Procedural Tank Track in geometry nodes - Blender project

If you need to rig a tank track, conveyor belts or other similar stuff you can use this project. Fully procedural with geometry nodes in Blender v. 4.1.1

This workflow lets you define a custom curve and automatically creates the wheels and the track based by the radius of the control points you can manage as you need.

With this workflow you'll be able to manage these parameters:

• Wheels width: It define the width of the wheels if the flag Use custom wheel is disabled.
• Use custom wheel: It lets you to switch between the built in wheels (simple cylinders) and custom wheel
• Custom wheel: The object that would be instantiated on the control points if the flag Use Custom wheel is enabled.
• Track piece: The custom object instantiated to fill all the curve around the wheels
• Piece distance: this let you have the perfect constant offset between the track pieces on the curve when you are using complex shape
• Animation: This controls the animation of the track and of the custom wheels. Using native drivers feature of Blender you can easily automate the values of this attribute
• Floor (check): If enabled, the wheels and the track pieces themselves will always stay on the top of a specified surface you can set in the next parameter
• Floor: The object on which the tank track needs to stay on top if the Floor check is enabled

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