Cinematic Car Rig v2.1 (5.5)

Why You Need This

If you are an automotive artist, you probably know that animating cars using chaos vehicles or other physics-based vehicle systems and recording your driving using the take recorder is not the best thing that has ever happened to you

Let's be honest, we all are obsessed with drifting, but making perfect turns with these systems is almost impossible even if you record your driving in slow motion, and on top of that, when you’re done recording, that’s it! Even minor edits are off the table and you need to record again but think about that almost successful turn you made in the previous take! Time to chop off the takes!

Animating in your DCC app is a whole other story that I don’t even get started with but you probably know that you won’t get the real feeling of the environment when you do the animating there and also for any edits, you have to go back and forth from one app to another

Now that I have your attention, Cinematic Car Rig is a blueprint system designed exclusively for car animators

What You Will Get

You can use custom static meshes for the body, wheels, calipers, and steering wheel

Attach anything you want to these components and be able to configure modular or blueprint car bodies

Wheels can trace ground and stick to it either locally or vertically

This rig has a spring system without using physics and you can set up dynamic suspension parts

Add as many wheels as you want

You can visualize everything in the editor and the sequencer, no simulation is needed

Wheels trace complex collision and any mesh or actor can be excluded from the tracing

Body controllers to key their transform instead of four parameters

Scalable car and wheels without importing the meshes

Keyable drift angle with automated chassis leaning

Keyable and separate front and rear wheel camber

Keyable body roll, pitch, and height

Keyable front and rear burnouts

The ability to bake and export the animation of the car to be used on external software like Houdini or EmberGen





Spline Blueprint

This system includes a spline path blueprint that the car can follow

Realistic path navigation along the spline

Automatic steering along the spline

Snap spline points to the ground with a click

Reverse spline path direction with a click

The car starts over from the start, if the distance traveled is greater than the length of the path

Close the spline with a click and make a circuit track