how to succesfully import your own drivable vehicle?

[Richard Simpson]

I've being trying to get my car drivable inside of LE today. I have exported the body on its own, then 1 left, and right wheel as seperate meshes too. I have then copied over the driving script for ingame and also the "vehicle viperscout" script and changed the model names to match mine. I am using "vehicle" at the beginning of each mesh name also. When I try to run the driver script to drive around in-editor, I get the error:

attempt to index global 'carobject' (a nil value)

 

 

If I drag out my car body model into the scene I get the three following errors:

Failed to open file "C:\users\richard\desktop\ leadwerks engine sdk\scripts\math.lua

followed by:

Failed to open file "scripts\math.lua"

then:

scripts/math.lua

 

The mesh still loads in fine though. Is anyone able to point me to a tutorial or help me get a vehicle working inside LE please? I'm finding it really confusing. B)

 

Thankyou!

[macklebee]

The math.lua file is located at "scripts/math/math.lua" not "scripts/math.lua" in the standard SDK. So if you have a script that is calling:

require("scripts/math")

then it would cause this problem.

 

Also, unless your car model has mesh heirarchy like the viperscout then the viperscout script would have to be rewritten to locate the wheel locations.

[Rick]

A more generic vehicle script could probably be written to allow via the properties window for the user to define each of the 4 tire locations.

[Richard Simpson]

Thanks Macklebee I'll give those a try. And I agree with Rick! Even just a script with the bare minimum of code to allow a working vehicle would be nice. That way, it would be easy to change things out if you are a beginner to this area, like I am.