Make a tank?

#1 I'm new to the engine myself but from the little I've been able to tell one would need to make a new vehicle class (trackedVehicle for example) to get a tank to work as intended. I've seen a resource on how to make an 8 wheeled vehicle so I suspect it wouldn't be to difficult.

I actually got the intention of implementing this down the road however that might take some time, if someone else would do it it would be cool.

#2 I believe the Bravetree guys actually derived thier tank from gamebase and bypassed all the vehicle code and its issues :) just did a quick raycast down to determine the tank position and had some angle stuff in there too.

Might be an idea :)

#3 Hmmm I think I'm too much a n00b to try doing it all the way from scratch ATM. Maybe in a month or so... Well hopefully Bravetree will have a tank pack out by then.

#4 Dennis,

I would suggest the following :

1) modify the dune bug datablock in the racing example to have just two wheels.

2) tweak the physics part of the datablock until the buggy behaves as a tank

3) model your tank, don't forget to add the nodes for the wheels mount ( i beleive they should be named bob0 and bob1, not 100% certain of that ), a cam node, an eye node and a mount0 node for your player.

4) change the buggy DTS for your tank DTS and see how it behaves with the buggy's wheels.

5) Model the tracks

HTH

#5 Thanks Bruno. I'm going to give that a try. The other deal is the turret.

#6 The turret should mount as a weapon with blended animations.

When moddeling the tank, create a mount0 node for the player and a mount1 node for the weapon. Don't forget the eye and cam nodes. The wheel nodes should be named bob0 and bob1 ( I think, but I'm not sure ).