Hi Folks,
A quick update, I have several problems at the moment, in no particular order as they say in the X-Factor
.
1. The wheels/hull/tracks problem I outlined in an earlier post, wheels and hull perfectly aligned in MAX, also perfectly fine in the Mission Editor but not in game.
2. The vehicle still doesn't fire and no smoke from the mortar, I've checked the s_gun "fragment" and it is there in the right place both in the config file and in 3d space.
3. The mortar itself. A mortar's traverse and elevation mechanism is significantly different from a gun. If you look at the normal non-vehicle-mounted mortar (in-game) then the mortar tube doesn't actually move at all but it does fire and "simulate" elevation and rotation without actually moving any parts. That's fine with me for the 251/2 as I don't actually want the mortar tube to elevate and roatate given the very confined space in the hull but duplicating this doesn't work. I might re-model the mortar and try and get a proper elevation and rotation mechanism but it is more work and probably still wouldn't look good.
4. The vehicle is moving when stationary or rather it judders very slightly and slowly and "creeps" round rotation-wise. I've checked and the db_hull object isn't linked to anything that rotates. All I can think of is that it is behaving a bit like an SPG and trying to align itself to targets outside of its firing arc (not that it fires on anything within its fire arc
).
Basically I've spent literally hundreds of hours to-date on the whole project and many hours trying to address the above issues. I was pretty close to "throwing in the towel" yesterday evening after another fruitless evening. Here's a brief summary of the work completed.
1. Model been finished for a couple of weeks.
2. Skin as above.
3. Mission Editor inclussions finished and test mission kindly supplied by frinik.
4. New mortar sounds finished but as yet un-tested.
5. Crew animations more or less finished but will need a bit of work.
I'll give it till the end of the coming weekend to see if I can resolve any or all of these problems after which time I'll zip it all up and upload it somewhere for anyone interested in finishing it off. Any suggestions for any of my problems much appreciated.
Kind regards
Aces