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Vehicles - Particularly Hover vechicle.

by Nick "Dig" Koirala · in General Discussion · 12/08/2002 (6:05 pm) · 5 replies

I've been playing around with the vehicles in Torque and I've spent hours (literally) searching the resources and forums and some time (not hours) going through the .cc files but I still can't find or make a decent datablock for the hovervehicles.

I want the craft to handle like a real hovercraft, which means touching the ground, not flying and not able to accelerate to ridiculous speeds before plummeting to the bottom of the ocean and getting stuck in the ground.

ANYWAYS I don't expect anyone to write it for me (cos I'm picky on how it works!) but does anyone have a simple description of what the various variables actually mean, particularly:

stabLenMin
stabLenMax
RestorativeForce
vertFactor
floatingThrustFactor

the difference between bodyFriction drag and dragforce

Cheers,
sorry i sound grumpy :P

Nick
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Torque Owner Roger Smith
#1
12/11/2002 (8:05 pm)
What does a 3ds max scene need to work as a hovercraft. If someone could provide a list of objects and functions id really appreciatte it.

Torque Owner Matthew Shapiro
#2
12/11/2002 (8:59 pm)
I've been playing around and I got the hover craft that Ed Gardner provided me with to work quite well, tho i'm tired but I can get the datablock items I changed to you..

-_KallDrexx

Torque 3D Owner Nick "Dig" Koirala
LittleMonkey Ltd.
#3
12/12/2002 (4:45 am)
Cheers, I'd like to see what you got when you're not so tired. My hovercrafts have been improving but they still aren't as good as I'd like.

Nick

Eli McClanahan
#4
12/12/2002 (5:33 am)
I'm curious as to what hovercrafts have to do with RW.

Torque 3D Owner Nick "Dig" Koirala
LittleMonkey Ltd.
#5
12/12/2002 (8:04 am)
Thats I good point! I must've put it here by accident... strange, I've never visited the Realm Wars part of the forum before..

Sorry...

Nick