Vehicle digging

[nomisum]

Working condition and tested on dedicated

Supports vanilla nemera and GM Bpz.

To dig: lower plow (vehicle action), drive forward
To deploy: Reverse

Lowering plow limits speed to 7 kmh.

things that might be nice to have:

• cba settings (though i dont know if this is really needed and for what exactly)
• adjusted GEOM or physX LOD of vehicleTrench to prevent instantly bumping into trench after deployment (no damage taken but still annoying)
• Future release: decaying trench by driving over it (lineintersects from trench mempoints to find out that tank is on top)
• Future release: repicking up trench by bumping into it. Too dangerous with current GEOM LOD.

[nomisum]

There needs to be either a check if an animation is running or another variable that says "lowering in progress"

edit: ah wait… the 1.5m distance for the action means that only the driver will be able to do it? then thats ok too I guess

not exactly but i will configure it to be driver only, just forgot. otoh for singleplayer / AI driver it would come in handy to have this available in other roles as well.

[nomisum]

ready for last dedi test

[Nerexis]

I'm trying to test it, I drive Nemmera with a lowered pillow, and I see speed limited and some ground particles of dug land, but when I Reverse nothing happens. Am I doing something wrong or does anyone have a demo video for this feature?

[nomisum]

drive forward on diggable ground until the trench rises.

if this does not work this is a bug, then i would need to know the map and location to reproduce.

[twidjr]

I am having this issue as well and if I had to guess the problem is that the trench is not rising because when I was testing I could see it clipping out of the terrain this could be either caused by the constant stopping to achieve the 6-8 km speeds or something regarding the "attach to" the script. because you asked I tested this on a hill and saw it sticking out and not moving up or down just being still even though I'm driving forward. another time I tried was on Altis salt flats I was driving forward and just drove for ~1km and even though I edited the dig time on the mission nothing happened. I would love to see this working though!

[nomisum]

i will take a look. thanks for the report!

[nomisum]

@Nerexis @twidjr apparently some commits are missing from the new release. for a quick workaround pick the pre release until a new version is ready.

should look like this when working: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhcA_tlpbtY

[twidjr]

awesome! I can't wait to see it working!

[nomisum]

needed to dig a bit further. there were some changes to the vehicle trench p3d rendering the attach offset unusable. will be fixed in the upcoming version.

[twidjr]

hey just checked the updated version and it's working now! good stuff!

[Nerexis]

I also checked, works fine now! BTW it would be cool to have the possibility to also dig a trench for infantry purposes, like a LONG trench.