Israeli super sherman by rantingrich
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This is my first animation of my tank using Sparrowhawks Tracks plug-in. It was very difficult to set up and problematic but I can't believe I got a TANK in Carrara to move like it does. The scale is a problem with the background! BUT Once you Set up Sparrowhawks Tracks Plug in, you CAN NOT..... RESCALE your Grouped objects, or it will go to hell!
I spent 3 days setting up the wheels and tracks set up via SHs plug-in but blame myself for being a retard. But once you understand HIS protocol, you can make it work. He has a Tutorial video that I followed to the "T", and anyone wishing to pull this off should as well! Actually I am quite amazed it worked at all! The damn SCALE still messes with me because it looks like a Toy but I am/was running out of time using some stock photography as a background!
There are LIMITS to using SH Tracks plugins! The tank has to travel along a flat uneventful terrain to a point! But you can use Motion pathes! Like a road without any Crazy stuff to run over!
GROUPING and hierarchy is everything with his plug in and once you set it up and specially if you DUPLICATE with SYMMETRY! you CAN NOT upset the hierarchy or groupings or SCALE !!!!!!! If you do, you will get strange things a happening!
No running over people or railroad tracks, But that's okay! I can edit around that! You cant molest the road wheels of track that I am aware of, to make it look like your tank ran over your Neighbors cat! I mean dog (WENDY)!
That have being said and this is for my DAZ friends! I had to use carrara 7 to do any rendering where the Tracks worked. Sparrowhawke DOES NOT have the tracks plugin Carrara 8 on mac! I have a QUAD G-5 Power mac with 4 x 2.5, 14 Gigs of ram! Running OS 10.5.8 with both Carrara 7 and 8. I have an OOOOLD G-4 MAC with 2 x 2.5 and 8 gigs, running OS 10.4.11 with both carrara 7 and 8.
Let me tell you... MY old G-4, at a quarter of the power of my G-5, Burned through the rendering of this, more than Twice as fast as my G-5 did!! Go figure that one out!
Look for it on YOUTUBE at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocI70M6vpYQ
Comments (9)
Richardphotos
outstanding render and I am off to see your animation
MTeslaMoon
I saw your animation. It looks very kewl! I think this is where CG is going. Thanks!
SquallLion1
yeah!! amazing
steelrazer
Pretty cool animation. A lot of work involved in it. It takes some dedication, that's for sure!
rantingrich
I have been working on this for 6 months on and of! It take a few minutes to open ans save this file! Between the tanks and the guys there's like 500 texture maps. I had to go in and dumb them down twice! Each time I Cut the SIZE of the texture map file in half, so say one was 12x12 inches at 250 DPI! Now its like 3x3 at 100 DPI and still its madening! I wanted to have a Dust clouds come out and blow wit hthe wind BUT to do a Transparency in carrara would take days to render! I am considering doing it in post edit but i only have MOTION 2 and not After effects on my newer machines! My next step is to have it under fire and have to move around and fire the big guns! With dust and all! I need a close up of the tracks working as well. I coudl not of done the tracks in carrara alone IT CAN BE DONE! I have tryed for years to do it or fake it in carrara alone! I used Sparrowhawks TRACK PLUGIN and it is very limited! The suspension can not be messed with such as wheel going up and down. Pretty much your stuck with the thing going straight back and forth
AliceFromLake
Very fine. I like it.
rocdan
OUTSTANDING SCENE VERY WELL DONE ,AWESOME OFF FOR A PEEK AT THE VIDEO
flavia49
amazing work!!
Osper
Watched it, not bad at all!