Create a Car Rig with Rigid Body Physics in Blender | Car Rigging Tutorial

In this Blender tutorial, I attempt to show how to create a simulated car rig with rigid body physics in Blender 3.0, this should work with Blender 3.1 and Blender 3.2 as well. If you love blender like I do and want to see more shorts and tutorials consider subscribing or follow my socials to see what I'm working on here.

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Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:36 Find a Sweet Car
1:02 Block out Basic Shapes
1:20 Quick Tip
1:42 Enable Undo Legacy
2:01 Add Rigid Bodies
2:34 Rigid Body Collision
3:07 Rigid Body Constraints
3:25 QuickTip
3:43 Back Wheel: Constraints
4:48 Back Wheel: Motor Constraints
5:42 Front Wheel: Constraints
6:57 Front Wheel: Motor Constraints
7:41 Front wheel: Overview
8:48 Front wheel: Mirroring Issues
9:28 Add Rig Control
10:43 Add Properties
11:15 Add Drivers
12:02 Fine Tuning
13:03 Rigid Body Stuff
16:10 Outro
16:47 RBC Addon

Credit-
Song: Pedal To The Metal - Balloonplanet
Models:

[Ab_obla]

16:31 !! That would be the coolest thing ever, a superb upgrade to this awesome tutorial

[kenthouston]

Thanks for sharing this, Austin! Very useful.

A good habit to get into is (as you mentioned) to scale and rotate your objects to where you want them, and then freeze your Scale and Rotations (Ctrl+A) for the objects. Physics simulations require real-world dimensions to look "right". Freezing transforms regularly can save a lot of headaches down the road (no pun intended).

I look forward to any other videos like this - rigid-body constraints in Blender are a dark art (compared to what I've used in other packages)

[roccoguglielmi]

Amazing! I look forward to the add-on.

[OrionPaxOP]

16:40 absolutely blown to what you just did . Being able to drive the car like that reminds me of Motion director from IC-8 . You have outperformed this method is just so good .

[XirRalphReacts]

Geez, this is one of the most in-depth tutorial I have seen in a while. And I am not even done.

[yipqslz]

Bro I'm facing difficulty in seperating 5 body parts please make vedio on that topic

[williampedrazzi]

I just watched your video and I am so hyped for the Add-on

As a car designer I was looking for rigid bodies to become more popular so I could drive my creation and make more realistic animations without all the keyframing stuff (which doesnt even look real in the end)

I watched another video to code Xinput controls with python to drive the car but your "jockey" thingy seems much more appropriate and simpler

Best believe I will watch this space in the future !

[danilchirva]

This is awesome tutorial! I want to make cool animation with car but I failed with wheels. They are wiggling like there 11:40 but then you somehow fixed it at
12:37 and I do not know how because everything seems to be same with yours and origins are same with wheel's collisions. (Already fixed)

[tinnatina]

hey, i have a question, i’m doing this tutorial step by step, how do you change the visual of cube and cylinders that it no longer looks 3d but only looks like lines, you start doing it from 1:00 min, i just couldn’t figure it out. Thank You!

[make]

I didn't even think this was that easy to do before I saw this. Amazing video.

[jrbrown]

Bought this addon absolutely a must buy worth every penny thanks so much for developing this

[arthurlefevre]

My man I want to thank you, I kinda abandonned an old Fiat 500 rig project that I took a long time to model but i could'nt get the rigging done. It's been a year now and I litteraly first tried your tutorial, you are a legend. You make the tutorial very clear and a pleasure to watch, thanks a lot. Instant sub.

[jakecarvey]

Love the self-awareness <3 "Hopefully you learned something, and hopefully I didn't just waste six months of my life!"

Nah man, this is awesome, and a cool accomplishment. There is obviously some competition out there, but that's a good thing as well. Nicely done!

[pizzathehut]

Finally! A competent tutorial of car rigging!!!!

[adriangabrielgramada]

Killer video :) Super thank-you :) And that app is to die for :) The add-on would be incredible also :) Good luck and keep up the excellent work ;)

[duded]

I just finished the complete tutorial. No you didn’t waste six months of your life bro. You have done a great job.. And that effort worth millions. Hats off friend 👍🫡

[mstoynov]

Steering works with the pivot being at the center of the hub/wheel, not offset inwards from the wheel.

[etzule]

why in 7:17 my front wheel doesn't turn that smooth? I tweaked the target velocity to turn right and left, but there's like no limit where it goes.

[galus]

this is sick! wanted to do this a while ago but could not figure out how. thanks for sharing!

[J_Sullivan]

as soon as i switch the constraint type from fixed to generic spring, the rigid body wheels stop supporting the rigid body for the car and it falls to the ground in one connected mess. in the video, the wheels are still supporting the car when you test the suspension...