Hey
I just have a few questions regarding the physics system in a7.


After a few weeks i finally figured out how to apply physics to my 'tank' in the game i am currently working on. But the turret is separate to the tank itself. And i am not sure how to join the 2 objects together. Especially considering i am using the mouse to rotate the turret (3rd person).

Thus to make it easier I'm thinking of switching to c_move to control the vehicles (as it seems to be easier to manipulate object positions using custom physics). The question i have is, if my tank is driving up a slight slope, how do i pan/tilt the body to make it look asif it is really driving up the slope?

(as you can see in the following pic, the the turret's x y pos is bound to the tank, but the pan and tilt don't seem to match up)

You mean driving up a montain with correct pan tilt angle?
Hm..i gt an idea:
Maybe you have to split up the vehicle into smaller parts and atach them to ONE vehicle! Every small part should have its own physik action and the panelcorrection code! Maybe this could help you

Make the tank plus turret one entity, add a bone (90° up where the rotation center of the turret is), apply the turret vertices to it and use ent_bonerotate to turn the turret.
http://www.conitec.net/beta/aent_bonerotate.htm

awesome thanks xarthor

EDIT:
i actually have the turret and the tank base in 2 separate MDL files. do you think it would be easier to go into MED and join the models using bones? just wondering if it would work the same way.