Truck Riding questions

[MC Disgruntled Goat]

Hey guys

I have a truck with a clipped collison entity attached. Truck works fine, it runs path and players can ride in it. Two problems remain however:

1. Truck changes elevation on the road a few times. If player is too close to the front of the truck, the truck stops until he moves closer to the back.

2. What is the command so players cannot be harmed by the truck? Several times the truck takes a turn and whoops the players butts if they are in the wrong spot.
Thanks a lot for any help

[jv_map]

2. You could try to make the player non-solid. If the player is stored in local.player, type this when the ride starts:

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local.player notsolid

Afterwards, type:

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local.player solid

Maybe that does the job .

[Gizzy (nl)]

but is it still possible that the player will be hit ???

[MC Disgruntled Goat]

Yeah, I was worried about that as well. The truck is headed toward an enemy elevated position so I need them to be injured by bulletfire. I tried a $player nodamage $truck but that made the player invulnerable to everything. I also tried a script origin 'glue' spot in the back like in m4l2. It worked okay, but the player was still injured by the truck turning. I also wanted the player to be able to leave the truck at any time if enemy fire got too bad, instead of a predetermined drop point. I think what I am going to try is have a clipped textured crate glued to the back of the truck. It will still give cover to the player but won't let the player get to close to the front of the truck to impede the truck's progress. Also, at the back, the truck turning didn't cause injury. Is there any other ways anybody would know of?

[matt_moh]

Don't use an actual vehicle. Make a script model and give it a key/value of model/"whatever truck you want". Then make a series of info_splinepaths for the truck to follow. That's how it is done in m4l2 and m4l3. In your script, you can have something like $truck playsound m4l2_truck1 when ever the truck is moving. Try to take a look at the scripts for m4l2 and m4l3 to get a better idea of how it is done.

[MC Disgruntled Goat]

Thanks Matt, but the truck runs fine. It follows it's path and loops back around fine. It is with the player passengers where the problems are. I have looked at m4l2 and tried some stuff out of it but it is geared toward single players. I can't make the player non-solid or impervious to the truck as other players have to be able to injure them.