Often, Civil Engineers outsource the obtaining of GIS data and aerial mapping to specialized companies. However, if you're interested in how you can get your own, then this movie will show you a few tricks.
In this movie, you learn to save an aerial image or more technically a satellite image that matches the area defined for your project. You will use Google Earth but learn about other tools as well.
Once you set basic scene parameters, you then use Google Earth to study the area of the world where your project is to take place, in this case the state of New York.
In this movie, you establish relationships between the car's body and the steering wheel, to create body roll when the steering wheel rotates and the car turns.
In this movie, you establish relationships between the car's front wheels and the steering wheel, so that the front wheels turn when the steering wheel rotates.
In this movie, you constrain the car to a path. Furthermore, you establish math functions to ensure the wheels spin by the proper amount as the car travels on the path.
This tutorial shows you how to control wheel spin as a car travels on a path. It also shows how to turn the wheels and roll the car body in reaction to Steering Wheel animation. In this Part 1 movie, you familiarize yourself with the scene and its setup.
In this movie, You add the final touch to your museum scene by placing and animating pedestrians using the Populate tool.
12 min
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