How do i make an invisable wheel

#1 Think its possible to do the collision mesh but not the visible mesh, this should mean u have collisions but no visible wheels.

#2 I tried to do that but i would need 2 meshes to export. one visable one and one colision and i don't want a visable one.

Is that what u ment to do or did u mean to do something else.

That way didn't work.

#3 If you don't find any other solution you can always export it with a alpha texture that is completely transparant. But I'm sure there's a cleaner way.

#4 Thanks Ward it not too good but i guess it will have to do.

But if there is a better way tell me somebody!!!!

#5 Can't help you much with hover vehicles, but I did make the wheels on a wheeled vehicle invisible by accident. Commenting out two lines of code in the "WheeledVehicle.cc" file will do it.

In that file look for the function "WheeledVehicle::renderImage", at the end of that function comment out these two lines:

wheel->shapeInstance->animate();
wheel->shapeInstance->render();

That made the wheels on the default buggy invisible. The cool thing is the supension still works, so if you wanted to make little "hover pads" or something and attach them to the axles, you could have a pretty cool looking hover vehicle.

#6 Wow thx that was what i was looking for.

Now looking for that .cc made me even find the hovervehicle.cc. I never seen that before. I hope I can use this now lol.

Thanks David

#7 Avoid the hover vehicle class, its got some serious problems with it. If you go quite fast you can pass through the terrain!

(same goes with flying vehicle class)

#8 Yeah, its really buggy. But I hear there are some people working on it, hopefully they get it fixed :)

#9 Erh, isn't David Wilson's solution a bit overkill ?
ie it's going to make all Wheeled Vehicles have invisible wheels ?

#10 Wow i never knew that would make all vehicles have invisable wheels and that the hovervehicle had bugs. Thanks for telling me all that.

But now i got to find another solution. Anyone know another way?

#11 Im not a moddler so bear with me
make these objects, there probaly all dummy objects
and
Make the the same siza and at the same location
You probaly dont need all the detail objects

bounds
box01
col-1
collision-1
detail1
detail25
detail50
detail100
start01

and in the schematic thing
bounds is by itself
everything is connected to box01
but col-1 is connected to start01

#12 Could you just make the visible mesh very very small and leave the collision mesh the size you need? Then you could hide the visual part in your vehicle mesh and only the wheel's collision mesh would stick out.

#13 It may be overkill, but coudn't he then copy the WheeledVehicle class to another name and use that for his hover vehicles?

#14 I like your idea robert I tried it and it worked. That was the answer that I needed.

Now I got a vehicle that looks like it is hovering!!!!

Thanks,

Dust

#15 Couldn't this resource help?

Hiding Meshes

Just a tought...

#16 Cool, glad I could help ^_^

-Rob

#17 What about the vehicleBlocker class in the engine?

EDIT: Forget what I said, I read "wall" instead of "wheel" in the topic. :)