by Didik Wijaya

After creating simple tire tread marks animation in Part 1 and Part 2 tutorial, in this tutorial section I will show you how to create engraved tire tread marks animation. Unlike other tutorials which you use a lot of polygons to create engraved effect, in this tutorial you won't need much polygons here.

1. Continue with previous lesson file. Select treadmarks object. Move this object exactly at Z=0. (You can activate Select And Move tool, and enter Z=0 at the coordinate input box at the bottom of the screen).

Shift+click to create another duplicate. Use Clone Option=Copy. By default, duplicate object will be named as treadmarks01.

Select treadmarks01 object. Go to Modify tab. Delete several modifier in Modifier Stack, until you only have 2 rows: Editable Spline and Path Deform. Now, treadmarks01 is a deformed spline.

2. Create Rectangle as big as Plane01. Then delete the plane (Plane01). You don't need this object anymore.

Notice that you now have treadmarks01 and rectangle. Select Rectangle, right click and choose Convert to>Convert to Editable Spline. Go to Modify tab, in Geometry object, click Attach button, and click treadmarks01 object. Both objects are combined as one spline.

3. Apply combined spline with Extrude Modifier. Use Amount=0. Now, you have a plane with holes. Fortunately, we have treadmarks object. This object is used to fill the holes. Just apply the same material or color to both objects (plane with hole and treadmarks)

4. Select treadmarks object. In Modifier Stack, delete XForm modifier. Apply Push Modifier. Use Amount=-5. Push modifier will create an engraved looks, but the engraved effect is too high. We need to slice by half. Apply Slice modifier. In Modifier Stack highlight Slice Plane sub object. Position slice plane at Z=0. Then in Slice Parameters rollout, choose Remove Top.

5. This tutorial is finished. Video below shows sample of finished engraved tire tread marks animation..

Tire Tread Marks Animation Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

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