Set vehicle spawn with full speed

[K120 1]

Hey,i couldn't find anything helpful about this.

I need to set some vehicles to go full speed instantly as they spawn,is there something i could put in vehicles init field?

[bangabob 45]

_veh setVelocity [20, 0, 0]

[magicpanda 19]

I was playing around with this yesterday.

setVelocity is the starting point but I think that will just fling the vehicle west or east I cant remember. [20=east/west?, 0=North, 0=vertical]

You will need to get it's heading first.

I think found the solution this morning but have not been able to try it yet as I'm at work. Give either of these a try.

Change 100 to slow it down.

_v setpos [(getpos _v) select 0, (getpos _v) select 1, 100] _v setvelocity [100 * (sin (getdir _v)), 100 * (cos (getdir _v)), 0] 

This one is direct from the wiki. http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/setVelocity

_vel = velocity _vehicle;
_dir = direction _vehicle;
_speed = 10; comment "Added speed";
_vehicle setVelocity [(_vel select 0)+(sin _dir*_speed),(_vel select 1)+
(cos _dir*_speed),(_vel select 2)];

Edited September 2, 2013 by Magicpanda

[magicpanda 19]

Ok so I worked this out. This will fire truckname 100 meters per second in the direction it is facing which is obviously fucking madness. :D

truckname setvelocity [100 * (sin (getdir truckname )), 100 * (cos (getdir truckname )), 0]  

Mission Example

Edited September 2, 2013 by Magicpanda

[magicpanda 19]

Did a bit more testing and this only seems to work for Cars like the Hunter. Armoured Vehicles will just hit the brakes asap.