Well I havn't had much time to finish the design on the car since we signed up here. A good thing I for sure. But I made this quick little animation of the car. I hope to get lots of work done over the weekend. UPS delivered the new tubing bender today so we are pretty excited to get started.

House Of Buggies Animation

That's a great tease, nice work.

Now, start by adding an exploded (not as in grenaded) view, showing how all the components go together

Shouldn't be too much work

I'm sure you guys are going to get sick of hearing about how cool the software is but that is practically a click of the button. But I may have assembled the car wrong in that when I click that button it will probably make a huge confusing mess. I will have some cool stuff to see later tonight. At least I hope it is.

That look really nice. I use to do stuff in 3D Studio Max to bad I never keep up on the version releases.

3D Studio is what I use to do the renderings. Kind of a pain because I have to go from SolidWorks to Mechancal Desktop to 3D Studio. But I like the results in the end.

I would like to put some updates of our car up but was this movie to big for you guys to download? Is there a magic number Mb wise I should stay under? I'm afraid if I make it too big nobody will want to watch it. Thanks again for your input.

That's great but where are the axles?

Can you make one jumping out of a huge dune?

The rear of the car still needs work. Took me a long time to get the front end to work "right". Took a lot of advice and read a lot of stuff on line and now that that is done I can work on the back.

Animating so it jumps from a huge dune would make for a huge file for sure. Not to mention the time involved. Maybe later.

Ugh... I can't view it. It says I need a new plug in. So I click on the thing to get a new plug in and it says "No plug in available." Sucks to be me I guess.

Sorry about that King. Wierd it's just an AVI. Nothing fancy. Not like the Dyno vid we have on the site. That thing is totally scetchy. I will figure it out eventually.

worked for me and was very quick

You could make it into a Mpeg and drop the size to about 1/3 or more:)

Really? That would be cool. I will try that. Thanks.