Torque 3D Wheeled Vehicle Tutorial

#1 The videos are on on vimeo.com which is suffering heavy DDoS attacks at the moment. :/
Hopefully they'll be back up shortly.

#2 Excellent tutorials.
You can make a free YouTube account and upload the videos there.

#3 Nice work - most helpful!! Look forward to trying this out.

#4 Nice Tutorial, gives good inside for noobs how to make custom vehicles work!
The mentioning of the Softimage ModTool was a relief for me. Till now i (as the code guy) toyed around with sketchup. Our desingners use AutoDesk Maya for the models. In future i will use the ModTool to make quick changes to the model (especially collisionMeshs - our desingners just don´t get a feeling for that) instead of arguing with them or sketchup.

#5 Nice BigDaz!

#6 Thanks a lot!! sometimes people forget that there are still newbies around, and forget to explain very well. they always assume and make it hard to follow the tutorials.

#7 Awfully well done, old chap.
*chinks scotch glass*
:)

#8 Thanks man - extremely helpful and much appreciated!

#9 Many Thx, i tried this in the latest Blender
i didnt had much time/ neither patience so i didnt set the springs/hubs up at specific locations however

i was able to export the car/ the wheels
and to get it running in T3D 1.2 MiT

@Steve Acaster
would you be willing to share your Blender/T3D
Character/Animation export?

just a pic or 2 would help out
anyways i know your busy as the rest, still asking doesnt kill :)

edit: regarding my help request
i was just succesful exporting a prerigged character from
Blender into T3D/ nothing mixed up
everything looks fine

when i get a bit more experienced i might target a tutorial
howto export animated characters from blender into t3d bla bla
and just as info it was the lates Blender 2.65 exported as dae

#10 I am a true beginner at this and much appreciate this tutorial, very well done.

A problem I'm having trying to modify the TorqueCar. I wanted to make it look more like a simple tank so I added a polymesh cube and made a simple small turret-like shape out of it. I positioned it just on top of the car body and then in the explorer window I moved it into CarBody.

I exported the mod as "TorqueCar" again and opened my Torque3D file. When I import the TorqueCar mesh it doesn't have the turret I added so I'm wondering what I did wrong.

Thanks.

Edit: Nvm, I discovered the problem. I forgot to change the export path from the previous TorqueCar project.

I do have another question though. I created a simple T3D map with some trees on it and I'd like to know how to make the trees as non-collision. In other words, either drive through them or knock them down with the vehicle. Or should I make this question a separate thread?

#11 @Ronix,
In the forest editor, select the mesh tab and untick collidable.

or if its a shapebase tree, scroll down in the inspector to collisionType and change it to None. :-)

After you get to know the engine better, you could attach a wind emmiter to your vehicle, have it a radial emmiter with a small radius and a high strength, the result will be the trees under you are flattened (they will spring back when you move off them, the effect is nice)

#12 I did everything like in this tutorial, but for some reason my car is generated without wheels. What did I do wrong?