From the course: Vehicle Rigging in Maya

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Custom attributes for overspin on the drive wheels

Custom attributes for overspin on the drive wheels - Maya Tutorial

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Custom attributes for overspin on the drive wheels

In the car rig, once you've got the basic controls in for rolling, steering, rocking, and leaning. You can start to think about additional controls for things like over spin on the rear tires, and headlights. For example, this is a fast rear wheel drive car. And so, we might want to hold the break and tap the gas, making these rear tires, spin out a little bit, without moving the car. We may also want, in a slow motion shot, in a car ad, something like this, to see this car go by and those wheels over-spinning and kicking up mud or dirt. I'll add in an extra attribute then. That gives me overspin control on the rear wheels, and I'll put a seperate one in on the front. This way I can do one or both if I need. As the front wheels aren't driven, I may want to have them simply slide a little bit, but let the rear wheels really spin out. I'll select my master controls, and in the channel box, choose edit. Add attribute. I'm doing this in the channel box so that this appears in the Control…

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