Car, turning wheels

[moorsel]

I would like to create an animation in which a car drives by. How can I do the wheels of this car?. When I create just an image of a cars and let it move eg from left to right the wheels don't turn around and that looks a little strange.

Thanx in advance and gr,
Frank

[Víctor Paredes]

http://www.freewebs.com/tazatriste/mohos/wheels.anme
i don't know if that is you want.
well i made a layer for the wheel, draw two ovals and rotate it in Y. i created another layer for the the "body" of the wheel and move the points to make the turning effect.

[heyvern]

You could put the car and wheels on separate layers.

Then put them both in a group layer (AS Pro) or a bone layer (AS Standard)

Key frame the wheels motion without any forward motion. Put each wheel on a separate layer and put the center point of the layer on the center of each wheel and rotate the layer.

You could animate one wheel and duplicate the layer. The animation would already be done for the copy and you can translate the layer to where you need it. The layer rotation would still be there.

Animate the grouped layer to create forward motion to match the wheel rotation.

You could even use bones. Bind the wheels to bones and rotate the bones on that layer to "spin" the wheels. All the wheels could be on the same layer this way. Forward motion would always be the "parent" layer translation.

Rotating points doesn't always work as expected. If you rotate the points on a keyframe they want to find the closest LINEAR path to the next key frame and won't actually "rotate"... causing the wheels to "change size".

-vern

[Rasheed]

I created this simple car:



The wheels turn in a loop from 0 to -360 degrees around the Z axis. The wheels also turn around the Y axis, with noisy interpolation. The whole car is translated with noisy interpolation to give the feel of a driving car.

The artifacts you see at the edges of the car are caused by GIF color optimization.

[elbramtsol]

There are several ways to do this. See my example too:http://www.geocities.com/elbramtsol/w.zip

[moorsel]

Thanx all of you for the help!

Gr,
Frank

[Víctor Paredes]

ok, didn't understand.
maybe this one be more useful:

i drew this tank. there is a bone (called "uno") in a wheel which controls all the other wheels' bones.

(right clic, save as)
http://www.freewebs.com/tazatriste/mohos/tanque.anme

[moorsel]

Thanx agian all of you for the help. This is the result:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 4462167128

PS: this snippet is going to be used in a project I am working on:

http://www.lostmarble.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5679

Gr,
Frank