CAR ANIMATION IN UNREAL ENGINE | Production Pipeline

[@postprocessed]

CHECK OUT UPDATED TUTORIAL FOR ONE-CLICK RIG IN UNREAL ENGINE 5.4! kzbin.info/www/bejne/bn6nh52GrJWUrqM

[@Trueomega93]

If anybody can't see their Rig Control Shapes in the preview window like I couldn't, (Arrow4_Thin) for example, you need to press the T key to make them visible. Awesome tutorial can't wait to try animating with it!

[@postprocessed]

Or also make sure that you are not viewing it in "game mode" by pressing "G" on keyboard!

[@voyeurdeobjetdart5994]

Thanks for this Tip!

[@bakani2218]

You are a life saver🎉

[@MediaComposer101]

Hands down easily the best and simplest tutorial on Vehicles in Unreal Engine 5. Love it!

[@postprocessed]

Let me know if you would like to see a video on car render setup in Path Tracing or Lumen, or how to color grade it in DaVinci Resolve

[@BAYqg]

Definitely!

[@apixel.content]

Lumen render setup will be great and take that render to Resolve to color grade. I am sure the path tracing yeilds a better result, but i don't have that time to wait for an render especially on a slower GPU. :)

[@elfincredible9002]

Lumen please, some of us are still using archaic GPUs haha.

[@postprocessed]

@@elfincredible9002 I believe path tracing actually works not only on RTX gpus. It uses different approach for calculations. But render times would be insane 😁

[@elfincredible9002]

@@postprocessed I can only imagine.

[@outtoplay]

Pathtracing & DaVinci color grade for the win. So many inpatient folk, clearly they don't have a savvy client on the other end of their render that demands path tracing quality.

[@princerooni]

Hey, you are a LEGEND. I was struggling with rigging for 3 months and your tutorial saved me! Are you able to show us how to make and export a really nice looking car sequence like what was found in the beginning of your video (I want to learn the way to make the beautiful lighting and such. Also I really want to learn how to export a rigged car from one Unreal Project and import it to a seperate project. Because I rigged my car in a different project and now I want to import it into the city sample project.

[@postprocessed]

Thanks! Really cool feedback! Also I think you will be glad that this week I am going to show how to add brake calipers to the model and make it work properly! Regarding moving rigged car to different project it is easy: select all your assets (skeletal mesh, control rig etc.) and right click -> asset actions -> migrate. And choose "content" folder of City Sample project and hit migrate. That will do the job

[@apixel.content]

This is great, thank you for sharing the file and how the cool people are rigging car in UE. I will give this a try when I have some time in the weekend! Appreciate the knowledge!

[@_lostclub]

As someone who's been using chaos vehicles for their animations, this is a godsend. The intro with the 'can you make the car go faster?' part hit me hard, lol. Having a decent rig like this makes my job 100x easier. Solved my biggest issue of getting a way to control how fast wheels spin automatically.

[@postprocessed]

Yeaaah that was on my first project, where I used chaos vehicle and I was destroyed with comments haha it was so painful to readjust car movement based on client requests

[@cyberatman8419]

Thank you very much!!! You are best!!! Starting work in automotive production, not a long time. And you so help me now.

[@Calixj23]

Absolutely EXCELLENT... VERY well done. Thank you for shareing!

[@Vincentvisuals]

This video is GOLD! Save it guys......

[@cars103]

This is the one Tutorial for Car Animations in UE I have been waiting for. You explained how and why in a understandable way. Great help! I subscibed!Thanks a lot! ❤

[@postprocessed]

thanks man! Happy to hear that!

[@nathanlaidler9606]

I love the part where you speed through how to actually rig it and animate it, helped a lot.

[@postprocessed]

You can check the playlist which this video is part of. There is detailed description of every aspect: how to fix caliper bones, how to animate on a spline, how to make procedural suspension which reacts to bumps automatically: kzbin.info/aero/PL2HKZ1kVaBXYUKQOPP6tKvWrpb6i1W9EA

[@nathanlaidler9606]

@@postprocessed Let me first apologize for being so shrewd with my comment, after 2 days of trying to figure out how to do this, I'm very frustrated and I took that out on you, and for that, I am sorry. I didn't know you had a video about rigging the car to the rail rig. I feel so bad. Again, sorry! And thanks for the time you have put into making these tutorials!

[@postprocessed]

@@nathanlaidler9606 no prob, everyone has their high and lows. Hope other videos will help you with animation and rigging. Btw I would recommend you to wait for wednesday, I will be rolling massive video about one-click rigging solution in Unreal. That would be much better to rig other cars and it will have working suspension and body suspension!

[@4primob]

"Wow, Your videos are so beautiful, inspiring and helpful. Please keep making more! We love watching your professional work!"

[@postprocessed]

thank you!

[@bigsky7617]

Man, this taught me things I didn't know that I didn't know! Thank you!

[@postprocessed]

That sounds very good! And I’ve got more coming )

[@bigdamnhero2297]

Finally someone showing the process!! Thankyou very much

[@leohmedia1592]

It's impressive, just got my car model finally ready and I was looking for ue on animation part, and guess what this genius uploaded a video a day ago, never subbed so quick. A massive thank you for you knowledge propagation, greetings from Switzerland 🫶🏼🇨🇭

[@postprocessed]

thanks so much for such kind feedback! Hope you were successful with your car model animation!

[@andreybagrichuk5365]

Yeéeea, boy! New video. Finally I can grab my popcorn!

[@crearte1]

Fantastic and very complex , thanks for sharing!

[@HitoTheOne]

Man, you are awesome. I found your guide just before the start of production of short race movie. I'm a beginner animated clip maker and really appreciate your job. Hope I'll find more valuable tips on your channel in the future

[@postprocessed]

thanks so much!

[@d.a.visual]

"Automotive CGI and animations" Subbed! I wanna learn it

[@2009gogi]

Man, that looks fantastic. Thanks for the video. Very informative! As always)😎

[@sanzeepapa981]

Thanks, this makes me try this method instead of making it all in Max and Datasmith-it to UE, I would love to see more automotive stuff!

[@tbowren]

This is a great video. Unreal car animation approaches are something I spend a lot of time dealing with. I will point people to this video. Thanks.

[@EricTareDenedoteentalk]

Thanks, this is exactly what I need right now. Great job as always.

[@dariaromanova3283]

Amazing work! You are the best! Best wishes and hugs from Estonia!

[@nafay3d]

Thank you so much man!

[@rejegan]

Great Tutorial. you just gave a breakthrough for automotive rig, Amazing work man.

[@postprocessed]

thanks! this week new video will be coming with brake calipers attachment!

[@canmetefx]

This is what i need, Great job! Thanks for the video

[@gregmazzola2374]

I LOVE YOU! Thank you for all your videos

[@jackaguirre]

super stoked on this thanks so much

[@MR3DDev]

Fantastic tutorial, glad KZbin brought me here out of the blue.

[@artistimkaan]

Really good tutorial bro! You came in time for me!

[@tcrd7012]

He Thank you man, very good and easy understanding, i love your teaching

[@geejota]

Awesome tutorial man! Thanks for that

[@loganhayes]

Super helpful, thank you for doing this!

[@pedrorivera1892]

AMAZING SR. THANK YOU!

[@rafaelgarbinart9708]

THANKS MAN, ONE COURSE PER VIDEO

[@ayanalikhan5766]

Literally can't thank you enough for this, you don't know how much I needed this bro, ❤❤❤❤❤ thank you soo much ❤❤❤❤ love you lot , may god increase your rank and give you more success...

[@postprocessed]

thank you SO MUCH!

[@Fafmagic]

Outstanding! This is so useful. Thanks for sharing!

[@postprocessed]

Thanks!

[@burov.a.4467]

Thank you for a very useful lesson! You're very cool. It remains to figure out how to do car rigging in cinema 4d and I can try to repeat your lesson)

[@postprocessed]

Blender is free :) addon for blender also free, so you can try it in Blender!)

[@YTDRONE]

I was so happy to see your amazing tutorial and thank you. I can't tell you how many times I've watched this video. Thank you so much. I watched your video at 0.5x and followed along closely. I don't know how many times I watched it again. But the end result is different. The four wheels work fine, but the body and the wheels move separately. When I turn the body, the wheels don't follow, they are always looking forward. I really don't know where I went wrong.

[@YTDRONE]

Ah, I finally figured out where the problem was. As usual, why does solving one problem create another? Everything is back to normal Except that all the wheels that were spinning fine on the screen are now frozen at render instead of spinning. I'll have to go back and find out where the problem is.

[@postprocessed]

Hey! Glad you have solved one problem) the second one I believe is in wheel speed multiplier, I already mentioned that ins the comments. Value of 50 seems to get in align with shutter, try chaning multiplier on wheel rotation graph to smth like 17-23 should work. It is funny that I never actually experienced this issue. Do you use UE 5.2?

[@YTDRONE]

@@postprocessed Thank you so much for the response to my question so quickly. Yes, I'm using UE5.2, I'm going to try it right away! You are the best! Awesome!

[@safak.]

@@YTDRONE hello what was the fix for first problem ?

[@YTDRONE]

@@safak. The first problem was I couldn't find where I can add the key frames I found the location in the sequence but still not solve second issues. Have a great day

[@BAYqg]

Thanks a lot, Sir! Much much appreciated

[@lilylikesherpotato3461]

thanks for making this simple

[@Jarvik]

The music at 5:30 reminds me of a game from the N64 called Wetrix. Great video though Ty!!

[@SohamSamy]

Great work buddy!

[@ToysRUsKid_Critter]

Most excellent vid!

[@yashtanwani1]

FINALLY!! The tutorial i was looking for got one question - how to not make the caliper rotate with wheels?

[@postprocessed]

You need to copy front wheel bones and attach calipers for them in Blender. And make them under “FL, FR” hierarchy. In control rig disable “propagate to children” for wheel rotation part of the graph. Alternatively: duplicate the bones, leave in current hierarchy and add steering to new caliper bones. Should work

[@yashtanwani1]

@@postprocessed Will try that, thankyou so much waiting for more videos😍

[@focusmaya251]

Great job.thanks and subscribed ❤

[@auto_Silencer]

Keep it up. All the love.

[@_ia3]

Your content is gold!

[@postprocessed]

Thanks!!

[@davesturchcgi]

This is a great option for a basic bare bones rig and something I've been looking for. However it definitely lacks realism like suspension bouncing it's a great option for a fast output. Great video!

[@badhairstudios]

Very useful Tutorial 👍👍

[@connaitrepourbenir9299]

Amazing, thanks you very much

[@behrampatel4872]

excellent tutorial. cheers

[@ЮраГейгер-х2к]

Hi. Thank you so much for this training. I loved the tutorial insanely. I just started learning in unreal engine 5. And thanks to you the learning goes faster. But in this tutorial I ran into a little problem, the wheels of the car don't spin, I can't animate them like you do, because you are missing this part in the clip. Please tell me how to animate the wheels while the car is moving. And just thank you for the lesson. I'm glad you're back on your KZbin channel. And your tutorials on DaVinci Resolve are the best! It was very sad to watch your last video on the old channel(

[@postprocessed]

Hey, mate! you can change multiplier in “wheel rotation” graph from 50 to smth like 19 or 33. Make sure you have key framed it in sequencer. And btw, don’t use UE 5.2 yet. It still has issue with it.

[@ЮраГейгер-х2к]

@@postprocessed Thank you for your reply. I will start the project again in version 5.1. I saw in the comments that you are going to do your unreal engine 5 course. Do you know the approximate date of its release? I would really like to take the training from you.

[@postprocessed]

@@ЮраГейгер-х2к I hope it would be ready by the end of this year. I need some more cases for it

[@SentientAvocado]

awesome tutorial mate! I'll follow through them all, striving to get to your visual quality. Would it be possible in the future, that you could drop 1 or 2 sentences about the nodes you use? In unreal, for me, everything works fine and without any problems. But i dont understand what "we" build at all. That "Half Pie" node for example... Why half pie and not just a variable thats close to this value. But even if you just keep on doing what you do right know.... please don´t stop!

[@postprocessed]

Hey, buddy! Thanks! I will keep pushing!) well these nodes a just simple math. For example why using 3.14 divided by 2 to get radius if we can use existing node "halfPi" to make rotation, when creating additional variable will not be precise number? So yeah... it kinda comes with experience of blueprinting in UE, researching and checking documentation

[@elfincredible9002]

This is so dope. Thanks.

[@postprocessed]

Thank you!

[@thecreatorx3d439]

awesome video brother!

[@postprocessed]

Appreciate it!

[@garyerance]

You the man! What a great tutorial, clear and concise. I’ve just subscribed and look forward to more awesome content. I successfully rigged a car following your tutorial this weekend. One question, is there a way to easily transfer the blueprints over to another rigged car or is it a case of starting from the beginning each time you rig a new car? Thank you

[@postprocessed]

Thanks! Yeah it is relatively easy to migrate to car rigged same way in blender, you can just copy nodes and controls to new car rig, I show that in my next tutorial about calipers fix: kzbin.info/www/bejne/sJ2wcnicedt9i8k

[@blecawty_]

Wow this is amazing! Thanks for bringing this tutorial, I know a lot of people will like it just like me! I have a question, what is the process to make the wheels collide with the ground like your Ford Bronco video? I know a lot of people want to know how to do it. It's been a while since I've been trying to make a rig that works like the rig in your Ford Bronco video, the only thing I can't do is the collision of the wheels with the ground

[@postprocessed]

Thanks! About the Bronco rig.. yea, well... I am sorry to say that, but I am not planning to share how my rig works which I used for Bronco. It brings me money from commercial projects and it is my "know-how". I am planning to share this rig only with car animation ender course I will be making in next few months. Also I am planning to do tutorial on suspension for skeletal mesh. It is different approach, but still can be useful. Hope for your understanding!)

[@blecawty_]

Thanks for the information, I understand perfectly! I'll be waiting for the course and the new tutorials! I do the car animations in my work in Blender, but as you said in the tutorial it's much better to do everything in just one program. This rig would be very useful for me to use in the company where I work, if you are interested we can negotiate. If you can't, I understand

[@immistreated]

Cool! Thanx!

[@HarrisonKillianAnimation]

Absolutely amazing tutorial, I cannot thank you enough! This is life changing for me. I have some very high quality, driveable, destructible vehicles set up for an animation I’m working on. Do you have any suggestions if I wanted to do a car rollover? How could I achieve that?

[@postprocessed]

I usually use them as separate object with enabled physics and push it to roll. usually works

[@papanahaype]

Мляяя ты ж раньше на русском вещал ( Смотрел со времен давинчи резолв. Мое почтение и успехов!

[@javaboygames02]

Can this be also used in racing games? I really think this type of rig is much better not only for animation, but gameplay in general. It just looks perfect!

[@postprocessed]

hey man, this approach is mostly for cinematics, but rigging setup can be used with Chaos Vehicle in Unreal Engine so you can drive it like in racing game

[@unnamed7462]

Keep it up mann

[@RUSOBPK]

WORKAROUND WHEELS NOT SPINING. Hey guys! I had the Wheels not rotating in render problem too, and then i remembered that i had a similar problem back in the day with a metahuman. I will try to be as brief as i can to explain what you have to do. IF YOU HAVENT STARTED, JUST AVOID UE 5.2. Instead of taking the control rig and adding it to the sequencer, take the SKELETAL MESH (pink one) and add it. If you see an animation option when you expand the asset in the sequencer, you are good then. Click on the + icon, control rig, asset based control rig and there you have your controls. Create a keyframe for the wheels rotation. Once you have your car animated and all, right click on your base asset (the skeletal mesh you placed in the sequencer) and select "BAKE ANIMATED SEQUENCE" , select your save location, and wait a few seconds. Now you just right click on transform and control rig, and mute them (if you dont then animation will override itself). And there you go. If you need modifications to the animation, just delete the baked animation from the timeline, modificate and bake again.

[@Babrina]

Hey from your DaVinci channel. Now i looks forward for my work with Unreal Engine 5, maybe it will be done :)

[@postprocessed]

Welcome aboard!

[@Babrina]

@@postprocessed how to recognize good content creator? He answer a important comments :)

[@postprocessed]

@@Babrina haha, thanks! 😁

[@YahiyaJasem]

Great video my friend

[@ItsAvidy]

Great tutorial/info! Appreciate it. I do have one question, what would the best/easiest process be to have the tires interacting with the ground. Like smoke, tread marks left on the ground, etc. Thanks in advance!

[@postprocessed]

oh, that would be probably using blueprint functionality to add skidmarks via decals

[@geejota]

Awesome tutorial man! Did you active Physics for the car?

[@postprocessed]

For this rig no physics required, I don’t like how unpredictable physics is in cinematics 😁

[@redfawnstudios]

Awesome video! I'm curious to know your thoughts on the Rush Hour plugin that was showcased today on Inside Unreal. Nice grading in DaVinci too

[@postprocessed]

Hey thanks! regarding Rush Hour addon - I find it cool, useful and straight forward. But there are few things which I don't like: very complicated rigging process, which may be hard for starters, it is still CHAOS vehicle driving on the spline driven by AI. Which will create complications if client would want changes. For game cinematics or for personal projects it is awesome. Also look for KZbin channel "Code Like Me" He does same stuff - makes chaos vehicle drive on a spline, programming AI to avoid collisions and obstacles. Couple of hours work and you will have you personal, not-so customizable Rush Hour in your pocket for free!

[@vietdungcao8779]

thank you.

[@pr4thamff157]

please make a detailed video on animation please

[@postprocessed]

ok! Will do!

[@derinthomas7670]

Sir thank you for this wonderful tutorial...i have a doubt how to add the textures to this mustang

[@postprocessed]

I use “automotive material pack” it is free on Unreal Engine Marketplace

[@derinthomas7670]

@@postprocessed sir, i tried to do it , but i was not able to do it for headlights....it is combined object and i cant add light to the headlight

[@griptopia]

I'm an Ex-vfx / 3d person, i make actual real models and things now, but still do cgi cars as a hobby, Sorry if this gets asked a lot. Is there a reason why people are not controlling the car directly in unreal? with a steering wheel / pedals or controller.? Great video, I'm making the jump to unreal, thank you in advance

[@postprocessed]

Thanks man! Well you CAN do it with steering, gamepad or even keyboard. But this pipeline is not effective when you do it for big automotive brands or commercials. They often ask for changes of speed, turn movement and etc. So in that case you need to drive very precise and it takes a lot of time + baking of animation. It is easier and quicker to adjust spline and body shake in that case

[@griptopia]

@@postprocessed This is why i left the industry, client: "can you make it look more edgey", Client: "can you make it more cool"..!! I committed financial suicide leaving corporate design agencies behind..! glad i did. Now it's just for fun! i'm going to find you on insta, I think i'm going to use this, but i'm also going to work on getting direct control up to something usable.. actually driving it, then getting movement as a replay that you can then tweek the splines on.. that's what needs to be made.. direct control that you can then bake and edit. Great videos!! thank you x

[@postprocessed]

@@griptopia try "Rush Hour" addon. It does pretty much what you said. Uses drivable car on the spline. OR look for "Code Like Me" KZbin channel videos, this guy did amazing job creating AI car that can follow spline. But still it needs tweaking, yet - it is the approach you looking for: derivable vehicle, with full physics following the spline :) Give it a try! But it requires some blueprinting. Hope that helps!

[@povilaslondon]

Yeah but all of this is super rough and not accurate. There is always going to be wheel slip, you also need to expand on the rig if you want to have options for different wheel rotations (burnouts, wheel locks), basically this is very raw hand animated approach and you are trying to simulate physics yourself. It's not to say that you can't achieve good results, but you need to be a savvy animator to make it look real. However despite all the pitfalls I do love this approach for it's simplicity and it's only a matter of time before you start to expand on it and add unique things you need.

[@postprocessed]

First of all, you have really cool name :) yes, you are right, this is very simplistic and minimal approach, but saying from experience: most of clients don't need very complex animation. Most of car commercials - the car just drives on the streets slowly on even terrain with beautiful scene setup and camera. This approach is focused on this kind of videos, where you don't need a lot of shake, breaking and "extreme and unsafe" driving, as car vendors try to avoid it in their commercials in order not to create negative image for their brand. Yet it is still possible to make dynamic scenes and hide not physically accurate movement with camera shake. But if you need some more details and complex settings - it would be blueprints. Not skeletal mesh.

[@povilaslondon]

@@postprocessed Thats the first time ever I heard that I have a cool name :D I totally understand what you are saying, I'm in 3d industry for over 10 years. I was mainly commenting about general functionality, but unfortunately my background is with traditional 3D and not realtime so it's hard for me to wrap around my head how to properly (advanced) rig cars for UE. What's actually funny is that I use similar approach in maya but use dynamic body and auto wheel rotations plus secondary controls to override anything by hand. I'm definitely will be using your approach in UE in the mean time. This video is a must have in any artist collection ;)

[@TheGrrson]

I have my car animated and looking great in the viewport using this technique. But when I render the car won’t move along the rail . It just stays stuck at the start of the rail. Any ideas? I can’t find a solution anywhere.

[@vyberoom]

This is amazing thank you so much for sharing. I have some issues and was wondering if any has come across this and can help me out please. I have rigged the car in blender everything looks great. when importing into unreal all the windows are missing and I only have the outer layer of the body imported along with the wheels. everything is parented to body but its missing every other part of the car. would be great if someone can point me in the right direction please. im fairly new to unreal so any help would be so much appreciated.

[@HomeOfWhomatics]

Hi there all good and brilliant. I feel though you could do a step by step on the rail system as I and Im sure others have no idea how todo that

[@postprocessed]

Hey mate, I got you covered! I have separate video on the rail! Complete how to

[@SKADYT2]

Hi, Thank you for this tutorial. Really helped me a lot. I just have one question. I followed the tutorial step by step. But not sure why except for the body control non of the other controls follow the rig when moved. Any help is appreciated. -Thanks

[@postprocessed]

Are you moving Skeletal mesh? Do you have separate "transform" track for Control Rig maybe? that it is why it remains on the position and not following the car?

[@irfaankhan4880]

Can you Apply, this same method on a motorcycle? :) will definitely love to see this tutorial. Anyway awesome tutorial!!

[@postprocessed]

Yes it is possible! Maybe will try that later!

[@irfaankhan4880]

Awesome!! That would be awesome, much respect from Here

[@postprocessed]

IMPORTANT WHEEL ROTATION UPDATE: USE UE 5.3!! After battling with Wheel Rotation in Car Animation Rig for couple weeks, I had no success in fixing it in Unreal Engine 5.2 I made a bug report to Unreal Engine forum and if you can add your inputs here it would be highly appreciated: forums.unrealengine.com/t/node-accumulated-time-is-broken-in-ue-5-2-rendering/1252623 Also what I have discovered: Node "Accumulated Time" doesn't work properly in Unreal Engine 5.2 and not reliable. There is no solution to make it work as intended without this node. Workaround: If you really need to use UE 5.2 - use bake animation for your car. But for now I recommend using Unreal Engine 5.1. OR Unreal Engine 5.3 release.

[@pietro7921]

I have a similar problem using UE 5.3, in the sequencer everything works perfectly, but in rendering the wheels don't rotate. Body and Steering work but not wheel rotation. In the editor everything is ok, the problem only appears in the rendering. Some idea? Thank you so much for your great content!

[@Nufshi]

Update: It works absolutely fine in 5.3.

[@pietro7921]

@@Nufshi I had to do Bake Animation to be able to have Wheel rotation in the rendering. I used Unreal Engine 5.3 I literally started using UE a couple of weeks ago, so I probably did something wrong!

[@ibrahimmachmouchi8357]

😂😂😂 dear God I've been trying to see what's the problem for days now after doing everything you said, I just saw the comment, I'm gonna duplicate the project to 5.3 now. Thank you brother for a verry nice tutorial and verry helpful, keep up the good work

[@devilnash]

i am using UE5.4.1 - same issue for some reason. i changed the value type for wheel rotation to Float and it now spins but veryyyyyyy slow.....

[@ninjagraphics1]

Your video background music reminded me of Murcof, you probably know his music.

[@postprocessed]

Yeah I like this kind of ambient music. It's really hard to find good one, but I use Artlist.io for it

[@AdrianoSilvestre]

how to make the car recognize the collision and work with collision on objects? great tutorial, thanks a lot for sharing

[@postprocessed]

You mean recognize road for suspension? Or collide with physical objects? If first - I will be making a tutorial about it. Second - always. works. Car will collide with physical objects and it will be registered

[@Sky-hl8iw]

tq4this!

[@aslansamarkanov6603]

Thanks for the video! I don't have a vehicleaniminstance in the parent class in the animation blueprint

[@postprocessed]

actually... I found out you don't need it. You can skip this step and jump right away to rig setup

[@aslansamarkanov6603]

@Post Processed Thank you! I already solved the problem. Just skip the part)

[@abram_mov]

Hi, I've been watching your videos for a long time, I started with davinci resolv) I wanted to ask how you did the suspension in the bronco video? Very cool videos continue on❤

[@postprocessed]

Thanks! I made a video about it here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qGXIk6Bmjaiensk

[@leonardoperasso3908]

Fantastic, you truly save me! Which setting did you use to export the render from UE?

[@postprocessed]

Ooof I think this one I did in lumen with like 256 samples.

[@leonardoperasso3908]

Thanks a lot, i found another problem. i can see clearly the animation in viewport, but when i render the scene my custom car dessappear. Have you any idea to solve it? i supposed is a sort of conflict with game mode setting but i not so sure and i don't know how to set it. @@postprocessed

[@stuppmotion]

Used this tutorial sooo many times, thank you!!! Do you have any idea why, when I attach a trailer to my car, the trailer is invisible in my final render? I'm guessing it has something to do with how everything is attached to each other, but I can't figure it out...

[@postprocessed]

maybe could be an option to attach trailer to rail rig too?

[@MN3DAuto]

cool, just wondering where to learn how to give full car body automotive materials

[@postprocessed]

There is free automotive material pack by Epic Games in Unreal Engine marketplace, it is really good and I use it very often

[@revoprod-h6k]

I dont understand how you do for the layer structure in Blender !!! there is a step not cler for me! for example for the body ! did you select all parts of body and use Ctrl+j? because after its impossible to solve the Callipers problem !! any solution? thanks

[@Axel.Peters]

What if I have a road that is not simply flat but up and down and slightly twisted in itself? It looks like this only works if you have an absolutely flat road, which doesn't happen most of the time. Am curious how you would solve this? Because that would be the advantage of the software you showed before - UAC in Maya. Here the tires have a ground contact which is not the case with yours at the moment as far as I could see, hence the flat road.

[@postprocessed]

I am working now on wheel suspension tutorial. Body trace for ground is f**ked up in Unreal and works really bad in Control Rig. Most of the body changes are done manually in that case (which is not that hard) but wheels will react to uneven road and will bump, which looks nice

[@ltvddvtl]

Your tutorials are very useful. But I find them very difficult to follow. The pronunciation is one of the problems. But easily solved if you would put captions for the important stuff. Like in your camera rail animation tutorial I understood the shortcut to snap it to the floor was "N". But it wouldn't work. Till I read the comments and saw you actually meant "END". So captions for commands, shortcuts and other important things would go a long way in making it more understandable. The other problem I have is, it's confusing. You are talking about something but doing another. The voice and actions are out of sync and it's also too fast. Sometimes I have to go back a million times and still have no idea what you did or changed. Apart from these details the tutorials are very insightful. They could be fantastic, if you could make them easier to follow. ;) Thanks!

[@postprocessed]

You are welcome! Pleased to help, but I would like to point out - it is the purpose of teaching. You should figure out some things by yourself. Easy knowledge is easily forgotten. Easy comes - easy goes. Nothing should be earned easily. I know these days everyone one wants get solution right away, but on real case nobody will give it to you, so you should figure it out yourself. You may not agree with my point of view and it's fine) P.S. Also that helps for re-watching ;)

[@whitesentinix]

Fantastic tutorial... but I am curious. How do you rig car doors or a steering wheel using this technique?

[@postprocessed]

It should be working kind of the same way as I described in my other video about calipers here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/sJ2wcnicedt9i8ksi=dOAY4bZsZiW7VsGo create the bone and attach geometry to this bone. I believe that might work!

[@whitesentinix]

@postprocessed no I don't think it will. The bones for the doors, the steering wheel and the Seats are attached to the main body, not the wheels. Whenever the main body moves via the body rotation, the doors (which still need to be rigged to open and close) along with the Seats and steering wheel stay fixed in place. These bones, along with the wheels, are all attached to the main body. In order for the main body to react to the wheels properly, on the offset transform node, I have to uncheck propagate to children, which while working correctly for the wheels, is also effecting the doors, the interior seats and the steering wheel. Is there a way to exclude those items from that offset to that they stay attached to the main body, without affecting the wheels?

[@postprocessed]

@@whitesentinix Hm... I think I have seen other tutorial about doors for Unreal: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rYSvm5d6aseIpMU I believe this should work as it utilizes the same bone structure for rig but also has additional door and steering wheel bones.

[@whitesentinix]

​@postprocessed I'm afraid this tutorial isn't fixing the issue. If you do automotive project's in unreal, don't things like car doors, adjustable seats, or rigging a steering wheel to control the front wheels ever come up in your work?

[@postprocessed]

@@whitesentinix nope, almost never. Most of the time it is exterior and animation. If it is interior with adjustable seats and so on, why bothering with the rig? I just place static meshes into the scene and animate it by transform and keyframes and have two seprate scenes: One with rigged car driving, another with static meshes animation. You never show adjustable interior parts during the drive. So I don't see any point in rigging every single component. It is just waste of time and client always wants ALL DONE FAST.

[@rx2flx]

your content is gold! just one question, why not use chaos vehicle on a track or spline?

[@postprocessed]

I tried, it looks cool, I even made it avoid collision in the traffic, made it brake before turn and etc. But: 1. Sometimes it still can skid 2. Not very comfortable for animation if client demands changes 3. Almost impossible to make it drift 4. Not comfortable controls, you can only set max/min speed and brake ratio, too much time is spent to find proper speed/braking ratio 5. Take recorder is painful 6. Car “smoothness” of driving is tied to your FPS counter. If you pc loads something and lags - your take is ruined 7. If you make car drive very far some of LODs even when loaded may not have proper collision bounds and car fall through it. (I think it is only relevant for City Sample) And that’s what I can get right away from my head, when trying approach with chaos vehicle when we did some BMW commercial in production it was not possible to make car act as you want.

[@rx2flx]

@@postprocessed if its impossible to make drift in sold on this technique! we cant be having that!

[@FabianStrube]

Thank you for the video! Great tutorial. I am currently trying to create a workflow for automotive in unreal. Usually we receive a cad model of the car with all details and 1000 single objects. I just cant get to import them, how do you deal with it? I can split it in parts and import it, but with the rig i need to go to blender and import wheels and exterior with the rig, that does not work for the high detail car, because unreal crashes on me...

[@postprocessed]

Well for CAD models we have modellers who prepare them for UE in Maya or 3DSMax... What I can propose to you, but it is some advanced technique and requires some additional knowledge of BPs: 1. Create Skeleton 2. Create Control Rig 3. Make Blueprint in UE 4. Add control Rig to Blueprint. (There are tutorials on KZbin how to make it) 5. Import your car body, and wheels as static meshes. 6. Attach static meshes to sockets of skeleton, so your control rig will affect bones and bones will move the body 7. ... 8. Profit

[@FabianStrube]

@@postprocessed Thanks for the fast reply and taking the time to answer in depth! Couldnt find anything on that topic on the internet. I will try that and tell you how it went. Once its in, it works surprisingly fine 😅

[@postprocessed]

@@FabianStrube I found out that SKELETAL mesh really crashes unreal if it is big size. But static meshes work damn well. So you can have a look at “car configurator” free marketplace asset to see how they’ve put control rig inside blueprint. Pretty straightforward process. Give it a try! Would be happy the hear from you about the results!

[@MADMOVIESINC]

Thanks for the video! This is helping a lot. Thanks for taking your time to explain the details. I'm running into an issue with my wheels turning inwards (opposite, instead of in sync) from each other. Can anyone point me in the right direction on how to fix this? I have my blueprint matching the video at about the 6 minute mark at the moment. I was trying to tinker around and flip the value somehow between one tire and the other. I didn't have much luck though. Any help would be much appreciated.

[@postprocessed]

Oooooof. Sorry it's not enough info for me to understand what could be cause of problem. I can offer work around: use wheel rotation formula for each wheel individually.. maybe that could help

[@Error459]

Hello, thank you very much for all the content you provide us! I'm facing a big problem now. I created a level sequence where i put my rigged car w/ control etc even set a metahuman inside holding the steering wheel. Everything was perfect i could see the animation playing in the level sequence but once rendering nothing happened, car was stick to a position, not following the camera rig. I discovered i had to put everything in spawnable so back to the sequencer i have set the car as spawnable as much as my camera so their position is set on the world position. The problem is the camera rig rail, even if i make it spawnable. I even can’t change the camera i can see its world position but it is like locked when its set on attach to car root bone… Attaching the car or camera doesn't make anything, do yopu have any solution please? Thank you

[@Error459]

Btw i tried to you reach by email and insta about the camera rig city sample problem Thank you in advance for reading and may be your return

[@guyberryman5226]

It's incredible dude thanks a lot but please explain how to link the camera to the car to render a motion shot of the animated car.

[@postprocessed]

You mean attach camera to the car or make camera pan to the car movement?