Reactor Wheel Tutorial By Aziz Khan
Hello and welcome again to my (Reactor Wheel) Tutorial, I am writing this tutorial for request of some friends whom they needed this to their project, so I thought its should be for you too, hope you enjoy this tutorial and be able to learn some thing new.
Ok I am not going to waste your precious time lets get started.
In this tutorial I have created a very simple scene to show you how to use (Reactor Wheel) in 3ds max, so if you have your own scene also you can use it if you think that you will do it later on, you can use my provided scene from (here).
In the scene which I am providing you I have created 10 frame animation it will help us when you create a animation of that small car, in (Reactor) later on, if we have not any animation in the car or what ever which you want to animate it, then reactor will not animate it because of no animation. Lets get ready and start.
1-I have created the simple scene which I am going to use in this tutorial, image below.
2-Go to (Reactor) panel and then chose (Rigid Body Collection) from the list, as in the picture below.
3-Now created it any where do you like the scene but make sure not so far, and then from (Rigid Body Collection) Properties Chose (Add) as in the pic below.
4-And now the window will appear select all the names in the list (All) then (Select) as in the image below.
5-You should see now the ret of list in the (Rigid Body Collection) like the picture illustrating below.
6-Now its time to add wheels for our little lovely car to do this go to (Reactor) Panel and then chose (Wheel) from the list like in the picture below.
7-Ok create the wheel some where in the scene and go to its property then check the small check box called (Parent) then button called (None) will be Highlighted chose the (none) button then click on the body of our car to parent it for the tires, ok when you done now chose the (child) and then click on tire to assign it into child of body as like the picture below.
8-And Then do the same for all remaining 3 tires to assign it into the body of our car. as like in the picture below.
9-When you done with all of your wheels assigning to body you should see something like the image indicating below.
10-We are going now to add (CSsolver) to wheels to do this go to (Reactor) Panel and chose the (CSsolver) as like the image below.
