Tutorial: Getting Started with Car Animation in Blender // Launch Control [Beginner]

In this beginner video, we go over the very basics of Car Animation in Blender and how Launch Control makes it fast and easy to get started.

About Launch Control (LC) ►
If you want to make realistic-looking car animations in Blender in no time, LC is the tool for you!

It's built around 3 different parts of the process:
1. Automatic Rigging (One-Click Rigging of 4-wheeled cars)
2. Animation with presets for quick results
3. Physics simulations that bake fast and can be modified in real-time

LC strives to make vehicle animation accessible and eliminates the usual problems you stumble over, when turning your action-sequence dreams into reality (a virtual reality, that is).

The simple interface packs a ton of power and in the "Manual Gearbox" you have a world of customization options to tune LC to your liking.

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[cgboost]

Congrats on the launch, Daniel! I have been messing around with car rigs in the past, so I know the pain. Your tool looks super useful.

[davidschaefer]

Love how you're pushing this with all the material and explanations! Thank you so much!

[videopro__]

Rigacar never ceased to embarrass me anytime I use it 😅thanks for this

[OliseForel]

Just bought Launch Control. Very excited!

[TronikXR]

Thank you so much for this amazing tool! Just bought it!

[rezkdesign]

Nice work bro
Please we need a camera movement tutorial .

[alkalinejohnson]

am new to blender and this addon rules best car rig ever see if you can do motorcycle

[bentheremedia]

This is so incredible!! I'm trying to push my company to purchase this for me but if they don't, I may have to just pull the trigger myself. One thing I noticed though, during the drifting portions, it seems as though the car is rolling in the wrong direction. Is there a way to control that? It seems as if the car is leaning towards the inside of the turn rather than towards the outside where all of the weight would naturally shift during a drift. I think it's so cool that you can adjust the amount of each portion of the physics and really start to fine tune the personality in your animations. Well done!

[alejmc]

This looks just amazing… as someone trying to learn Python and Blender as a hobby for now, can only imagine the vast amount of work and thought this required. The non destructive in practice three-layered approach is fantastic.
Question, and I might be totally wrong for Porsches, but in general, was the roll inverted? When a car takes a fast left corner (drifting or not) all the forces go from left to right (local to the car), making it roll clockwise. Here in this example it feels like it is doing what the driver might be trying to do (counteracting the actual car’s roll)…
Maybe desirable as an option, so letting that slider go from -100% to 100% might be useful too.

I’m buying this

EDIT: Don’t mind me as much, on Gumroad, at the physics mustang section, it’s clear that it behaves accordingly.

[Smooth_Shading]

I'm extremely excited about this add-on and I see it's on Blender Market now. My only concern is if my modest PC can run it well enough. My viewport becomes too slow anywhere upwards of about 1 million faces in the scene. I have 12GB of ram. Will it work okay? Thanks brother, keep up the great work!

[earlygamer]

ok, how about car collision with other cars ? how can i add ramming other cars while driving alongside ? Cool tech btw.

[golfboy]

Super dope but the roll is in the wrong direction in your example animation with the porsche. It should roll in the other direction to look realistic not lean in the curve yk what I mean?

[fredarthur-art]

Looks great but is it just me or are the body physics of that final slide at 5:39 completely wrong? (same at 8:31) Has this been fixed since the video was made? Thanks

[RLCDECALS]

Hello, all works fine but can i limit the wheels rotation ? i dont want the wheels to be like 90 degree when drifting, anyway of limiting the max rotation of the wheels so it doesnt clip through the chasis

[racesistmotorsport]

Guy can you help me how to install the add on, i import the model given but there no menu or window of launch control in blender

[allahumaaghfirli]

How to select the moving thing like above the car there's some cross arrows how to move that if i select it everything above it like the controls just gets selected

[Alexander-ewdk]

Hey Daniel, just bought the plugin the lights dosent headlights doesn't seem to follow the cars headlight how do I link them?, should I rename the headlights before rigging?

[gtkiller]

This is great! Is it possible to give the wheels negative camber after the rig has been applied?

[LukeDZN]

please can you teach me how to do a perfect loop of drift 01 animation in the launch control.

[kingjoy]

How do you simulate the smoke? Can you give a tutorial on that? It's so exciting, bro.