Vehicle Tutorial

Questions & Answers
1

Does anybody know of a tutorial that can teach me how to make it so characters can enter vehicles and drive them around?

2

No tutorial but its not hard

In both the vehicle’s and the man’s script add an if and boolean so if it’s true then the arrow keys make the car move, otherwise make the keys controll the man. Also parent the player to the car, while simutaneously moving the player to the position of a sear object.

You can look at this for clues, mine is a bit complicated because my game is split screen and the players are rigibodies.
This script is attached to the car object which has a large trigger-box-collider, when we are within this trigger a person can press “p” and is teleported to the driver’s seat.

Variables:

seats1&2-empty children of the car that just mark where to teleport the player

seat1exit: where to put player when he presses “u” to get out

camerA,B: cameras for player1or2 attached to the car that are turned on when we get in

personcamAB: the script finds the man’s camera and turns it off when he gets in

bodycol 1 2 3: colliders of the car that we dont want the player inside to collide with because a rigidbody in a rigidbody makes things wierd

itsp1 p2: because I have 2 players my script identifies the different people by the type of movement script they have.

2 important lines:

GetComponent(car1).ControllableA = true; // here this script talks to the one with the car’s controlls and says to let car be controlled

    la.nut();  //la is the script of the player, and we call function nut() on it which makes it so the man cannot be controlled

<pre>

var seat1 : Transform;
var seat2 : Transform;
var seat1exit : Transform;
var seat2exit : Transform;

private var seat1used : boolean;
private var seat2used : boolean;

private var passenger : Transform;
private var passenger2 : Transform;

var personCamA:Camera;
var personCamB:Camera;
var cameraA: Camera;
var cameraB:Camera;

private var itsP1 :boolean=false;
private var itsP2 :boolean=false;
var bodycol1 : Transform;
var bodycol2: Transform;
var bodycol3: Transform;

function Start()
{
	seat1used = false;
	seat2used = false;	
	//GetComponent(MyScript).enabled = false;
	cameraA = transform.Find("CameraA").camera;
	cameraB = transform.Find("CameraB").camera;
	//cameraA = transform.Find("CameraA");
	//cameraB = transform.Find("CameraB");	
	cameraB.enabled = false;
	cameraA.enabled = false;
}

function OnTriggerStay(other : Collider)
{
	//first seat get in	
	if(other.tag == "Player" && other.rigidbody && Input.GetKey("p") && seat1used == false)
	{
	seat1used = true;
	other.rigidbody.isKinematic = true;
	passenger = other.transform;
	passenger.parent = transform;
	passenger.transform.position = seat1.position;
	passenger.transform.rotation = seat1.rotation;
	
	var  la = passenger.GetComponent(physContrlr);	        //p1 seat1
	var  le = passenger.GetComponent(myControllerP2);	    //p2 seat1
	
	if( passenger.GetComponent(physContrlr) )//for player1 1st seat controlls and cameras
		{
		personCamA = passenger.Find("Camera_P1").camera;
		GetComponent(car1).ControllableA = true;			
		la.nut();
		cameraA.enabled = true;
		personCamA.enabled = false;
		itsP1=true;
		
		Physics.IgnoreCollision(passenger.collider, bodycol1.collider);
		Physics.IgnoreCollision(passenger.collider, bodycol2.collider);
		Physics.IgnoreCollision(passenger.collider, bodycol3.collider);
		//cameraA.active = true;
		}
	if( passenger.GetComponent(myControllerP2))//for player2 1st seat controlls and cameras
		{
		personCamB = passenger.Find("Camera_P2").camera;
		GetComponent(car1).ControllableB = true;
		le.nut();
		cameraB.enabled = true;
		personCamB.enabled = false;
		itsP2 = true;
		//cameraB.active = true;
		}
	//p1 script = la
	//p2 script = le	
	}
	
//second seat get in
	if (other.tag == "Player" && other.rigidbody && Input.GetKey("y") && seat1used == true && seat2used == false)
	{
	passenger2 = other.transform;
	seat2used = true;
	other.rigidbody.isKinematic = true;
	passenger2 = other.transform;
	passenger2.parent = transform;
	passenger2.transform.position = seat2.position;
	passenger2.transform.rotation = seat2.rotation;	
	}
}

//
//		
//	

//}

//function Update()
//{	
	//if(Input.GetKey("p") && seat1used == false) 
	//{		
	//}	
function Update(){
	if (Input.GetKey("u") && seat1used == true)
	{				
		passenger.transform.position = seat1exit.position;
		passenger.transform.rotation = seat1exit.rotation;		
		passenger.parent = null;
		passenger.rigidbody.isKinematic = false;		
		seat1used = false;		
		
		if(itsP1 ==  true){//player1 get out of 1st seat

		passenger.GetComponent(physContrlr).nut();
		GetComponent(car1).ControllableA = false;		
		cameraA.enabled = false;
		personCamA.enabled = true;
		
		}
		
		if(itsP2 == true){

		GetComponent(car1).ControllableB = false;		
		passenger.GetComponent(myControllerP2).nut2();
		cameraB.enabled = false;
		personCamB.enabled = true;
		}
	}
		//get out of 2nd seat
	if (seat2used == true && Input.GetKey("t"))
	{	
			var  da = passenger2.GetComponent(physContrlr);       //p1 seat2
			var  de = passenger2.GetComponent(myControllerP2);  //p2 seat2
			seat2used = false;
			passenger2.transform.position = seat2exit.position;
			passenger2.transform.rotation = seat2exit.rotation;
			passenger2.rigidbody.isKinematic = false;
			passenger2.parent = null;
			
			if(de)   //player2
			{
			de.nut2(myControllerP2);
			cameraB.enabled = false;
			personCamB.enabled = true;
			}
			else    //player1
			{
			da.nut2(physContrlr);
			cameraA.enabled = false;
			personCamA.enabled = true;
			}
	}
}



function deadpassenger()
{
seat2used = false;
}
function deaddriver()
{
seat1used = false;
}