Update
Added new high-poly tread element for the light tank, to demonstrate new features of track animation:
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now treads are aligned properly to each other, previously you could see pins not matching on curves
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treads are now always aligned with sprocket teeth
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experimental track sway for selected parts of the track (only top part of the track is effected by sway)
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all treads are actually moving, so you can use material where each tread have a unique character to it:
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option to update treads rendering manually, for example if you want to use multiple tread elements instead of a single type of instance as on tanks in BF1:
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ETN5MBvYkas/maxresdefault.jpg
each 4-th tread has a different shape than the rest
for this you can use this function:
which provides you array of transforms for all treads.
You can set name of Instanced Static Mesh component to ‘none’:
to avoid updating your ISM from inside of component.