Why Your Wheel Calipers Are Glitching (And How to Fix It)
Make brake calipers follow wheel suspension and steering without inheriting the wheel’s spinning rotation.
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Build a Chaos Vehicle system from car rigging and setup to interactions, animation, sound, modular vehicles, and AI.
Build a Chaos Vehicle system from car rigging and setup to interactions, animation, sound, modular vehicles, and AI.
Rig wheels, calipers, doors, hood, and steering in Blender with the updated Chaos Vehicle workflow.
Turn a rigged car into a working Chaos Vehicle with wheel classes, driving inputs, and camera controls.
Switch control between a third-person character and a Chaos Vehicle using a vehicle interaction system.
Prepare headlight and indicator meshes and material slots in Blender before building the vehicle light logic.
Add headlights, emissive light materials, and independently controlled turn indicators to a car.
Use Motion Warping to align animated vehicle entry and exit transitions with the car.
Use Two Bone IK to connect the character’s hands to door handles and the steering wheel.
Tune vehicle mass, torque, transmission, and shift RPM so speed, gears, and engine RPM work together.
Add door sounds, engine startup, dynamic RPM-based engine audio, and handbrake skid sounds.
Set up camera switching, steering wheel rotation, and Control Rig hand placement for first-person driving.
Create a shared skeleton and base Chaos Vehicle Blueprint so multiple cars can use the same system.
Make an AI car follow a spline using a look-ahead target and smooth steering input.
Use road curvature and physics to calculate cornering speed and apply proportional throttle and braking.
Extra mechanics and fixes to use alongside this series.
Make brake calipers follow wheel suspension and steering without inheriting the wheel’s spinning rotation.
Prepare a car in Blender for Chaos Vehicles. This original workflow has an updated recommended tutorial.
Add 3D spatialization, air absorption, and occlusion to a vehicle MetaSound using sound attenuation.
Detect tire slip and dynamically control skid sound intensity during acceleration, braking, cornering, and drifting.
A continuously updated Chaos Vehicle project with interactions, animation, audio, modular vehicles, and AI.
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