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FlyingVehicle vs. Player class

by Eric den Boer · in Torque Game Engine Advanced · 02/26/2009 (2:53 am) · 4 replies

Dear all,

Yesterday I received my Torque books (awesome!). However I'm left wondering with a small question... what's the best thing to do when you wish to create a player that's flying an aircraft?

Create a FlyingVehicle instance and build up the FlyingVehicle-datablocks? Or should I do that with a Player class instead?

Can both classes be controlled by the user?

Thanks in advance!
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Associate Michael Hall
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#1
02/26/2009 (8:54 am)
You can have the player be the vehicle when he/she joins the game. Or you can spawn as a player and then mount a vehicle and take control of it. It all depends on the gamestyle you wish to build towards.

Your "stock" vehicle choices are: wheeled, hover, and flying. There are several threads and/or resources that show how to set up datablocks for all of them, along with various control & mounting schemes.

Torque 3D Owner Eric den Boer
#2
03/04/2009 (1:38 am)
Sorry for my late reply.

So it's possible to set a FlyingVehicle as a player-controlled object, i.e. the Player?

Associate Michael Hall
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#3
03/04/2009 (9:06 am)
Yep, sure is. Inside of game.cs take a look at function GameConnection::createPlayer(), more specifically at this area:
// Create the player object
%player = new Player() 
{
    dataBlock = PlayerBody;
    client = %this;
};

You would change that with a call to new FLyingVehicle, and make the dataBlock point to a valid FlyingVehicleData
// The player is a vehicle!
%player = new FlyingVehicle()
{
    dataBlock = ScoutShip;
    client = %this;
};
And you may want to change your control scheme to make it more suitable for vehicle controls, but this should get you started in the right direction.

Torque 3D Owner Eric den Boer
#4
03/04/2009 (12:55 pm)
Thank you :) We got the model into the game!