Utility Nodes (2)

[doug-hines]

I am attempting to animate wheels on a car using utility scripts. Seeing as how I have never succesfully gotten a utility script to do exactly what I wanted it to do, I come to you highend3d users.

What utility nodes do you recommend I use and how do you recommend I use them?

Here is what I am attempting to achieve:
As I move a main group forward, the wheels should move according to distance and velocity.
I am attempting to limit the rotations to no more than 360 degrees, meaning that the utility nodes would be used to caculate the difference between the current rotation and 360 on a frame by frame basis to assure than no excessive rotation values occur. So depending on the amoutn of rotation, I would need to zero out the rotation and either add to 0 or subtract from 360 the above mentioned difference.

Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

[joojaa]

Its not possible to describe utility nodes uses, is like asking what can mathematics do for me. Too meny permutations to cover in a million lifetimes.

Ok, how do you want to animete the vehicle path anim or keying? its important result depends on this. (note mayas a software thet is designed to work out full solves of the problems and not dicrete simulation so for keying you need to resort either to tricks in expressions,, keying OR programming)

the 360 is arbitrary a car can rotate more than that at fast speeds.

[doug-hines]

I would be animating along a path, and I do suppose that I can forego the 360 limitation

[joojaa]

make a multiply divde node, and a arc len node. Connect arc len to multily divide, conect parameter value to same node, connect that to rotation of your axis (set automatic conversion to match the radius of your wheel).