[OPEN-SOURCE] Machinery Modelling Toolkit

[BoredEngineer]

@Dealman;514701

I played around with the settings a bit and got it relatively good, I can climb the hill I made going on 2nd gear. I haven’t tried top speed yet, and the suspension might need some more tweaks. Turret rotation seems to not be accurately replicated for some reason, so will need to look at that.

https://streamable.com/oj61

But now I have the general functionality for a tank in place;

• Tank drives around and can get over*(or through :rolleyes:)* obstacles

Driven with a 360 pad*(One analog stick per track, one trigger per brake - allows for some smooth driving. Will need to tweak brake force as you can see though)*

• Tank is multi-crewed; so far only the driver and gunner
• Tank movement is replicated*(might need to tweak the replication values here)*
• Turret rotation is replicated over network(though seemingly not very accurate?)
• Turret can fire a crappy projectile for testing purposes*(will probably replace with raycasting)*
• Can limit the turret traverse and elevation as I please, as well as traverse speed

Still needs more tweaking and tinkering, some more features I’d like as well such as optics for the gunner. I’ve also made a sort of lobby system so other people can connect to my game via a server list(based on the shootout game) - I have yet to package it and try it with another person though.

Nice progress! I like how Tigers and Panthers have such a soft drive because of the amount of wheels on suspension. The other thing you could try to tweak is Mu coefficients of friction, try setting all of the to 25% higher, it gets much more grip this way.

Yesterday was working on the spline tracks. The easiest solution so far:

1. Move your tank into 0,0,0 of the world
2. Add Spline Mesh Actor
3. Spline mesh actor has only two control points, but you can copy/paste their coordinates and tangents right out of the properties.
4. Place control points of spline mesh actor where two of the track control points should be.
5. Tweak tangents until you get a proper curve and then just copy/paste tangent values into array.
6. Move to the next point and repeat.