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I was just curious, is it possible to make a side where you just use tanks? And if so how. I had a quick try but the game crashed on me.

The closest thing you can do is force everyone into vehicles on spawning. If you haven't read the FAQ topic, i recommend having a look. You can't make a vehicle a unit on a team. Thats what i've always heard anyway.

Okay, thanks!

or you could make yourself happy by making all custom models and animations for new "humans" that look like "vehicles", the trick is they will still act like "humans"

There are no good ways to prevent a player from leaving a vehicle. If there was, we would of had Vehicle and Race game modes a long time ago.

how does space handle forcing you to stay in a vehicle?

It doesn't, if you land, you can get out.

Yeah but there are landing regions in the hangars of the ships so if i found the code that stops fighters landing in other places instead of the region then i could add the code to the tanks and leave the region out of my map....

Note: the region thing could be the other way around. If so is there a region that stops you from landing.

I don't know if this is plausible, but would it be possible to make a function that activates when the player exits the vehicle that puts him back in? or you could always make a damage/death region which affects all people out of vehicles. With a warning of some kind at the start in a popup, i'm sure one of those would do....

Im pretty sure that in space there is a region the disallows you to exit a vehicle, ill try find it tonight!

Are you sure thats not something special for certain vehicles? Because you can't eject from flying vehicles on land maps either, from what i can remember....

Yeah, i just figured that out for myself.... What would happen if I opened the odf for the tank and changed the VehicleType= line?

The best way to find the answer is by trying. I have no idea, but its worth having a go. The only problem is, you may then have a flying tank And i don't think it would work, because you can't land/takeoff with a vehicle...i don't think it'll work but its worth a try, i guess

Yeah, so ill just go change the VehicleClass="light" <---- to ----> VehicleClass="fighter"

I have the same questions about a vehicle side, only my biggest interest is to prevent the player from leaving due to the scale of the vehicles. I want to prepare a map where the vehicles will be smaller in size than the player models (to have more capital ships in it with a smaller scale). In a similar issue where I do some questions about recommended me to use the function of forcing the player in the vehicle but even so the player could leave and go flying at the moment appear on the vehicle and take off, so have a landing area defined and not within it. So I asked if possible to prevent the abandonment of the vehicle the player.

Waht you think about?

[RDH]Zerted wrote:There are no good ways to prevent a player from leaving a vehicle. If there was, we would of had Vehicle and Race game modes a long time ago.

i think this doesnt have to be discussed further, or did i miss anything?

Yeah I know, you might as well lock it, but I only started it cause I was curious, to see if my idear would work...

SW_elite wrote:Im pretty sure that in space there is a region the disallows you to exit a vehicle, ill try find it tonight!

This is called a landing region. See, it's hardcoded that you can't jump out of a flyer unless it's landed. Landing regions define where you can land; if there aren't any you can land anywhere. This only works for flyers; you can't hijack the code to prevent units from hopping out of tanks or speeders.

Changing the VehicleClass line would result in nonsense; you'd be defining the vehicle as a flyer without many vital flyer-related odf lines.

Ohh, thanks for that Fodis, very helpful, now at least i know it cant be achieved, and ill stop wasting time trying to...