User:Nexii Malthus/SLMC/Combat Vehicles

This is a stub / work-in-progress page.

Outline

• Introduction to Combat Vehicles
• What a combat vehicle needs

What you need for a combat vehicle:

• A movement engine
  • Most usually use the Linden Vehicle system, you can follow the normal tutorial on that and/or see this list of opensource vehicle scripts
  • It's possible to devise your own physics or non-physics based movement system
  • I've been working on non-physical multi-legged mechs that use raycasting for longer than llCastRay has existed, so in that tutorial I'll go over how to make one yourself
• Setting SIT_FLAG_NO_DAMAGE on sit targets to prevent your vehicle crew from getting damaged
• Object-based health system, usually referred to as an armor system
• Weapons or equipment if you want to turn it into an armed vehicle. For a weapon you'll want to follow similar approach to making an attachment weapon with rez cores and/or script for managing the controls for that weapon, but you may want to do prim animation in the case of a turret or pivot gun on a vehicle that a user such as the driver or gunner is in control of