vehicle tires

[Hodo33]

My vehicles tires don't seem to actually touch the ground.

I think the tire uses the bounding box for tire to ground collision. I have made the box smaller than the tire and still sits a little off the surface.

I have altered the radius, collision tolerance, contact tolerance and it just wont touch the ground. Anyone point me in the right direction?

[marauder2k9]

If you havent modelled a col-shape for the type then it generates one automatically as far as i know, try modelling a cylinder as a col-mesh slightly smaller than they tyre and it should work

[Duion]

Box wheels? Do they work?

[Hodo33]

I have made the collision mesh smaller than the tire and that didn't seem to work.

[Bloodknight]

youve compared your work vs the cheetah example and checked the differences?

[Hodo33]

Loading a Cheetah in game and switching to object view does not show the wheels

Looking at the wheel it says collision type as bounds. As for the datablock I use same numbers and I do have a cylinder as collision smaller than the wheel so not sure..

[marauder2k9]

for the wheels u have to actually look at the wheel.dae shape and the accompanying cs file. I don't think you should have wheels in the same model file as the vehicles body. Do you have the wheels separate?

[Hodo33]

Yeah wheels are separate. I can't look at dae files.

[marauder2k9]

you should be able to look at them in the model viewer in torque?

[Hodo33]

I did but it only shows bounds as collision type. Not sure if the Maya file used to create it has the collision mesh or not. This is what I was going by wheeledvehicle.cpp

// Determinw wheel radius from the shape's bounding box.

// The tire should be built with it's hub axis along the

// object's Y axis.

radius = shape->bounds.len_z() / 2;

[Duion]

So you don't have a collision mesh or it is not properly set up. Torque models require a special node setup so the engine can detect everything properly, on simple static models you may be able to do it without it, but with more complex stuff like vehicles this is much more important.