How to make a melee weapon push a vehicle.

[Dr.Tyler O.]

Kind of like what the hammer does. Basically I want my weapon, a golf club, to push a vehicle like the ball. How would one do this?

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[ThinkInvisible]

probably package onHit or whatever and if the weapon is golfClub addvelocity to the vehicle

[Ipquarx]

That would have to be one damn big golf club to hit the ball, that things friggin huge.

But think's right on this one.

[Dr.Tyler O.]

probably package onHit or whatever and if the weapon is golfClub addvelocity to the vehicle

How would I do this? I'm kind of new to Torque Scripting and the most I can do really is make basic weapons and vehicles.

[Deoxys And One Noob]

How would I do this? I'm kind of new to Torque Scripting and the most I can do really is make basic weapons and vehicles.

package onHit
{
  //code here
};
activatePackage(onHit);


I'm not sure on that other one. Maybe this.


golfClub.addvelocity();

[Lugnut]

well you showed him what a package is and you somehow told it to add velocity to the golf club not the vehicle?

at least you used [tt]

package GolfClub
{
     function golfClubProjectile::onHit(%this, %obj, //Other variables, someone fill this in
     {
          //Vector code goes here, but I'm not good at maffs, someone help here too
          parent::onHit(%this, %obj, other variables);
     }
};
activatePackage(GolfClub);

[Treynolds416]

well you showed him what a package is and you somehow told it to add velocity to the golf club not the vehicle?

at least you used [tt]

Hahaha, made me laugh

[Port]

It's onCollision, not onHit.

[ThinkInvisible]

if you want it to work like the hammer, just add velocity to it without much math:

randomVehicle.addVelocity("0 0 5");

if you want it to work like clicking the vehicle, it's slightly more complicated. i don't know exactly how to do it but it involves normalizing the player's position relative to the vehicle. try this:

%n1 = vectorNorm(vectorSub(player.position, vehicle.position));
vehicle.addVelocity(vectorScale(%n1, [the velocity you want the vehicle to move at]));

a good velocity might be around 30 or 40 on a small object

if you want it to move in the direction the player is looking (bad idea IMO):

vehicle.addVelocity(vectorScale(player.getEyeVector(), [velocity again]));

[Treynolds416]

if you want it to work like the hammer, just add velocity to it without much math:

randomVehicle.addVelocity("0 0 5");

if you want it to work like clicking the vehicle, it's slightly more complicated. i don't know exactly how to do it but it involves normalizing the player's position relative to the vehicle. try this:

%n1 = vectorNorm(vectorSub(player.position, vehicle.position));
vehicle.addVelocity(vectorScale(%n1, [the velocity you want the vehicle to move at]));

a good velocity might be around 30 or 40 on a small object

if you want it to move in the direction the player is looking (bad idea IMO):

vehicle.addVelocity(vectorScale(player.getEyeVector(), [velocity again]));

First, it's vectorNormalize
Second, you don't have the slightest clue what it is or what it does

[ThinkInvisible]

First, it's vectorNormalize
Second, you don't have the slightest clue what it is or what it does

vectorNormalize scales the vector so that all the numbers are between 0 and 1, the smallest being 0 and the largest being 1

[Treynolds416]

vectorNormalize scales the vector so that all the numbers are between 0 and 1, the smallest being 0 and the largest being 1

You still don't have a clue

[ThinkInvisible]

oh wait wait wait it's the ratio between them

[Lugnut]

0.5/1 = 50/100

am i rite or am i rong


No, really, I have no idea. Just basing that off of the posts in this topic.

[Port]

0.5/1 = 50/100

try it yourself
use a calculator
both equal 0.5