Unity Tutorial: Creating a Simple Railroad System in Unity3d using Cinemachine (Indie DevLog #4)

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Ever wanted to play model #train in #Unity3d ? This is what you get. Create a simple #948685 railroad system where you can simply stitch track parts together, put a train on the track, and off it goes. The approach uses the waypoint system coming with Cinemachine.

In this tutorial I use assets from Synty Studios:

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ABOUT
I am Christian, I have a Ph.D. in theoretical physics, and almost 20 years of experience in the IT industry, mostly as chief architect in a large software company. In 2018 I founded Atlantic Tech & Candy to bridge the gap between the AI and the business world.

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[lucasoosterbaan]

works like a charm ! tram of 5 carriages running realistic on tracks without joints

[heybishop]

DUDE. This is going to be so helpful. It never occurred to me to make use of the built in path system. It's so simple, so elegant. Thank you kindly!

[peileed]

this worked well but I had to manually create the path, the track generator would just add all the points on top of each other, but it is a great solution, thanks!

[SLASHERHEATH]

Lovely of you to make the package available like this, am making a chill island game where you can fast travel around or go to other islands by a sea train, this will be perfect :))

[CamperJohn]

Very cool...thanks for sharing. With references to trains, The Big Bang Theory and my favorite game from years ago, Monkey Island, I just had to subscribe.

[Rubberduckerino]

You said you have to make it in the correct order but what if you wanna go the other way or make it so that the player can build their own train track?

[РусланГабзалилов-гъ]

I was starting to think that I will need to make a similar library for my game. I was thinking to do it the functional way for accuracy. I hope it will be useful

[BruceBarnes]

While I probably don't need the asset, learning about cinema chine dolly solved a problem I was working on

[강예건-xx]

Thanks for sharing! and How can I add railroad in game? (when I add railroads in playing game and click 'Generate Track' button -> Track Path added but cart doesn't follow the added path)

[random_precision_software]

Hi I've come across your channel, I've subbed but have you stopped doing videos

[paulandersson]

I have an issue with the "Cinemachine" in the Track Generator Script. Does anyone know how to fix this? CS 0246 is the code.

[rapideye]

Hey Christian, thanks for the nice tutorial. I've tried out your sample project and there seems to be some issues with the short track. the tangent values are too large for the short track to work properly. i guess there would be the need for more spline points along the track to capture more cases? have you experienced the same issue?

[micflynn]

I appreciate the video. a new version would be nice in cleaner video quality. THANKS!

[gearturner]

this work in VRChat?? really wanna make a train for a world im making

[csellers]

What about controlling your train if you had a split in the path? Are you limited to 1 or could they diverge into multiple options?

[derekw]

8:41 When you're programming a train game and accidentally create Star Fox 64

[LaceUpBrah]

For some reason when I hit "Generate Track" nothing happens, any idea what's going on?

[junesbee]

this is amazing!! I love how in-depth you go into explaining. It really helped me a lot. I was wondering whether if it is possible to make the camera look around while being on the train (not leaving the train, just looking around the environment on the train), kind of like a web VR feature, thanks again!

[MohammadFaizanKhanJ]

Can we attach switch with path and multiple path switching ?

[mtarailis]

Hello. I tried to do this system. And everything orks fine, just one problem - on some corners on generated track if waypoints uses tangent x, next waypoint also gets curved, not straight. Maybe you kno what it could be?