Generic Car Prefab

Hi,

I've been working on this for the last couple of weeks.

Please visit my blog to get download link and more details:
http://unityassetier.com/?p=135

My idea for the perfect car prefab is a generic one with place holders for meshes, which you can use on basically any car model.

It supports:
Driver’s steering-wheel. [Done]
Wheels alignment. [Done]
Rear lights. [ToDo]
Front lights. [ToDo]
Car Physics, Wheel Colliders. [Done]
Engine gear ratios fine tune. [ToDo]
Engine gears audio system. [Done]
Skidmarks tire-smoke system. [Done]
Mesh deform on collision. [ToDo]
Handbreak. [ToDo]
Easy-to-use Unity Editor UI. [ToDo]
Center-of-mass setting. [Done]
Speedometer, calculates KPH/MPH. [Done]

Need help with:
Mesh deform on collision. I wrote some code that supposed to handle that, but not working good. More complex methods should be added in order to make it work.
Engine gear ratios fine tune. The system functions, though I’m not sure it will on large variety of possible cases.

Please feel free to share your thoughts and ideas.

Thank you.

 

I would like driver's seat view camera.

 

Great work!

 

Hi Jeff,
Thanks. Was thinking about it. Will be added.

 

Impressive work, I just went for a spin!!!

 

Great! Have fun!
Hope some of you could help me solve the mentioned tasks

 

How should I model the car body and wheels in 3D Studio MAX so that when I add the car body and wheels to Generic Car Prefab, the car body and wheels appear correctly? I tried to add a car body that I modeled to Generic Car Prefab but the car body is rotated so that its front end is pointing down instead of pointing in correct direction. I tried the Generic Car Prefab and it worked better than other people's car prefabs but it's not fast enough.

 

@Jeff: Just rotate the car in the inspector.

 

Jeff, Like Carking1996 said, as a simple solution, you can simply rotate the body. If it faces down I guess you need to rotate X -90.
Wheels should be simply not in the same mesh as the body, so you could replace the prefab's wheels. If you want faster car you can raise Engine Torque property, though I can't yet guarantee it'll work smoothly, as project is still in early stage of development.

 

I increased max RPM to 5000 and torque to 50. The car ran faster and won't flip over on hard turns. That is much better than other people's car prefabs where cars flip over on hard turns. I thought that I have 3D mesh files of car bodies but I couldn't find them.

 

Great. I'll try that too
You can find some free models at the Asset Store or at TurboSquid.com

 

Yeah, Engine Torque 50 and MaxRPM 5000 works nice. I liked the feeling of Engine Torque 40 even better.
Though, when I ran it, it did flipped over after going over top gear [theoretically] maximum speed. That makes sense becuase this limitation is still missing in the prefab. I'll put this in the next update.

 

How should I put different wheels on the car prefab? Your car prefab appears to have a body that was part of the car that was included in the Unity Car Tutorial but the body isn't in the scene.

 

You can replace the children of Wheel objects. This kind of actions are basic in Unity. Maybe you'll prefer to watch some Unity video tutorials on YouTube.

 

I replaced bodies and wheels with my own bodies and wheels. I deleted bodies and wheels that came with Generic Car Prefab. When I play the game, I get "NullReferenceException" message that may have something to do with the Deformer script.

 

Jeff, without knowing how it all works, I'm guessing that after deleting the original wheels the carscript (or the deformer script) doesn't know where the wheels are. Find where the script in question is attached to the gameobject and check if everything in the Inspector is assigned properly.

Will comment on the thread once i had more time to play with it. Its a great idea regardless.

 

I think that the names of 3D meshes don't match those in scripts. Any suggestions?

 

Yes. Porbably. Change their name to the prefab's original names. And make sure to tie replaced objects to correct public properties in script.

 

[Update 1]

1. Engine gear ratios fine tune.
2. Handbreak.
3. Rear lights.
4. Front lights.



http://unityassetier.com/?p=135

 

I downloaded the update and the car worked better than before but I think that the headlights are not working. I found out that if I delete the "Body" object from the "GenericCar" hierarchy, I get the "NullReferenceException" message. I think that the "Body" is an empty game object.

 

You are not supposed to delete "Body". You have no reason to do that at this point, as "Body" is just a place holder at the moment. Or at least replace it with other "Body" object. NullReferenceException means that the game is looking for something it can't find. Usually an object that has been removed, deleted or modified wrongfuly.

 

Is the hierarchy correct?



What about "BodyCollider" object?

 

It looks ok. Does it throw any errors?

 

I created a new project, imported the Generic Car Prefab package, made sure that the generic car worked before replacing bodies and wheels with my own. After replacing bodies and wheels with my own, the new project didn't give me any error messages. In the old project, I made a mistake of removing the body object and I got error messages. I added the driver's seat view and "Mouse Look" script to the project and it worked.

 

download link please....

 

download link Please?

 

Hello all,
you can download here
http://www.mediafire.com/download/dda29ad3bs68rt5/GenericCarProject.unitypackage
spend a good day.

 

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Need help with:
Mesh deform on collision. I wrote some code that supposed to handle that, but not working good. More complex methods should be added in order to make it work.
Engine gear ratios fine tune. The system functions, though I’m not sure it will on large variety of possible cases.

Please feel free to share your thoughts and ideas.

Thank you.

You Can Check this asset
https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/8228