How to Make Car Wheels Rotate With the Movement of the Car in 1 Minute - Blender Tutorial

In this quick Blender tutorial, I'll show you how to make the car wheels rotate in sync with the car's movement. You'll learn how to add drivers to the wheels, configure their rotation, and copy the drivers to all four wheels. This ensures you won't have to repeat the process for each wheel, saving you significant time.

The models used in this video are from Blender Kit and the HDRI is from Poly Haven.

Enhance your skills on Skillshare

My setup:

Enjoy, and don't forget to subscribe.

[rEEpublishing]

This is great. Thanks! Also, if your wheels are spinning in the opposite direction of movement, multiply your var times negative three. In other words, type var*-3 instead of the suggested var*3 under the expression field. You can also rotate the vehicle 180 degrees on the Z-Axis.

[nickyreigns]

Thank you so much for this. I like your approach btw; simple and straight to the point.

[nickdowner]

Great tutorial, no extra fluff just right to the information. Thanks!

[sparkbark]

Made this for a toy biplane animation! Thanks a ton

[bartis]

Hey, it doesn't work for me :( It's only work when i select type on y location (it's rotating perpendicular), but in x and z location it doesn't rotating. Can you tell me what i was doing wrong? (edit: ok, i know: i was doing it on y rotation, and i should on x rotation)

[charliemcgrain]

BUT when I try to turn the wheels on the z axis, to make it look like the car is turning a corner, the wheels wobble off their axis. Any ideas on how to fix this?

[sumitvishwakarma]

Bro I made model for train simulator so wheel this wheel rotate if I export it in train simulator please reply

[EdgarVenzor]

Do you know how to slant the wheels without the wobble? Like for a race car with camber

[ÖmerFarukArtış]

hey bro. i have a problem about armature position . when i set the 3d cursor at left corner of door and after i set orign to cursor and control it everything look fine but after i rig it the bone placed at middle of the door and i see also the orign is placed at middle of the door. don't know where i making mistake have any idea?

[ShohSlaought-hhqe]

What if i rotate the empty a bit on z axes and move will it work well? For instance if im making car animation using curve and when my car just turn back will the rotation work well or is it just for one direction? Hope you will reply

[Alexanderfranco]

hey thanks for the tutorial but for some reason my wheels don't rotate and my driver value is high and I can't figure out how to reduce it.

[shotbyv]

hey man, I love the short tuto but whenever i set it up I've done it 3 times and I've done it right cuz I did it step by step alongside your video. But every time my car wheels don't rotate in a circle they rotate like the opposite. like they don't rotate like regular wheels. my points are in the middle and I've grouped my axis to my car idk what's wrong.

[mdb]

Please, the wheels stop rotating after covering a certain distance. Please solve

[OrangeIND-]

and how to move front wheel rotation left and right

[arib]

THANK YOU for this tutorial - it works great! I have one question, if you don't mind? When I move the Empty, the car moves and the wheels roll just like you've explained - but my wheels stop rolling after the car moves past a certain point. Meaning, I move the car forward a little ways and the wheels are rolling, but as I keep going, the wheels soon stop turning. I'm just wondering if you might know what I'm doing wrong? Either way, thank you again for a great video!!

[journeyforyou]

How do i separate the wheel from the car?

[DageLV]

i know this is a crazy idea, and we all exist in 2d universe, but what about 3d space? i know 3ed dimension is hard concept to understand, i struggle it myself, but immagine if the car can go left OR right? ik its a bit crazy idea, but what in those cases?

[dreamingofmusicmedia]

What symbol am I supposed to press on a keyboard for var times 3 there’s literally no multiplication symbol anywhere

[HaseebUrRehman-us]

Because when we select car fully car select only wheel not select and i get the car on the blenket librarry

[ArunSharma-jzir]

wheels not rotating in my case plz tell me