Gear for cars

[Thehookerkiller01]

Hey, I was just wondering, is it possible to make gears for cars?

And how?

[Lordy]

Yes, but not too realistic

You define the maximum speeds for each gear and use onClientRender & setElementVelocity to stop the vehicle going faster. Although it's possible to also calculate the acceleration it's not that easy. (I guess I couldn't do it). Also the vehicle sound effects would be useless.

@some dev: Does SA just play the samples in an order or is speed of the vehicle or something like that involved too?

[eAi]

I believe GTA vehicles actually have a gear variable and related stats...

[Thehookerkiller01]

And howto make it manual? Not an automate car, but manual.

[50p]

GTA must have such variable... When vehicle changes gear you can see the hood going down, which is caused by "releasing" acceleration pedal, you're not releasing it but the engine itself does. The Camera Hack mod has speedometer with 2 gauges. One shows the speed of the vehicle and another one shows RPM (revolutions per minute, engine's speed). You can't calculate them because every vehicle has different gears. Maybe certain speed has certain gear. eg. when you're at 100mph, that's for instance 3rd gear and every vehicle has the same stats... but that wouldn't be realistic and therefore not in GTA... But someone could check that and confirm that I'm not correct

[Lordy]

Maybe make a feature request on Mantis then To have control over vehicle's gears.

[Thehookerkiller01]

Yeah that should be nice.

Who's Mantis?

[50p]

Yeah that should be nice.

Who's Mantis?

http://bugs.mtasa.com/main_page.php

[karlis]

there is such func in handling.cfg

also, it has real purpose in game, the speed lil drops on auto gear-switch, then gets faster, and when the handling editing will be relased it will be easy to manipulate that

[Thehookerkiller01]

Yeah that should be nice.

Who's Mantis?

http://bugs.mtasa.com/main_page.php

[dzek (varez)]

about sounds:

gta dont care much about sounds and gears.. it just plays sound loop with changing pitch, until car get max speed. sometimes you can hear your veh have 10 or so gears

[karlis]

about sounds:

gta dont care much about sounds and gears.. it just plays sound loop with changing pitch, until car get max speed. sometimes you can hear your veh have 10 or so gears

nope, gear count are specified in handling.cfg

[Cannonball]

Woudl be possible to do, if you dont care about the sounds. Just make the car stop going faster @ 20KM/h (RPM caughe maybe?) and then a button to make it shift up, then at 40-50KM/h or summit. But then again, sound would be not realistic.

[dzek (varez)]

nope, gear count are specified in handling.cfg

yea, that's true. i know about it. anyway sound is working independent of handling.

[Phat Looser]

When you press and release the acceleration button, you can pretty much mess with the "gear sound".