Car, Plane and Boat Physics Tutorials for Unity3D

By Mani | June 1, 2010 | Featured, Physics | View Comments

This List follows the Scripting in Unity and Unity General Physics List on http://infiniteunity3d.com

Understanding WheelColliders and vehicle physics in Unity was a bit of a challenge for me initialliy. Luckily I was able to find the following resources to help be get a better grasp. This list is divided into 3 Parts:

  1. Driving tutorials, prototyping tools for Unity 3D and some related tips.
  2. Some of my favorite driving games and demos made in Unity to get your appetite where it needs to be
  3. Plane and Boat Physics resources at the bottom of the list.

Driving and Racing Game Tutorials for Unity 3D

  1. Frogames Proto Pack has a fully set up Track and prototype car with colliders
  2. Arcade Style Racing Game Tutorial from Unity Technologies- I’m including the car tutorial recently released by Unity Technologies(4/23/2010)  because it shows the level of quality that can be achieved in a driving game built with Unity.
  3. Gotow.net Unity3D car Tutorial this Car Tutorial will take you from your mesh to your wheel colliders and have you ready to hang your head out the window with your tongue out and ears flapping in the breeze- My bad!!
  4. The JCar Demo on the Unify Community Wiki with SOURCE CODE is one of the originals – Sad I was not up to the challenge of making that work
  5. Unity Wheel Collider Introduction
    1. Put Some Wheels on That Truck- Throw some D’s on dat B…!
    2. Unity Wheel Collider Tutorial Part 2: Adding a Motor and Steering
    3. Turning the Wheel and Adding Reverse Gear
    4. Drive the Truck Around in the Unity Web Player
  6. Bryan Beckman’s Physics of Racing- Discovered via the Hello Racer Demo.
  7. 3DNemo’s Tutorials- several car-related physics tuts as well as other topics
  8. Unity3D Racing Game Tutorial 42 Page complete game tutorial with source
  9. The Physics Of Racing includes Weight Transfer , Keep Your Tires to The Ground and several other racing and physics resources on GameDev.net
  10. Simple buggy Collider from the Unity Forum
  11. Manta Race from Last Bastion Games Automatically generate a track with a custom appearance, based on the waypoints of the race and 3-D Bezier interpolation fully customizable in the scene view.

Driving Games in Unity Examples

Cars and driving games have been a hot topic recently,espescially with all of the Hello Racer buzz.

Hello Racer Built With Unity

The topic of driving games in Unity3D is not a new one.  There’s a history of eye-catching racing demos.  In particular3dnemo has been putting together amazing demos on tracks since I started collecting Unity Videos.  To me the name 3dnemo is synonymous with “Pedal to the Metal”.  I’ve included one example below but there are countless more at3dnemo’s YouTube Channel

3DNemo.com also has other tutorials and a useful car physics tweaking tool that he makes freely available to you.  Within that testing environment you can adjust various values on wheel colliders and judge the impact of your adjustments. Stop by 3dnemo’s YouTube Channel

The Hummer with the changeable Camera view from @miguelMorelda! was cool but it was just a preview as he warmed up to wow us with the car-racing prototype in Unity! Drive through the city drop the top and daydream  about the future of web gaming.
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Augmented Reality Driving In Unity

We were  also treated to an Augmented Reality Driving Experience created in Unity  by robotDuck

Stop by and Subscribe to robotDuckVideo his YouTube Channel and also stop by robotDuck’s blog and drop some feedback!!

Fast and Furious Unity Car, Diving Wheel Collider and Racing Tutorials

    I’ll leave you with Flashbang driving into Flying Raptors and Crashdrive 3D Made with Unity Game Engine from the Games List.

  1. Fred never had it so Fun- First Crack at Unity creates a “Caveman driving game” In an early Unity experiment from a Flash developer’s point of view

By Air

  1. This Helicopter Tutorial for Unity Introduces The use of airfoil and how lift applies to flight in Unity
  2. Protopack from Frogames reviewed here by idevgames.com includes a flying demo already rigged for just $15.00 as well as a driving proto and various other resources.  Check it out on my Unity3D tools List

By Sea- Unity Boats Tutorials

  1. Unity3D-France posted an excellent Les Objets Flottants dans Unity the PDF file on there is in English and is an in depth tutorial explaining using several different spheres to represent the buoyant forces for a floating object in Unity.
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  1. InfiniteUnity3D says:
    March 18, 2010 at 7:03 am

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  5. Infinite Unity 3D says:
    April 19, 2010 at 1:29 am

    Car Tutorials for Unity3D Including Wheel Collider Setup http://infiniteunity3d.com/unity3d-driving-car-physics-tutorials/
    Car Physics, Driving Games Tutorials for Unity3D
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  6. InfiniteUnity3D says:
    April 26, 2010 at 4:48 pm

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  7. Pegorari says:
    April 26, 2010 at 12:51 pm

    Very useful, thanks!!!

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    April 26, 2010 at 9:31 pm

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  11. Digital Monkey School says:
    April 28, 2010 at 1:14 am

    http://infiniteunity3d.com/unity3d-driving-car-physics-tutorials/links to unity3d cars tutorials, Caleb thx again :)
    Car, Plane and Boat Physics Tutorials for Unity3D
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  12. Marc Mcintyre says:
    May 1, 2010 at 12:44 pm

    Greetings I am wanting to know if I can use this article on one of my blogs if I link back to you? Thanks

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