AutoMobile Ver 1.01
This is a must have for all 'Lightwave3D Automobile Animation' book readers. Well, for all other Automobile Ver1.01 users too. available for free download . This Generic Lscript will set up a car within a minutes with fully steering control and all wheel parent to main null so all most car movement can be animate. No matter you want grid style animation or drift style animation.
PLUS! Set Pivot For AutoMobile- 2Kb
An Modeler Lscript that center the pivot point to the center of the object. It is useful specially setup a pivot point for wheel so we can animate in layout easily. This script is a part of Automobile Ver 1.01.
PLUS! Imperial 2 Metrics v1.0- 2Kb
Imperial 2 Metrics v1.0 are available for download. This Modeler script is use to convert imperial unit to metrics. e.g. you want to know how much 12 inch when it convert to centimeter, you can use this tool. There are three option in the script. inch to cm, feet to m and mile to km. And good new is, it is open source. so you can learn how to use Lscript in LightWave especially for the beginners, don't forget to tell me if you made a great change and remember to show it to me. This script is a part of Automobile Ver 1.01.
Automobile Ver 1.01 is a tool for easy AutoMobile setup. It provides You with a set of predefined rigs that You can adjust to Your own cars in minutes. It also allows You to customize AutoMobile in any way You want and make any variations of predefined constructions as well as build Your own AutoMobile from the scratch if You have this need!AutoMobile - First panel you'll access and choose a setup type
AutoMobile 1 - Set up you car with Rotate wheel and steering control
AutoMobile 2 - Set up you car with steering control
AutoMobile 3 - Set up you car only This plugin have 3 main panel ( AutoMobile 1, AutoMobile 2, AutoMobile 3 ). Each panel don't give the same result even the panel AutoMobile 2 and AutoMobile 3 are same. AutoMobile 1 give the complete control to your car while AutoMobile 2 only set up steering with no wheel rotation. AutoMobile 3 don't set up steering anymore so you have choice to set it yourself using Expression or channel follower plugin, all it will do is parent all the tyre to the main null so you can just animate the main null.
AutoMobile Ver 1.01 control list:
- Car Body - Select the main body of the vehicles.
- Front Tyre 1 - Select front wheel 1.
- Front Tyre 2 - Select front wheel 1.
- Rear Tyre 1 - Select rear wheel 1.
- Rear Tyre 2 - Select rear wheel 2.
- Front Tyre Diameter - Set the front wheel diameter.
- Rear Tyre Diameter - Set the rear wheel diameter.
- Steering Rotation limit - Angle rotation from center.
- Distance in meter - This will move the vehicles -Z axis to the target distance.
- Create frame - Your animation last with distance you set. AutoMobile Ver 1.01 release was focused on making rigging system for car as functional as possible and it's ready to add more function to it in future.
- Limitation -
- Only allow car face to -Z axis while setting up -
- Movement allow to -Z axis only -
- One of the part of vehicles much be selected while setting up -
- Limit to four wheel vehicles -
- Pivot Point much be set at Modeler-
- Manual -
- The car much have 5 layer one for car body and four for the tyres-
- Each tyre much set the pivot point at the center of the rim-
- The pivot point for the car much be set at the center and higher than ground | 
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