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Preparing cars for simulations and/or destruction: 16 essential tips
🕑 Added 2023-03-16 14:34:56 +0000 UTCI wanted to have a standalone tutorial on my 16 recommended essential tips for preparing a car 3d model for phisics simulations in Blender.
Which means: driving a car in Blender with phisics simulations or even a heavy cinematic car destruction simulation.
By doing this, in future I will simply need to link this video whenever I need when doing car smashes or similar :)
At THIS LINK you can download RBC addon for Blender, the free addon mentioned in the tutorial.
This addon allows to put togheter phisics simulation with any car in just a few clicks. Its a free addon, but if you want to go hard you have also the paid version available with more options.
I updated this tutorial 3 times... originally started being 12 tips, then upgraded to 14, now 16.
Should be final :D
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Raffo VFX
you are welcome🙏🏻
Nayef
Thank you so much
Pat the Visionary
@Douglas Steele How did you get this issue resolved?
Raffo VFX
it can be for multiple reasons… please send me your car via wetransfer, both versions (original and after all the car preparation steps)
Douglas Steele
For some reason after I do all of this and add my rig I get an error from RBC. I've tried downgrading versions, but the only thing that seems to fix it is exporting as an FBX and starting an entirely new file (which means I have to redo the materials too as fbx files don't save all the blender data). Is there any cache data I may need to clear or any common things that lead to RBC errors? specifically I cannot select my car as the vehicle body for some odd reason.
Raffo VFX
you can download cars from websites like turbosquid or free3d.com. If you are using a model from some addons, probably its an istance. So use the function “make instance real” to convert it to an actual editable mesh. However, its all explained in the tutorial “preparing cars for destruction”
bensaber
hi mate how you doing I'm using car transportation addon but doesn't work with RBC where you get your cars ?
Roman Kovalev
I was trying to get bottom parts from masserati, but it seems like mission impossible to separate them from a body. Decided to proceed with your model next for now.
Raffo VFX
select 2 objects and press CTRL + J
Roman Kovalev
What is the most efficient way of joining it, without ruining geometry? (like if applying boolean modifier, sometimes it causes troubles)
Raffo VFX
My car model was missing engine and all the bottom parts. I simply "stole" those missing parts from another car model and joined them in my car geometry. However its gonna work regardless, but it will look so bad without engine of course.
Roman Kovalev
Hi, Raffo! What if my model doesnt have anything under the hood? no engine etc. Will it work? And how I can fix it, so my simulation would look good
