Mouse Controlled Vehicles

[legacy-tGazza]

Is there any way to control a vehicle by using the mouse
eg: push the mouse forward the vehicle goes down, like a plane?

[legacy-Chunky]

You mean like the redeemer...

[legacy-tGazza]

oh yea i fogot about that ,
ill have a look at the way epic does the guided shell. :)

heres some pics of what im working on:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/tgazza/Other/Image5.jpg

its the dropship from unreal II ;)

[legacy-tGazza]

no luck yet,
can any one show me an example on how to control the pitch and yaw by moving the mouse?

[Shambler]

Originally posted by tGazza
no luck yet,
can any one show me an example on how to control the pitch and yaw by moving the mouse?

In PlayerController.uc a few lines down:



var input float
aBaseX, aBaseY, aBaseZ, >>> aMouseX, aMouseY, <<<
aForward, aTurn, aStrafe, aUp, aLookUp;


In User.ini:


MouseX=Count bXAxis | Axis aMouseX Speed=2.0
MouseY=Count bYAxis | Axis aMouseY Speed=2.0


So, aMouseX and aMouseY control the mouse-movement for the player :) and the PlayerInput variable of PlayerController.uc handles and processes all the input, look in PlayerInput.uc....and the PlayerInput function does most of the work :) I'm not so sure about replication tho but that should get you started!

[legacy-tGazza]

Thanks [6pk]Shambler but i found a better way :)



simulated function ClientKDriverEnter(PlayerController pc)
{
local vector X,Y,Z;
local Rotator ViewRotation;

//log("Enter: "$pc.Pawn);

pc.myHUD.bCrosshairShow = false;
pc.myHUD.bShowWeaponInfo = false;
//pc.myHUD.bShowPersonalInfo = false;
pc.myHUD.bShowPoints = false;

pc.bBehindView = true;
>> pc.bFixedCamera = true; <<here
pc.bFreeCamera = False;

GetAxes(Rotation,X,Y,Z);
ViewRotation = Rotation;
SetRotation(ViewRotation);
}


i have another Question:

how can i make a KeyBind class talk to my vehicle eg:
player presses a key the vehicle moves forward?

[legacy-Chunky]

You mean like the bulldog... :P

[legacy-tGazza]

I've got my craft to yaw and pitch only by changing the values in the script and i want a way to control them without deleting my class then changing the values then recomplying the whole script again, some sort of key control, i don't know how to do that can anyone help?



sorry about my bad english :)

[legacy-wahid]

Hi,
I like to bind keys to an object that moves in a loop in the map. I like to control its speed through up and down arrow keys. What would be the best way to make it?
Thanks

[legacy-Chunky]

If you're making a karma based vehicle, look at the bulldog code, if you're not, well there's not much difference between your vehicle and a normal player pawn, so look at the player movement code. The code is spread across both the pawn and controller classes in either case.

[legacy-wahid]

Hi,
I am kind of novish game programmer!
Is there any tutorial for making controller and pawn?