wanted an easy way to generate cool looking car animation, so I designed the system around the idea of animating the car with a single null in 3D space. The car would follow that null and all the suspension, steering, and animation would happen automatically. As I mentioned on the , there are some limitations to my system, including the fact that the cars aren't really moving through space (makes animation easier to move teh BG past them) and they can only really go in a straight line, swerving a bit in the process.
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mahmoudnahmad 1,159 posts08 Mar 2008cant some one figure out a way to work hke files from max (havoc data files) into after effects -
Shany 24 posts08 Mar 2008Hey guys,
I've finished the physic part of acceleration! this result in a cool scripting! and you might learn something new along the way as well! it's a massive code, a big code, and it's in OOP (Object Oriented Programming) straight into AE!
I must say AE handles the code pretty much with honor!
hehehe
tutorial/pics/reel soon.
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Shany 24 posts09 Mar 2008Hey guys,
here is the simulation of the physics car engine:
http://shany-golan.info/stuff/physic.zip
* extract the zip file to watch.
the camera is constrained to the car body mass, the velocity and distance is being generated from the engine.
the physic engine include gear shifting, acceleration, and braking.
every force is being calculated on the car and act according to car specific manufacture parameters. (such as wheel radius, mass, tire fractions, and more)
the only missing part in the engine is rotating the wheels (which are the last part).
now since the car engine is Object Oriented, I can make 3 different 3d cars (out of solids) and give each car its own real values from the manufacture and let them drive, and see who is faster -
09 Mar 2008that is awesome. great effort and hard work on your end.
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Shany 24 posts09 Mar 2008Hey all,
I've deleted the links to the tutorials because its seems the encoding of flash was corrupted in the middle (the video disappeared).
So I'll have to fix it or record a new one.
Will be posted again soon.
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