Animate vehicles (in IC, Unreal or Blender) and render in Unreal

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toystorylab	toystorylab Posted 3 Years Ago
Distinguished Member Group: Forum Members Last Active: Last Year Posts: 4.6K, Visits: 29.9K	Member "nildoe" asked for more information about vehicle animation in another thread... As it was not really an "animate vehicles" thread, I decided to make a new one... nildoe (11/18/2022) Hey boss... whats your workflow for animating vehicles? I'm trying to find an ideal workflow. do you animate them in iclone and then export? alembic? fbx? Hm, there are several approaches... And I am not an expert at all! The video above shows a vehicle animated in iClone with Physic Toolbox Controller. (Bullet Physics Engine) See tutorials here: I transferred parts from the ground from Unreal map to iClone (new LL feature) and modified to terrain to get my ground contact. After that I simply transferred to Unreal with (also new feature) LL (scene and motion). Vehicle is automatically placed on correct spot on map. Video shown above got an error due to "delete hidden mesh" in export, be sure to untick if you get similar weird results... Or you animate in Unreal, either drive as you would in game mode and record or let vehicle follow spline. Record your drivable car with Take Recorder, be sure to set "possessable" in Take Recorder "Record Type"... After you have done this, disable physics in car blueprint! And also disable "Auto Possess Player" in Pawn. Add your recorded scene to sequencer... Transfer your character from IC to UE and attach to your car root (from scene). Or use this tutorial to let vehicle follow spline in sequencer: I used follow spline several times (I'm not a good driver, even have no driving licence in real life) with great result but can't show as I don't want to reveal yet :satisfied: So, tutorial above definitely works! Or you can do animation in Blender... This was my first test with alembic export, though that went wrong: Got a good result with export (FBX) to Unreal: Here is the tutorial I used: And here my first approach (July 2020), cars with rotating wheels following path in IC to UE Besides that I also played around with vehicle spawner (Traffic AI)... But that was quite tricky, and without the help from developer I never would have accomplished this! I hope this helps... :satisfied: Toystorylab on Vimeo : Crassitudes (my "Alter Ego") on Youtube:

StyleMarshal	StyleMarshal Posted 3 Years Ago
Distinguished Member Group: Forum Members Last Active: Last Year Posts: 5.8K, Visits: 14.3K	Awesome Toy 👍

3dtester	3dtester Posted 3 Years Ago
Distinguished Member Group: Forum Members Last Active: Last Year Posts: 999, Visits: 2.2K	Very impressive showcase of the possibilities 👏👏👏 The knowledge of some guys is priceless :)

Garry_Seven_of_one	Garry_Seven_of_one Posted 3 Years Ago
Distinguished Member Group: Forum Members Last Active: Last Year Posts: 457, Visits: 1.9K	Excellent collection of tutorials Toy, very helpful indeed Thanks. Garry, Clearstream, Seven_of_one My Pinterests

oberdoofus	oberdoofus Posted 3 Years Ago
Veteran Member Group: Forum Members Last Active: Last Year Posts: 116, Visits: 3.1K	Many thanks Toy! That is a thorough collection! Bookmarked for future projects!

rosuckmedia	rosuckmedia Posted 3 Years Ago
Distinguished Member Group: Forum Members Last Active: Last Year Posts: 3.2K, Visits: 4.8K	Hi Pieter, Great, Many Thx,👍 You write you have the card (ground) from UE5 to IC8 transfer. I had also already done, but did not work out so. How did you modify the card (ground) in IC8? Greetings Robert Sorry my Bad English.😁😁 Translate in German. Du schreibst du hast die Karte (Masse) von UE5 auf IC8 übertragen. Hatte ich auch schon gemacht, Fahrzeug blieb aber nicht auf den Boden Wie hast du die Karte (Boden) im IC8 geändert? bzw. Modifiziert

Garry_Seven_of_one	Garry_Seven_of_one Posted 3 Years Ago
Distinguished Member Group: Forum Members Last Active: Last Year Posts: 457, Visits: 1.9K	@Toystorylab. Once question I had was the iclone to UE with LLink. You showed the video with sub-prob axle fix. Does this solve the wheel rotation being wonky after transferring? I’m guessing the pivots are wrong. Did you do a fix for this or did the newer live link plug-in fix it? Thanks Garry, Clearstream, Seven_of_one My Pinterests

toystorylab	toystorylab Posted 3 Years Ago
Distinguished Member Group: Forum Members Last Active: Last Year Posts: 4.6K, Visits: 29.9K	Thanx guys! Much appreciated... :satisfied: Toystorylab on Vimeo : Crassitudes (my "Alter Ego") on Youtube:

toystorylab	toystorylab Posted 3 Years Ago
Distinguished Member Group: Forum Members Last Active: Last Year Posts: 4.6K, Visits: 29.9K	rosuckmedia (11/19/2022) You write you have the card (ground) from UE5 to IC8 transfer. I had also already done, but did not work out so. How did you modify the card (ground) in IC8? Did you convert to terrain? Here is a quick and dirty tutorial: Overall the "Physic Toolbox Controller" method is not so convincing, the front wheel movement (turns) is quite choppy... If we could let the car follow a path would be better, but I could not get it working. When you use activate link to preview, the wheels did not rotate, but after transfer they did... Toystorylab on Vimeo : Crassitudes (my "Alter Ego") on Youtube:

toystorylab	toystorylab Posted 3 Years Ago
Distinguished Member Group: Forum Members Last Active: Last Year Posts: 4.6K, Visits: 29.9K	Garry_Seven_of_one (11/19/2022) You showed the video with sub-prob axle fix. Does this solve the wheel rotation being wonky after transferring? I’m guessing the pivots are wrong. Did you do a fix for this or did the newer live link plug-in fix iI? The fix did solve this issue I reported (wrong axis on subprop): Toystorylab on Vimeo : Crassitudes (my "Alter Ego") on Youtube:

Animate vehicles (in IC, Unreal or Blender) and render in Unreal

Animate vehicles (in IC, Unreal or Blender) and render in Unreal

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