steering wheel

[subabrain]

Hello together,

i have a question again :mrgreen:

so i want to make a steering wheel animated ... so that you can see the steering wheel turn around if you turn left or turn right :)

maybe you can help me - thanks!

greetings

Robert

[Duion]

Only idea right now is to make it a wheel, like the wheels on the vehicles, since they already steer into the direction the car moves.

Maybe you need to modify the code and/or model a bit, but the wheels already do what you need, so you need a 5th wheel on your car and replace it with a steering wheel and then somehow make it not have collision, so it does not interfere with the driving and physics.

[subabrain]

hi duion,

thanks a lot for your answer!

okay - ill try my best but i dont know if i can do this ...

lets see ;)

greetz

Robert

[Jason Campbell]

I thought about this when I was making a jeep model and I believe the triggers are there but optional.

From the docs:

"Steering animation

Optional non-cyclic animation called 'steering' that animates from t=0 (full right) to t=0.5 (center) to t=1 (full left)."

So I think you could just add your animation to your vehicle's steering wheel and trigger with the default. I wish I had more time right now because I've been meaning to try this.

[Duion]

So this already exists, so forget my idea then. ;)

[subabrain]

hi,

hmm i think we talk about different things ... i mean the steering wheel animation not the steering of the wheels ...

thanks!

greetz

Robert

[Duion]

Yes, but the weels also steer, so you just need to rotate it, put it in place where the steering wheel is and done, stupid hack idea of mine.

[subabrain]

hi,

ok i understand - i hope ill get this to work :P

thanks and greetz

Robert

[Duion]

Don't use my idea, use the proper way from the manual.

[subabrain]

hi duion,

sorry but i dont find what you mean ... i searched the docs but i cant find the thing? maybe you can show me the thing?

thanks a lot!

greetz

Robert

[Jason Campbell]

The docs don't say any more than my quote from above. I made a quick animation of the steering and tried to get it working but I couldn't. I really think its still in the code because I've seen people do it. It frustrating that there's no examples.

[Bloodknight]

I dont know how much this adds https://github.com/yourarcade/T3D.WheeledVehicleResource

But @Jason Campbell seems to have the best approach, the steering angle is for the front wheels to turn, but you could use that same data to apply to your steering wheel itself either via animation or literally rotating the object on its mounted axis. Add a scale if needed (which you might) and you are done

[subabrain]

Hey - cool stuff!

thanks a lot!

Greetz

Robert

[Jason Campbell]

I dont know how much this adds https://github.com/yourarcade/T3D.WheeledVehicleResource

But @Jason Campbell seems to have the best approach, the steering angle is for the front wheels to turn, but you could use that same data to apply to your steering wheel itself either via animation or literally rotating the object on its mounted axis. Add a scale if needed (which you might) and you are done

 

Hey, cool, that's my jeep in that screenshot.

I really thought that the optional steering option was for a steering wheel. That being said, it should still be able to trigger an animation of your choosing. I haven't had any time to attempt another try.

[subabrain]

hi there,

okay after modify the particles, i got this to work but now i cant mount vehicles anymore. hmm maybe u know why?

thanks a lot and gn8!

Robert

[subabrain]

hmm, i cant find out - maybe someone could help?

would be nice thx!

greetings

Robert

[Jason Campbell]

Hey, can you upload what you have working? I can try to help.

[subabrain]

Hi,

sorry i just see this post ...

yes the problem is i dont know how it works ... maybe you can give me some support - maybe a code snippet or somthing ...

would be really nice!

Thanks a lot!

Robert