Mike Dude's HK-Drone V1

[Blaylock1988]

I need help. I am trying to switch from applyAngForce to applyTorque. I only need the thrusters to change to a desired pitch. I know I can do the cross product of the thruster's up direction vector with the desired direction vector and plug that into applyTorque, but how do I find that second direction vector?

[jayg20769]

lol I thought you told me you weren't going to use applyTorque? Hehe, w/e just hit me up when you get back I can explain everything about it


EDIT: Do you mind if I could borrow that model of your V2? I suck completely at asthetics and your design is superb.

[magnushj]

do u share the v2 or v3?

[DaFraggle]

Nice work! You finished what I planned to do nine months ago. Link

Unfortunenatly I have to start all over again and learn all the E2 stuff. Never worked with E2 till now...

Your model looks awesome. Are those custom parts?

[GalvazimGX]

about time you came in. welcome back man

[D_D_Danneh]

This is sweet, it inspired me to actually do something decent in E2, and I've finally figured out how to use applyAngForce correctly.



The thrusters seem to jitter a bit, but it's stable and flies well.

I think it works quite well for my first attempt at an E2 that doesn't involve holograms or facers at some point. There's probably improvements in the code I could make, but meh, it works (albeit at about 500 ops ).

[jayg20769]

lol I made one as well, about 1 day after he posted his, except mine uses appyTorque cuz I was having serious gimbal lock problems.



All the thrusters pivot on both X & Y axis, so it will also come to a complete standstill as well as righting itself.



I talked with Baylock and thats why he's wanting to start using applyTorque . I suck at asthetics so I was hoping we could work together to use my method and his body design.


Also I made 2 versions of this, 1 that is WASD controlled, and another that is a follower, the one in the pic is the follower

[eduardo]

i hate gimbal lock!!!!!!!1


anyone releasing a dupe of your versions

[jayg20769]

I have no problem releasing it, but this is Baylock's thread. I'm more interested in working with him to create a realistic looking/flying hk-drone and maybe upscaling it to an HK-Aerial

[Blaylock1988]

Hey DeFraggle, I was completely fascinated on how you made yours when I first saw it, I guess I was kinda inspired by your 2 versions. It took me a while before I had the "know-how" to actually make it.

Nice work on your own versions, I'm glad I have inspired a few of you guys.

Jay, I wasn't able to get ApplyTorque with quaternions with niether your code nor the code from the tuturial on quaternions, but I found there are other ways to use apply torque. I actually have no problems at all with Gimble Lock because my thrusters only use pitch, they dont use any other direction, but applyAngForce seems to have a rebound effect when I change the amount of applyAngForce I'm using.

I don't know If I want to make the HK-Aerial, I was actualy planning on making a Halo 3 Pelican which would use similar technology to the HK-Drone/Aerial.