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Vehicles using energy.

by Stephen · in Torque 3D Professional · 08/03/2013 (4:53 pm) · 7 replies

1) How would someone go about making a vehicle use energy to move forward or backwards?

2) How would you make the vehicle take damage when hitting something (staticshape like a rock or tree)? The higher the speed the higher the damage.

3) Then have two items that the vehicle can drive over to get more energy and repair the damage.
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Torque Owner Lukas Joergensen
WinterLeaf Entertainment
#1
08/03/2013 (5:48 pm)
2)
This works for players:
function Armor::onImpact(%this, %obj, %collidedObject, %vec, %vecLen)  
{  
    echo("c4Armor::onImpact -> "@ %this.getName() @" for "@ %obj.client.nameBase @" just ran into "@ %collidedObject.getName() @"ObjID#"@ %collidedObject);  
  
    // believe it not but sometimes you can run into yourself ???  
    if (%obj == %collidedObject)  
        %obj.damage(0, VectorAdd(%obj.getPosition(),%vec), %vecLen * %this.speedDamageScale, "ImpactNonPlayer");  
  
    // here we've impacted either the Terrain, a StaticShape, or an Interior  
    else if (%collidedObject.getType() & ($TypeMasks::TerrainObjectType | $TypeMasks::StaticShapeObjectType | $TypeMasks::InteriorObjectType))  
        %obj.damage(0, VectorAdd(%obj.getPosition(),%vec), %vecLen * %this.speedDamageScale, "ImpactNonPlayer");  
  
    // here we've impacted with a TSStatic shape  
    else if (%collidedObject.getType() & ($TypeMasks::StaticTSObjectType))  
        %obj.damage(0, VectorAdd(%obj.getPosition(),%vec), %vecLen * %this.speedDamageScale, "ImpactPlayer");  
  
    // we've just impacted another player  
    else  
        %obj.damage(0, VectorAdd(%obj.getPosition(),%vec), %vecLen * %this.speedDamageScale, "ImpactPlayer");  
}

See if it works for vehicles too. %vec is the impact direction %vecLen is the impact force.

Torque Owner Stephen
GearedMind Studio
#2
08/03/2013 (7:05 pm)
I think that works but for some reason the damage isn't getting applied. I'm getting this error message in the console log.
c4Armor::onImpact -> DefaultPlayerData for  just ran into TerrainObjID#4134
scripts/server/player.cs (235): Unknown command damage.
  Object (4175) Player -> ShapeBase -> GameBase -> SceneObject -> NetObject -> SimObject
My player.cs has the all the standard functions; onCollision, onImpact, damage, onDamage, onDiabled, etc.. They look just like the Full template build. I started from a Empty template and have added all the basic stuff from the Full template. Have I missed something?
Here's my scripts; gameCore.cs player.cs

Raster Ron
#3
08/03/2013 (8:34 pm)
I'm looking for the same thing. How to go about and have the vehicle damaged by bullets and hitting objects.

Torque Owner Stephen
GearedMind Studio
#4
08/03/2013 (9:38 pm)
I figured why the damage wasn't being done. I wasn't exec the shapeBase.cs. So it seems that onImpact function works for players but for vehicles I get some errors about "getType" "getName".

Torque Owner Stephen
GearedMind Studio
#5
08/03/2013 (10:58 pm)
Here are the errors I'm getting when I'm in a vehicle and hit a StaticShape.
scripts/server/vehicleWheeled.cs (61): Unable to find object: '0' attempting to call function 'getName'
WheeledVehicleData::onImpact -> Car for  just ran into ObjID#0
scripts/server/vehicleWheeled.cs (68): Unable to find object: '0' attempting to call function 'getType'
scripts/server/vehicleWheeled.cs (72): Unable to find object: '0' attempting to call function 'getType'

Torque Owner Stephen
GearedMind Studio
#6
08/04/2013 (1:11 pm)
I'm not sure what's going on. Why are these errors popping up?

EDIT:
I was looking of my scripts and noticed that my WheeledVehicle didn't have damage, onDamage, onDestroyed functions. I also noticed that the vehicle datablock didn't have
// Object Impact Damage (uses DamageType::Impact)  
    collDamageThresholdVel    = 23.0;  
    collDamageMultiplier      = 0.02;
So now I'm only getting these errors.
scripts/server/vehicleWheeled.cs (68): Unable to find object: '0' attempting to call function 'getType'
scripts/server/vehicleWheeled.cs (72): Unable to find object: '0' attempting to call function 'getType'
Which calls
else if (%collidedObject.getType() & ($TypeMasks::TerrainObjectType | $TypeMasks::StaticShapeObjectType | $TypeMasks::InteriorObjectType))
else if (%collidedObject.getType() & ($TypeMasks::StaticTSObjectType))
When I hit a staticshape object.

Torque Owner Stephen
GearedMind Studio
#7
08/04/2013 (2:21 pm)
So I have a health bar to show the vehicle's health. The player spawns in as a vehicle. So when the player hits a staticshape the health bar goes down depending how fast but after that first hit the health bar does not move anymore. I also still get these errors in the console log
scripts/server/vehicleWheeled.cs (68): Unable to find object: '0' attempting to call function 'getType'  
scripts/server/vehicleWheeled.cs (72): Unable to find object: '0' attempting to call function 'getType'
I made sure that my vehicle datablock has "maxDamage and maxEnergy". I noticed that the when the vehicle hits the object it uses the energy first. How can I stop that?

EDIT.
I found out that my onDamage function was weird so I fixed that and now the health bar acts normally now. I just need to figure out how to disable the vehicle with the health bar reaches 0.