How to make a steering wheel mesh spin as you turn?

[jooshbutmynameisjosh]

I was just wondering how that i can make the steering wheel spin so I could do that for the f600 in stoats f series pack

I scrolled through the .truck file of a truck that had a working one and found nothing that seemed to be adding an animation or something.

 

[Mark]

The wheel has to be a separate mesh, with its centre of origin defined in the middle of where it should rotate.

If the wheel and dashboard were modelled together, the whole dashboard will spin with it.

You find the steering wheel in the props section, and add an add_animation line under it with appropriate parameters:

https://docs.rigsofrods.org/vehicle-creation/fileformat-truck/#add_animation

 

[CuriousMike]

Most mods animate their steering wheels using a dashboard special prop:

39, 62, 34,  0.98,  0.27,  -0.69,  0,  0,  0, dashboard-k3500.mesh K3500_SteeringWheel.mesh 0, 0, 0, 400

Example from the K3500 pack

This method assumes the dashboard is also placed as a prop, since most are flexbody now you'll need to supply a 'blank' mesh instead which can be copied from an existing mod (see dashboard-k3500.mesh)

You can also use add_animation as Mark described above:

3,1,36,  -0.005,  2.15,  -0.635,  90,  20,  90, mv4steer.mesh 0, 0, 0, -470
add_animation 460, 0, 0, source: steeringwheel, mode: x-rotation

Example from the MV4

Personally I've had more success using a dashboard prop to get a steering wheel to correctly spin.

Good luck!

 

[jooshbutmynameisjosh]

Thanks!