As a former tank mechanic I knew exactly how many track segments you would need! haha! This brings back some memories!

Mann i was so feared of modelling a tank and animating it . You made it sound so simple 👏. Keep it up to the good work

Dang dude! This was amazing. This has been a challenge I was unable to solve until I saw this video. You covered some complicated issues and made them simple to solve with math and logic. You broke the modeling down in a way that I think will really help people see that modeling can be a lot simpler than it might seem at first. And you did this all efficiently! The editing and narration was clean and to-the-point. All around, just really well-put-together material man. Glad I found your channel. Keep up the great work!

Good tutorial! You can use the FIT CURVE option in the array modifier so that it automatically uses the right amount of objects

And this is what i need thank you! This is incredibly useful.

This is the best track tutorial I have seen, explaining the transformations was very useful, it seems to be some kind of inverse kinematics for tracks ! I definitely want to create a track, just for the fun of it, thanks man.

at 9:00 you need to set map from rotation -> Y max 1 map to location -> x source axis = Y max -11 or whatever number u like as it will define the speed of movement & Y source axis Y , and you need to apply rotation

You, my friend are a life saver. I have improved so much in the past few month after watching your tutorials, I did not progress much for the past 1 year after watching and buying those costly courses from those fancy ads on IG and other websites. God bless you brother thank you so much

The best for all years video ! Thanks

This was so helpful man ...thanks a lot ...I was able to apply similar techniques to rig tracks using an armature. It works perfectly. Thanks a lot man

Bro thanks so much! I made the hull of a Tiger II and had no idea how I should even begin with the tracks.

for rotating + copying you can press alt+D (or shift+d if you dont want link them linked) -> R -> X,Y or Z -> 15 (or whatever angle you want) -> enter -> shift+R to duplicate previous actions. This makes it so you don't have to manually repeat the same action multiple times. note that in edit mode it only works with shift+D.

BRUH TY! ive been teaching myself blender for the last couple of months and my end goal was to build a tank - this helps me further into achieving that goal!

what an amazing tutorial am not a rigger or neither this is some work i do but i stayed till the end cuz its basically amazing the way you explain and the work thanks i will be waiting for more

Thanks buddy for this video. It is so useful. Rigging a tank becomes so easier after watching your videos. Thanks once again!!!

Awesome tutorial! Thanks for sharing!

Wow, Best tank track tutorial on youtube. By far.

You are an INCREDIBLE modeler in blender. Amazing!

Wow great stuff initially when I started blender it was a bit hard for me to follow along but came back to this after a year and I made it now I have a tank that is all rigged up. Great tutorial, thanks!!

Wow that was concise! You've earned my sub!

That was one hell of a good tutorial. Thanks!

Best video out there on this topic, great job !

Great work. This will come in handy when i remake my old WallE model. I never figured out how to make the tracks right.

Saved my life! thank you Arijan

another awesome Blender technician

WOW this is the channel i need, thank you

Great and quick to the point I dont need to make a tank but very well done as far as tutorials goes and the tracks look amazing man.

i was looking for the turning animation, thanks!

This is easily one of the best done tutorials I've ever seen. Insanely good quality.

Jesus this is one Incredible Tutorial!!!!

That's amazing, many thanks for that tutorial! Only one thing, with the SPHERE which controls the movement of the chain, and the rotation of the wheels: I would prefer to use a rotation range in the Transformation Constraint of -180° to 180°, instead of 0° to 1°. That makes the control with a rotation more natural. I made the sphere the same size as the ground wheels, so that I could take the rotation angle 1:1 for these wheels. For smaller or larger wheels, there is some calculation required to set the correct "Map To" rotation.

Excellent guide, thanks a lot. You are the best.

Great job! Amazing!

Really great tut!!!

Perfect Tutorial! Thanks!!

great example, i will try this for another object. thank you sir

! IMPORTANT UPDATE ! At 9:00, the track constraint is wrong. Do this, if your track is aligned with the Y Axis: Map From -> Rotation X Max 1 Map To -> Location Set Y Source Axis to X Max to -11 Download this model on ArtStation: shorturl.at/efzDF

Dude, you just saved my life!

Great video man really usefull.

Thanks man this really helpful

One of the most realistic tank machanic on youtube. If you show how to simulate it on the mountain road => You will be the best tanker :))

This is great, thank you.

Insanely good tutorial. I'm going to go lie down now to let it settle in . . . .

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!

Amazing work you made, man. As a junior programmer I advice you don't forget lubricate the truck pins every 50 SMR.

I recently discovered your channel while searching for reference blueprints. I was always interested in learning more about these complex modeling & rigging techniques but finding the contents for these sorts of things ain't that common. I was digging into your channel more to see the stuff you've worked on. Thanks for sharing the insights mate. :)

Genius!

great tutorial!

Thank you so much❤️❤️❤️❤️

Soooooo talented👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Love ur work bro ❤

So mutch talent:)

this is so cool

SOLUTIONS TO SOME PROBLEMS 1. If you have a problem with the Tracks when turning then driving again: Change following Constrains (Empty Sphere) Set the Target from Hull to a new individual all-in-one empty (e.g. Plain Axis which you parent to the Hull) + Change Target also to Local Space 2. If you have problems with lagging Tracks + Wheels (both change constantly rotating direction while moving the Tank) Change following Constrains (Wheels + Tracks) Set the Target to Local Space

Great Tutz!!!

If you are following this with a more recent version; and your tracks leave the path, select the path and object data parameters (green curve icon) then expand active spline and check the "cyclic" box. I'm guessing on older versions this was checked by default.

thank you!

if anyone hast the problem, that if you spin the empty speher at 9:00 the track is exploding instead of spining set the the constraint as following: Target Worldspace Owner Worldspace (later if you set the Parents you can switch it back to local) Xmax 1 Y source x Max -11 and before that, close the Pathloop with selecting the first and last point and press F or shift F, i dont know anymore But yeah if it fixed it for you, upvote my comment so others can also see it (working on Blender 3.4.1) NOTE: This works only if the tank itself faces in the Y direction, if it faces in the x direction: i don t know how to set it XD , it seems so simple that you use the y rotation then and set the x transform to y but it doenst work somehow... good luck my guys XD (or just spin your tank 90 Degrees so its facing Y)

soo good bro thansk

nice one , interesting

I've also created a constrains for the empty sphere Loc to Rot

Genius

12:31 for someone who can't make it, check the "extarapolate" on sphere constraint. Mine doesn't work at first, and i try to figure it out why for almost 10 minutes maybe.. and it's very frustrating

very alaborate tutorial. well done and thanks.

thank you bro

Awesome

Edit: Before you write a comment angrily saying the tutorial is bad you should learn a bit of the basics first! ♨️This is not a tutorial for beginners!♨️ Thank you Arijan for the effort you put in! ❤

Thank you, good Video

thanks men all 50 try and 5 days i finally resolvet it

Awesome video! What PC specs are you running?

It's crazy how many people in the comments look at this tutorial and think "Ok, I just downloaded Blender for the first time...THIS is the tutorial I'm going to start my Blender journey on..." and then proceed to troll you for not explaining things like how to set transform orientations and pivot points. Great tutorial, any possibility you could share links to your references? I've got a couple decent blueprints but your refs are way better than the ones I've found so far.

thank you man ❤ xD

cool dude i subbed ur channel

thanks so much

nice work, sub.

i love it

Just yesterday I experimented with tank tracks, and look what appeared on my recommendation today! Nice video btw Edit: also, why didn't you use "copy rotation" constraints for the road wheels?

Awsome Tutorial! Only one question left, how can i pitch the tank without moving the tracks, for example on an hill?

also where should the pivot point be for the spline? And the start/end point of the spline. What axis is everything aligned with? I'm trying to follow along with my tank but I have to point the tracks/links in different directions from the spline to get it to clone around the track correctly.

Awesome tutorial! I have a problem though. When I added the rotation cube, the tracks speed is inconsistent throughout the rotation. I have tried changing the settings, moving origins around but nothing fixed it. Any ideas?

Yes is good and everything BUT if i rotate the tank 90° and pushing forward then tank track moving reverse.

When duplicating and mirroring the tracks, they still go the same direction after recalculating the normals. Working with Blender 3.0

How would you go about exporting something like this to a game engine? Can I somehow bake the vertex positions to create blend shapes from the constraints? Would you go down a different route?

Thanks for the greats tutorial but it’s a lot easier to do the curve for the traks by a circle and a shrink wrap modifier and then converte to curve

cool , the animation part looks great. i am more interested in 3d printing with blender got any tricks? for accuracy

you might say its not rocket science. alot of stuff to remember, and you have a lot of numbers you throw out that i bet varie depending on size. but having said that, its a real nice tutorial taking it step by step. Defenetly worth checking out :)

Stumbled upon this tutorial/guide while seeing if there’s any modders working on functional treads for SnowRunner, seems like this should work, but would need to figure out how to prevent them derailing which is the main issue existing mods have.

Thank you O/

i love you

You might already know this, but u can type math expressions into value bars. So instead of 32.727272 which is still technically slightly offset, u can put 360/11. Hope this helps!

Is there a way to pair this detailed tracks with the physics rig you did? Like having this much detail in a rigid body physics rig is obviously a no no. So is there any way we can pair this geometry with the physics of the other rig?

This video is amazing. Now my question is how to get this effect in Unity?

nice work man😍 ...BTW activate your window😄

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you saved me

good time to fire ....nice tuto thanks

If I use this settings in a unity proyect it will work the same? cause it looks so cool

Can i bring the tank rigging in blender to unreal engine for animation? Thank for you awesome tutorials!

This tutorial is very helpful though I do got some problems when setting the cube shape empty transformation constraint, because once I set the negative value for minimum Z rotation, the Track get out of position, leaving the wheels and curve there. I attempt the same base tutorial in another blender model (A robot not a tank) and the same problem of the track leaving it's position, when setting the track's own transformation constraint. So I'd like some help with this problem.

Nice. Shortcut key to fill in the blanks?