Rigicar is a Blender add-on designed to facilitate the creation of realistic vehicle animations without the need for traditional rigging or bones. It offers a straightforward, real-time approach to animating vehicles.

Key features:

  • Easy Activation: Quickly activate vehicle animation features for any car body mesh.
  • Cloning and Copying: Duplicate vehicles or copy settings between vehicles within the scene.
  • Flexible Wheel Setup: Support for 1×4 (four identical wheels) or 2×2 (different front and rear wheels) axle configurations.
  • Wheel and Body Alignment: Tools for aligning wheel meshes and car bodies to ensure accurate animation.
  • Real-Time Path and Ground Interaction: Animate vehicles along a path curve with collision detection against ground meshes.
  • Speed and Motion Control: Adjust speed, bank factor, drift effects, and inertial motion for dynamic vehicle behavior.
  • Advanced Animation Controls: Fine-tune drift, torque, and jump effects for enhanced realism.
  • Dampers: Activate and control damper motion, including vertical axis locking and spring influence adjustments.
  • Keyframe Baking: Bake vehicle motion, including body and wheel movements, to keyframes for final animation output.