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Title: I need help with rigging vehicles in blender
Post by: CausticFlamingo on March 17, 2013, 04:30:39 pm

I am verry interested in rigging and importing vehicles but i don't know anything about rigging or any of that (other than making a few scenes in blender a few years back)
I haave a few models picked out but i dont know where to go from there.

Title: Re: I need help with rigging vehicles in blender
Post by: TopNotch on March 18, 2013, 02:58:29 pm

Have a look here.

http://www.outerra.com/forum/index.php?topic=1558.0 (http://www.outerra.com/forum/index.php?topic=1558.0)

Title: Re: I need help with rigging vehicles in blender
Post by: CausticFlamingo on March 18, 2013, 05:26:39 pm

I read that this morning pretty useful actuly, by the way when is the tutorial video to be expected?

Title: Re: I need help with rigging vehicles in blender
Post by: TopNotch on March 19, 2013, 09:54:30 am

I could make a small tutorial. Tough, I don't about some ingame mechanics work yet. I will try later to make a thread which each step to bring a vehicle from blender to outerra.

Title: Re: I need help with rigging vehicles in blender
Post by: CausticFlamingo on March 19, 2013, 12:10:55 pm

That would be awesome, and I'm sure verry useful to many blender users, can't wait.

Title: Re: I need help with rigging vehicles in blender
Post by: Silmaril.SE on March 20, 2013, 03:51:50 am

I don't know if this would be any help, but I did a quick video of how to get a simple vehicle from Sketchup into Outerra. There's no sound, but it should be pretty simple to follow.



The main points are:

Each wheel should be a separate component.
All wheel components should be grouped under a single other component.
Each wheel's axis should be aligned to Sketchup's own axis.


The script (of which I understand very little) is a direct copy from Luishi5k0's Extreme buggy (cos its super simple) and then just adjust the wheel height to match the model.


Hope its helpful to some people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qafnUKaHTs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qafnUKaHTs)

Title: Re: I need help with rigging vehicles in blender
Post by: TopNotch on March 20, 2013, 10:48:13 am

The video you posted is about sketchup, not blender.

Here you go

http://www.outerra.com/forum/index.php?topic=1591.msg18043#new (http://www.outerra.com/forum/index.php?topic=1591.msg18043#new)

Title: Re: I need help with rigging vehicles in blender
Post by: Silmaril.SE on March 20, 2013, 10:50:17 am

Quote from: Nadeox1 on March 20, 2013, 10:48:13 am

The video you posted is about sketchup, not blender.

Here you go

http://www.outerra.com/forum/index.php?topic=1591.msg18043#new (http://www.outerra.com/forum/index.php?topic=1591.msg18043#new)

That'd be me being an idiot and not typing what I meant. Thanks for the spot. I've changed my post now :)

Title: Re: I need help with rigging vehicles in blender
Post by: CausticFlamingo on March 20, 2013, 08:13:06 pm

Ok, I have been messing around for a bit in blender and all i managed to get the wheels disappear when i import it and i added armatures on all the wheels parenting the wheels to the armatures... I'm stumped..