Actual license plates

[Teneksi]

here's some ideas and my response to them


7-segment display... no.. not good for letters. and it's a license plate, not an LED

if you used images or shapes or whatever for each character in the vehicle mesh itself, you'd have 36 nodes per letter, and with 7 letters, that's 252... leaving, as I understand it, 3 nodes for everything else. call the cops

could be possible to mount a bot that looks like a letter/number instead
that way it's 36 bot models, and just 4-6ish mount points

this is promising, although to me it means 7 bots.
barnabas uses bots to have more animated doors... bots could also be used for extra meshes in cases like this.

1 bot (with 37 nodes in its mesh) in 7 mount points, with each mount point offset so that the bots perfectly fill in the license plate area.

a person who was willing to do this (not I, despite my recent trend of surprisingly complicated small improvements) would need to be very careful about knowing the width of the license plate and how much to move each mount point

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[BlooKirby]

Probably a Terrible Idea But, the license plate should be the owner's BL_ID

[phflack]

this is promising, although to me it means 7 bots.
barnabas uses bots to have more animated doors... bots could also be used for extra meshes in cases like this.

1 bot (with 37 nodes in its mesh) in 7 mount points, with each mount point offset so that the bots perfectly fill in the license plate area.

a person who was willing to do this (not I, despite my recent trend of surprisingly complicated small improvements) would need to be very careful about knowing the width of the license plate and how much to move each mount point

bots can be scaled by vehicle makers if needed
since bots can be scaled in XYZ directions independently

[Cruxeis]

You can only mount up to 4 things on a vehicle, and one of them is already taken for the mountPoint for the people in the vehicle. So you can really only mount 3.

slot   Image slot to mount to (valid range is 0-3)
http://docs.garagegames.com/torque-3d/reference/classShapeBase.html#ab003698139f63c896284ac355c7aa7c2

[Gytyyhgfffff]

You can only mount up to 4 things on a vehicle, and one of them is already taken for the mountPoint for the people in the vehicle. So you can really only mount 3.

that's for images, not objects like players/bots. you're able to fit a lot more than 4 people onto a vehicle at once

[phflack]

if need be, could use up one mount slot to mount an invisible bot, which has the digit bots mounted to it

could also be used to make interesting looking signs

[Cruxeis]

that's for images, not objects like players/bots. you're able to fit a lot more than 4 people onto a vehicle at once

That's what I was talking about, hence the "Image slot to mount to", and how it links to an explanation of shapeBase::mountImage.

[Teneksi]

That's what I was talking about, hence the "Image slot to mount to", and how it links to an explanation of shapeBase::mountImage.

Yeah but we're talking about bots, not images. The script we're using to add bots uses mountObject.

[Metario]

if need be, could use up one mount slot to mount an invisible bot, which has the digit bots mounted to it

could also be used to make interesting looking signs

why not just have the bot stretch across the license plate then have the rest mount on that

[phflack]

if need be, could use up one mount slot to mount an invisible bot, which has the digit bots mounted to it

could also be used to make interesting looking signs

why not just have the bot stretch across the license plate then have the rest mount on that

I'm not sure how that's different from what I said

[Metario]

why not just have the bot stretch across the license plate then have the rest mount on that

I'm not sure how that's different from what I said

idk I could've worded it differently
anyways
how are you going to accurately position bots or numbers/and how bad will performance be saying there's 10 cars with 7 digits for their car plate

[Cruxeis]

here's some ideas and my response to them


7-segment display... no.. not good for letters. and it's a license plate, not an LED

if you used images or shapes or whatever for each character in the vehicle mesh itself, you'd have 36 nodes per letter, and with 7 letters, that's 252... leaving, as I understand it, 3 nodes for everything else. call the cops
this is promising, although to me it means 7 bots.
barnabas uses bots to have more animated doors... bots could also be used for extra meshes in cases like this.

1 bot (with 37 nodes in its mesh) in 7 mount points, with each mount point offset so that the bots perfectly fill in the license plate area.

a person who was willing to do this (not I, despite my recent trend of surprisingly complicated small improvements) would need to be very careful about knowing the width of the license plate and how much to move each mount point

Yeah but we're talking about bots, not images. The script we're using to add bots uses mountObject.

I must've misunderstood something then, my apologies lol

[Killbot Alpha]

Probably a Terrible Idea But, the license plate should be the owner's BL_ID

Pretty Cool, But there are 1,3,4,5,and 6-Digit BL_IDs so There would either be different size fonts for the Plate, or Different plates altogether. If they do have to be different, low IDs could get a gold star sticker.

[Cruxeis]

Pretty Cool, But there are 1,2,3,4,5,and 6-Digit BL_IDs so There would either be different size fonts for the Plate, or Different plates altogether. If they do have to be different, low IDs could get a gold star sticker.

2 digit BL_IDs???

[Killbot Alpha]

2 digit BL_IDs???

oh sorry, didn't see that. Why aren't there 2 digit BL_IDs?