SRTT Tank Controls

I think it was made this way to for controller users. I myself have rarely driven a tank, except when required to, and it's because of these controls. They are much easier to controll with a controller though. But I would really like new controls.
 
Cogkicker said:
I think it was made this way to for controller users. I myself have rarely driven a tank, except when required to, and it's because of these controls. They are much easier to controll with a controller though. But I would really like new controls.
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I agree that new controls are needed, I play with a controller though, and it's not better at all. I avoid driving tanks like the plague for the same reason you do.
Best of luck to shitface on solving this issue, I feel obligated to request that steering be kept independent of travel direction: left to rotate left, right to rotate right. please avoid any silly "brake right or left track" shenanigans like the Planetside 2 developers tried to pull. I realize that as a modder, your options are limited and you're working for free, I only speak because after all of the time I've spent studying controls, and applying control standards to robotics and radio control, I hate to see poor application of user interfacing, especially with respect to vehicle control.
 
It should be possible to change a few instructions in the executable to make tank steering no longer be relative to the camera. I will look into getting more information.
 
[V] Light said:
It should be possible to change a few instructions in the executable to make tank steering no longer be relative to the camera. I will look into getting more information.
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Apparently this will have to wait for a patch. It shouldn't be too difficult to change the code to provide more flexibility here, but there's no data change that can accomplish this that I can see. You could make the tank a regular car, but I think that would automatically disable the crushing of other vehicles. It would also change how sturdy the vehicle is, because tanks take less damage from certain sources.
 
[V] Light said:
Apparently this will have to wait for a patch. It shouldn't be too difficult to change the code to provide more flexibility here, but there's no data change that can accomplish this that I can see. You could make the tank a regular car, but I think that would automatically disable the crushing of other vehicles. It would also change how sturdy the vehicle is, because tanks take less damage from certain sources.
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I thought you could set a certain vehicle to crush others with a simple tag. In fact, I'm almost certain I've seen it somewhere...
And as for changing the sources it takes damage from, a hacky temp solution would be to change the tweak_table.xtbl, but that would apply to ALL vehicles.
 
Shitface has a point. Changing the direction of the turret while trying to keep driving forward always was a problem. You had to stop to turn the turret or try to keep driving and while turning the turret was turning using left and right to keep the tank going.
 
[GoSP] Jon said:
I thought you could set a certain vehicle to crush others with a simple tag. In fact, I'm almost certain I've seen it somewhere...
And as for changing the sources it takes damage from, a hacky temp solution would be to change the tweak_table.xtbl, but that would apply to ALL vehicles.
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You certainly can in IV, as the code was extended for Monster Trucks, and so could theoretically work with any wheeled vehicle. In 3 though I don't believe that functionality was online. There may be a flag for it in the table file, but I would be surprised if it works correctly.
 
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