I “traced” over the various parts of the original illustration using Freeforms and standard Shapes: Here’s a vehicle (bulldozer/earth mover) that I adapted from an illustration on the web: The default Line animation Smooth Start/Stop values are set to zero in this example for simplicity. Other dimensions will work as long as the path length is 3.14 times the wheel diameter. All the motions have the same duration (2 sec). The track (green outline) simply moves without additional effects. The wheels have a 1.0 in diameter so they will “roll” without appearing to slip if the wheel moves 3.14 in horizontally to the right while the wheels rotate 360º clockwise.
This post is about tracked vehicles using the rolling wheel effect here are the basics:
In the previous post, I showed you how to adapt a “rolling wheel” effect to construct conveyor belts that could be used to create lively animations that demonstrate concepts and processes.
