I have seen a couple of attempts at this now in '42 with some complicated solutions..
However, I tried this earlier with a track made in 3dsmax and simply used the BF42 Train as a hull on a stratos...
There is no clever collision mesh.. just what you see (e.g. two tracks with a gap in the middle). For the wheel collision mesh I have used a basic peg which is slightly pointed at the bottom (pic below). I have setup the train springs to have very stiff strength (100) and damping set to 10. Track and Wheel Matid is set to 92. It spawns on the tracks, the wheels sit inside the rails and just cruises the entire length of the track without so much as a glitch. Up and down hills and corners..
Ill add some detail to the visible wheel mesh to make it appear to sit on the tracks more and make them a touch wider and lower the model down to the right height but the concept worked perfectly without having to use clever 'boxing in' techniques..
So what's the big deal?
Have faith in '42! The collision system aint that bad.
Registered Member #1964 Joined: [ 21:06 ] [ 11 Oct 2007 ]
You might be interested in taking a look at a couple maps from the last release of "Surreal" mod. They had a working train in one or two maps that went all the way around and I found it to work quite effciently! Perhaps you can disect the way it works to help you a bit and maybe even use the model as a base for yours? (has a gun on it too )
I made a train for a map a while ago but could only get it to go in a straight line, but it did have multiple carts. I think there's the tradeoff, the bf42 engine doesn't really have support for pivot points.
I made a train for a map a while ago but could only get it to go in a straight line, but it did have multiple carts. I think there's the tradeoff, the bf42 engine doesn't really have support for pivot points.
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