Vehicles and me

#1 actually the tutorials show how to put tribes 2 vehicls in the game so . . .maybe you should go get tribes 2 first

#2 I have Tribes 2.
Am I just supposed to be "inspired" by the vehicle.cs and vehicle_shrike.cs files? are there any other files i need to be "inspired" by to get vehicles into my game?

#3 And just to remove any worry I dont plan on using Tribes 2's vehicle scripts when we release the game, I just need something to work with to learn how to use vehicles.

#4 bill I just got a vehic in would you like a walk thru?

#5 Yes, he would :)

(Read: well I would anyways)

// Clocks out

#6 i am currently working on an extensive research of vehicle for the community changes needed . . . . Anthony

#7 actually i found a really good tutorial
goto http://gameznet.com/v12/scripting/vehicletutorial.shtml

#8 I followed the tutorial to the letter..
when I finished I could spawn a vehicle but not get in :(
Has anyone ran into this problem?

#9 Hi.

Did you modify player.cs with this ?

function Armor::onCollision(%this,%obj,%col)
{
if (%obj.getState() $= "Dead")
return;

// Try and pickup all items
if (%col.getClassName() $= "Item")
%obj.pickup(%col);

// Mount vehicles
%this = %col.getDataBlock();
if ((%this.className $= WheeledVehicleData ||
%this.className $= FlyingVehicleData ||
%this.className $= HoverVehicleData)
&& %obj.mountVehicle &&
%obj.getState() $= "Move" && %col.mountable) {

// Only mount drivers for now.
%node = 0;
%col.mountObject(%obj,%node);
%obj.mVehicle = %col;
}
}

#10 when i run the game it gives an error the the ShrikeDamageProfile cant be found.
Where is this located?

I still cant get into my vehicle, I made sure that I had the changes from the above post.

HELP

#11 ShrikeDamageProfile's defined in T2's damageTypes.cs.

#12 i have little subquestion to this topic. my vehicles are running and i can mount them. but when i dismount the vehicle, i can't remount it. is it a special function are what else do i have to do?

Thank you

#13 Well, so far I have tried every fix posted in this thread and I still cant figure out why I cant get into my vehicle.
Has anyone ran into any other problems like this?

#14 have you set the mountable flag?

%vehicle.mountable=true;

....
Actually I bet it is because the function expected
setMountVehicle(..) in the script has been changed to
MountVehicles(..)
so find in player.cs
%obj.schedule(4000, "setMountVehicle", true);
and change to
%obj.schedule(4000, "MountVehicles", true);
:) im sure that is why you cant get back in

#15 Does anyone have a tutorial?

#16 I found a mirror of the original missing V12 Powered tutorial. It is at V12 Mod Central: v12.mgonetwork.com/
You have to sign up for the forums but its there under tutorials.
Anybody heard whats up with V12 Powered?

#17 I can't seem to access the forums at v12.mgonetwork.com either :(

There is a dark, evil force at work here, one that wants to forever prevent me from ever getting vehicles into my game!

#18 try out a tut i wrote available here:
www.garagegames.com/index.php?sec=mg&mod=resource&page=view&qid=2036
:) hope it solves the troubles
lemme know if it is not informative enuff

#19 Yes, I just found your tutorial. :) Looks great, haven't had a chance to try it yet, but it seems to fit with everything I've read previously on vehicles.

Thanks a lot!

btw. I've read the DTS Exporter docs on how to model a vehicle, pretty sparse. Do you know of any other docs on this subject?

#20 I tried the tut. on vehicles last night. It worked for me after I found a silly little typo that was screwing it up for a while. It was fun to fly the drone around, its got some cool handling :) Once I got the typo out of the new one I found the same problem with my vehicles using the shrike and older tutorial taht was out there and got mounting working properly.