Driving up obstacles ...

[Yojimbo]

What are the 'rules' for a tank driving up onto a surface?

In testing, I can get a tank to drive almost automatically onto a surface about 0.2 units higher than the current surface ... but it still impedes movement a little. I've tested down as far as a height of 0.01, and this will still occasionally 'halt' a tank as it drives over it.

My goal was to create a ramp, made of a series of surfaces, each one only a little bit higher than the last. But when I do, the tank ends up getting stuck on most of the steps; sometimes to the extent that it can't even jump.

Is this just impossible to achieve reliably in v2? Will it work in v3? Can we have inclined surfaces?

[F687/s]

Driving up surfaces has never been supported, and I doubt it ever will. The closest thing you can get is with the _maxBumpHeight variable, which allows you to "bump" onto boxes by driving onto them. You can also jump up obstacles by setting _noClimb to 0. However, there isn't a way to drive up them as of yet.

[blast]

You can sort of fake driving up a slope by using a physics driver, but it's not an overly good solution.

[optic delusion]

Try this, I was able to drive up this slope. The tank bounced up hill. Seemed to work a little better if you had wings. I think it helps if you use spin twice in the group, instead of "spin .08 1 1 0"

-set _noClimb 0
-set _maxBumpHeight 1


define cube
mesh
vertex 15.0 6.0 0.0
vertex -15.0 6.0 0.0
vertex -15.0 -6.0 0.0
vertex 15.0 -6.0 0.0
vertex 15.0 6.0 30.0
vertex -15.0 6.0 30.0
vertex -15.0 -6.0 30.0
vertex 15.0 -6.0 30.0

texcoord 0 0
texcoord 1 0
texcoord 1 1
texcoord 0 1
face
vertices 3 2 1 0
endface
face
vertices 4 5 6 7
endface
face
vertices 3 0 4 7
endface
face
vertices 1 5 4 0
texcoords 2 3 0 1
endface
face
vertices 1 2 6 5
endface
face
vertices 2 3 7 6
texcoords 3 0 1 2
endface
end
enddef

group cube
spin .08 0 1 0
spin .08 1 0 0
end

[JeffM]

Will it work in v3? Can we have inclined surfaces?

Tanks will never tilt in any version. 3.0 currently has no enhancements to collisions.

[allejo]

this "ramp" should work because that is Flying_popcorn uses in us map escalators and elevators.