I've been thinking about this one a loong time now and I really want to see it in action. If youve ever played some fps games that have vehicles in them, you need to get close to the vehicle or its exit and press a key to activate it.

I'm pretty sure this should be possible to do in CC.

So think this:

There a helicopter on the pad and it belongs to the either team.
Now you bring a clone to the chopper and "do something" to activate it.
The clone or pilot or whatever actor was activating the vehicle is stored in the vehicle somehow.
The vehicle becomes operable and you can use it like you would use any other actor or craft in CC.
After youve had your fun with it, you "do something" to leave the vehicle.
Or alternatively if the vehicle is destroyed, make the controlling pilot be thrown out of it in a random direction.


I could imagine the "do something" parts could either be "press X button" or "crouch" or do some sort of wierd movement with the pilot actor to get him in/out. Can we add new options to the pie menu?

Another thing I'm guessing is that this will be possible to do only for a specific actor. That is fine since not everyone is supposed to control a vehicle.
And finally I bet the vehicle itself would need its own specific code to disable its movement and ability to select it when there is no actor inside and so on.

As for the vehicles, they can be your ordinary AHuman as a mech, ACrab as a tank or something or even ACraft as a craft.

thats a wonderfull idea I hope it gets done and let me guess M.P.A.M. and liner tank

Is this an idea for your Tournament-esque mod, or just an idea in general?

Great idea. I vote for the linear tank getting the first conversion to this. It kicks ass.

I'd say a stationary turret that you need to get close to to use would be a better application.

I think that it would be possible to do so, though in a slightly hacky way.
You make a script so that when a variable called "haspilot" is = 0 and a player controlled actor is, say, 50 pixels max away from the vehicle's position, and a specific key in the keyboard is pressed, the actor is transported out of the screen, enough to make it not affected by other objects but not enough for it to AutoGib. Then, "haspilot" is set to = 1, and the vehicle can't be used by anyone else. Then, TLB's converter script would automatically switch the player to controlling the vehicle.
After that, if the player presses another key or tries to change the controlled actor and haspilot == 1, the vehicle goes into dormant AI state, the pilot is transported back to the vehicle's position + 20 pixels X, so that they don't gib each other, and haspilot is set to 0, making the vehicle ready to take in another unit.


It should work.
Theoretically, at least.

I don't see why that couldn't work. I mean, coding isn't my thing (atleast not yet) but that seems to make logical sense in every way.

you could actually just remove the "pilot" from the sim altogether and put it into a pointer stored by the item in question, and then just spawn it when the item gibs or when the pilot gets out. we might actually be able to use a dropship or rocket to allow the "doors" on a walker or whatever to be used to take an actor in. looks pretty possible.

Easy.

You don't even need lots of code to disable the vehicle.

Just have it swich the player to his brain if the controlled actor's ID is the tank's ID, while disabling the AI controller.

The code for storing the actor is easy, and ejection is also easy.
I would use controllers for entering/exiting.

well, first I'd likely work with an ACDropship. After that, I think there are variables to make it non-controllable. Just check its internal inventory for an actor (functions for that in the docs, I'm sure) if one is present, get the actors team (?) and assign the dropship to that team and make it controllable. Then, reverse if there is no actor present.

I wish we could do this with all actors but ghosting it with LUa would be hard, I'm not sure if it's doable otherwise.

Had a look, ACRafts aren't documented atm. I really have no clue how crafts internally handle 'inventory' if it is like other actors inventory (say an AHuman) or not. I wish I could give you something solid but I've only got so much in my position.

I don't think we can change the pie menu... Just make a gun with preset name "Keys". When you reload in ??? pixel radius of ACDropship, AHuman disappears and control of ACDropship is granted to "Owner of AHuman".

And don't ask me I don't know ... about LUA

Uhh, can someone code this please?
So far I can think of the code doing this:

Pilot:
1. If within range of activation, press Z
2. Pilot is now loaded into a variable (screw the equipment) and stored within the vehicle


Vehicle:
1. If no pilot inside, be paralyzed (all controls are denied and unit cant be selected otherwise)
2. If pilot inside, restore all controls and become a selectable unit.
2. When activated by pilot, play sound (Engines turned on).
3. Pressing Z will drop out the pilot and the vehicle become inactive again.
4. If destroyed, drop out pilot
5. If hp is less than 0, gib the vehicle and drop the pilot.



Do note, this code should be universal and easily ported to any type of unit.
ACrab, AHuman, ACraft and so on.

And teams dont matter, players can hijack enemy vehicles and doing so will make the vehicle be owned by the team that hijacked, otherwise anyone can hijack anything.

These should be exactly the same block of code.

Done for the vehicle.
All the pilot has to do is send it self inside, and activate the engine sound.
Oh, and I hope this does not crash CC on restart, as it checks if the activity is over.