Ok. Since the break I have had all kinds of shiny ideas, one being tunnels. I created a thread bout them a while ago, but I dodn't look outside the box. Here is what I think now:

We can go on bouncebads and boostpads, right? So, why cants we remove one of those from the game, take away all it's propelling properties, and stick it in empty space? Would this work? If so, this could bring a whole new concept to the game! I could finally create a mod I have been dying to create, but couldn't because it requres some sort of tunnel. Please think about this. Longshot, but seriously! How cool would that be!

The Boost Pads are not solid...
so if you made then solid and took their boost away they would act just like other objects...
sorry :)

Is there a way though? Could there be some script to make it so that you could, like, make a block of just terrain?

Find the CTB shapes in your TT folder. They include a sort of tunnel ;)

I'ts not hard to make a tunnel, just make the object with a coresponding collision mesh... I made one once just playing around... I seem to have lost it in the move to this computer though... I'll see if I can dig it up somewhere...

You can make tunnels that you have to bounce along but no-one as made one that you can actually drive in/on.

Unfortunately, with the current TT physics you can't create a perfect tunnel. The other level of the tunnel, indoor or outdoor, will be "bouncy". Meaning, you can't drive on it like on normal surface.

I guess bridges that are actually suspended above fog/water is out of the question?

You can always use terrain for the ground and make tunnels out of elements like street objects or scaled up rocks.

I am talking about being able to do something like have a mountain, set the midspace clear, and then just stick something you can drive on in the center. That way you still have the drivable mound of dirt above and below you.

Sorry, but I'm pretty sure that's impossible :S. It would have to be an object, thus making the surfaces "bouncy".

That you can't do. But I'm tying to dig up my old milkshape files now and see if I can find that tunnel I made... Which is kinda hard since I've never even had milkshape installed on this computer. :P

Hmm...what if you adjusted the bouncepad to a very little bit, placied it RIGHT below an object, and the when you went on the object you could kinda bounce across... Would that work?

Personally I think Michael is on track. The trick is, could you model a mountain with a tunnel as a DTS object which would allow tanks to pass through it and still drive on the mountain? My first thought would be you could only drive through it, but it might be worth trying. IF you could make such a mountain, then it would seem that making a bridge would be easy to make and implement. And I think a bridge would be WAY cool. Think of it, "The Bridge on the River Kwai" mod. Sweeeeeeet. XD

^bridge

You either bounce on it or you feel throught it.

Simply make "pipe" dts object in blender or whatever but make it large enough so that tanks can go through. Then place the "pipe" on your terrrain with TGE and make sure that at least 1/4 of the bottom of the pipe is underground. If you can picture this, voila! You got yourself a tunnel Mr. Of course, I don't know how to use blender and milkshape makes nonsolid objects :S

@ Rabban- I could do that actually. I could also make it so that you could drive on everything in the mountain except for the peak. Hmmm... Now if only I could export!!

Also, problem is, when you go INSIDE dts objects, you can't actually SEE them anymore.