trailer script

[swift88]

could some-one help me with a trailer script please......... i would be very grateful

[Terox]

would a simple setpos getpos command work using a relpos, something similar to the way choppers undersling vehicles. Maybe you could de pbo that addon to see how they did it

or would it be more complicated and you would have to do velocity and direction maths for the towing vehicles

[swift88]

what the problem is that im hoping to remove the trailer when the user doesnt want........... with just the cab seperate from the trailer itself

[Terox]

from my recollections, the trailer kneck doesnt look right

the trailer would be disconnected using an addaction
Mightbe better to approach the problem as 2 addons in the same pbo and try to figure out how to attach them, that way disconnecting them would be easy. If you can figure it out then this leaves the door open for towed artillery etc.


How do the jet  addons attach their bombs and release them

perhaps have the trailer classed as a weapon and then have the tractor unit add a weapon to itself

This stuffs  new to me am just trying to give u ideas, addons is something i have never messed with


another option perhaps, is to have 3 addons in the same pbo and then instead of trying to split or merge the tractor and trailer, the addaction instead deletes the tractor trailer combined and creates a new independant tractor and trailer unit and vice versa

so your addons would be
Tractor-trailer joined together
Tractor unit
Trailer unit

addaction "Unhitch" deletes the combined tractor trailer and replaces it with seperate units
addaction "Hitch" deletes the independants and creates new vehicle tractor trailer combined

[swift88]

cheers mate back to the drawing board

[BraTTy]

Have you looked at the towable WW2 Pak that was made by WW2EC?
Your welcome to use my scripts from that,however I don't own the vehicle

[swift88]

thanks......is that a sqs file, because i was told about that from some-one

[BraTTy]

Yes its called towing.sqs and its within the addon

[Muts]

Hi

After driving aroud all saturday in my mom's car with a trailer behind it and seeing many other people spending that saturday in the same manner, I felt like making a trailer addon for flashpoint. So first I went to the ofpec forums to see if anyone already had some idea's on how to do it. that's how i found this thread.

Now I have not been able to find the PAK addon on the WWIIEC site, so can you perhaps provide me with a link to the addon? (I did find a script snippet on towing though, but it doesn't really behave like a trailer does)

I hereby also post the trailertowing-script I made today for you to comment on and/or perhaps help me fix what doesn't yet work.(I'm trying to make the towing part work first, extras such as hitching and unhitching can be added later)
Sofar it will only work when the trailer is an object that doesn't adjust to the terrain such as the armoured target or a chair, any other kind of object will slide from side to side(vehicles) or sort of orbit around the towing vehicle(very strange effect).

well..just tell me what you think of it.....

[Muts]

hmm the zip file didn't come along right

[KJAM]

Muts........dude your script is sweet ;D

Sofar it will only work when the trailer is an object that doesn't adjust to the terrain such as the armoured target or a chair, any other kind of object will slide from side to side(vehicles) or sort of orbit around the towing vehicle(very strange effect).

ive tried this out with M1a1's M113's a civilian motorcycle and even an A-10 by replacing the armoured target you put in the mission, and also changed the jeep to a 5t truck, although each one does need a little tweaking with the distance
the tricgger loooks something liek this at the start of it
[car,-2,trailer,6,-5]  
 in that im guessing that the number 6 is the towing distance and even though they do slide a little bit, to me it looks more realistic and they dont slide around to bad but it still looks a litle wierd because there is nothing holding the towed object to the one thats towing it, hell i just had a crazy idea on how this could be implemented to make like a long line of things towed, or even (although ill have tot ry it) a convoy ;D with no changes to the script itself lol

[Muts]

Hi

Here's the script again in a somewhat improved version, the objects now do not orbit around the vehicle while standing still, since the script now only runs while the towing vehicle is moving.

Also I've added a readme file with a schematic drawing and explanation of the values used in the script

best regards, Muts

[Muts]

well here I am again,

I guess I posted my improved script and readmefile a bit to eagerly, (I mean someone did think the script was sweet you know ) because it had a few flaws in it.
So now I had to make the improved improved version, hoping I thought it over a bit better.  The script itself is still not finished , but that's what the forum's for , right?

Well anyway the explanation to the script values is a bit clearer now, see for yourself in version 1.11 of the script and readme file.

[swift88]

looks gud mate

[Blanco]

well, it's a nice script, a good alternative to the WW2 Pak if you don't want the addon in your mission.

I use the script in a cutscene where a UAZ's  towing a cessna to the runway. It looks great, I set the UAZ's speed to limited.
I had to do some nifty camerawork, otherwise the player would see there's no boom (hmm, is that a word?!)...

but anyways....  :thumbsup: