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Hello Everyone,

I am not at the point yet where I am ready to do this but I want to get an idea ahead of time what I will be facing. In my game the player will be a tank that will shoot shells at other tanks. The question is about the turret movement. When the turret moves in circles and then the barrel goes up and down, would this be done as skeletal animation or something else? Also would they be 3 seperate objects and each one's location updates with the movement of the main chassis or all one object and there is a way to define moving parts. I am currently using 3d world studio to build the tank and finding it quiet good at it really. Thanks in advance for the help everyone.

Gadget

It could be done in a number of different ways, But the easiest way to do it would probably:

Have 3 separate objects inside the same file (base, turret, barrel) and name the objects something easy (base, turret, barrel?)

If you use DBP, run a checklist for limbs inside the object. When you have the limb number of both the turret and the barrel, you can easily control how they move using DBP's native limb commands.

Just make sure that the objects' pivot points are were they would need to be in order for the pieces to rotate correctly.

I agree with CoughMist's solution. Skeletal animation is only really useful when you need a mesh to deform in some way (an arm bending or something).