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Creating a vehicle

by Brian McGavin · in Artist Corner · 03/04/2005 (10:51 am) · 4 replies

I created a vehicle in Gamespace and exported with the dts2 exporter. I am trying to create a vehicle that replaces the buggy in the racing demo. When I change the path from 'buggy.dts' to 'myvehcile.dts' in car.cs. The game crashes at startup with no error messages. When I bring it into ShowTool it looks ok and the buggy wheels mount correctly.

I created the nodes - hub0-hub3, cam,eye, mass. Is there more nodes I need to create? Any ideas?

Thanks
Brian
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Torque Owner Brian McGavin
#1
03/05/2005 (4:21 pm)
I have figured out most of my problems. Vehicles seem to have there own set of quirks. It looks like you have to draw your vehicle with the front to back along the x-axis, and left to right along the y-axis or Torque goes nuts. If anyone is interested I could post a example file for a simple vehicle.

I haven't yet tried doing a spring animation. I am kind of scared of that.

Brian

Johnathon Morgan
#2
03/26/2005 (6:47 pm)
Hey I am having a similair problem, everytime I spawn my vehicle the engine crashes. perhaps the problem you fixed is related to mine and in that line of thought I am very interested in what you did to fix yours.

Torque Owner Dan -
#3
03/27/2005 (5:06 am)
Have you seen Vehicles Galore resource? It has a few vechiles to download (milkshape models included) along with code and discussion. Hope it helps.

Torque Owner Josiah Wang
#4
03/27/2005 (5:16 am)
The problem might be your bounding box and your collision box. Make sure your collision box covers everything, and that your bounding box encompasses the collision box as well. If you're positive, try the normalizer plugin, which will make sure your shapes stay the size it is.