Hi.
Any suggestions about achieving this in a frugal way?
First reply, woo!
I’m working with that myself as well, and came across this russian article: Unity3d Tank Tutorial: Ходовая часть (Урок 1. Основы механики транспортного средства) / Habr
Trying to learn what I can from it, but as he says in the second part [just using Chrome’s translation function, it’s funky in places but can work], two methods he thought of doing the treads:
- Model the entire tread and… wheel thingies individually and make them function properly (which’d be very resource-intensive and complex to do)
OR, - “Simulate” the effect with a tread fastened to bones on a set of wheels, then have them animated with the wheel colliders in Unity. Much “simpler”, less resource-intensive and perfectly viable option in place of the other method, as both learning exercise and end product
Atleast, that’s what I thought. I think
The model it with physics can work quite well but is very heavy on CPU time I found and can break quite easily, I ended up using a spline system whoes knots were controlled by wheel colliders and then the system positioned my tread objects around the spline, I was lucky enough that the system I ended up using was added to an asset store product I already had. Video below.
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