Hey i'm new to this kind of stuff.I never created a tutorial for something but i will now .I'll do my best.By the way many of you know how to make a car , but i met people that didn't actually know.

I copied the important parts from the screens , to make them use less space [here]

Step 1
First of all build the car's shape [You can make it look however you want , didn't stay to make a more detailed car]
I used BRUSH to make this shape , I didn't make it to smooth
By the way : In this example i added indents , these are not necessary , if you're new just build the base of the car straight  without indents ,because adding the hinge wrong would mess the whole motor and all that kind of stuff



Step 2
Create the wheels [ you can make them as big as you like]Then place them  on the car, wherever you want [usually on left / right sides] Be sure you're in pause mode will you do this.By the way : The center of the wheel should be on the car's body.



Step 3
Select the Hinge tool then place it on the center of the wheel(Be sure that the center of the wheel is on the car's body, so when you place the hinge on the center of the wheel it will connect to the car's body) .[Advice : zoom in when placing it , so when you're going to zoom out , at the normal view , the hinge will look small ,it won't disturb you]If you won't zoom in the hinge's size will be very big and if the wheel is small it will disturb you if you want to move the wheel or something.Zooming out and placing a hinge makes it bigger for closer view and vice versa ;zooming in and placing a hinge will make it look smaller from a zoomed out view.






Step 4 :
Now we're going to transform the hinges in motors .Select the first hinge , right click on it click on HINGES then you will see 4 options

1 : Motor :It will make the wheel torque
2 : Control arrows keys The wheels will only torque when you use the arrow keys
3 : Reversed Changes the wheel's torque directions

Speed : Torque speed [42 should be okay]
Strength : If you'r going to build a monster truck then the strength should be bigger ,meaning that the car will move without problems big stuff like balls et cetera.

So you should check the "Control with arrows keys" option and Reversed if you want to change the direction.

By the way : Be sure you do this to every hinge .If you're to bored to do it, then you can just clone the first hinge and put it on the other wheel[s].Short Way : Select the hinge , hold Ctrl and move it on left.




Step 5 :

Your car is done , now you can use it have phun.




My first tutorial , i hope it helped and i hope you understand.

EDIT : added a few more lines at step 2 and 3 also corrected some sentences : Sorry if i  repeated the same words over and over again.

Last edited by MasacruTheArcher (2008-03-07 15:48:14)