A question about spawn-powered vehicles.

[pnvv]

I built a motorcycle-like thingy today. It was okay, but I found that once it got going pretty fast the spawned engine particles would start to get left behind. Eventually, they just spawned outside the chamber altogether. I know fixing this requires something like a laser to calculate engine speed but I have no idea how that is done...

[electronicboy]

You should just be able to modify the spawn script to take the speed of the object that's spawning them. Pretty sure the variable is easily accessible, e.<fillme>.vel

[pnvv]

Mucho thanks.

Sorry for not posting this in the thyme section...

EDIT: Ok, after trying to implement this in some way I now am aware that I have absolutely no idea what I'm supposed to do with that . Has anyone made a tutorial for something like this?

[electronicboy]

When you're adding a object, just add something along the lines of:

vel = e.geom.vel;

to the attributes you set for the box.

[pnvv]

Ok, tried that, but the particles still spawn outside the engine when it gets going fast enough...