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[rossmum]

Portal fighters.

We should really play while I'm off Uni for the midsemester break so I can adv dupe your Portal fighter :3

[n00b1n8R]

[rossmum]

No.

[FlyingStone]

Large pics below

Its suppose to be a tank but due to the fact i can't make tracks its more like a heavily armed APC thing. Not close to being done, the only thing that i have considered done is the turret. Rotates on thrusters for now. I am planning to make it turn on gears. The suspension is semi done its still to hard but because i haven't added armor i want to leave it as is.

And yes, i did try and make tracks and they failed miserably. I must have tried at least 15 times, changing physical properties, using ball and sockets, and rope. I can make them stay on, the problem is that they don't help the tank in anyway. In fact it slows it down a great amount and kill my FPS.
Meh.

EDIT:
Pictures aren't big i guess its only when you click them >.>'

[ExAm]

How'd you make the suspension?

[FlyingStone]

Well I used a tutorial off of stage6 which is now dead.
Give me a hour and ill have a picture tut using his suspention.

brb

[FlyingStone]

Lots of pictures, be ready.
Ready?

Setting up :

Spawn these props to begin with:


Next set them up on a wall like so:


Get your weld easy tool:


Now click right in the middle of the the prop:


Then bring it over to the regtangle thing and click about there and click twice, click once and it will allow you to turn the prop on a axis. Its why you throw them up aganist the wall so they are already straight. For the most part. Fiddle around with it you will get the idea.


Repete the the other side and you should have it looking like this. Both sqaure peices on opisite sides:

Stacking, the hard part.

Get your stacker tool out and change the values to these:


Now go on the on one of the sides, till you see the prop look like this. (Should be the right side if you are looking straight at it)


Click once and the prop will be frozen, not welded so don't unfreeze anything.

Now change the stacker properties to this:


And go on to the other side:


Pull out your remover tool and remove the 2 square props you welded on earlier:


It should look like this when you are done:
Dont unfreeze!

The wtf-where-is-that-rope-going part

Go to the rope tool and copy the setting. MAKE SURE RIDGID IS SELECTED.


Now click the outside corner and go to the otherside of the square phx prop and click at the coner for the back end. Click in this area for the corner towards the front:


When you do this to both the front and rear it will look like this:


Now you have to make a X going from the back corner to where i circled the red. Like this:


Do the same thing to the top:


And then to the other side and you should have something that looks like this:


Just keep in mind you want the rope to have a |X|shape. The | | two ropes should go from one side the next, the X should go from one corner of the square phx prop to the rectangular corner at a angle so it makes a X shape when you do both sides.
Yeah...what did i just say? Make it look like this |X| Top and bottom. Both sides.

Placing your elastic shocks

Click your elastic tool and copy the settings:


Click where that red dot is and go from that side to the other:


It will come out like this:


All it does is make sure they don't bend outwards only up and down, i think. Don't take my word on that. I have always done it, maybe try to do without it see what happens. >.> Continuing on....

Now edit the elastic settings to this:


And then go from the corner of the square prop to the top of the rectangle phx prop. So they make this shape | | no X




And do the same thing to the other side.

That took longer than what i wanted it to. Anyway that's a basic, not tuned suspension. Fool around with the settings on the elastics. That's independent suspension, i know there are other ways to make a suspension i just enjoy using this one the most.

If you are still having trouble or just don't understand whats going on drop me a message on steam.

Flyingstone

And ill teach you in a server, and ill use a microphone so i don't have to type constantly.

EDIT CREDITS:

I DONT TAKE ANY CREDIT FOR MAKING THIS SYSTEM OF SUSPENTION IN GARRYS MOD. ALL CREDIT GOES TO ZP, THE PERSON WHO I LEARNED IT FROM. THE ONLY THING I TAKE CREDIT FOR IS THE PICTURES AND TIME WRITING THIS UP.
AND I AM TYPING IN CAPITAL LETTERS TO MAKE SURE YOU UNDERSTAND THAT.

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[4RT1LL3RY]

Um, you know how you line them up on the wall to line them up? Why not just use shift+e to do the adjustments by 45 degrees. I need to make some more cool things. Or maybe I'll play prop hunt.

[FlyingStone]

Because my shift key was broke and because i like to do things the hard way.
:3

[ExAm]

lol, maybe i'll take you up on that. If I ever stop being mad at gmod for failing at addons.