Wierdness with Hover and Flying Vehicles. Pleae help!
by Dan T. · in Technical Issues · 09/29/2009 (8:41 pm) · 1 replies
Hello.
I'm just getting my hands dirty in Torque 3D by trying to set up a hover vehicle.
I've taken the code for the buggy and replicated it with both hovering and flying vehicles.
The problem is, when I get int he vehicle, the controls do nothing.
Now, with the flying vehicle, if I enter it by dropping one on my players head, I can fly around fine!
But if I drop one onto teh ground and then enter it, the controls won't work.
With the hover vehicle, I can't seem to replicate my head-dropping trick.
Any suggestions. (Apologies for the lack of concrete information, if you need any info judst shout!)
Thanks,
Dan
I'm just getting my hands dirty in Torque 3D by trying to set up a hover vehicle.
I've taken the code for the buggy and replicated it with both hovering and flying vehicles.
The problem is, when I get int he vehicle, the controls do nothing.
Now, with the flying vehicle, if I enter it by dropping one on my players head, I can fly around fine!
But if I drop one onto teh ground and then enter it, the controls won't work.
With the hover vehicle, I can't seem to replicate my head-dropping trick.
Any suggestions. (Apologies for the lack of concrete information, if you need any info judst shout!)
Thanks,
Dan
Torque Owner Daniel Kracht
I fished this from an older thread using an older version of torque (But the main idea still applies)
Originally Written by Brian W Murray
I Figured out a solution, it appears to be the relationship between the collision mesh and the hoverHeight. The collision mesh I had covered the whole vehicle and I set the hoverhieght to .1. This caused the collision mesh contact the terrain and get stuck. By changing the mesh to only covering the body of the flyer, and having the landing geer extent farther down, setting the hoverHeight to .9, the collision mesh never actually touches the terrain, but when landed, the geer touches the ground and it does not get stuck.
On an other note.. the forums display crazy ass dates to me. Half the posts here originate from 1967 and my own post just now seems to have come from 01/01/1970?!