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How to Create Rigged Tank Treads in Blender (Tutorial)

Ryan King Art

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In this Blender tutorial I will show you how to model and rig tank treads in Blender. This video is a short clip from my Sci-Fi Construction Robot Course.

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● Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
1:06 Modeling Treads
5:43 Modeling Wheels
8:53 Rigging Treads
13:52 Rigging Wheel
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20 Comments

@Velnias75 2 years ago Pinned

Great! 😺 In driver editor I had to press the Ctl-key, else the curve rotated very strange. I am using Blender 4.1.0.

@infuriatinghealer 2 years ago

Built a Conveyer built with this method and turned out perfect. :hand-pink-waving:

@Thomasbuaroey 2 years ago (edited)

Nice. But, instead of selecting each object and applying locked ransformations its easier to select all the objects, holding down ALT and then aply the locks. This way its only one operation instead of 10.

@njcummins 10 months ago

Low key the best version of this tutorial on youtube. like the others do cover it but they don't EXPLAIN it. Like how to actually transfer the transformations... they just go oh -y and +180 degrees because why not

@5MadMovieMakers 2 years ago

This helped me to get train wheels rolling to match the train speed! Still have to smooth some things out but it should work.

@sonu-jangir 1 month ago

🎉 It's really soooooo helpful...
❤ Thank you so much for sharing this...

@Solver-q7b 2 years ago

My friend you are amazing and I do really appreciate your work to show us how to work on blender and
I hope for you the best

@CG3D_0626 2 years ago (edited)

finally a video that tells you how to rig tank tracks properly. this video was very informative, and has a lot of tips that would help in future projects

@Udayjeet_singh 2 years ago

one tip I learned to make the simple tank treads look better-
use a plane with array and curve deform then create a complex tread shape like add some cone under it
make the plane the parent then go to object properties - Instancing - select face.
This will make the tank tread look so better without creating any deforms

@AOW3FTP 1 year ago

Thank for all these free tutorials

@lasttime6052 2 years ago

Nice! 😊

@hamidalramzy6460 2 years ago

Your tutorials are great, they even helped me for school

@Domzdream 2 years ago

This tutorial gives me an opportunity to make a new 3D model. 👌
Thanks for this

@samdavepollard 2 years ago

always love to see your subscribers number gradually increasing - totally deserved, such a great channel - Good Luck, Ryan

@rohitraoyaduvanshi7330 2 years ago

Very good tutorial U learned very much

@odinsguide7685 2 years ago

Finally!!! Thank you, thank you!! You are such kind person 🎉🎉🎉🎉...

@TedWang2012 4 months ago

Excellent tutorial, clear and detailed explanations, thank you!
However, there are still some unresolved issues:
Turning angles cannot exceed the range of -90° to 90°. Turning will cause deceleration, and the tracks appear to be slipping. Exceeding this range will cause the circuit to reverse.

@BadlyAnimatedGoose 1 year ago

10:49 This helped solve an annoying issue with rotation - constraints was what I needed! Many thanks 🙂

@manuelhoferer300 2 years ago

Thank you! I love it!

@franktothemax 2 years ago

Idk if anyone else saw this, but the speed of the spin of the wheel is fine when you rotate the empty, but if you move the empty on the x axis, it looks like it is spinning waaaaaaay too fast compared to the tread movement. How would I then change the spin of the wheels rotation when “g” moving the empty in the x-axis?