[Performance just dropped]

Yes I was wrong and didn't realize it was just a CSG. Haven't used glass yet. It should work fine.

[Performance just dropped]

It's the door shadows. Lights + textured glass = slow down. Set them to none.

[Performance just dropped]

Try turning shadows on your doors to dynamic or off. Static slows them down the most.

[Backwards vehicle controls]

That doesn't work right either. After studying the code it looks like Josh swapped something around in SetGear(), or something.

[Backwards vehicle controls]

That wouldn't work. You go slower in reverse so you would end up going slower forward and faster backwards after changing them around.

[Backwards vehicle controls]

My lua project was fine and I left it for a few weeks. Now when I load it up the vehicle's forward/reverse controls are reversed. Couldn't figure it out so I created a new project with just flat terrain and shadmar's prefab car. Reversed controls..

 

Anyone else experiencing this or did I mess something up?

[Ogg and other file format support?]

I found this lib yesterday and it worked out-of-the-box for ogg in LUA. It does not use luajit and uses the zlib license. So far I just tested background music. A 20 meg .wav converted to a 1.9meg ogg. Extremely easy to use

 

http://viremo.eludi.net/proteaAudio/index.html

[Vehicles]

Truck and Tires are rigid body/prop. Certain settings will crash it.

 

Still trying to figure it out. Last vehicle I made the same way but forward/reverse work opposite of what they should.

[Vehicles]

Finally got it to work for me. Script never could find all the tires so I modified it very slightly. Changed code is in the section below. Sorry about the formatting, I just can't get it to display properly.

 

--Build the vehicle
self.vehicle = Vehicle:Create(self.entity)	
for n=1,8, 2 do
child[0] = self.entity:FindChild("tire"..tostring(n))
 child[1] = self.entity:FindChild("tire"..tostring(n+1))
 if child[0]~=nil and child[1]~=nil then
for i=0,1 do
box = self:CalculateTireSize(child[i])
				 if box~=nil then
tireradius = math.max(box.size.y,box.size.z)*0.5
tirewidth = box.size.x
						 tirepos = box.center + child[i]:GetPosition(false)
						 self.vehicle:AddTire(tirepos.x,tirepos.y,tirepos.z,self.tiremass,tireradius,tirewidth,n<2)
						 table.insert(self.tires,child[i])
				 end
		 end
		 if n>0 then
				 self.vehicle:AddAxle(self.vehicle:CountTires()-2,self.vehicle:CountTires()-1)
		 end
 end
end

 

I used the pickup truck body prefab and added the tires manually, setting the truck's tire children like the attached image...

 

Hope this helps someone

Edit: forgot to mention the tires must be named tire1, tire2, etc.

[Material generation file name incorrect]

Ah I see. Thanks. I'm slowly learning...

[Material generation file name incorrect]

I found when trying to create a material it grabs the filename incorrectly. For example if the filename is beech_branch_dif.tex it will read it as beech_branch.tex. It doesn't grab the last string after the underscore so beech_branch_leafless_dif.tex would come out as beech_branch_leafless.mat.

 

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