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Increasing max wheels

by David Erenger · in Torque Game Engine · 03/01/2004 (3:55 am) · 4 replies

Is it possible to change the engine code for vehicles to alow more then 8 wheels??

I was thinking of creating a tank, I would need 18 wheels, and for the track I just link plates to an offset dummy linked to the wheel hubs and face the next hub.

but it wont look good with only 8 wheels.

Is there anyone who have done this modifikation to the source, or is there a better way to create a tank??

//David
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Torque Owner Westy
#1
03/01/2004 (4:04 am)
Why do you need 18 wheels? , wont the track be driving the tank and the wheels just be animated?

Or have 8 invisible wheels.. and an animated track (track link array following spline patch works quite good in torque).

What you can do is assign keys to power each side.

i.e. 1 key powers right side, and play right track animation, and same with other side. Assign all 8 wheels powered with high friction and fairly beefy enngine torque to get you over rugged terrain.

But other than that i dont see why you are limited to 8 wheels.. just change it support how ever many you want... within reason :)

Torque Owner Dan -
#2
03/01/2004 (4:13 am)
Yes it is possible to change the engine code for more than 8 wheels. Not sure if thats the way to go. Westy[X-Tatic] game some better ideas. Also "BraveTree" the creators of Think Tanks are creating a Tank Content Pack (like the other ones they have done) As far as I know there is no release date on it.

See here for more details. Its towards then end of the thread where the BraveTree content pack it talked about.

Torque 3D Owner David Erenger
#3
03/01/2004 (6:32 am)
OK... maby its beter for me to wait, I'm not sure how to do the tracks the way Westy[X-Tatic] talking about, I'll just stick to wheeld apc for now then.

hope they release the pack soon, I have the car pack and it was a great learning tool for wheel vwhicles. Thanks for the replies

Torque Owner Kirchgessner
Prosimian Productions
#4
12/14/2005 (5:49 am)
Increasing the maxwheels inside the c++ script was easy. I increased the max wheels to 300 for my game. (Trust me i required that for max just incase)
just open the wheeledvehicle.h file, i think, and search for "maxwheels" you will find a couple of them but the one you need will have this:

maxwheels = 8;
(something about max parts) = 3;

increase the max wheels to 300 that should allow for any type of vehicle. (i will update this when i get to my home computer)

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