Wheel rotation issues

[sswgp60]

Hello all,

I created a truck and 2 wheels via 3ds Max 2016 and imported them into Railworks. My issues is that both wheels rotate off of their axis's. I've spent a good 7hrs at this and haven't had much luck in correcting the issues.. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Bananarama]

The wheel objects need to be centered on their axis, the trucks at 0.

[sswgp60]

Hi Marc,

Thank you for you reply, are you saying that I need to center the wheels/trucks within 3ds Max world coordinates? or in the Blue Print editor?

Regards,

[Bananarama]

The wheels should have a world center about their axis, whereas other objects can be centered to zero world axis. They need to spin independently.

[LordMannu]

You must place the pivot points like this.

[sswgp60]

All, thanks for responding- I went back and adjusted the world coordinates for each object (I like to believe I have) and it didn't affect the wheel rotation. It looks like its being offset somehow- could I be filling out the Blueprint editor incorrectly? Also, I created the wheel sets with a spline then extruded and mirrored it... Would this be a problem?

Thank you again for your help.

[Bananarama]

You can either reset the world coordinates for the wheels, or try creating a new box object centered to the wheel's axis and attach the wheel to it and deleting the box.

[LordMannu]

Viewing your blueprint more carefully I notice a few thinks I never do, but I´m not sure if that could be the reason.
First. You have several several dimensions below 1 meter without the 0 and starting with ".". I don´t know if that could be a problem but just in case add the zero to get the number like this "radius 0.4572"
Second. In the first part of the blueprint, the 3th line is Geometry. I always fill it with the geometry of the bogey "Bo01"

Also I can´t tell if you are using point or comma for decimals. You should use comma.

Attached one of my trucks blueprints

[sswgp60]

Thank you all for your help, I'll have some time tomorrow to give it another whirl.


Aaron

[sswgp60]

All, thank you for your help. I sincerely appreciate it. I had to go back to my initial spline and recreate the wheel set. At that point I created a box around each wheel to reset the axis and then deleted the box per Hack advise. Which did the trick! I fiddled around with the pivots for hours and and got nowhere.


Thank you again Hack and LordMannu!

I'm sure I'll be needing assistance again soon!

[LordMannu]