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Old stuff but would be usefull to know how to actualy get the polygons selected. Right now all it does it creates a selection that works with other capsules, or maybe deformers etc. How can i work on selected polygon in a traditional way ?

Dropping the fully rigged tank. Model is from Grabcad. Not textured. Ive added basic speed and steering controls. Not sure how to make the tracks more stiff. They kind of flop around sometimes. And when turning sometimes they will slid off the wheels. They are transfering motor power with friction, so not very accurate, like real tank. Last wheel - cogwheel - should be transfering power by moving the tracks, but doubt that would work well 😄 Maybe i wil ltry one day. There is a Target Null - all it does is stabilize the gun. It doesn't move the tower. but i guess it can be easly linked for that as well. Leopard 2A5_RIGGED.rar

2024-12-28 17-51-59.m4v I mean , come on, this is sick 😄 once its an actual tank. This works actually better than the test rig. I had to tweak suspension and distance between everyrthing and all, crank the quality settings and somehow it doesn't explode until it reaches the edge... Even the suspension mesh moves with the wheels, although its hard to see. Gun Stabiliser. Ehh i love C4D 😄 so easy to do certain things.

Yeah, the typical non dynamic rig is also good. I even used new Rope sim to get the tracks bounce around nicely. So maybe semi dynamic. But just for fun i wanted to try this. It is very unstable actually. For this example work well, but as soon as i moved the box left or right, centre of mass change ever so slightly and whole rig just sink in the floor. So lots of parameters to control, probably very dificul to get it to move on an actual rocky/uneven surface. Increasing the Substeps, or colision settings makes it a lot worse. But a fun 'gadget' to play with nevertheless 😄

More prgoress 😄 This is it. 2024-12-27 18-57-22.m4v TankTrackRig_Test__0003.c4d

Progress: 2024-12-27 18-28-53.m4v TankTrackRig_Test__0002.c4d

Hi all. Im messing around with new dynamic system with connectors and motors trying to create dynamic tank. Ive watched several tutorials but all of them are about the legacy system. The new system doesn't work the same way apparently. For instance when i use hinge connectors, the gravity is being ignored across the whole system. I'm not sure how the setup should look. I'm going in circles changing settings but to no good results. I've got it moving , that's something but its messed up. Suspension Connector for wheels does work with gravity now, But it doesn't look correct. Also why those little support bars(cylinders) in the middle are not colliding with the tracks ? And why the body of the tank ( the box ) drops so low ? how to keep it at a set height but still dynamic ? cause i think that's the only way this works, body has to be dynamic as well. If its not, the whole rig floats in the air. Adding more connectors breaks the gravity ... Attached file with my current setup. Any tips on how to connect it would appreciated. Im sure there must be a way of arranging everything to get it to work. Thanks. TankTrackRig_Test_.c4d 2024-12-27 15-56-45.m4v

Oh i think i know what's wrong... I had to click Optimize and Close holes in the Vol.Builder. I guess there are open polys. Ultra slow but it works...

Hi. Ive created a simple mograph animation, exported as alembic and brought back into C4D. I put it inside Volume Builder but it doesn't recognize the animations. It only displays (builds) the last final frame. Ive tried to put alembic into Connect object and that to Volume builder but it made no difference. Is there some trick to make it work ? ABC is about 6gb so i would rather avoid uploading it here 😄

Strange. But thanks for reply. I can't remember that it ever did it before. I've been converting to obj in the past. I've never noticed any tiff being created or that the materials came with different textures.

Hi all, Ive noticed that when i export OBJ format all the materials are being exported but with all the textures automatically converted to .tif format. What's up with that ? Was that always like this and how to prevent it ? I can't find any info on that online. There is no option to change that in the obj export settings either. All materials are RS materials. Textures mostly png and jpg.

but shouldnt 0-100% mean that it travels the whole length of the spline at the same speed ? regardless of the lengths of individual segment ? Mathematically it makes no sense. But i understand what you saying. It just not very logical in my opitnion. I expected to have issues when the splines has some curves but not with perfectly straight lines. Also if that's the case, why the End Growth works as expected ;D ? i think. its hard to tell if the speed is constant but seems like it is.

Well uniform kind of messes up the spline. But technicaly it does work, if increase the point to something like 200. Still no where near ideal. Why would linear with 0 point not work ?

Hi all. Nice to see forum is back 🙂 I've stumbled upon an issue that makes no sense to me. Ive got very simple setup here. An arrow following a spline and sweep object turning that said spline into a mesh. Ive animated the End Growth of the Sweep nurb. 0-50 frame : 0-100% Same goes for the Align to Spline for the arrow. The arrow seems to be starting at frame 1 or 2 not at 0. there is some sort of delay. But also through out the rest of the path it slows down and speed up randomly. But even at the last frame they don't mach. Arrow finishes frame to late. When i go frame by frame the arrow sometimes will forgot to move. Why on earth they don't match up ? I've tried with a Morgraph Cloner, same results. Brand new spline works to sometimes Tested on C4D R25 and it works like it should. C4d file included. ArrowOnSpline.c4d

Thank you 🙂 I wanted more smokie inside but it made everything too pale and bright.