Hellooooo. I have made some tank treads which can be connected and everything, but please can someone tell me how I can link them together and make them flow around the wheels? They are sub'd model's so I don't want to use path deform as it deforms the mesh, but I want to animate the wheels and tracks.
It's the bottom one, using cloth to simulate chains. What I remember doing was following that pretty closely up to the point of simulation then switching it over to follow a path. The effect was that the treads bent where they where pinned. I then used wire parameters to have the rotation of a wheel, drive the treads along…
The spacing tool will get the treads populated, BUT if you want to animate it, you're looking at quite a bit of rigging... Tank treads are some of the harder things I've had to rig up... I ended up using a method similar to Paul Hormis's dynamic chain tutorial to get them rigged up and flowing around a path. It was a bitch…