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Game-Ready Vehicle System
Build a Chaos Vehicle system from car rigging and setup to interactions, animation, sound, modular vehicles, and AI.
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Build a Chaos Vehicle system from car rigging and setup to interactions, animation, sound, modular vehicles, and AI.
What you’ll build & learn
- Rig and configure a working car.
- Add vehicle entry, exit, lights, and animation.
- Build modular vehicles and spline-following AI.
Episodes
- 01
How to Properly Rig a Car for Chaos Vehicles - Game-Ready Vehicle System in UE5 | Part 1 - Updated
Rig wheels, calipers, doors, hood, and steering in Blender with the updated Chaos Vehicle workflow.
- 02
Set Up Chaos Vehicle Blueprint – Game-Ready Vehicle System in UE5 | Part 2
Turn a rigged car into a working Chaos Vehicle with wheel classes, driving inputs, and camera controls.
- 03
Enter & Exit Vehicle System – Game-Ready Vehicle System in UE5 | Part 3
Switch control between a third-person character and a Chaos Vehicle using a vehicle interaction system.
- 04
Preparing Car Lights in Blender – Game-Ready Vehicle System in UE5 | Part 4
Prepare headlight and indicator meshes and material slots in Blender before building the vehicle light logic.
- 05
Headlights & Turn Signals – Game-Ready Vehicle System in UE5 | Part 5
Add headlights, emissive light materials, and independently controlled turn indicators to a car.
- 06
Animated Enter & Exit System – Game-Ready Vehicle System in UE5 | Part 6
Use Motion Warping to align animated vehicle entry and exit transitions with the car.
- 07
Hand IK for Car Doors & Steering – Game-Ready Vehicle System in UE5 | Part 7
Use Two Bone IK to connect the character’s hands to door handles and the steering wheel.
- 08
Chaos Vehicle Tuning – Game-Ready Vehicle System in UE5 | Part 8
Tune vehicle mass, torque, transmission, and shift RPM so speed, gears, and engine RPM work together.
- 09
Vehicle Sound System – Game-Ready Vehicle System in UE5 | Part 9
Add door sounds, engine startup, dynamic RPM-based engine audio, and handbrake skid sounds.
- 10
Realistic First-Person Driving with Control Rig – Game-Ready Vehicle System in UE5 | Part 10
Set up camera switching, steering wheel rotation, and Control Rig hand placement for first-person driving.
- 11
Modular Vehicle System | One Base, Any Car - Game-Ready Vehicle System in UE5 | Part 11
Create a shared skeleton and base Chaos Vehicle Blueprint so multiple cars can use the same system.
- 12
AI Vehicle | Spline Steering - Game-Ready Vehicle System in UE5 | Part 12
Make an AI car follow a spline using a look-ahead target and smooth steering input.
- 13
AI Vehicle | Smart Throttle & Braking — Game-Ready Vehicle System in UE5 | Part 13
Use road curvature and physics to calculate cornering speed and apply proportional throttle and braking.
Related standalone tutorials
Extra mechanics and fixes to use alongside this series.
Blender Rig Setup for Chaos Vehicles – Game-Ready Vehicle System in UE5 | Part 1
Prepare a car in Blender for Chaos Vehicles. This original workflow has an updated recommended tutorial.
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Game-Ready Vehicle System
A continuously updated Chaos Vehicle project with interactions, animation, audio, modular vehicles, and AI.
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