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I'm creating an animation with a steam train and I need to make the front wheels selected to turn and slide from side to side. I plan to use path follow to make the main thing move but I need to make the wheels also turn. I need to find a tutorial that shows how to make the train follow a path and have the wheels rotate and slide so that it looks like it's going around a curve. Kinda like a caravan behind a car.enter image description here

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  • $\begingroup$ Yes you can, but I'm not sure if that's the best approach. If your entire train is following the path it might work though. Make sure the path has linear interpolation. use the main (parent bone) to follow the path. Use a bone between the wheels to follow the path inheriting the rotation. (both best with constraints, not parenting) offset the front wheel bone path position. use copy rotation or transforms constraints to make the wheels turn with the path. But it's going to be quite tedious I'm afraid $\endgroup$
    – Frederik Steinmetz
    Commented Oct 8, 2019 at 7:28
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    $\begingroup$ Are the wheels on bogies? $\endgroup$
    – Robin Betts ♦
    Commented Oct 8, 2019 at 10:43
  • $\begingroup$ May be of use blender.stackexchange.com/questions/133012/… and blender.stackexchange.com/questions/164883/… The latter requires you to have the track length. $\endgroup$
    – batFINGER
    Commented Mar 19, 2020 at 9:16

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