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Start in vehicle

by Yourself · in Technical Issues · 11/24/2008 (12:27 pm) · 2 replies

Hi,

I want the player to start in a wheeled vehicle..
at the moment he needs to walk against it , but I want to skip that step for now perhaps even remove the player at all...
also i noticed that if you mount a vehicle, the camera is still player view and you have to switch it manually ..
how can these 2 steps be done ?


thx & grtz

#1
11/24/2008 (2:18 pm)
You could just spawn the vehicle and set it as the control object.
But you won't be able to unmount the player (get out of the vehicle), cause there will be nothing to unmount.
See the racing example in the starter kit or the torque for teens demo.
#2
11/24/2008 (6:15 pm)
I've read other posts in the past about solving this. I, of course, cannot remember them now. But my thought it that during the mission load, spawn the car and the player next to each other (or on top of each other) and mount the player via script during the loading process. Then fade in the level once all that is done so the player doesn't see your foul mission witchery.